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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

our planet. our one and only earth. this is what the colonizers choose to do it with it.

Mari-homeless soon. @wordglass.bsky.social · 18h

Supreme Court refuses Apache plea to save Oak Flat from copper mining destruction

* *Gorsuch dissent calls the decision a “grave mistake” as copper mine threatens to create massive crater

By: Shondiin Silversmith- May 27, 2025 12:54 pm UPDATED OCT 6TH 2025

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Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold talks to a crowd of people outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse on May 7, 2025, as Apache Stronghold urged the federal court to save Oak Flat. Photo Courtesy of Becket

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Colin @celsmooth.bsky.social · 3h

Either they are incredibly stupid or incredibly insideous. My bet is they are just trying to stem the tide of AI bubble crashing by being on screens in any way possible no matter how destructive. Just plain awful

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 1d

I’m deeply afraid of commoditized artificial intelligence video generation

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abbyreisman.bsky.social @abbyreisman.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed! Penn must not capitulate!

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 3d

Taking Trump’s loyalty oath would be a profound betrayal of students, staff, faculty, the public, higher education, & our shared democracy. We urge schools not to capitulate & not to negotiate but to unite now in defense of democracy and higher ed.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin

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Colin @celsmooth.bsky.social · 6d

Ask yourself, why Memphis... notice what local organziers are fighting

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

Something real insidious about reducing us to a collection of “body parts,” marketing our surveillance as spectacle and repackaging it for mass consumption.

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Colin @celsmooth.bsky.social · 6d

Read it! Do it yall

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

Hate this so much.

Amazon 🤝 anti-Blackness.

Anyway, read Simone Browne’s Dark Matters.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 7d

I really want everyone to understand - The REPUBLICAN APPROPRIATORS are like - We were never going to have a deal because RUSS VOUGHT IS JUST DOING WHATEVER THE FUCK HE WANTS.

This is not what the OMB is for and is absolutely a constitutional crisis.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition.

And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%.

That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7d

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

The government of the United States, which is controlled by Donald Trump in the presidency, Republicans in the Senate, and Republicans in the House, will shut down in a few hours.

It is the first shutdown since the last time Trump was president and he shut down the government.

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Robert R. Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 8d

the takeover of tiktok by a man who has deep ties to the zionist entity is a testament to how seriously our ruling class takes the battle of ideas. they can't control a population that's educated and informed—this is why they buy news outlets, defund education, and yes, it's why they seized tiktok

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Micah @rincewind.run · 8d

there are a lot of affluent (and not so affluent) liberals in this country who are very angry and don’t know how to properly direct that anger and Disney gave them a very easy target

something for the next big corp that wants to bend the knee to consider

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 9d

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 9d

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned

The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 9d

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.

Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 9d

An excellent true thing is that I gave unequivocally anti-“AI” talks at Wesleyan and Tufts this month where the computer scientists and engineers in attendance have no interest in allowing this industry to hijack education and asked me “how can we get our students to take your classes?”

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10d

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10d

people in dc: “we fucking warned you over and over and over again and few of you even talked about us”

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10d

begging democrats to fight right now like portland is as important as jimmy kimmel

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11d

Just ran into one of the people who was in the audience for this talk at the native plant sale this morning, this shit WORKS.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 11d

I recently spoke at a neighborhood association meeting about native plants in the city.

Going to meetings like this can reach audiences that aren't following scientists on social or reading up on their own.

If you wanna take any bits/pieces of what I said to them, handouts & slides in the thread.

Sarah talks with her hands in front fo an audience of people in chairs

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11d

Chilling. The Enlightenment was fun while it lasted.

Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 11d

It's a small step from here to prohibiting professors from teaching about climate change, slavery, colonialism, racial discrimination, evolution, and the efficacy of vaccines.

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12d

a history professor explains…

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 12d

5/ The Trump administration has continually escalated its immigration crackdown. And oversight groups that would typically keep them in check, such as the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, have been dismantled in DOGE’s sweep:
www.propublica.org/article/home...

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights

The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS i...

www.propublica.org

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12d

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 12d

i'm going to keep running around doing my little science projects, but "elites driven mad by mean posts" is basically the only theory you need to explain this young century

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 14d

Another small stab in the heart of a dying planet as the EU caves in to pressure and delays... again, its deforestation law.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-d...

EU plans to delay anti-deforestation rules, again

The EU executive has increasingly put industrial competitiveness ahead of environmental concerns.

www.politico.eu

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14d

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