I've read most of the books on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's proposed reading list and plan to read the rest. These are excellent recommendations. In fact, @gilduran.com (author of The Nerd Reich) will be a guest on Movement Memos soon.

Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

nytimes.com

My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I’m not good at following orders, I’m emotionally dead, and she’d like to see the role go to Idris Elba.

It was a terrible time to be a young person, but at least we had this.

insomniac@phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 13h ago

I feel like I sometimes have to explain that in 1994 you could have a movie where the main character is so consumed by inner pain that he does himself up like a goth mime, climbs to the top of a warehouse, plays a sick guitar solo at sunset, and smashes the guitar with zero irony

Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.

Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.

I'm so mad that I know this.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

"Five women have died at Women's Huron Valley since mid-May ... The families of multiple women who have died at Women's Huron Valley shared the stories of their loved ones, and chanted alongside organizers to demand that the same thing does not happen to more women."

Truthout@truthout.org · 3d ago

As severe medical issues and deaths increase, advocates and families are pressing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to take action.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

ICYMI heatmap journalism seems to have stopped a data center and gas fired power plant

Matt Zeitlin@zeitlin.bsky.social · 2d ago

big @jael.bsky.social scoop: developer clearway isn't going forward with its data center and gas plant proposal (that had already been swapped out for an existing solar proposal) heatmap.news/sparks/clear...

my band might've imploded this year but at least it let me have the time to stop some data centers

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

Around this time last year, I was diagnosed with a frozen shoulder. Left side. That's finally healed. And now, the right side is frozen. Got a steroid injection in the joint today. Hopefully that will help soon.

Another person has died at Delaney Hall, the second in a period of months, supposedly of an unspecified "medical emergency." His name is Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. He was just 41 years old. When we fight against ICE, we are fighting to save lives. This is urgent. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...

Tactics at Delaney Hall: A Strategic Appraisal

An appraisal of the tactics that protesters have employed outside Delaney Hall with two interviews from the front lines.

crimethinc.com

Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2d ago

A Salvadoran immigrant, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has died, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

I've been irate at how little national coverage the killings of four Black men in Memphis by federal agents have gotten -- and even how little in Tennessee. The root? State lawmakers who wholeheartedly approve of the occupation of Memphis.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

tennesseelookout.com

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

Yeah, sorry, but some folks on here just got straight-up outrage farmed by the Verge. This is fine!

Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d ago

Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.

I didn't like the latest Strange New Worlds episodes, but I will keep watching because I don't know when to quit. And no, the problem with the last episode wasn't that it was horror. Trek can do horror well (see also: DS9's Empok Nor). It's that it was pointless, uninteresting, and led nowhere.

“Without this, people become homeless. They lose their income. They lose their stability. Whatever tiny safety net they had is gone,” @shannonrosa.bsky.social said. “It’s just cruel.” My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

theguardian.com

Nate Silver thinking (in 2022) that this guy could someday be the Democratic presidential nominee is the gift that keeps on giving.

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d ago

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

friend got suspended from here, i jokingly asked if it's because they said something mean about a billionaire, and i was right 🫩

My dude, my man, my brother in Christ, many social norms and laws exist to gatekeep "how one obtains dopamine" because not every dopamine-seeking impulse is okay or correct.

“Olive Garden. When you’re here, you’ll need ID.”@schoolbus5.bsky.social · 2d ago

So now we are gatekeeping how one obtains dopamine? The big takeaway from posts like yours and the rest comes down to: Questioning his claim because it is not your experience, so therefore something is amiss.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020

‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN

The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...

cnn.com

we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

tucson.com

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME