Gobber
@gobber.bsky.social
Innocent Primate-He/Him/His-NorCal Native-Eighties Doofus You mind your business and I’ll mind mine 🖖🏼
#Trump #Corruption
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Do yourself a favor. Take a few minutes. Watch this and you’ll be better off.
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Do yourself a favor. Take a few minutes. Watch this and you’ll be better off.
We Investigated The Criminals Who Bought Trump: What We Found Will Shock You
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
#Trump #Corruption
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Do yourself a favor. Take a few minutes. Watch this and you’ll be better off.
youtu.be/NFhxEEXQaa8?...
Do yourself a favor. Take a few minutes. Watch this and you’ll be better off.
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Hey Tennessee, if you don’t want an entirely unjustified war of choice with Venezuela the time to call on your reps and senators to stop Trump is now. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepOgles @RepTimBurchett @RepHarshbarger @DesJarlaisTN04 @MattForTN @RepDavidKustoff @RepJohnRose
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hey Tennessee, if you don’t want an entirely unjustified war of choice with Venezuela the time to call on your reps and senators to stop Trump is now. @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty @RepOgles @RepTimBurchett @RepHarshbarger @DesJarlaisTN04 @MattForTN @RepDavidKustoff @RepJohnRose
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Matthew's arrest feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago. It's been weird seeing these photos pop up repeatedly on my feed as the surrounding circumstances degraded.
He was the first journo arrested in the US this year, covering a protest against deportation flights days before the inauguration.
He was the first journo arrested in the US this year, covering a protest against deportation flights days before the inauguration.
From LA to Chicago, press arrests were used to silence protest coverage across the country in 2025.
Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it.
Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:
Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it.
Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:
Press arrests used to silence protest coverage in 2025
More than 30 journalists detained, nearly all released without charges or with them quickly dropped
pressfreedomtracker.us
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Matthew's arrest feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago. It's been weird seeing these photos pop up repeatedly on my feed as the surrounding circumstances degraded.
He was the first journo arrested in the US this year, covering a protest against deportation flights days before the inauguration.
He was the first journo arrested in the US this year, covering a protest against deportation flights days before the inauguration.
@bsky.app My app sticks to each video I watch and won’t let me out. I have to leave the app and swipe it and start over. #BlueskyBroken
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@bsky.app My app sticks to each video I watch and won’t let me out. I have to leave the app and swipe it and start over. #BlueskyBroken
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Check it out: solidaritywithbaristas.org
This season, we’re not buying Starbucks while @sbworkersunited.org baristas are on strike. That means more than skipping lattes: not buying Starbucks means no beans, no bearista cups, and NO GIFT CARDS. This year, it’s time to give something else: working class solidarity. Let’s talk about it>🧵 1/8
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Check it out: solidaritywithbaristas.org
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If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
@reptedlieu.bsky.social
Say it ain’t so. Please protect what’s left of our f*cking democracy.
Starting w impeaching the orange bastard.
Say it ain’t so. Please protect what’s left of our f*cking democracy.
Starting w impeaching the orange bastard.
December 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@reptedlieu.bsky.social
Say it ain’t so. Please protect what’s left of our f*cking democracy.
Starting w impeaching the orange bastard.
Say it ain’t so. Please protect what’s left of our f*cking democracy.
Starting w impeaching the orange bastard.
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From Green America's Michi Trota:
The Public Pays the Price for Big Tech’s Data Centers - OtherWords
The relentless push for data centers is raising our power bills and polluting our communities. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
From Green America's Michi Trota:
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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so anyways here's Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol running into traffic to avoid talking to one of his baristas
all while 1000s of baristas across 130+ cities are on ULP strike...
all while 1000s of baristas across 130+ cities are on ULP strike...
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
so anyways here's Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol running into traffic to avoid talking to one of his baristas
all while 1000s of baristas across 130+ cities are on ULP strike...
all while 1000s of baristas across 130+ cities are on ULP strike...
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Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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NEW: In rural states, USPS is a major source of good jobs with benefits — and pays workers without college degrees better than jobs like fast food and retail.
The Postal Service supports rural families and economies. Keep it strong and public. New findings:
The Postal Service supports rural families and economies. Keep it strong and public. New findings:
The Public Postal Service and Rural America - Institute for Policy Studies
The Public Postal Service and Rural America
ips-dc.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
NEW: In rural states, USPS is a major source of good jobs with benefits — and pays workers without college degrees better than jobs like fast food and retail.
The Postal Service supports rural families and economies. Keep it strong and public. New findings:
The Postal Service supports rural families and economies. Keep it strong and public. New findings:
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New research on Twitter (right before rebranding to X) shows right leaning accounts got outsized visibility from the algorithm & suggests this bias stemmed from different content production techniques (more sensational, outrage-bait) and from direct interaction w/ the new king of the platform: Musk.
Recently accepted at ICWSM: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06129 (w/ @kayladuskin.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, and @emmaspiro.bsky.social)
We look at how algorithmic feeds affect Twitter account visibility. More visible accounts:
-Are agitators
-Get attention from Elon Musk
-Are not legacy verified
We look at how algorithmic feeds affect Twitter account visibility. More visible accounts:
-Are agitators
-Get attention from Elon Musk
-Are not legacy verified
Rabble-Rousers in the New King's Court: Algorithmic Effects on Account Visibility in Pre-X Twitter
Algorithmic effects on social media platforms have come under recent scrutiny, with several works reporting that right-leaning accounts tend to receive more exposure. In this paper, we expand upon thi...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
New research on Twitter (right before rebranding to X) shows right leaning accounts got outsized visibility from the algorithm & suggests this bias stemmed from different content production techniques (more sensational, outrage-bait) and from direct interaction w/ the new king of the platform: Musk.
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Harry Litman’s essay is the best thing out there about what SCOTUS will do in Trump v. Slaughter, argued Dec 8. Sure to be shredded is the FDR-era decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. But Litman goes much deeper and lays out the broad range of implications:
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
SlaughterHouse 9
The Unitary Executive Theory Ascendant – Sort of
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Harry Litman’s essay is the best thing out there about what SCOTUS will do in Trump v. Slaughter, argued Dec 8. Sure to be shredded is the FDR-era decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. But Litman goes much deeper and lays out the broad range of implications:
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
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Plant communication is not a fantasy; it's a biological response to specific cues.
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
The More We Study Forests, the More It Seems Like Plants Might Be Cooperating and "Talking" to Each Other
Trees may look still and silent, but they’re engaged in a constant, complex dialogue—through air, soil, and even electricity.
www.zmescience.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Plant communication is not a fantasy; it's a biological response to specific cues.
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
www.zmescience.com/science/news...
#Terminator Just noticed in the penultimate scene the Terminator appears to run over a Ford Pinto while driving an eighteen wheeler and there is no explosion. 🤔
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
#Terminator Just noticed in the penultimate scene the Terminator appears to run over a Ford Pinto while driving an eighteen wheeler and there is no explosion. 🤔
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The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT
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Dean Jackson does a great job here connecting three major stories from this week to the now years-long "'censorship' greivance fantasy" crafted by right-wing conspiracy theorists and embraced by the Trump regime and its supporters: www.techpolicy.press/white-house-...
White House 'Censorship' Grievance Fantasy Kicks Into High Gear | TechPolicy.Press
Three related stories are each part of the larger geopolitical contest which now defines transatlantic relations, writes Dean Jackson.
www.techpolicy.press
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Dean Jackson does a great job here connecting three major stories from this week to the now years-long "'censorship' greivance fantasy" crafted by right-wing conspiracy theorists and embraced by the Trump regime and its supporters: www.techpolicy.press/white-house-...
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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
