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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic. Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim. Four of mine were in there.
My contributions to The Book Thieving Machine
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Putin wasn't satisfied to let Alexei Navalny rot in prison. Evidence points to another poisoning by a cowardly, weak regime. mdza.io/k/qMj1JkLKPw
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More questions than answers Navalny’s widow says lab tests confirmed he was poisoned, but details are scarce. Here’s what we know and what we don’t. — Meduza
The late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s associates have made a new breakthrough in their investigation into his death. On Wednesday, his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, released a video announcing...
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Meta & Zuck are trying to silence criticism & prevent publicity of the book Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams. Everyone who uses any tech at all should read it. The author is culpable, which makes all of it seem more accurate. Plus, why silence critics if it is false?
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Is today the day you take a stand? #freespeech #boycottdisney
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21/09/2025
If you’re too afraid to do your job, you should quit your job. If you’re too afraid to report on what’s going on because you’re afraid of MAGA death threats, you should stop being a reporter. if you’re too afraid to vote against honoring a white nationalist due to death threats, you should resign.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We’re not at war with Trump, MAGA, ICE, or Oligarchs. We’re at war with the machinery of disinformation & psychological control. Our enemy is propaganda. If we fail to strike at that root, it grows.The entire globe must unite against this or it metastasizes, until nothing human remains uncolonized
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Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news
A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation — and they’re spoofing reputable news outlets to do it.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
A Democratic Texas legislator is being held against her will in the state capitol:
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/05/2025
250 years ago, Americans made it clear that we weren’t going to be ruled by kings. In 18 days, we’re taking to the streets again to reject Trump’s authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. We hope to see you on June 14 for No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS
JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
"This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF." - Senator Chris Murphy Read more: bit.ly/3Fwh4LP
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/05/2025
RFK Jr. is prepared to rework the FDA’s official assessment of the abortion pill mifepristone based at least in part on a report that few scientists would recognize as science, Keren Landman reports.
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A Convenient Piece of Junk Science
RFK Jr. is prepared to rework the FDA’s official assessment of the abortion pill mifepristone based at least in part on a questionable report.
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Skip hop jump Blue Dolphin🍀🐬🐚🐸🐾 @bluealways.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/05/2025
Calling representatives has long been a straightforward way to push for political change, but for some people, it isn't available.
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How to call Congress—when the phone isn't an option
Proxy calling gives some disabled people a better way to flood Capitol Hill phone lines.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Nothing to see here. Just @emilyjaynef.bsky.social being forcibly removed from NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall tonight for having the temerity to act like a citizen of the United States. Hero.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/04/2025
These fired federal workers were stewards of tax payer dollars. That’s why firing 121,000 of them has caused government spending to go UP. Federal employees save more money than they cost. For example, the VA paid me $120K a year and I saved them $60M a year.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/04/2025
Republicans in Congress want to make it more expensive for kids from working-class families to go to college and easier for schools to scam student loan borrowers — all to pay for tax handouts for the wealthiest Americans.   That's the GOP agenda: billionaires win, families lose.
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House education committee Republicans release plans for GOP megabill
The measure would terminate some existing student loan repayment plans.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump has fired hundreds of scientists & experts who were compiling the US Climate report on how global warming is affecting the country. The National Climate Assessment is required by Congress - but is now in serious jeopardy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Are you a journalist traveling to or from the US? CPJ’s new border safety advisory outlines advice for how to protect yourself digitally from the Trump regime. #3E cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...
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CPJ Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US - Committee to Protect Journalists
A stated policy goal of the Trump administration is to significantly change U.S. travel and immigration policies. Foreign nationals whose countries do not meet U.S. vetting standards may be barred ent...
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor. Some grantees are waiting on payments they expected last week." Note Cong. already appropriated this money.
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DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review
DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.
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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A great song from one of my all time favorites, the late great Sharon Jones, is perfect for this date. youtu.be/ds5rXZVy_dU?...
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What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes - Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
YouTube video by StoptheWarCoalition
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is bad www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Gabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary group
Joe Kent, a promoter of conspiracy theories, has long associated with extremists.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/04/2025
What happened today reeks of insider trading. Trump’s tweet wasn’t random—it was a signal. Someone cashed in, and the public deserves to know who and how much. Follow. The. Money. “This entire White House is one giant grift.” —Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social shining a spotlight on it! 🔥
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2025
Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Goal achieved: An unusual number of people in an unusual number of places. 1,300 globally. There were probably more than 10,000 speakers alone at rallies today. Baffling to think about this scale!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Liz @elizawally.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Call your senators ASAP to STOP the SAVE Act!!! 202.224.3121
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CindyLouWho @cindylouwho2.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Don’t be left out. Join the movement!
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Seattle 's chapter of Defend Democracy provided some excellent slides in today's training call available to all. See you in the streets April 5 #Handsoff #indivisible track-mg.mobilize.us/CL0/https:%2...
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SSD April 2, 2025
Seattle Supports Democracy
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 02/04/2025
‼️ A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action! Join us tonight at 8pm ET for a virtual security and de-escalation training: moveon.org/deescalation...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If you’re upset about the chaos and corruption Trump is inflicting on your country—whether your focus is the nihilistic dismantling of government, the economy, our foreign relations, or his threats to the rule of law—please join the nationwide marches on April 5. Learn more here 👉 handsoff2025.com
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 02/04/2025
Snatched, shackled, and shipped off to a Salvadoran prison, Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant with no criminal record, was deported in what the Trump White House is calling an ‘error.’ Our full statement on this miscarriage of justice: raskin.house.gov/2025/4/raski...
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Raskin, Colleagues Statement on Maryland Immigrant Deported in ‘Error’ by Trump White House
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In a powerful moment of history, African American Senator Cory Booker has broken Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech on the Senate floor—a record originally set in opposition to the Civil Rights Act. April 1 may go down as the beginning of the end for Trump. The tides are shifting.
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This matters because everyone who stands up, breaks barriers, smashes a speech record held by an odious racist, & speaks out is an example and an inspiration for others. This is how we give each other courage to fight. Get up, make a stand, speak out. It ALL matters. Thank you, @booker.senate.gov
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
People are dying because of Trump, Musk and DOGE. It’s really simple.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Assigning Sen. Thurmond’s “longest filibuster” of the Civil Rights Act to the dustbin of history is a powerful part of the story. Because no matter what, that’s where they’re all going, no matter how hard they fight it. Men who fight the future are the most foolish of all men.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
The Trump administration is committing crimes against humanity right before our eyes. They are disappearing people who are in this country legally and sending them to El Salvadoran prison camps to be tortured. Every official involved deserves nothing less than to be tried at The Hague.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Remember the Enlightenment? Well, if Trump and MAGA (and Putin and Orban) get their way, that's over. And we know who they are depending on to get there. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Putting Descartes Before the Whores
We've Seen This Movie Before...Over and Over Again for Hundreds of Years
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@pattymurray.bsky.social I suspect that you are up for following in Sen Booker's footsteps when he is ready to tag out. As your constituent, I urge you to do so on behalf of the people and democracy that you represent.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Sick stuff
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
This keeps getting worse and worse.
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V @vengland.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Jesus christ, people. Wake the f#ck up. They are disappearing legal residents and abandoning them to rot. The wolves are at the door.
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Lorelei Productions @lbp11.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Improper ideology”? Those two words alone signal the end of America as we know it. No ideology is supposed to be considered “improper” in these United States, a country with freedom of expression woven into the fabric of its founding documents.
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said. He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen. Read the full story: propub.li/4j4F9Y9
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Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
Confrontations with judges are grabbing attention, but more quietly a pattern of questionable arrests shows the extent to which the administration is willing to test norms and laws.
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