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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Aug 6

Case in point: the Windsurf employees have been treated like garbage. If you work(ed) there and want to chat, lemme know. techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/t... Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door | TechCrunch

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our Founder and CEO @catherinebracy.com went on Paradigm Shock to talk about how venture capital’s dominance in funding tech imposes a narrow, and sometimes reckless, business culture.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · Aug 1

one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Aug 1

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

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TechEquity @techequity.bsky.social · Jul 14

OpenAI has abandoned its planned transformation to a for-profit, but it’s still making business deals that we have… questions about. @calmatters.org @catherinebracy.com

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Why California's attorney general must continue the investigation into OpenAI | Opinion

With such critical questions still unanswered, the investigation into OpenAI’s structure by the California attorney general must continue.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jul 8

Sean got in the makeup chair and said “give me the full Donald.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 8

Sean Duffy on Fox: "It's dangerous to ride the subway in New York ... it's just stupid liberals with stupid policies that impact the lives of New Yorkers"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 4

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jul 4

I got it too. I thought it was a joke.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · Jul 1

The wicked AI regulation ban is dead - the only good news in these times of in times of terrible news is when something terrible doesn't happen apnews.com/article/cong...

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 28

The revisionist gaslighting here is insane. Breed was a tough-on-crime, pro-developer moderate Dem backed by the establishment (including centrist savior Daniel Lurie!). I guess being brown is good enough to lump them together though.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jun 27

NY Post is obsessed. The idea that London Breed was like Mamdani or that SF politics is anything like NYC's is just nonsense.

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Warning to NY: Don’t make the mistake we did in San Francisco by electing Zohran Mamdani

Take heed, New Yorkers, and learn from San Francisco’s mistakes.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 24

+1 it made me a lifelong Clive Owen stan

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Jun 24

CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school

Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 20

I would love that! @greenwell.bsky.social

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 17

It’s like the domestic version of what he’s done for Left/Center politicians around the world. The Trump political dividend.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Jun 16

Trump is about to give a bunch of other Democratic mayors and governors the same gift he handed to Newsom, if they’re smart enough to take it. (Adams obviously won’t, because Trump bought his complicity.)

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 13

My protest sign for tomorrow is Andor themed. Should be required viewing, honestly.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 8

Ok but “it might be the least shameful thing you’ve taken public” is an objectively great burn

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 5

Looks like Elon figured out that only Democrats buy his cars.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jun 3

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · Jun 3

Fuck yeah

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · May 30

Helpful to understand that what we’re up against is literally a death cult.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · May 30

VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid)

ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · May 29

Godspeed!!

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · May 29

I remember those days, when the internet was chill and fun.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · May 27

Wherein I reveal my Doomerist tendencies.

Somewhere in Seattle @charlie62.bsky.social · May 27

Amazing discussion with @anandwrites.bsky.social and @catherinebracy.com

open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

How venture capital broke America

Technologist and author Catherine Bracy on what went wrong in Silicon Valley and how to rebuild after the broligarchs burn it all down

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · May 22

Good, so we’re all agreed that he’s not immune from prosecution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 22

REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?

LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · May 14

We are going to graduate a generation of workers who can’t do any meaningful work without ChatGPT but then will be shocked when their jobs are completely replaced by AI.

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Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com · May 13

The world is trolling us

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · May 13

As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay.

According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.

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