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Dan Vitkus

@danvitkus.bsky.social

Literature Professor, historical materialist, eco-theorist, solarpunk

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Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2d ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am more or less at peace with organizations destructively scanning many books in part because university libraries have been doing it for decades, but it is eye-opening to see how widespread the practice is. Clever way to get a story, too

404 Media@404media.co · 2d ago

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 4d ago

“It’s important to remember that federal agencies have been surveilling and investigating activists since at least the Civil Rights Movement. What is new, however, is the way these current efforts seem connected to plans by the federal government to limit participation in the midterm elections.”

Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)@fisherdanar.bsky.social · 4d ago

Since my post yesterday went viral (!), I shifted gears and wrote about current threats to our democracy and what recently released documents exposing federal surveillance of activists and groups in Minnesota tell us about election 2026 and how we MUST PREPARE: danarfisher.com/2026/08/15/c...

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 4d ago

Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4d ago

The politics of the future is a war against billionaires—and it's a war the billionaires started. Their campaign to destroy American democracy is an early phase of a sinister cult vision to tyrannize the future. My interview with @KQEDNews Political Breakdown. www.kqed.org/news/1209526...

The Tech Billionaires’ ‘War on Democracy’ | KQED

In his new book “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy,” journalist Gil Durán warns that tech billionaires are attempting to overthrow American democracy - a movement that’s ...

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James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yes. 'Harvard About to Cave' narrative looks ever weaker. 1) Let's hope Yale gets the point, and stops its trembling. (See yaledailynews.com/articles/the... ) 2) Let's hope everybody gets the point. Obeying-in-advance never pays off.

Gregg Kilday@greggk.bsky.social · 5d ago

Harvard’s refusal to make a deal gets some support … Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Dismisses Federal Antisemitism Case Against Harvard www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.

Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel

There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Mark Crean@markcrean.bsky.social · last wk.

Great point from the excellent Cory Doctorow. Politicians need to deliver on the little, sometimes apparently trivial things that improve daily life because otherwise why should anyone trust them to deliver on the really big stuff.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

Today, Mamdani is at the vanguard of an army of proud sewer socialists, who say that once you deliver for people in their day-to-day existence, they will trust you and back you when you fight for deep, structural changes: prospect.org/2026/04/10/z... 51/

Sean Casten@seancasten.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2w ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

Esquire: A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought. “Duran gets inside the heads of our potential overlords and finds that they're full of spiders, snakes, and poison toads.” via @theshebeen.bsky.social www.esquire.com/news-politic...

A Shocking New Book Reveals Why JD Vance Might Be Even More Dangerous for America Than We Thought

Let’s hope the vice president’s is so unlikeable that it keeps him from climbing the ranks any higher.

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Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.