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@loinbrooklyn.bsky.social

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Educator, climate organizer w/ @climatefamsnyc

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · Aug 3

I wrote in the @nydailynews.com on why NYC schools should declare a moratorium on AI for the classroom: www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/03/n...

AI is a climate, pedagogical and privacy disaster: we shouldn’t recklessly force it on our teachers & kids

NYC schools need a moratorium on AI

As a parent of a rising public school student, teacher, and climate organizer, I am horrified by how quickly AI is finding its way into our children’s classrooms: Parent and teacher friends have re…

www.nydailynews.com

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 13h

Yessssss let’s fucking go

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Climate Families NYC @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social · 17h

Today we’re joining over 100 organizations in saying #HandsOffNYC. Hands off our families. No troops in NYC. No ICE in NYC. Hands off our communities!

Hands off NYC and Statue of Liberty in black on yellow background

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2d

Very nice piece from my colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social in today's Times on the illegality of Trump's troop deployments to American cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants

www.nytimes.com

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

They are going to bomb cities

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

It is so insane that anyone takes these people seriously.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

I am genuinely mystified by the fact that the majority of powerful people seem content to gleefully destroy the whole world

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

- Fossil fuel donors poured $96m into Trump’s 2025 presidential campaign and affiliated action committees

Story by @dharna.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.theguardian.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

When *billionaires* do.

The machines are for the billionaires

Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 1d

And seemingly no consequences for being wrong!

hiksmash @hiksmash.blacksky.app · 2d

Has anyone else noticed there's no prize for being right?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

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Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d

People chose this. They voted for it or they wouldn’t vote against it. Either way, it was a choice.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as pretty bad

Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

Liat @loinbrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really not that complicated all little babies are born just wanting to be fed and snuggled and loved and turn into happy healthy people and the amount that humans not only fuck this up but deliberately try to destroy other people’s children is astonishing

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Climate Families NYC @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing turnout in Peekskill with our Westchester chapter to tell @governor.ny.gov #NoTrumpPipelines. Standing up to Trump means rejecting the Williams-NESE and Maple pipelines.

Don't sacrifice our waterways and kids' health and futures to appease a bully Governor Hochul!

A group of people at a protest holding signs and colorful banners on a sunny day at a protest

A group of people and children marching with signs near trees in a protest

a mom and two daughters, one holding a sign that says "I am growing pipelines shouldn't"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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