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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17h
Multiple times in my life, the man pointing a gun at me and yelling the n-word, *was* a police officer.🤷🏿‍♂️ And my experience is not unique. There are millions of Black men in this country with the same experience. There are not millions of Jewish people that have had this experience.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In case you were wondering, the AI summit yesterday REALLY was as much of a sausage fest as the seating charge made it look. David Sacks posted this.
Rich malicious people like Mark Zuckerburg and Elon Musk babysitting Donald Trump.A seating chart of the people at the AI summit. Trump's seat, marked POTUS, is marked in blue.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/09/2026
Dems in Congress are about to negotiate away what little rights Black athletes and our supporters were able to get. They're colluding with the GOP again, to restrict what Black people can do, rather than enable what Black people can do. "Vote Blue, no matter who🤡" undermines Black people again.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/09/2026
It's not "chaos" that Indiana can now beat Alabama at football. It's great. Y'all care about the wrong people: the millionaires+ billionaires that preferred it when Black kids were forced to play for them for free, and couldn't transfer away from abusive or lying coaches. Care about the athletes.♥️
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At first you think they’re just hyping Judy up with that “beast mode”. Then you see her lifts and realize they’re underselling it. Small, thick, and mighty for the win, every time.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
God I love your writing, Ana Marie
Think of it as self-preservation. Stop riding on Air Force One and you won't be terrorist bait the next time around.
Don't stop reporting on Trump and the effect Trump has on the world, no, those stories are more urgent than ever. Tell the stories of the toddlers forced to represent themselves in immigration court, military malpractice, undisguised grift, the affordability crisis, data centers bleeding rural America dry.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
but they care about women's sports!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
They’re lucky a lot of people accepted DEI instead of revenge
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vance-Led Task Force Set to Remove 760,000 Allegedly Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Vance-Led Task Force Set to Remove 760,000 Allegedly Fraudulent Obamacare Enrollments
The Trump administration is planning to impose stricter eligibility requirements for ACA subsidies as part of a campaign against fraud.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21/09/2026
There are ~50 million immigrants, and ~50 million Black people. Police + ICE target both populations for unjustified violence. (Cop shootings + ICE shootings) = State shootings. Again, the level of State shootings since 2024, has gone *down*. The US is *less violently fascist* in 2026 than 2024🤷🏿‍♂️
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 20/09/2026
Racist sexist and fascist fealty tests make you less effective. You could have the biggest, best funded, and best trained military and intelligence agencies in the world, and over 50 years of detailed simulations and game theory on what the enemy is going to do, And still walk into obvious traps🤷🏿‍♂️
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The sickness of locking thousands of five-year-olds in a concentration camp while screaming about the danger of a 10th-grade trans boy playing lacrosse is an evil that needs to be yeeted into a million burning suns.
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's a weird sleight of hand. The fixation on extinction directs our attention toward imaginary machine agency, but institutions already use these systems to make life-altering decisions with absolutely no accountability. They are encoding existing cruelty and applying it at scale.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump EPA Ends Climate Regulations for Power Plants
This is one of the administration’s most significant climate rollbacks.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My fellow Americans, this is being done in our name. wapo.st/4h1hNmT
wapo.st
Alligator Alcatraz detainees were put in small cages, DHS watchdog report finds
The Florida facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/09/2026
My Wikipedia bio was regularly deleted for a decade before I finally was deemed “notable enough.” This is a common experience for women. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Notable enough? The questioning of women’s biographies on Wikipedia
This study focuses on biographies nominated for deletion in the German-language Wikipedia and the encyclopedia’s core principle of notability. Results are presented from quantitative content analys...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
By the time you realize you made a strategic error, it’s often too late. America’s strategic error was electing a government that promised racism and incompetence because electing a Black woman was a bridge too far. It’s FAFO season, America.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There's never talk about "fairness" when some schools have fencing teams and pools and computer labs and some schools hold classes in trailers. Never about how 1 in 9 schoolchildren live in poverty. But it's always a "fairness" issue when a school has a trans athlete or too many black students.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“youre goddam right im for them just like im for all texans” wouldve gone hard as a rebuttal had talarico not just spent the last 3 days tripping over himself to move right on this issue congrats to the talarico team for painting yourselves into a very predictable corner
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
wired.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
👁️ Researchers found LG TVs logging plain text transcripts in standby, mapping every device in the house, & feeding it to LG's ad arm Unplug the internet and it saves files until network restored. LG says its TVs don't record conversations. Evidence begs to differ. 216 million in homes /Braiinsforge
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/09/2026
No one gets thrown off the raft to feed to the fascists. Especially not children. If you try to throw anyone off, I pick you up and throw you off.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/09/2026
🤷🏿‍♂️Coulda had Crockett... The "We must protect women and girls!🤡" crowd supposedly means cis women and girls. But they go to WNBA games, specifically to harass Black cis women. Because Black cis women typically don't tolerate transphobia against children in their name. Watch the whole video.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett plays 'Trump or trans' during hearing on girls' sports
YouTube video by FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every single person who spent more than a few hours in American concentration camps will be owed restitution. I think a concentration camp stay conferring automatic permanent legal status is a good starting point, and the least of what these people deserve.
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another thing I learned while writing my piece is that the UK has specialized units for new mothers with PPP, schizophrenia, bipolar, and other life-threatening mental illnesses. Their babies aren't taken away from them. We don't have this in the US, but we could. spitfirenews.com/p/lindsay-cl...
spitfirenews.com
Lindsay Clancy is the manosphere's new weapon
The facts of the case are a tragedy. So are many of the reactions.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One of the richest countries on Earth watches mothers and babies die at rates that shame the developed world, but the emergency is whether men can get hard enough to produce more of them.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds???
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/09/2026
Black people "voted the US out of fascism" in 2020. Then Biden rewarded us by ramping up racist mass incarceration of Black people further, and increasing cop killings of unarmed Black people, until 2024 was the year with the most cop killings in recorded US history. So yeah, that won't work.🤷🏿‍♂️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
nytimes.com
How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
Bel was one of the Ohioans that Vance demagogued in 2024. He was one of the people who Vance targeted with a blood libel. And now he is dead because of the consequences of that libel. I would like to ask Vance about him.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ICE flights are the same as the trains that took human beings to Nazi death camps. They are the same thing.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 31/08/2026
100 arrests without a conviction? I told y'all two things were true: 1) No immigrant has been stopped by ICE more times than I've been stopped by cops for driving/existing while Black. 2) I'm not even in the top 10% of innocent Black men frequently stopped by cops. My experience is not unique.🤷🏿‍♂️
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