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Yoni Blumberg

@yblumberg.bsky.social
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💭 how might we foster (r)evolution towards a more loving and just world? - committed to collective wellbeing and ecological justice 🌱💛🌏 - chaotic good 🥸🙂

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 3h
"It’s also a rounding error for a big data firm. Rest unassured, the generators are still running" They just smile, cut the check, and keep on polluting and poisoning people. Fines are a joke. Performance art for the industry and regulators.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2h
This is a great piece (as per usual) from @adamserwer.bsky.social, on a topic near and dear to my heart. Yes, it's easy to say "Republicans are hypocrites," but this is far, far worse. Texas is the laboratory for the authoritarian Right's attempts ("onerous and clumsy" as they are) to remake high ed
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15h
30,000 acres of ancestral land surrounding Wáhsehtəkʷ—the east branch of the Penobscot River in Maine— is being returned to the Penobscot Nation.
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Landmark Effort Returning 30,000 Acres of Ancestral Land to Penobscot Nation by Trust for Public Land Supported by Open Space Institute
First phase of 30,000-acre effort returned an area the size of Portland, Maine, to Indigenous stewardship for the first time in two centuries
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 22h
Shoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 22h
Important points to remember these days. Solar and wind power use almost no water. Natural gas and coal power use HUGE amounts of water.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h
Probably nothing to worry about for homeowners unless there are a bunch of other devices taking images in your home and making that data available for sale. Good thing no one would do that.
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AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h
The administration's goal, openly stated, is to consolidate police power in the country and create a huge, well-funded, extremely aggrieved, pro-MAGA, anti-immigrant, anti-protestor police force the likes of which we have never seen in this country.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Columbus used a 15th-century legal doctrine to colonize and slaughter the Indigenous peoples he encountered. And it's still the law in the U.S. today.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is wild. In late 2025, federal and state officials kept a Mexican woman in custody for almost a month by repeatedly rebooking her just before her 72-hour time limit ran out. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For reference: When I had my background check it was held up because I had a speeding ticket from when I went home sophomore year in college that I forgot to put on my SF-86. I got grilled about why I didn’t disclose it (they eventually believed it was mistake). The FBI as we knew it is gone.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These hateful losers are so embarrassing, tearing up the good built by millions of others. You can't call the moment when the tide will turn, but their hopes and legacy will fall to nothing in the end, because ruin is all they are capable of.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk.

A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“Liberal democracies around the world are now among the most unequal societies ever to have existed in human history,” Jeffrey Winters, has a new book out! "The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies." Interview on @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/th...
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
America's national parks are being quietly taken apart: mass layoffs, record budget cuts, monuments shrunk by millions of acres, protected land reopened to drilling. None of this is speculation. Ten sourced examples, one at a time. 🧪
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely the fuck not.
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rebecca Ochoa had a heat stroke during a high school volleyball tryout. That was 11 years ago. “I am still not the same as before this happened, physically or mentally,” she told @bloomberg.com. New story on the long recovery of heat stroke survivors (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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One Hot Day Can Change Your Body for Years
Heat stroke can damage the brain, heart, kidneys and liver. As extreme heat becomes more common, doctors are learning just how difficult recovery can be.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026
They shot him in the back from a distance for having a gun, which is legal in Tennessee.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 27/08/2026
this is what the U.S. did to Germany in the 1930s. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New Zealand faces $4bn in damages a year from natural disasters made worse by climate change. When faced with being taken to court, the country's biggest emitters wrote the law to make the claim go away—a tactic borrowed straight from the United States. New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
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New Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate Change
Borrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thread: The enormous unprecedented SCALE of the American AI investment boom is "crowding out" investment going into any other sector of the economy. At this point in mid 2026, it is literally sucking away all factors of production -capital, land, labour, knowledge, ecology. @katemac.bsky.social
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The footage of this flash flood, circulating on social media, is possibly the most horrifying I've seen of any climate impact. Great to see NPR highlighting the cause without any hedging.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026
A new documentary American Doctor tells the story of 3 U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza along with local medical staff who risk their lives on a daily basis to care for the sick and wounded. Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023.
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Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
People dying in American concentration camps
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026
This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year. Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/08/2026
This year’s record-smashing El Niño will give the planet a preview of the late 2030s and temporarily push global temperatures to levels that might not otherwise be reached for another decade or so. wapo.st/4g81jJ9
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
One of the first things you notice reading the exhibits is how widespread these operations were. Agents infiltrated meetings at churches, labor spaces, schools and parks. They used plates to find names of protesters then compiled dossiers on them that the agency maintains. (2)
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Attorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICE
Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Something there hasn't been nearly enough of is promises of specific consequences like this, as a way of deterring present corrupt behavior. Let's at least make them consider the possibility that we might have a real government again someday
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Oh, so *this* is how the writers are gonna bring together the A story and B story for the finale! Very cool. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...
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This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This has been ICE’s playbook. They threatened the Ithaca sheriff with criminal charges in early 2025 and of course nothing came of it because it was legally flimsy at best, we reported at the time: boltsmag.org/new-york-she...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Eric and Don Jr.’s ties to 15 companies that have received $3.2 BILLION in defense contracts. Here's what you should know about their ongoing grifts.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
the group in question says it's going to spend $15 million over the next two years against the entire "Democratic Socialists of America movement" -- less than half as much as a single PAC spent to lose a single primary just this week they don't have the juice with anyone but the New York Times
NYT headline: "Moderate Democrats Prepare for 'War' Against an Ascendant Left / One moderate group says the progressive wins are 'deeply troubling' and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism"
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: in July 2026, *every single one* of the 2,528 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 10,255 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An important point from the former chief strategist for the Bush–Cheney 2004 campaign:
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/08/2026
Two more GOP amendments go down to crushing defeats, both in MO. #4 would have made future ballot initiatives impossible to pass by requiring winning a majority statewide *and* in each congressional district. #5 would have eliminated the state income tax.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Missouri Republicans have relentlessly tried to destroy ballot initiatives after voters used them to protect abortion rights, legalize weed, raise the minimum wage, and reform redistricting. They are currently sabotaging a veto referendum that should have suspended the GOP's new House gerrymander
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/08/2026
Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oil companies will announce their profits from the 2nd quarter later this month. They're expected to be big-in part because of high oil prices because of the Iran war. The U.K. taxes those windfall profits. Now @whitehouse.senate.gov tells NPR he has a plan to tax them here in the U.S. More ⬇️🛢️🎧📻
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Oil companies are making billions. In the U.S., calls to tax their windfall are growing
Higher oil prices since the Iran war began mean many oil companies have brought in excess profits. Some U.S. lawmakers want to tax those windfall profits and give the money to lower-income Americans.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 17/07/2026
The Trump administration has finalized a rule that will eliminate the majority of habitat protections for imperiled animals and plants protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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Tribes and Environmental Groups Push Back on Trump Rule to Diminish Habitat Protections for Endangered Species - Inside Climate News
Rescinding the definition of a single word under the Endangered Species Act will undermine the majority of habitat protections for imperiled species, experts say.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.
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