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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 4h

Despite their crowing about innovation Silicon Valley might be one of the greatest enemies of progress. Trump & DOGE, aided by tech money and social media, is destroying innovation in medicine, climate, and consumer tech, while AI threatens to stall progress on decarbonization.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 4h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 4h

In many ways Silicon Valley is actively destroying all the real innovation via their role in Trump and DOGE.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 4h

The mainstream liberal response to the 2020 protests and the pro-Palestine movement bears a lot of responsibility for where we are now, and there is real cause for beef. But we all need to get over that (ideally this would involve some mea culpas from the establishment).

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 4h

It's frustrating because the case for revolutionary politics has never been easier to make. Billionaires literally control the government and they are doing everything they can to make sure "vote harder" doesn't work. So where are the ppl who rail against electoral politics right now?

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 4h

I submit that the radical Left are paralysed in the face of this mass movement because it contradicts their theory of change - that "Normie libs" are NPC and that change only happens by recruiting to radical ideologies

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

A bunch of grandmas standing and hooting for Nuremberg 2? Something for the opposition party to think about

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 21h

Rise of the pro-Palestine movement also pretty nicely coincides with elites becoming anti-woke and deciding they're against virtue signaling.

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Eric the Red @realeric4real.bsky.social · 22h

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween is coming soon. Lupe" sent us this photo of the pumpkins he helped harvest in the Bakersfield CA area. He shares he is proud of the work he and other farm workers do to bring fruits and vegetables to the tables across America. #WeFeedYou

A field full of pumpkins that were harvested by Farm workers

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 1d

I love this because it recognizes that trans people’s organizing & struggle is a story with relevance for all people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

I thin the most likely scenario is a Dem blowout in 2026, and then the GOP refuse to seat any of them, which is legit coup/civil war territory. Dems in office and civil society groups need to start contingency planning for this. A lotta bad stuff could happen before then though.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

I think they'll weekend at bernie's him as long as possible using AI

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

The previous post is from Valenca in northern Portugal and I also went through Galicia which is a fairly rural and underdeveloped part of Spain. Still a lot of TOD even so!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

The SF crime panic drives me insane, SF is so much safer and cleaner now than it was even 10 years ago but the tech oligarchs still want to create a police state.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

Orange bell peppers exist to be eaten once a year around Halloween when you make stuffed pepper jack-o-lanterns

CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 1d

My hot take is a lot of people are using therapy basically for this reason

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 2d

Folks can say protest is ineffective. You can claim it's not achieving anything. But there's no way Dick Durbin is doing this if courageous protestors aren't out there daily for the last few weeks forcing people in positions of power to take action.

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 2d

We’re outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

It’s clearer than ever before.

What’s happening in Illinois is an unprecedented, unlawful abuse of power.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Good sign, better not stop here

California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus @calgbtq.bsky.social · 2d

On World Mental Health Day 2025, Governor Newsom signed our first LGBTQ Caucus bill — AB 727 (Mark González)! In the face of federal cuts, this signature signifies that LGBTQ+ students will have adequate access to mental health resources in California. 🦋

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

I recently took the train through the rural Portugal and Spain and you see 10 story buildings near train stations in towns with a population of like 10k. Town in the screenshot is several times smaller than Davis and farther from any city as big as Sac

electrified passenger rail line in front of 7+ story apartment building next to several other multistory apartment buildings from google street view of Valenca, Portugal.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for all your hard work on this bill and big ups to Streets for All for having the courage to move SB 79 forward in the first place.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for all your hard work, particularly in getting Ochoa-Bogh on board early on and keeping SB 79 from dying in committee!

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of this predates AI tbh. Most of the ads I got on old Twitter were incomprehensible, and there is the classic "One weird trick doctors don't want you to know" *picture of a banana and extreme closeup of the intestine* website ad

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

As always, Sewer Socialism is the way forward. You need to care about getting the policy details right, and you need to be in lockstep with social movements to build the power you need to implement them.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Venmo locked me out of my account years ago with no recourse, I'm so afraid for those people

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are never going to support policy to bring down the costs and speed up timelines of renewable energy or public transit because they don't support those things! Any progress on these issues at the federal level requires defeating fascism which relies on social movements.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I don't think you can do wonky policy behind the scenes when the party in power doesn't believe in evidence or data and is trying to structurally disempower everyone who does. This is my big issue with Abundance (the book and the donor network)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

very curious where the debates are at these days re: "climate politics should be about the wonky details of energy transition" vs "climate politics and advocacy should be vocally connected to all the other progressive issues"

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lot of what I'm talking about. Every transaction now involves begging for more money or the pressure to sign up for questionable debt. jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...

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