Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialBecky G @beckyg0204.bsky.social · 4hNo, really, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. The writing team has major TSE fans. 3123
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7h“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...youtube.comTrump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show 412563
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 10598242402
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 14hsubstack.com/profile/3455...substack.comSarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)From THEY KNEW, published in 2022: 17129
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They are associated with Epstein. Robert Mueller didn't care that children were being raped. Have you noticed the die-hard DOJ defenders ignored Epstein for TEN YEARS while defending Mueller/Garland? And now they suddenly care and are contacting victims? They are doing damage control for the DOJ. 29033
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No great ones. I come here for work purposes and to interact with my readers, because I still respect them. I've never seen the corrosive mockery of death anywhere but here. I'm the 2nd journalist with a recently dead father (a limited category) attacked by a psycho out of nowhere in the last week. 282
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Often good work originally published without a paywall is retroactively paywalled years later -- including the bulk of articles needed to understand the last fifteen years, much of which is digital-native content. 293
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also a corporation can afford to end the paywall. If I can afford to never paywall as a lone writer in Missouri, a multimillion or billion dollar enterprise can. My sympathies are with the independent writers who paywall to pay bills but sometimes end up having their best work hidden as a result. 261
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On that note, I appreciate the BlueSky renegades who stood up for me against the typical BlueSky sadist who falsely accused me of paywalling my articles -- including a piece on my father's cancer -- and then mocked his death. My 2025 article noted the soullessness of this platform. Nothing changed. 712112
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...sarahkendzior.substack.comGutting the Fourth EstateThe US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. 14304121
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"BlueSky is loveless and literal. They don’t understand nature or poetry or music....It is a bad place for people who like blue skies. Who like wild lands and poetic allusions and don't live their lives to train AI modules, but to escape them." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...sarahkendzior.substack.comThe Empty StageJohnny Cash, loss, and redemption 58111
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialCool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Approaching Thunderstorm 1936 🎨Franz Sedlacek 467291
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards 61378422
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSome guy @internethuman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The researchers who are terrified are a) usually part of the rationalist cult that thinks they are making AI God. They're delusional and their views can be ignored. b) if not, then they correctly atrribute the danger to the actions of the companies and bad actors not sentient machines. 101
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialRemmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:nypost.comSilicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene” 311095443
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them. 15321111
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Yup. And the grifters that worked with former (?) FBI to make propaganda for Garland/Mueller during the Biden years. Many of those "podcasters" and "influencers" have histories of fraud, heavy debt, arrests, or personal ties to the Trump family and mafia cohort. They were easy to compromise. 194
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Petrov was expected to unquestioningly obey orders. What he did by going against them carried great risk. The main reason he wasn't punished is because it would bring attention to flaws in the military system. No one even knew what he did for over a decade. 1172
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have a theory about how the foreign villains of Season 2 of The Wire are stand-ins for the exact crime syndicate backing Trump and his circle (seriously, I outlined it here): sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/overriding...sarahkendzior.substack.comOverriding the OligarchyYour questions answered on war and technofascist plots. Plus: did The Wire expose the Trump crime syndicate? 273
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yes on The Wire. But one thing that's struck me is the lack of online buzz for TV. I watch a lot of TV and I'm tracked involuntarily by algorithms. They know what I like. But I *never* get TV shows advertised to me -- including ones whose past seasons I watched. Seems like big tech wants TV gone. 222
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yes, it happens over and over! And it happened for decades before the presidency. The crime syndicate predated the presidency. It was an overt danger that required complicity within the government to succeed; that Trump was even allowed to run is the biggest reveal. So yeah, it's everything at once. 0135
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yup and Clinton with the Reagan/Bush crimes (especially Iran-Contra, which is directly relevant to our current crisis, and which Clinton was at the least tangentially involved in as governor of Arkansas while the Mena airport was used by crimelords) 273
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...sarahkendzior.substack.comGutting the Fourth EstateThe US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. 215176
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New interview! On media complicity, DOD danger, oligarch influence, and Don Jr’s corruption. Bonus: If you want to watch me burst into laughter and lose my composure for the rest of the interview, skip to 20 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQmQ...youtube.comTHESE TWO IDIOTS ARE A PROBLEM FOR TRUMP (feat. Sarah Kendzior)YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show 414154
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialJason Rosenbaum @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i don't mean to sound like a luddite, but just call the restaurant yourself or go online. it's really not that hard 99725
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026If you can't think about connections between, e.g., power and money and climate change and public health then that gives the "AI" CEOs the leverage and access they need to keep themselves in power and wealth at the expense of the planet and the rest of us 310721
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026If we let the current crop of "AI" people stay in charge, we are not gonna make it; not because of "superintelligent AI," but because of what the MIT study terms "cognitive surrender": offloading and deterioration of critical skills. And it increasingly feels like that's exactly what they want. 931078
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialZdoubleyoo @zdoubleyoo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“We have reached a point where catastrophes are so rampant, it often feels there is little to do but discuss them and record that discussion. But that can be a powerful move. It is impossible to build a future without an accurate sense of the past.” 0229
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Look, you have to understand Bibi: it really deeply upsets and frightens him that a Muslim reached the age of 34. 23924157
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat? 301967575
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialDana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026👇This is essential reading for all. Especially the bit about newspaper archives being wiped and journalists being replaced by AI. Globally we are blindly walking into a dark age. Luckily for us @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is alerting us all. Also providing us the best advise - get a library card. 1/ 36127
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialWill Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 23/09/2026Look, let's clear this up. LLMs can't think or understand because those are evolved capabilities of embodied living organisms embedded in the physical and social world and LLMs aren't that. Don't make it harder than it is. 2718241
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialAtlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"You have the same lobbying groups and the same corporations paying off everybody on both sides of the aisle so that there isn't any true representation... [Dems] did actually win in 2020 and got the House, the Senate, and the presidency and then failed even their most basic campaign promises... 02916
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My new article on corrupt media and Trump references an article on corrupt media and Trump I wrote TEN YEARS AGO: web.archive.org/web/20161007...web.archive.orgBe afraid: Trump may have bought the Fourth EstateSarah Kendzior is a St. Louis-based commentator who writes about politics, the economy and media. 08931
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...sarahkendzior.substack.comGutting the Fourth EstateThe US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. 9280123
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialState of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"An AI mouthpiece can’t blow the whistle. A person with a soul still can." - @sarahkendzior.bsky.social 13716
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Trump's first term has been memory-holed. His dirty deeds are treated as discrete acts instead of a continuum of crime with recurring players. His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...sarahkendzior.substack.comGutting the Fourth EstateThe US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. 3252112
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/09/2026100%, I call this information inequality 👇 “Paywalls are toll roads to a gated community, one that the average American cannot afford to enter in an era of inflated prices and deflated expectations. Democracy relies on an informed citizenry. Pay-to-play democracy is no democracy at all” 39328
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialElizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I was afraid it would be 2021 all over again b/c Dems are complicit. Can we agree on that yet? Can there be another explanation? No accountability, no restoring the guardrails, just brush it off and pretend it’s 2015. Whose interests do endless death elections serve? 79134
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026You know, when politicians are term-limited out sometimes they do what’s in their heart, and he’s got nothing but love for throwing out homeless people’s stuff, eliminating jobs with that merger, and killing women 361244335
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New interview! On the midterms, the media, and the corruption of it all: btlonline.org/trumps-autho...btlonline.orgTrump's Authoritarian Onslaught Designed to Overwhelm a Nation that Rejects His TyrannyBTL 28644
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.nytimes.comLaid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65. 762477762
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialBetween The Lines Radio Newsmagazine @btlradionews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026#OnTheAir COUNTERPOINT airs Mondays 8-9:30pmEDT wpkn.org 89.5FM Bgpt #CT: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social on Trump's looming threat to subvert the midterm elex; Dr. Bandy X Lee, forensic & social psychiatrist on Trump's instability, unfettered pres. powers & risk of global catastrophe. 02314
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24741311665
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialhayden and things of that nature @hayden-higgins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"One man told of hacking into the phone of a 12-year-old girl to learn when her father arrived home, and then ordering a bombing in which she was killed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary (Gift Article)It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true. 011
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Approval ratings don’t matter when democracy is being intentionally dismantled, opposition is captured, and there’s already an intraparty sect being prepared that will just disavow the unpopular leader and move discourse even further into fascism. 622668
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless. 532021402
Reposted by @visionemia.bsky.socialMichael Younger @makizdat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Take a moment from this crazy day to enjoy this lovely story: (gift article) wapo.st/4roaN8rwapo.stScientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.“This is kind of just a once-in a-lifetime experience,” said marine researcher Annsli Hilton. 055
