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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 3d

So it looks like the UK Green Party’s “ban landlords” media approach is working; it’s removing the right wing papers’ ability to spin their policy, and instead forcing them to defend parasitic extraction of wealth from working and middle class families, and out of the communities they live in.

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Drew @dmays.bsky.social · 5d

When teenagers were stealing merchandise from Macy’s on Mag Mile during COVID, “conservatives” in my life reached out to make sure I was safe

This is in my neighborhood and I haven’t heard a peep. So weird!

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 5d

I’m so struck by this video. A regular day in Logan Square in front of a grocery store and ICE pulls up and tear gassed people. Funston Elementary School is right across the street as well. This is a major corridor in Logan Sq. No concern for human safety

Video from: www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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notnotjuan @notnotjuan.bsky.social · 5d

wowwww

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Candice Fortin @candicefortin.bsky.social · 5d

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

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notnotjuan @notnotjuan.bsky.social · 6d

lmfao, what can you say?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

Sharing this thread from one of the parents who generously shared their time and experiences with me for the article.

I know that this is a very anti-AI space, but I hope people will try to be thoughtful about judgments they make about other people's parenting.

Ben Kreiter @benkreiter.com · 6d

I spoke with @joolia.bsky.social as she was writing this article. The Bluesky reaction on something AI wasn't a surprise to me at all, but it is interesting to be subject of it. Obviously I wasn't the article's main subject so our total convo got understandably boiled down to a couple quotes.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 6d

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

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Marloes 🌷✨🍉 @marveloesje.bsky.social · 6d

The Flotilla has achieved several remarkable victories. But the one thing that hits the hardest is that for the first time in years, Palestinians were able to go fishing due to the Flotilla keeping the IOF distracted. May it be the first of many wins ♥️

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 6d

A Charlie Kirk fan stalked these teenage girls for months, did livestreams where he harassed them, and murdered them after one of them said something critical of Charlie Kirk.

This should be headline news. It’s a horrific tragedy.

New York Post @nypost.com · 7d

NJ teen girls killed in quiet suburb by alleged stalker who ran them down in Jeep: ‘She made complaints and nothing was done’

"Just horrible. Nothing in the world is more horrible than what I saw yesterday. I have kids, you know, and so no family should have to go through this."

nypost.com

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notnotjuan @notnotjuan.bsky.social · 6d

do any american cities care about bumpers and other car junk littering streets and sidewalks days and weeks after a crash? are there any policies around this? going on day 3 of this eyesore, access violation, and blight.

car bumper and other miscellaneous parts strewn across a sidewalk, blocking its use days after a car crash.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6d

People running a police state shocked to learn people hate the police

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 6d

“The level of vitriol is at a spot that I’ve never observed in my entire career. It’s having devastating impacts on community and police departments and law enforcement agencies throughout the country.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Police chiefs sound alarm over 'disturbing rise in rhetoric,' cite rising political threats

A leading police organization called for the prosecution of "individuals, including elected and public figures, who incite violence or contribute to a climate that fosters targeted attacks."

www.nbcnews.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d

so glad we spent all that tax money propping up Tesla, it sure made the world a better place didn't it

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d

enjoy that last gulp from the subsidy faucet, because these numbers are gonna crater from here

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 6d

Tesla reported Q3 vehicle deliveries this morning at 497,099 That's a ~7% increase versus the same period last year. Industry-wide, EV sales were helped by a rush in the US to get a $7,500 federal tax credit before it expired 9/30... More @cnbc.com - www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/t...

Tesla reports 497,000 vehicle deliveries for Q3, up 7%

Tesla's third-quarter deliveries got a boost as some consumers rush to buy electric vehicles before a federal tax credit expired.

www.cnbc.com

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Messire Nicolas @messirenicolas.bsky.social · 8d

"I don't object to technology, I object to tech lords"

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8d

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 6d

So why do Democrats push so hard for these Buy America laws, and even Buy [State] policies with the same effect? Protectionism isn’t helping you win votes, and it sure isn’t helping you delivery services for your constituents

Reinvent Albany @reinventalbany.bsky.social · 6d

NEW Report: States that voted for Trump got billions from MTA Spending

Companies in red states by U.S. Senate seats received more than $3.5 billion in MTA payments over 14 years. States that voted for Trump in 2024 received nearly $7 billion from the MTA over this period.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d

Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 7d

Apropos of nothing much...

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 7d

the respectful chase his ass down en masse to scare him to death followed by immediate group moderation so no one lets their emotions get the better of them with a hundred cameras out sequence is genuinely the most the kids are alright i have ever felt

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 7d

This is heartening. The Israeli Navy is actually quite small, at one point outnumbered by the number of Sumud ships (tho ofc Israeli has seemingly endless US-supplied air power). Carry on, Mikeno!

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 7d

Looks like the Mikeno (one of the ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to Gaza) might actually make it.

Roughly half the ships have been intercepted by the Israeli military, but the rest are continuing toward Gaza. globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Screenshot of the Global Sumud Flotilla tracker, showing the Mikeno roughly 20 km away from the Gaza shore)

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

Underrated reason why Israel is currently at -70% approval with Democrats in the US and basically every left of center group in the Western Hemisphere today is this is the average Israel supporter's rhetoric

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 7d

I see people are posting their fantasies of Thunberg being tortured again

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 7d

I would definitely go with "This is not the time for hope" as my campaign slogan.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 7d

In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

The closest any flotilla has gotten yet.

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notnotjuan @notnotjuan.bsky.social · 7d

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 7d

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7d

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