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Julia S @juliacsmith.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone wants to copy this and incorporate more family/kids programming at future events, 1) I’m happy to connect and talk about what we did, and 2) you can find activity sheets in the conversation guide (plus the link to buy the poster map) here-

www.socialchangemap.com/we-are-the-b... #NoKings

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

A group of hackers has released the personal info of hundreds of Homeland Security and Justice Department officials. The Trump administration has yet to remark on the leak. trib.al/Taj7b4R

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

About 13 officers in a crowd of community members and protesters were exposed to the tear gas. This is the second time CPD officers have been gassed by ICE while trying to work with them.

The move violates a judge’s order telling federal agents to rein in excessive force. trib.al/TiKgLI5

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

SCOTUS spent Wednesday morning trying to figure out a way to legalize racial gerrymandering. trib.al/TvPE4dc

The justices appeared to single out Section 2, which (if gutted) would wipe out Black congressional representation in the South—at a scale unseen since the end of Reconstruction

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

ICE agents surrounded, seized, and zip-tied a U.S. citizen who had just finished working a double shift because she didn’t “look” American to them.

She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained, yet she was interrogated for an hour. trib.al/35AnqIH

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 1d

AT&T Long Lines

is one of the most monumental efforts that has zero cultural understanding

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Two Wikipedia contributors averted a potential tragedy at a conference for the site’s editors on Friday in Manhattan when they jumped in to take down a man with a gun.

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

it does not necessarily mean this though, because the dominant way people end up on Wikipedia is through Google, and Google has loaded the top of all of its search results with AI-mediated info taken from Wikipedia. This does not mean consumers prefer it this way, the choice has been made for them

Jeremy Lewi @jeremy.lewi.us · 3d

AI is separating the production and consumption of information. If direct access to Wikipedia is dropping that suggests information consumers find AI mediated consumption more useful. This will impact the production of information; including the economic model

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 2d

Have been enjoying Greg Daniel's "Upload" on Amazon for its light, dry hypercapitalist cynicism but they knocked it out the park with a cameo by cyberpunk prophet William Gibson in S3E5! Appropriate use of @greatdismal.bsky.social as a cautionary voice that's utterly ignored 😉

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Literally: This. Is. How. It. Happens.

Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI — @gallego.senate.gov : "The only reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in right now is because he wants to protect whatever is in those files. Arizona does not have a congresswoman right now, during flooding, because Speaker Johnson is covering for pedophiles."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, to Mike Johnson and the modern GOP, the values of the United States are totalitarianism, an all-powerful strongman leader, ignorance, bigotry, bullying, and sneering cruelty. I do hate those things, and I hate the people who embrace them, so I guess I hate their America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

As long as we don't think about all the people who lost jobs for tweeting, "hey, this Charlie Kirk guy seems to have been a racist?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

look upon my works ye mighty and learn nothing from them

◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 3d

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.

www.bloomberg.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Tea is here, the collapse of society into chaos is temporarily postponed

A large bag of loose leaf tea and six small sample bags, also of loose leaf tea.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3d

JUST 18 DAYS: It's the big Election Day; contests for governor, supreme court justice, lawmakers, mayors, school boards, ballot measures all around the country.

Do you know what you should be paying attention to?

My guide walks you through a selection of 180+ key races, and why they matter, icymi:

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 3d

McSweeney's is often funny. In this case, it's a gut punch of heavily documented truth. Click the links and share them with any politician who claims these were kids, or that the rot doesn't start at the top. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

Young Republican Kids Say the Darndest Things

“Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bi...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3d

Hey. It’s my birthday.

Normally people ask for money on their birthdays.

Well. I am too. But not for me.

If you need mutual aid, money for any reason, want to boost something you sell, a service (yes sex work too) or a craft you do, please reply.

I will check periodically all weekend & reskeet.

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Fat4all (Agatha) 🏳️‍⚧️ @fat4all.bsky.social · 4d

thanks mcdonalds, i love FOOD

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