El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Wild what powerful people will just straight-up say on the record.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 15h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

It’s really important to understand that the criminal legal system in the U.S. already produced the infrastructure to make ICE possible. If we ever rid ourselves of ICE the way to make it harder to revive it will be destroying and defunding the institutions it has borrowed so much from

The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · 4h ago

Adapting to public pushback, the Trump administration is pivoting to expand immigration detention bedspace nationwide.

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

For every $1 spent on public libraries, the community receives almost $6 in benefits Real, B., Balazs, S., Davis, A., & Oltmann, S. M. (2026). Return-on-Investment in Public Libraries: A Study from the State of Kentucky. Public Library Quarterly, 1–30. 10.1080/01616846.2026.2711582

He's electable if we elect him.

I had two A+ immigration lawyers, the full backing of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and direct support of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock's teams, and I still lost half a year of my life, three speaking opportunities, and tens of thousands of dollars in wages. Imagine a normal person.

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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I dream of a day when we no longer have to have this discussion… because bad people face consequences while they’re still alive, and are prevented from doing this level of harm. Access to harm others is not a basic human right.

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · yesterday

Live your life such that no one has to say "Please don't speak ill of the dead, no matter how awful they were in life" about you.

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I think not having to deal with Hindutva trolls and bots wishing rape and murder on me and other women the moment we have an opinion they feel makes them "look bad" or their chosen god-deity look bad is maybe the biggest draw of this place.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · yesterday

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

The politics of desert = eugenics by another name

NPR@npr.org · yesterday

Conservatives who have long pushed for Medicaid work requirements often said vulnerable people would get a pass. But the federal government's list of exemptions left off homeless people. n.pr/4w4pkH0

Many platforms are more afraid of being called woke than they are afraid of letting nazis in. The truth is that no one likes hanging out with nazis, not even nazis. If you give them Twitter and everyone else leaves, they would still not be happy. They will then want to go where everyone else is.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last mo.

Yep. One of the most disgusting things about the US is that at most points in US history, white people could insult other white people, just by suggesting that they care about other people. So white folk deny it. "I'm not an n-word lover, but..." "I'm not PC, but.." "I'm not woke, but..." 🤷🏿‍♂️

In the USA, racists and nazis can still bully most (non-Black) people, simply by suggesting that they are in a "liberal bubble" or are "wild progressives," or hinting that they care about other people. Rather than have the confidence to say, "Those opinions are in bad faith," they fold.🤷🏿‍♂️

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

BREAKING: ​The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.

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Not sure if it's great for business, but I am that person who has to drop a leavesubstack.com link every time a connection on LinkedIn posts a link to the Nazistack 😂 "Oh no, I'd love to read this, but...."

Mad about Gillibrand's participation in a Bible study group that reportedly teaches people that Jews killed Jesus? Call her up and tell her! (202) 224-4451 bsky.app/profile/juli...

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d ago

I was today years old when I learned that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attends a bible study group that teaches that Jewish people killed Jesus, which has been used to justify antisemitism and associated violence against us Jews.

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Adoptee friends & others impacted by adoption: I'm a librarian planning a display for November (National Adoption Month). These are just some of the books that'll be on display—I'd love your suggestions!

No one ever had to spend $175M on librarian misconduct settlements Not even when we drank that Dallas bar out of tequila

sara@saract.bsky.social · 3d ago

we're on pace to spend something like 5x the total public library budget on misconduct settlements alone. do we think that number will go up or down with 1,000 more officers? you cannot propose this kind of stuff and be taken seriously as a "fiscally responsible" candidate

*Start reading a thread* *Start typing out a quote post about one of the many delulu posts in that thread* *Pause* I don't need to waste my time responding to stupid. *Discard draft and go about my day... after adding this commentary 🤣

I think the worse-on-purpose story about how Pyrex stopped being borosilicate glass in favour of cheaper, worse, but passable alternatives is relevant. No one got a choice except the execs who could work out manufacturing to make borosilicate cheaper for more or just exploit branding and marketing.

The EU just voted to copy ICE and send people to third-country detention camp "return hubs". If they don't reciprocate this UK policy, it's because of whiteness, not because they're "not evil bastards." www.ceps.eu/return-hubs-...

Return hubs don’t return people – they detain them out of reach – CEPS

The new Return Regulation allows Member States to deport a person to a country they’ve never been to and detain them there indefinitely. This is what’s behind t

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Sam Vimes@samvimes6.bsky.social · 2d ago

Just a reminder that these rights were reciprocal. Brits could remain in the EU and EU people in the UK. If the UK reneges on this then the EU has every right to ask Brits to leave. They probably won't, because they're not evil bastards, but they could.

“Assume that is a given fact, okay?” “No.” is an exchange we should all be practicing

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.