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Upturn @upturn.org · 13d

1/ NEW: Read our new report, “Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care.” We show how automated eligibility determinations are political tools that draw a subjective line between who is deserving and undeserving of getting care in their home. www.upturn.org/work/calcula...

Cover of Upturn's new report titled "Calculated Need: Algorithms and the Fight for Medicaid Home Care. A Comparison of Five States' Eligibility Algorithms." The authors are Miriam Osman, Emily Paul, and Emma Weil. Published in October 2025.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 7d

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, ChatGPT is clearly a danger to civilization.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

www.wired.com

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 16d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 16d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Jeremy Zoss @jzossmpls.bsky.social · 16d

The most Minnesotan protest sign. #NoKings

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d

I have friends everywhere.
#NoKings

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16d

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16d

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · Sep 27

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 25

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre @business-humanrights.org · May 8

As Brazil prepares to host #COP30, we are calling as part of LEAD (Leaders’ Network for Environmental Activists and Defenders) on @govbrazil and @UNFCCC to embed clear protections for civic space and environmental defenders:
gw.cdn.ngo/media/docume...
📸: Ricardo Stuckert / PR

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Business, Human Rights & Environment @ FIDH @fidh-bhr.bsky.social · May 9

Corporate accountability win in #Brazil!

Our member Justiça nos Trilhos received @theicar.bsky.social Gwynne Skinner Award for decades of resistance to mining abuses & pollution in Piquiá de Baixo, securing relocation of 312 families.

The fight for justice continues!

www.fidh.org/en/issues/bu...

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SAGE Fund @sagefundrights.bsky.social · May 9

Congrats to Justiça nos Trilhos on receiving the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award! SAGE is so proud to have supported JnT's work (with FIDH!) to seek justice for the community of Piquiá de Baixo, building a new neighborhood safe from pollution from Vale's steel production.
@theicar.bsky.social

Business, Human Rights & Environment @ FIDH @fidh-bhr.bsky.social · May 9

Corporate accountability win in #Brazil!

Our member Justiça nos Trilhos received @theicar.bsky.social Gwynne Skinner Award for decades of resistance to mining abuses & pollution in Piquiá de Baixo, securing relocation of 312 families.

The fight for justice continues!

www.fidh.org/en/issues/bu...

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SAGE Fund @sagefundrights.bsky.social · May 9

A historic day for the Xinka people, who have engaged in a court-ordered consultation with the gov't on the Escobal mine for 7 years - a process that would not have been as robust but for their leadership. Yesterday, they said no, in part because the state lacks the capacity to manage the risks.

Earthworks @earthworks.bsky.social · May 8

Xinka People Say “No” to the Escobal Mine. The Xinka Indigenous People are telling the Guatemalan government that they say no to a silver mine owned by Pan American Silver. This marks the culmination of a court-mandated consultation process. 🔗 bit.ly/xinka-answer

The state has discriminated against us, stigmatized us, criminalized us, repressed us, and even denied our existence in order to carry out the mining project. If this project continues, we would practically be condemned to disappear as a people. As Xinka people, we deny our consent to the continuity of the El Escobal mining project. Marta Muñoz, spokesperson for the Xinka Parliament, May 8, 2025

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🐸 Trish Anderton 🐸 @trishanderton.bsky.social · May 9

An absolutely devastating account of our new police state

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · May 8

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

They don't need a warrant

A federal kidnapping in Worcester

www.welcometohellworld.com

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🐸 Trish Anderton 🐸 @trishanderton.bsky.social · May 9

“Despite initial projections of producing 250,000 units annually, it appears Tesla might struggle to sell even 20,000 Cybertrucks per year in the current market climate.”

Nice work, @teslatakedown.com!

Considering the current inventory levels, which represent approximately two quarters' worth of sales, and the apparent production slowdown, the future of the Cybertruck program is uncertain. Despite initial projections of producing 250,000 units annually, it appears Tesla might struggle to sell even 20,000 Cybertrucks per year in the current market climate.

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 9

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

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Governor Phil Murphy @govmurphy.bsky.social · May 9

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark.

I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

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gregaignon.bsky.social @gregaignon.bsky.social · Apr 30

Mohsen Mahdawi is free! And defiantly still speaking for peace. #freemahmoudkhalil #freerumeysaozturk #freethemall Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia and all the gulag prisoners home

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gregaignon.bsky.social @gregaignon.bsky.social · Apr 30

The fragility of capitalism tho....

gregaignon.bsky.social @gregaignon.bsky.social · Apr 18

Huge kudos to Corporate Accountability Lab for calling this what it is. Read the solid Nation article too. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations

www.thenation.com

gregaignon.bsky.social @gregaignon.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is what corruption in this administration looks like - as well as the unraveling of the rule of law and what few human rights protections we have for workers who make the products we buy. Read Charity's post all the way through
www.linkedin.com/posts/charit...

The Bitter Taste of Labor Violations | Charity Ryerson

At Corporate Accountability Lab, we've been doing some soul searching since U.S. Customs and Border Protection decided, without evidence of remediation, to allow sugar produced with forced labor f...

www.linkedin.com

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Apr 17

RFK Jr. is very loud and very WRONG about Autism.

1. It’s not a disease
2. There are thousands of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder who pay taxes, have jobs, can use the bathroom on their own, and are thriving in life.

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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · Apr 15

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

www.npr.org

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Apr 18

Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 15

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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