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Greg Aden

@gregaden.bsky.social

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Focused on the Flow: Of Water, Of Books, Of Metadata, Of Wind, Of Cities, Of Jazz and Music, Of Words, Of Dogs, Of Librarians, Of Movement, Of Progressives, Of New Discoveries. Seattle, San Francisco, New York.

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 5h

I hear there's a sale on pitchforks, but they're going fast.

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 2d

@theusefulidiots.bsky.social You're getting more and more relevant.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

There's money available to feed poor people. The Trump regime has deleted that fact from a government website, but it's still a fact.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 3d

tan suit.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5d

Make it *30* emergency applications from the Trump administration to #SCOTUS.

The latest one involves whether the "Register of Copyrights," appointed by the Librarian of Congress, is in the executive branch (and can therefore be removed w/o cause by the President).

It'll shortly be posted here:

www.supremecourt.gov

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 5d

A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.

Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 5d

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

www.wired.com

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 10d

Can we assume that the right-to-lifers will be on the front lines?

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 12d

Northwestern University Faculty Assembly passes a resolution opposing a “compact” with the Trump administration.

The vote was 595 to 4 with 8 abstaining.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/20/c...

"This Faculty Assembly opposes any capitulation on the part of Northwestern University to these or similar demands that undermine constitutional rights, democratic principles, faculty governance, institutional autonomy, and academic freedom," the resolution read.

The second resolution also passed, with 595 for, four against and eight abstentions.

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 10d

...and Putin didn't need to launch a single missile.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11d

Monthly health care premiums doubling—or more—may not be "gut-wrenching" to Senators like Ron Johnson. But to most Americans, payments that used to be $772/month becoming $2,400/month is a BIG DEAL.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Ron Johnson: "I don't think this is going to be any kind of gut-wrenching problem if these enhanced subsidies just go away. We'll probably have the weather the lies told by the Democrats. Democrats say all sorts of things that are untrue."

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 12d

Pritzker and Newsom get it. You lay it on the line or you lose.

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 12d

Wouldn't have it any other way

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 12d

It was always going 7.

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 12d

@michaelharriot.bsky.social has a lot to say about people of color falling in line with white supremacy. Unfortunately, nothing new.

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NUS Press @nuspress.bsky.social · 16d

Checking in from the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the Philippines are the Guest of Honour! Here are Lisandro Claudio (Liberalism and the Postcolony) & Filomeno Aguilar Jr. (Migration Revolution) at the Philippines pavilion with our Director Peter Schoppert.

Books on the Philippines: buff.ly/ttkohmz

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · 29d

Trump threatens genocide on top of genocide.

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Oct 1

What sort of relief is he seeking? If it's only money, the Trump administration will simply consider it the cost of its agenda.

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Sep 26

I'm not going back to Elon's Twitter, but I miss the more vibrant sports conversations. Tell the M's to use their Blue Sky account please.

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Sep 19

...and is David Duke Day the day after or the day prior?

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Sep 19

Jimmy is Q !!!

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Sep 18

No honor for bigots. The Dems should release a coordinated message explaining a unanimous "no" vote.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Sep 18

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · Sep 14

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

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Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Sep 14

No masks. Does this mean the Nazi's at ICE will follow suit?

Greg Aden @gregaden.bsky.social · Sep 12

Marty Feldman?