Steve "Spike" Spiker
@spikeone.bsky.social
Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account. Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband. By day, team building & #civictech By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop. Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com
A single interest group whose primary mission is to represent the interests of another country has spent $30 million on a *primary race* www.ap.org/news-highlig....
AIPAC has spent a record amount on Michigan's Senate primary, the biggest test of its influence yet | The Associated Press
Senate candidate Haley Stevens talks often about manufacturing, taking on President Donald Trump and why she’s the Democrat best positioned to
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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d agoNew, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
Epic Fury 2, bought to you by the need to bury the data on casualties via a lowdown trick of wording. They're lying, again. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Pentagon reports more than 600 Iran war casualties in quiet database update
Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded
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Speaking of the very worst AI slop this year, brought to you by some dumb college kids, oh wait, what, I'm being told this is from the President of the United States of America?
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.PEW PEW PEW! said the president. BANG BANG my soldiers are dead. PEW PEW PEW! I got some of yours. ZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
This is a good start, facism is unAmerican, so let's take every org that supports it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Venezuela men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail
Exclusive: CSI Aviation and GlobalX accused of violating civil rights as part of Trump immigration crackdown
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The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Fear of Black Greeks
White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.
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interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Me: hey kids want some chicken apple sausages for dinner? Great Narrator: unbeknownst to the father, these were not in fact, mild chicken apple sausages...
His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.
First country to insist on singing their own anthem in a match that doesn't involve them at any world cup. The US is a deeply insecure place.
Oops, the illegally obtained Medicaid data we should have deleted accidentally got shared again with our creepy surveillance firm and we simply don't know how this keeps happening. www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Balaji Srinivasan's tech cult threatens Malaysia. The Network State founder, who seeks to spread "tech Zionism," has attracted scrutiny in the Muslim country where he established a cult compound ("Network School"). Now he's giving the government an ultimatum. www.thenerdreich.com/balaji-srini...
Balaji Srinivasan's Tech Cult Threatens Malaysia
Founder of 'tech Zionism' cult miffed after passport controversy
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I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoNewsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."
Approximately zero percent of generals and admirals support Pete Hegseth's plan to screen military personnel for low testosterone. But in this incel gamer Discord server, that number seems much higher.
Trent Reznor gets into baby marine mammal preservation Nine Inch Whales
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 3w agoTrent Reznor gets into spreading food-borne illness Nine Inch Kales
Winston Bushmills (mums side) Allan Camarones Diabla (dads)
kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w agoyour baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...
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As a govt executive, my old friends (who run orgs we fund) can't even take me out for dim sum without me declaring it on my Form 700, then there's DC shit like this. (I just pay vs filling out paperwork)
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoNEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
Imagine, just imagine, being able to update a constitution to make it better... Dems yall better be watching and planning. Once the authoritarian regime loses power, you have to undo the shenanigans fast.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3w agoRemember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...
New: The LAPD regularly pulls over innocent people because their license plates have been put on a license plate reader hotlist. In a two-month period, it "investigated" 161 innocent people whose cars were improperly put on Flock or Motorola hotlists: www.404media.co/lapd-regular...
LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen
The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.
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Oh yeah, my trans friends and coworkers; totally who comes to mind when I think of dangerous, aggressive individuals. Definitely not straight white guys.
Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 4w agoSean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, says he walks around worrying that someone who's hopped up on hormones and Trans surgeries is going to try and kill him.
It looks like you're trying to write a (AI) letter? How can one company do the same terrible thing twice?
BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2mo agoBREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"
