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father to an orange cat. mask up. we keep us safe.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i guess this is the downside of plastering your ugly mug ten stories high on every building that will let you
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
POPE LEO <turns chair around, sits, placing his arms on the back>: You want to hear about an Influencer, one with a direct connection to a superior intelligence?
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday, the Council passed Workers Drive Minneapolis. Proud to have co-authored it with CM @robin4mpls.bsky.social, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social & CVP Osman. Unfortunately, Mayor Frey sided with Elon Musk's Tesla, Amazon & Google over public safety and vetoed it. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...
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Frey vetoes Minneapolis ordinance that would have required human drivers in driverless vehicles
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the measure represented a “back door ban that belies our progressive tradition in Minneapolis.”
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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Like many Minnesotans, I was filmed by federal agents this winter. We must address the specific abuses of power that this administration has enabled *and* reckon with the broader surveillance state and culture we have allowed to flourish in the name of “safety.”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/10/2026
There is a line between "pushing the law rightward" and "acting as an enemy to the U.S. Constitution", and I think Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have crossed the line quite a while ago (seeking to nullify Reconstruction-era birthright citizenship constitutional amendments is just one example)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Since Trump reentered the White House, he and his aides, striving to wipe the Russia stain from his 2016 victory, have sought retribution against officials who investigated Putin’s information warfare. Even worse, they have eviscerated the government’s ability to counter it.
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Will Putin's decade-long war on US elections hit the midterms?
Trump's Russia denialism has left America vulnerable.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you need to "check everything" that an LLM spits out in peer review, aren't you just making MORE work for yourself? What is even happening, and why is adding more steps and labor somehow considered the "better" way to do peer review???
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine @mspmag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
American Occupation, Literary Hub’s anthology of letters written by Minnesota authors, poets, and journalists during Operation Metro Surge, releases in January. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...
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Dozens of Minnesota Writers Contribute to ICE-Resistance Anthology
American Occupation, Literary Hub’s anthology of letters written by Minnesota authors, poets, and journalists during Operation Metro Surge, releases in January.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/09/2026
It has been an excellent 48 hours for Schadenfreude, @natashalennard.bsky.social buff.ly/hDB3iA4
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the necessary step 1 of rebuilding trust with our allies is prosecuting almost everyone in the trump administration for the countless crimes they have committed against the country and the world
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 18/01/2024
A cat is a celebrity for your apartment
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Climate change is accelerating beyond all but the most dire predictions but also so many stories about ecology restoration also feature systems bouncing back faster and more thoroughly than scientists anticipated, people can fix (the worst of) this but we need to overthrow the capitalist economy
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zinā' warrior princess @melifonos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
i wonder what it reveals about the motivating forces of transmisogynistic moral panic that people's mental image of a "male predator in women's spaces" so reliably averages out to any vaguely masculine lesbian woman
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Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student said she unzipped her hoodie to show she had breasts after a Buffalo Wild Wings server didn't believe she is a woman.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Sorry, my product randomly breaks the law sometimes" is not something we would tolerate from other industries. Maybe we shouldn't tolerate it with AI
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/08/2026
A new investigation reveals that at least 50 police officers from all over the U.S. have been caught abusing their access to Flock's automatic license plate reader database, including to stalk women. This is just one of the many reasons to get these creepy cameras off our streets.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
whatever you think of harris's chances of regaining the nomination man this is a deeply welcome early stake to see claimed in the 2028 primary positioning
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis" Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, on the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
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Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis
Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 26/07/2026
OpenAI not alerting the authorities was also an issue at the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Alex Pettis’ mom’s message. 💚 We can’t believe it’s already been six months.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
People make posts like this and don’t mention Covid, currently circulating at high levels, and for me, it’s impossible to take their indignation seriously when they’ve completely shut their eyes to a whole disease from which they are very much still at risk - and causing risk.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Our friends at A4TE who do the front line work of defending our community are facing disgusting repression and retaliatory layoffs, and they need our unwavering support. Please sign and share widely.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I’ve been quiet about the coverage of sociology in the last month. But shame on our colleagues who’d prefer to destroy the discipline rather than allow a vote on divesting from genocide— to the point where they’d feed this garbage to the right. The “journalist” here is Bret Stephen’s ex.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This page on the AI bubble -- the bursting of which is a "when," not "whether," -- is key reading. I'm including Erin Brokovitch's data center map under it. Looks like this is a project of @thefarce.org !
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How Big Is the AI Bubble, Actually?
$2.53 trillion in global AI spending this year. Live math on what's riding on it, and what's actually inside it.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Trump DOJ withdraws subpoenas for NYT journalists. Know why? BECAUSE. THE. NYT. PUSHED. BACK. Me thinks there is a lesson here.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/07/2026
This is literally the same language they use for gender affirming care. "It's not evidence based." It's all a blatant lie.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/07/2026
Now ICE’s contractors are shooting protesters. (this is Colorado)
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
They mixed the salt, with water, to make homemade electrolyte, because they worked all day in the Texas sun to build people houses. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
nytimes.com
Houston ICE Shooting: Lawyer Says Bags Held Salt, Not Drugs
Federal investigators said a “crystal-like” substance in the bags looked like methamphetamine. A lawyer for the victim’s brother said it was salt.
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WIRED @wired.com · 14/07/2026
New York has become the first US state to enforce a data center moratorium, as governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today to pause construction for one year.
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New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Things that have helped me recently: 1) little things still matter 2) the power of a solid meal, a big glass of water, and a good night's sleep 3) remembering how much words of encouragement or a compliment meant after a tough day 4) action is the enemy of despair 5) I can do things through spite
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 14/07/2026
Many voting rights advocates feel that the Supreme Court should have never entertained the question of ending grace periods for mail ballots, as it concerns the ability of states to set their own rules for election administration.
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Supreme Court Upholds Grace Periods For Mail Ballots Postmarked by Election Day - Bolts
SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to cast doubt on mail voting.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/07/2026
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
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Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Death passes Mitch and eyes Lindsey.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Warning! ⚠️ Things are going to be bad this midterm election. The Trump administration has fired the remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), leaving the independent bipartisan agency without any sitting commissioners.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Removing every commissioner from an independent election oversight agency raises serious questions about the future of election administration and the independence of institutions designed to support free and fair elections.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/07/2026
A NYT journalist asked to speak to me during Operation Metro Surge and I told them I would not do so explicitly because of how they have treated trans people. I happily worked with Racket MN.
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/07/2026
Expand and reform the Supreme Court.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"You don’t pressure witnesses to a shooting to self-deport if your goal is to get to the bottom of what happened." In the same way that the government did not investigate the Minnesota shootings, they will not investigate these shootings.
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@errinhaines.bsky.social’s column this week is a must-read.
19thnews.org
The Black woman on the train did not look away. How much longer will we?
A viral photo from July 4 captured an unidentified Black woman’s composure amid a sea of masked white men — and became a mirror for our democracy at 250.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/07/2026
Talk about missing the point, Google!
Google search for "the bullshit machines" importance of original source not ai summary yields an AI summary of our work.
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