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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11h

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 17h

I love it. Non-violent creativity works every time. Effective resistance is often (not exclusively) psychological and based on optics.

Mark 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦 @miestro78.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say ice is floundering 😹

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 17h

Fucking vampires.

Amazon got a 100 percent property tax abatement... and has fires on the regular.

futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

futurism.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Unacceptable to put the costs of the AI boom on the backs of families struggling to pay their bills. It’s a crisis.

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 2d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

Today on Volts: the folks at @rewiringamerica.bsky.social have an idea. Hyperscalers desperately need to free up grid capacity for data centers, right? Why not let them buy that capacity by paying for residential heat pumps & solar/storage systems? I discuss it w/ the head of RW & a rep from PG&E.

Could we get hyperscalers to buy heat pumps for households?

Ari Matusiak and Carla Peterman join me to discuss a wild new idea: getting data centers to pay for your next heat pump.

www.volts.wtf

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 27d

An ANU all-staff meeting erupted into cheers when it was announced that Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell was stepping down, writes Ben Eltham.

When Bell resigned, staff cheered. The ANU drama and a broken university sector

The downfall of now-ousted ANU boss Genevieve Bell is just a microcosm of a broader crisis in Australian university governance.

www.crikey.com.au

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 9d

@wyden.senate.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Let him shut it down.
Have his tantrum.
We don't throw people under the bus.
Hold the line.

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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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 9d

The Democrats already decided disabled ppl and Palestinians are worth sacrificing for everyone else’s comfort. Trans ppl are next if we don’t take a stand. It will be awful, but let him shut it down. At some point, you have to stop sacrificing ppl and stand for fucking something

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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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 9d

Savage looting going on here in Portland...

by squirrels...

of a fig tree.

You try to build a wall, but the good for nothing anarchists just bust in anyway! And they're not even native!

Fig tree netted to prevent squirrel damage.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 9d

The graphs in here are interesting. I wonder if the apparent 2025 drop in right-wing violence has to do with the fact that those folks feel appeased now that the fascists are in control, or if it has just morphed into state violence, and is now treated as out of scope.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d

It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.

How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left

It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T...

www.pbump.net

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Darla Krusee @darla.bsky.social · 11d

No No No... Not another naked bike ride in Portland! 🫣

Larkin @larkin8.bsky.social · 11d

If provoked those Portlanders are no doubt going to do one of those naked bicycle rides to fight back.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 11d

Here on the "war-ravaged" streets of Portland Oregon today, so far I have witnessed middle aged women discussing tree fruit, dude walking his dog with a latte, and brunch queues exceeding the 40 minute regulators requirement. Chaos!

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Diane @tonawandagirl.bsky.social · 11d

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands

Military personnel were seen trading in automatic weapons for mandolins and zithers.

open.substack.com

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 13d

I hope the difference between corporate media and civic-minded non-profit media is crystal clear. Even in these highly uncertain times, public media are still fighting for journalism and access to good information

Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 14d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 13d

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 14d

The Enshittifier becomes the Enshittified.

The Information @theinformation.com · 15d

Exclusive: Nvidia discusses a new business model for its megadeal with OpenAI: leasing its chips.

Read more from Anissa Gardizy and Sri Muppidi 👇
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-megadeal-nvidia-discusses-new-business-model-chip-leasing

In OpenAI Megadeal, Nvidia Discusses a New Business Model: Chip Leasing

OpenAI and Nvidia are discussing an unusual way to structure their new artificial intelligence data center partnership, under which OpenAI would lease Nvidia’s AI chips rather than buying them, accord...

www.theinformation.com

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 15d

Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.

“History shows it clearly,
austerity creates the conditions
in which fascism thrives. When
Gov'ts strip away public services,
weaken safety nets and deepen
inequality, people lose hope
in democracy and turn to
authoritarian strongmen.’”
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- Richard Murphy

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15d

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

www.insidehighered.com

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 19d

Tired of how AI somehow lives rent-free in your head? Done with the ways that it inhibits our collective ability to imagine how technologies could be, beyond next word prediction?

Now's your chance to gather with like-minded folks. Submissions due Oct 9. www.undonecs.org/2026/

Undone Computer Science 2026

2nd conference on Undone Science in Computer Science

www.undonecs.org

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Rachel May @srachelmay.bsky.social · 20d

#5: Yes, they're going after comedians. That's because comedy is the best weapon against oppression. Soviet people bonded through "anekdoty," stories about the hilarious dysfunction of Soviet life. We need that kind of sustenance more than ever.

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 20d

This is the best piece I've read on AI in years. And I say this as someone who has lost all patience with AI commentary, critical or otherwise.

Well done, @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer. Spot on, re how "inaccuracies" are a feature, not a bug, of fascist rule.

Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 22d

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical

www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us

The problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Dawn Nafus @dawnnafus.bsky.social · 20d

I know you are being serious, but I can't look at pictures of these goons without hearing the Stormtroopers music in my mind's ear. bsky.app/profile/iwil...

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.