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David Sloane
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Tech stuff, nerd stuff, Dem stuff
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Our Democratic State House is advancing a MAGA energy bill that rolls back clean energy and energy efficiency commitments and taxes consumers to build new pipelines.

#mapoli

commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/sweep...
Sweeping energy bill to weaken 2030 climate goals clears key House committee   - CommonWealth Beacon
The measure is ushering in an unexpected — and messy — debate over the state’s overall policy push to meet its 2030 climate commitments as Gov. Maura Healey’s energy affordability package filed earlie...
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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dantheclamman.blog
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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harper.lol
aphyr.com/posts/397…

Read this about Chicago
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...
" I thought I knew what it meant to love Chicago—to feel something settle inside of me when I saw her skyline from the expressway, or her lights from the window of an airplane, after crossing the cloud line. I thought I knew what it meant to love her brick and steel towers, her annoying street preachers, her chorus of accents and the poetry of her activists, the grit of her workers, awaiting buses and trains in icy air, her guerrilla gardens, bookshops, bucket boys, and crashing winter waves becoming shelves of ice—so many corners that feel like home, even though you’ll never live there. I know this place. I love this place, and I thought I knew how much, until you made me love it more." - Kelly Hayes
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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boblord.bsky.social
Happy Memory Safety Day to all who observe. 🔐
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
The election of Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor has exposed a gulf between the younger and older generations of American Jews. I made this zine to explore a significant part of that divide.

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A smartphone shows a social media post of people waving Palestinian flags. At the center it says "(Anti)Zionism, Social Justice, and Jewish Gen Z by Emily K." ANTI-ZIONISM AND SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVE GROWN AMONG LEFTIST AND LEFTY JEWS, ESPECIALLY AMONG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 30. AND YET, JEWISH KIDS WERE AND STILL ARE GIVEN A JEWISH EDUCATION THAT IS BROADLY "PRO-ISRAEL." image: Jewish people at a protest carrying signs that say “Free Palestine” and “Boycott Divest Sanction.” I THINK THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS AT PLAY, AND NO, I DON'T THINK TIKTOK IS TO BLAME. MILLENNIALS AND ZOOMERS GREW UP IN A SYNAGOGUE CULTURE THAT HAS, IN MY EXPERIENCE, DONE A SUBPAR JOB TEACHING JEWISH HISTORY. MY OWN JEWISH EDUCATION SKEWED HEAVILY TOWARD ASHKENAZI/EASTERN EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES, MADE STORIES OF OPPRESSION AND THE HOLOCAUST A CENTRAL POINT OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND GLOSSED OVER THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. Image: an online chat between two friends. Amir_S: Just heard from my Dad. My cousin was killed in the Gaza strikes.. Hannah: Oh my god.. I'm so so sorry Amir_S: My uncle is stranded in the West Bank because his work permit was revoked. He can't get to the funeral, if they can even have one THIS KIND OF EDUCATION LEAVES A VOID OF KNOWLEDGE TO BE FILLED, OFTEN BY FREE-FLOWING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. AND WHILE I DON'T THINK SOCIAL MEDIA ITSELF IS A CAUSE OF THE SHIFT IN YOUNG JEWISH ATTITUDES, THE FACT THAT WE ARE MUCH MORE ONLINE THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAS DOUBTLESSLY AFFECTED OUR VIEWS. FOR ONE THING, IT IS EASIER THAN EVER TO TALK DIRECTLY TO PALESTINIANS. GEN Z HAS NEVER KNOWN AN "UNDERDOG ISRAEL.” MILLENNIALS AND GEN Z WERE BORN INTO A WORLD WHERE NOT ONLY DOES ISRAEL EXIST, IT'S A MIGHTY NATION WITH ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED MILITARIES IN THE WORLD. IT HAS THE UNSHAKING BACKING OF THE UNITED STATES FINANCIALLY AND POLITICALLY, AND HAS RECEIVED LITTLE - IF ANY - PUSHBACK FOR THEIR ACTIONS. BOOMERS REMEMBER THE SIX DAY WAR AND THE YOM KIPPUR WAR, TWO CONFLICTS THAT WERE A REAL THREAT TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. MILLENNIALS REMEMBER THE 2ND INTIFADA, IN WHICH HUNDREDS OF ISRAELIS WERE MURDERED BY TERRORISTS. MANY OF US REMEMBER PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN'S ASSASSINATION. BUT GEN Z ONLY KNOWS AN ISRAEL WITH AN ENTRENCHED RIGHT WING GOVERNMENT MORE INTERESTED IN UPHOLDING AN UNJUST STATUS QUO THAN ACHIEVING TRUE PEACE. GAZA HAS BEEN UNDER BLOCKADE SINCE 2006. THE OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK STARTED DECADES BEFORE THAT. THEY'VE ONLY KNOWN AN ISRAEL AT ODDS WITH THEIR BASIC MORALS. Image: Benjamin Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Ayalet Shaked with right wing coalition logos surrounding them. Above them is the word "HaLikud." BACKLASH TO THE STATUS QUO OF JEWISH EDUCATION. I REMEMBER FEELING EXHAUSTED BY HOW THE HOLOCAUST WAS MADE A CENTRAL PART OF MY JEWISH EDUCATION. WHEN JEWISH JOY WAS INCLUDED, IT WAS USUALLY FRAMED AROUND SURVIVAL - MOST OFTEN FROM AN ASHKENAZI PERSPECTIVE. WHERE WAS THE JEWISH JOY THAT CAME FROM WITHIN? WHERE WAS THE BRILLIANT, OFTEN HUMOROUS, TALMUDIC EPHEMERA THAT MADE US SO UNIQUE AS PEOPLE OF SCRIPTURE? WHERE WAS THE MYSTICISM SO CAREFULLY GUARDED BY OUR ANCESTORS? IF ALL WE KNOW IS OPPRESSION, THEN THE SAFEGUARD OF ISRAEL MUST BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS. JEWISH YOUTH ARE TAUGHT TO SUPPORT ZIONISM NOT AS A COMPLEX POLITICAL MOVEMENT, BUT AS PART OF THE EXISTENTIAL STRUGGLE AGAINST THE WIDER WORLD'S ANTISEMITISM. SO WHEN THEY LEARN FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT THE NAKBA, AND THE HARSH REALITIES OF LIVING UNDER OCCUPATION, ZIONISM MORPHS FROM A MOVEMENT FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO AN OPPRESSIVE, RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY THAT WAS ALWAYS INVESTED IN ETHNIC DISPLACEMENT. Images: Nazis torment religious Jews in the shtetl by mocking them and cutting their beards.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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warren.senate.gov
This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care.

If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...
Is Your Health Care Premium Going Up? Share Your Story | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
www.warren.senate.gov
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that?

therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
davidcsloane.bsky.social
This feels inevitable. The stock market is propped up by tech co's with varying AI bets, and Nvidia is the cornerstone. OpenAI has no path to profit, but plan to burn more mountains of cash to keep growing. And they have to keep growing to get new investment dollars. Feels like another Enron.
unusualwhales.bsky.social Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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bjthehetheygay.ca
Call for sources who travelled for gender-affirming surgery!
well.beings.news Well Beings News @well.beings.news · 7d
I'm doing research for an article about post-op care for folks who have travelled for gender-affirming surgery, and I would love to include the perspective of some other trans folks beside myself. (I travelled out of state but recovered there for 2 weeks after.)
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
davidcsloane.bsky.social
They what?
slouchingtiger.bsky.social SlouchingTiger @slouchingtiger.bsky.social · 10d
Gofundme Creates Donation Pages For 1.5m Organizations Without Their Consent

thecne.org/2025/10/23/g...
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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kerriko7.bsky.social
“….don’t let despair over how we got here paralyze you. Don’t let that first failure of imagination lead you into another one: one where you fail to imagine ways that we can get out of this.”

- @andreapitzer.bsky.social
When bad things get worse
Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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wsvguy.bsky.social
Folks,

The Windows Server Storage team is looking for you input about the ReFS filesystem. We would greatly appreciated if you respond to the survey below. Thanks!

forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.microsoft.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
davidcsloane.bsky.social
A terrible agreement that Trump will gladly violate, without a moment's hesitation
miriamposner.com Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 19d
Here is the proposed agreement the Trump admin sent to UCLA, which administrators fought tooth and claw to keep secret ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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wtfis2bdone.bsky.social
"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”

Hannah Arendt - "Truth and Politics"
September 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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aif-massachusetts.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy
Tomorrow, 10/21, 8:30am!
Downtown Boston, JFK Federal Building

Emergency Mobilization! Justice for Rumeysa

Tuesday morning there will be a hearing to determine whether Rumeysa Ozturk will have her right to work in the U.S. restored.

Rumeysa was brutally […]

[Original post on kolektiva.social]
A power with a white background and bold purple text. In the lower left-hand corner is a picture of Rumeysa Ozturk smiling and looking directly at the camera, leaning her chin on her hand. The text reads: Emergency Mobilization! Justice for Rumeysa Tuesday 10/21, 8:30 AM JFK Federal Building, Boston Rumeysa's Hearing Restore Rumeysa's Right to Work!
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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indivisible.org
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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phoenixcalida.bsky.social
And we appreciate yall in more ways than yall will ever know.

0/$157 $PhoenixCalida

Please help if you can

Theres also PayPal and venmo if that's better
October 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
davidcsloane.bsky.social
Community blocklists remain undefeated
Bluesky screenshot of White House 47 account, already blocked by a couple of lists
October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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marestone.bsky.social
blocklist

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October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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melbuer.bsky.social
I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
October 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”
The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)
Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.
buttondown.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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jessemermell.bsky.social
He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM