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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 8h

"They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems." christ almighty

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 9h

ah yes, the social network for news and journalism bsky.app/profile/kate...

kate conger @kateconger.com · 10h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 9h

Neko Case, probs

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 9h

solid bit imo

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 10h

"this is a cold world and what it offers the men who buy in is not comfort but a kind of self-reinforcing misery." www.notebook.bdmcclay.com/p/men-men-men

men? men. men!

took a take

www.notebook.bdmcclay.com

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

we’ve been in a Number Goes Up world for awhile, and part of that is because most of our executive compensation packages are based on “how much you can make number go up”, not “will number even be around in two decades?”

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 12h

i had a horse bite a finger and break it when i was 8

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! If anyone wants to support independent media, we're grateful for your consideration—and subscriptions.

Rick Varco @rvarco.bsky.social · 1d

Billionaires force Bari Weiss on us, so I donated to @boltsmag.org It is an essential media resource in times like now boltsmag.org/donate-page/...

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We are a nonprofit publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change, from the local up, and we need reader support to build our journalism.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 14h

our elites would so much rather believe that anything bad is just going on in the head of some hypersensitive grad-school TA than accept that some of their golf buddies are legitimately racist

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

If there is one thing the American mainstream media simply cannot resist, it’s a “Relax, the Libs are overreacting again!” take that presents a wildly disingenuous version of what is actually going on in MAGA land to launder the Right and chide “the Left” for being hysterical.

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Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · 14h

who on earth is the audience for this

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

“We’ve decided to make it so society can’t trust anything they’ve shown so you’re just going to have to “evolve” with that.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

Cyberlibertarianism.

He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’”
Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 14h

get active with your union or form one if you don’t have one! vital in these times

Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 14h

1) My union is great.
2) Union stewards are the best people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from shattering core state sovereignty, it's saying one state's Guard (TX) is somehow more loyal to the national authority than another's (IL). It's treating the latter as something bordering on hostile, or at least alien. One part of the country and its soldiers are more America than another.

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 15h

even more than Trump I, Trump II is distinctive in the extent to which it represents a merger b/w the right-wing media and right-wing government; it is a government that lives within the propaganda bubble it sprang from but also makes policy decisions with an eye to content creation for said bubble

James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting rundown on how RW media influencers drove the administration's Portland actions. Strikes me that we need to remap the GOP extended party network--or more accurately the MAGA EPN. Ppl like Sortor on not really outside actors.

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/sordid-sor...

Sordid Sortor

A dust-up in Portland reveals the dangerous degree of Trump administration overlap with the right-wing marketplace

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 15h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

asking people for permission to take their wallets would 'kill' the mugging industry, too

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.

buff.ly

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 15h

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 15h

This editorial from @washingtonpost.com is disappointing because it is sloppy and misleading---if not factually wrong. As a piece by the Editorial Board (the voice of the paper), it threatens Washington Post's credibility and integrity. 1/15

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Government shutdowns wouldn’t happen if they caused more pain

Democratic leaders play a dangerous game as Trump threatens not to pay furloughed federal workers.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 15h

he wouldn't have been asked to return if they weren't pretty damn sure he'd play ball

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. During a confirmation hearing in July, he told senators he would not handle such a situation the same way again.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 6d

The data and evidence are clear. Over the past 8 months, the egregious actions of President Trump and his enablers have caused real harm to people and communities across the country.

Science and Democracy Under Siege

This administration's first 6 months have been characterized by destruction, division, and chaos.

www.ucs.org

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

spent all morning picking ghoulies out of my dreamcatcher again

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

Theloniusmaxxing

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

fuck that’s grim

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

referenced here (though this is not where I learned about it, I saw it in person!) trappedinthescriptorium.com/2018/05/28/i...

In My Travels

Last summer when I was in Dublin, the one and only place which I was determined to visit was the Chester Beatty Library, Alfred Chester Beatty having been an American collector of everything from …

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

one of my tattoos is based on an illustration in a Persian-language translation of a Turkish book about the animals of the just-then-newly-discovered Americas

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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