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OpenAI must investigate Larry Summers’ influence on its technology. Given Summers’ views, his association w/ Jeffrey Epstein & tenure as an OpenAI board member, the company must investigate & report out Summers’ influence on its tech & policies. Sign here
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In addition to a cozy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Summers held harmful sexist and racist views.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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mayasen.bsky.social
I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation

TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jbendery.bsky.social
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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teslatakedown.com
Tesla shareholders voted to offer Elon a trillion dollar incentive.

But whether he gets it or not is up to us.

He's gotta sell millions of cars and robots to bring in that ungodly sum. If you want to block it, join us in the streets #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

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Join me at the TeslaTakedown
The #TeslaTakedown movement is growing! Join us for an event in our community—or find one of more than 100 events every week across the country. And if there's not one near you, it's easy to sign up t...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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juanescalante.com
Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center.

“They are coming for all our children!”

#immigration
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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brianbeutler.bsky.social
Between what came before and what happened tonight, Dems ought to treat encounters with CBS reporters as presumptively hostile and untrustworthy. A small thing, but there’s no way out of this disaster if the party continues helplessly submitting to unequal treatment from ~all mediating institutions.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The NY Mayoral isn’t just about who leads New York. It’s about what kind of power defines our future.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is what feminist politics looks like when it’s about redistribution, not rhetoric.

🧵 Why his win could matter for everyone → shaunnathomas.substack.com/p/mandani-v-...
Mamdani v. Cuomo: A Critical Feminist Political Moment
Mamdani's economic platform- in stark contrast to Cuomo- isn’t just progressive, it’s a roadmap for feminist power-building and a fairer New York.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Election Day is nearly here… I'm attending UltraViolet Action's event, “Texting Tuesdays: 2025 Virginia Attorney General Race” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/ultravioleta...
Texting Tuesdays: 2025 Virginia Attorney General Race · UltraViolet Action
State attorneys general have enormous power over women’s rights and freedoms. They can choose to enforce or ignore laws that protect women at work. They also have the power to protect or restrict abor...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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atrupar.com
people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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brianbeutler.bsky.social
Paragraph at the bottom confirms my suspicion that he’s ordering the DOJ to pay him $230 million so he can finance his ballroom. The Epstein Ballroom.
nycsouthpaw.bsky.social southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Oct 22
This little item by Luke Broadwater on the abrupt, wholly unannounced destruction of a major component of the White House complex is a microcosm of the dysfunctional relationship the press has with this mendacious administration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

-Vaclav Havel (on repeat, in my mind, all day)
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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judiciarydems.senate.gov
The Kavanaugh Stop is now happening.
October 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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newyorkstateag.bsky.social
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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elizaorlins.bsky.social
A Trump-loyal prosecutor just indicted NY AG Letitia James—days after Trump demanded it.
This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

🎥 Full breakdown:

youtube.com/shorts/y-k4e...
Trump is Indicting Political Enemies. Letitia James New York Attorney General Indicted Today
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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October 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
At a conference about how we- the left- take more seriously our responsibility to broaden the tent and level up our approach to persuasion. Hosted by @waytowinus.bsky.social and @swayable.bsky.social and the brainchild of @jenancona.bsky.social
Sharing my takeaways live…
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Another great announcement today…

The billionaire takeover of our Supreme Court has a name and a face: John Roberts. @thelisagraves' new book "Without Precedent" shows how he became the first justice installed by dark money—and how he's spent decades paying back the favor. Buy it!
September 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Could not be more thrilled for @joshorton.bsky.social
SCOTUS is a disaster and he’s a key leader we need to push Dems to fix it.

News: A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trump directed the FBI to go after leftists so this seems like a good time to start talking in public again.

To start… I need a roundup of what exactly just happened these last 2 weeks. Who has one? Fair warning: This post will not end on a high note.
September 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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daphnek.bsky.social
This kind of repudiation of the Supreme Court by a state Supreme Court justice is very rare. But — speaking as a former Alaska Supreme Court clerk — this is also part of their structural purpose. There’s a reason our rights can be, and often are, given *better* protection under state constitutions.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 20
Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional
September 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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wgaeast.bsky.social
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Stunning. Nearly a dozen federal judges blowing the whistle on the runaway Roberts Court.
lawrencehurley.bsky.social Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Sep 4
🚨EXCLUSIVE:

Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats:

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases
Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism.
www.nbcnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Watch this debate tonight if you want to understand what’s driving Musk, Thiel and Vance

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Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?
Live NYC Debate Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Venue: Racket NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM | Debate starts at 7:00 PM Buy Tickets HERE | Register for the livestream HERE What if the U.S. abandoned democrat...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.

Dem govs must step up and fill the void.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
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August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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amandabecker.bsky.social
“I can’t think of any other thing that would pull me away from my kid right now, but this is important — she needs to have a democracy to grow up in," Texas Rep. Erin Zwiener said of Democrats' walkout to protest a Trump-requested GOP-favored voting map: 19thnews.org/2025/08/texa... @19thnews.org
‘She needs to have a democracy to grow up in’: The moms who left Texas to defend its future
Democratic lawmakers fled the state to protest a Trump-backed redistricting plan. For the mothers among them, leaving meant juggling summer milestones, first days of school — and showing their kids wh...
19thnews.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM