The nerve.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli

Are you a journalist who uses the Freedom of Information Act in your reporting? Well, you can now win $25,000. FPF is proud to announce the launch of the Penlight Prize for excellence in paywall-free public records reporting. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social to learn more, and apply today.

🔥 Jon Stewart Defends Democratic Socialism: “When you call it SoCiALiSm, I think it’s a misnomer — It’s about strengthening a safety net for a country that has suffered too long overvaluing capital and money, and undervaluing labor and work. That’s it.”

WATCH — @johnleguizamo.bsky.social: “I’m a Democratic Socialist. I’ve always felt education, health care should be a right not a privilege. Socialist programs are important, like the post office, the fire department, social security, public education… these are socialist programs.”

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Doodle for @rosedoodle.bsky.social  💖

<takes huge bite of unwashed lettuce> I'm Johnny Knoxville, welcome to Jackass

The US Treasury has announced that the US Mint is beginning production of a new $1 gold coin featuring Trump’s face. This is against the law. Federal law does not allow living people to appear on U.S. currency, and the Presidential $1 Coin Act only authorizes coins honoring deceased presidents.

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ICE wants to scare you out of sharing the news

Plus: NJ court doubles down on gag order

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Who should decide what science gets funded: scientists or political appointees? Right now, it's scientists. A new OMB rule would hand that power to political appointees instead. Comment by July 13 to stop it. ⬇️ www.planetary.org/ombgrantrules

Advocacy Action Center

The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

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@rude1.blacksky.team Any thoughts on moving to smartphones that aren't locked behind Google going closed ecosystem for software development so they can help fascists more? I sincerely DO NOT want to go back to iOS, either. *sigh*

(Barret and Nanaki flew out)

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

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Systems, protocol, and infrastructure About Blacksky Blacksky helps communities create virtual third places where members democratically govern the recommender algorithms and moderation policies that ...

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God this sucks ass

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Colin Kaepernick is pitching schools across the country on his AI app—a chatbot kids can use to generate entire graphic novels with a few prompts—as a literacy tool *and* an extension of his activism. The student comics we obtained from South Bronx teens tell a different story. issa new [eyeblack]

GOD THIS SUCKS ASS

Bradford William Davis@bwd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

but don't take my word for it! here are examples of student comics created with Kaepernick's genAI tool, distributed to journalists as examples of Lumi's ostensibly positive impact on literacy. You let me know if this meets your expectations of a rising 10th grader's work.

Trump may already be deporting newborn Americans while the Supreme Court dawdles on birthright citizenship: pregnant teenagers in immigration detention having been giving birth to U.S. citizens but those girls and their babies are now missing ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

The Supreme Court Hasn't Ruled On Birthright Citizenship. Trump May Be Deporting Newborn Citizens Anyway

The Trump administration is refusing to answer questions about the health and safety of undocumented young mothers—and their newborn U.S. citizens—in its custody.

ballsandstrikes.org

this is happening in northern MI, where hundreds of folks went on a hunger strike at the end of April.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2mo ago

ICE locked up a transgender woman with men at GEO Group run camp. She reported that she was sexually assaulted. She was hospitalized. She spoke to a local sheriff. Then DHS deported her. (content note for stories and photos of anti-trans violence)

This is not a dunk whatsoever, but I feel like this shit happened a long, long time ago. People have been unwilling to admit their favorite pubs and channels were captured and are now catching up. This isn't that much different than Bezos installing Lewis to gut WaPo

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

He’s not just trying to pay his insurrectionists, he’s also hiring them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Few people ever find a niche passion that intersects with a niche talent and at an age when they’re unapologetic about both. Before the world says “you should be embarrassed.” He’s gonna end up being a world renowned ornithological researcher or educator.

From the heart of a mom suffering from a heart valve disorder&a husband wounded by shrapnel in his body,I appeal to you to save my kids from hunger&the pain of living in a tent.They want you to know that they are not beggars We want a bite of food Hunger is ravaging us😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...

every day I discover that my heart still has room to break www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DHS allows mother it deported without her toddler to return for his burial

Wendy Hernandez Reyes denies she “abandoned” her son, as ICE claimed. In an extraordinary act, she was allowed to come back to the U.S. for his burial.

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Profoundly evil.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

every day I discover that my heart still has room to break www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Just under the wire

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm worried about making one of those Bingo Cards for 2026 because I've been guessing right on way too many awful things but I'm gonna do it anyway

I’ll also be on a panel with @rose.bsky.team @sebastian.eurosky.social and Felix Hlatky for @publicspaces.net discussing my favorite topic: Growing the open social web and making these projects financially sustainable 📈💰 (think it’ll be streamed but don’t quote me)

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 3mo ago

Excited to announce that I will be giving the opening keynote for @newpublic.org + @publicspaces.net Open Social Award Show in Amsterdam next month! My keynote will discuss how we do community governance at @blackskyweb.xyz Best of luck to all applicants and hope to see you there!

Trump gave Musk & DOGE bros unlimited power. Now we’re all paying the price. From #SocialSecurity data, to lives lost & #climate inaction, the damage is real. Join our #InvestigateDOGE call TONIGHT May 28 to learn how u can take action. RSVP & learn more: www.198methods.org/2026/05/27/j...

This viral video clip captured by Dean Boshoff of a desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) highlights one aspect of their behavior: Their terrifying WAR CRY or alarm cry. (sound on) Let's learn a bit more about this African frog that lives along the sandy desert coast along Namibia & South Africa.

Last night, ICE purposefully targeted medic, pacifist & veteran Adam Marshall, an organizer with Eyes on ICE, while he was trying to help protestors at Delaney Hall who had been gassed three times. They slammed him to the ground and ripped off his gas mask. He was arrested and dumped 10 miles away.