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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 3h

Just a reminder that Walmart scams more than $2 billion off the American taxpayer every single month because of SNAP. If you think mega corporations are not the true welfare queens, think again.

42 million hungry Americans are a product of a system where big biz grifts and GOP blame the poor.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1h

If billionaires can dream of Mars colonies, eternal life, and a post-democracy world… we can dream of health care, groceries, and a livable planet.

They want to monopolize the future — let’s imagine one without billionaires.
My conversation w/ @wajali.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKym...

The TRILLIONAIRE Technocrats Are REELING — with GIL DURAN

YouTube video by Wajahat Ali

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 23h

If it’s anything like America’s “New Right” (led by the likes of Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & the Claremont Institute), then Germany is in trouble.

Michellemm @michellemm-1.bsky.social · 1d

FRONTLINE Investigates ‘The Rise of Germany’s New Right’ in New Documentary

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FRONTLINE Investigates 'The Rise of Germany’s New Right' in New Documentary | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

Watch the documentary in full and in the PBS App starting Nov. 4, 2025.

www.pbs.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

I've added this update to my story about the ongoing torture of SNAP recipients:

(UPDATE 11/9/23 at 11:14am ET — Friday night the Supreme Court issued an emergency order to block full the full SNAP payments ordered by a lower court, per Trump’s request, while the appeals court makes a final ruling on whether the payments must be made. Late Saturday night, USDA issued a memo saying that states must “undo” any work they had done to fulfill it’s previous memo directing states to release full benefits, and instead plan to release partial benefits per yet another memo earlier last week. It is completely unclear what this latest memo means in practice. I’ve reached out to USDA to better understand.)

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interACT Advocates @interact.bsky.social · 1d

Intersex people deserve legal protection. So far, no state has outright banned nonconsensual intersex surgeries, but multiple have affirmed intersex rights. Youth advocate Tim created a map of state laws—both passed and failed—to educate change-makers. 🔎 bit.ly/intersex-legislation

Where in the States are Protected Intersex Rights? Image of a computer with a map of the united states. bit.ly/intersex-legislation

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

One big lesson from Mamdani's victory:
Don't be afraid of billionaires. Make billionaires afraid of you. Take them on, don't back down.

Billionaires from Musk on down used all their tricks and failed.

Democrats are trained to lust after billionaire money, but courage has tremendous value.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

the wealthy oligarchs want to control all flow of information to create narratives and beliefs they want to instill into populations, no better illustrated by comparing how elon musks ‘grokipedia’ talks about hitler compared to ‘wikipedia’

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 2d

In 2025, first-time home buyers sank to a record low of 21%. Housing is unaffordable.

We need to take private equity out of the housing market and return purchasing power to ordinary Americans.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship.

Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

newyorkermag.visitlink.me

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 1d

TikToker Nikalie Monroe called dozens of churches pretending to be a mom who couldn’t afford baby formula.

Most refused to help.

The results are devastating—and revealing.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-tiktoker...

A TikToker is exposing churches that refuse to help a hungry baby

Nikalie Monroe’s viral experiment reveals a devastating truth: Many houses of worship preach compassion but practice indifference

www.friendlyatheist.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Billionaire Marc Andreessen said in 2024 that the CFPB exists to “terrorize finance, terrorize financial institutions, prevent fintech, prevent new competition, new startups."

Now, he and other Silicon Valley firms have benefited from Trump's gutting of the agency.

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.

The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...

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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

I don't think people realize how much a trillion dollars is.

Let's say you get paid a million dollars per day. That's a lot, right?

If you spend none of it and pay no taxes, you'll have a trillion dollars in approximately two thousand seven hundred (2700) YEARS.

No one should have that much.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Heritage president Kevin Roberts is on the board of a nonprofit (SLI) led by Nate Fischer who separately launched a venture in 2023 w/ Raw Egg Nationalist who “has a history of posting swastikas & other Nazi imagery,” which Fischer has called “ironic trolling” rather than “genuine Nazi belief” 1/

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Jan 19

the attack on humanities/social science education, courses, and departments, the removal of books from K-12 libraries, and the rush to AI-ify higher ed all have the same outcome. It's different ways to neutralize knowledge, whether by erasing it or turning it all into bland porridge.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jan 19

Part of the overall project with these systems in addition to eliminating critical thinking, is to water down anything transformative or radical.

Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.

futurism.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

Am obviously not anywhere near the first person to point this out, but I think it's a pretty useful framework. AI is also a nuts-and-bolts logistical nightmare for a workforce that is constantly being harassed, threatened, and forced to defend their work. They are fixing/fending off AI bullshit

“The last five years of library work, of public service work has been a nightmare, with ongoing harassment and censorship efforts that you’re either experiencing directly or that you’re hearing from your other colleagues,” Alison Macrina, executive director of Library Freedom Project, told me in a phone interview. “And then in the last year-and-a-half or so, you add to it this enormous push for the AIfication of your library, and the enormous demands on your time. Now you have these already overworked public servants who are being expected to do even more because there’s an expectation to use AI, or that AI will do it for you. But they’re dealing with things like the influx of AI-generated books and other materials that are being pushed by vendors.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

“One thing that I try to make clear any time I talk about book bans is that it’s not about the books, it’s about deputizing bigots to do the ugly work of defunding all of our public institutions of learning,” Maggie Tokuda-Hall, a cofounder of Authors Against Book Bans, told me. “The current proliferation of AI that we see particularly in the library and education spaces would be possible at the speed and scale that is happening without the precedent of book bans leading into it. They are very comfortable bedfellows because once you have created a culture in which all expertise is denigrated and removed from the equation and considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish.”

Justin, a cohost of the podcast librarypunk, told me that the project of offloading cognitive capacity to AI continues apace: “Part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking, especially the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide,” Justin said. “That kind of thinking cultivates empathy and challenges your assumptions. It's also something you have to practice. If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

www.404media.co

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

www.404media.co

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 3d

America’s military isn’t a missionary force. Our foreign policy should defend human rights, not one religion.

The U.S. protects people — not “Christian populations.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.

To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

www.authoritarian-stack.info

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Follow @gilduran.com and subscribe to TheNerdReich.com for the best coverage of the tech oligarchs’ attempt to dismantle democracy.

The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism

Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

TheNerdReich.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

“With significant funding from tech leaders, Rockbridge aims to equip MAGA to outlive Trump... It is gearing up to deploy its arsenal in the [2026 and 2028 elections],” aiming for JD Vance to takeover.

They believe a “select group of elites are exactly the right people to move the country forward.”

The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now rewriting MAGA’s future

Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3d

Full Video of Fiery Heritage Foundation Meeting Published — After Leadership Opened Meeting by Threatening to Fire Leakers” 11/5/25 www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...

Full Video of Fiery Heritage Foundation Meeting Published — After Leadership Opened Meeting by Threatening to Fire Leakers

"Dr. Roberts, over the last week you have shown a stunning lack of both courage and judgment," said Heritage senior legal fellow Amy Swearer.

www.mediaite.com

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