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akaharriet.bsky.social
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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zachsilberberg.bsky.social
permission to lib out your honor
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
motherofcatspdx.bsky.social
protest signs ready for today! #NoKings #Portland
Black sign with white lettering that says Cats Against Fascism, with a drawing of a cat Black sign with white text that says We’re All Antifa (Fascism Bad)
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
It’s bad enough to flatter the boss as a requirement for employment. But it’s even worse to sell out your fellow Oregonians along the way.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "In Oregon, we are expecting a crackdown. Thank you for what you're doing with your agents on ICE. I hope you will come to Portland, Oregon and crackdown."
August 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Aug 23
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA.
I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe.
What's going on right now is not normal.
August 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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luiseach.bsky.social
Lads the HONK I just honked
August 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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authorkaraj.bsky.social
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 5
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
"O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!"

Starting the day sharing my favorite Langston Hughes poem in the family group chat before doing my own reading

poets.org/poem/let-ame...
Let America Be America Again
Let America be America again.
poets.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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drjennings.bsky.social
This is worth reading (and completely right) - the American state is being dismantled in ways that will not be easy to put back together.
djrothkopf.bsky.social David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · Jun 17
If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. gov't created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. My latest. newrepublic.com/article/1968...
We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President
It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.
newrepublic.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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gowder.io
Read this the next time you're tempted to believe some cop story about why they had to arrest protesters
jenvictor.bsky.social Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · Jun 12
Must read. Incredible and thoughtful first-person account. Surprisingly, the most shocking part is not journalists and college professors being arrested. It’s police trapping the crowd—giving a disperse order while blocking all the exits. via @smotus.bsky.social
smotus.substack.com/p/arrested-i...
Arrested in L.A.
My interview with a fellow scholar who was recently arrested for participating in an anti-ICE protest
smotus.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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jesscraven101.bsky.social
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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mary1kathy.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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amanbatheja.bsky.social
New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots.

After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips
Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of War, Riots, Election Fraud
Google’s Veo 3 lets users make hyper-realistic deepfakes—sparking fears about AI’s role in misinformation online.
time.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
It is unconscionable and immoral for the world to allow this horror to take place. 

2.2 million people are trapped with no food, water, aid, medicine, and baby formula. 

This genocide must end and we must stop being complicit in the mass slaughter of babies and civilians.
May 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

This is not an exaggeration.
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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robertmaguire.bsky.social
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.

Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.” Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges. “I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’” Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.” The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside. “I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.” Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.” About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Take this quiz to find out how much of your data DOGE now has access to:
www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...
Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You?
The Department of Government Efficiency has unauthorized access to millions of Americans’ data. Take New America’s quiz to see how much of your data is at risk.
www.newamerica.org
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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carlzoilus.bsky.social
Things still terrible, but: Viktor Orban was unable to stop protests in Budapest; Musk's money couldn't win the Wisconsin Supreme Court for Repugs; Marine Lepen is fuming over her court loss in Paris; and Corey Booker made a bravura stand against Trump in the Senate. More days like this please.
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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amywestervelt.bsky.social
National day of action planned for April 5th: handsoff2025.com
Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
handsoff2025.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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funeralpig.bsky.social
helping my cat get their claw unstuck from a blanket
painting of huge green alien reaching out of a cloud to grab a chimp
March 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Post from Twitter by Mohammed El-Kurd “The basics: fascism thrives on fear. They want you to be silent, to self-censor, to do less. You will not recover whatever ground you concede. The moment calls for caution, not hysteria. Courage, not cowardice. If the objective is fear, be unafraid. Dissent.”
March 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM