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WE NEED TRUMP! TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! NOW!

09.03.2026 08:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Walk into a sandwich shop. It’s regulated for health and safety.

But AI, which will transform the world economically and socially, is completely unregulated. That’s insane.

We need to make certain that AI works for ALL humanity, not just the billionaires who own it.

08.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 2519 πŸ” 521 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 52

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

08.03.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 25246 πŸ” 8088 πŸ’¬ 781 πŸ“Œ 329

The war on Iran is unfolding alongside a wave of mass layoffs in the US. These are not separate crises. They are two sides of the same offensive by the ruling class against the working class.

07.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 10327 πŸ” 2406 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 84
AI Expert Tells Bernie: β€œThe Humans will be Discarded”
AI Expert Tells Bernie: β€œThe Humans will be Discarded” YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

Will AI become smarter than humans?

If so, is humanity in danger?

I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.

Here’s what they had to say:

04.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 640 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 45

AI monstrosity now in the hands of our military - an AI competitor species that no one can shut off!

Whatever, the Sex Pistols groked* we have β€œNo Future” perfectly and presciently in 1977.

* β€œStranger in a Strange Landβ€œ 1961 Heinlein SF novel reference, not that grotesque Musk abomination.

04.03.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles"

04.03.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

03.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 6930 πŸ” 2018 πŸ’¬ 195 πŸ“Œ 113
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Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"

03.03.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 22095 πŸ” 7210 πŸ’¬ 612 πŸ“Œ 273
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The world will try to shrink you.
Maya Angelou taught women how to stand tall anyway.

You are Powerful.
You are Worthy.
You are a Phenomenal Woman. ✨

#SheShed #WomensHistoryMonth

02.03.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 365 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9

Sternly worded blah blah blah is still NOT working Senator Schiff.

02.03.2026 06:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
57th California International Antiquarian Book Fair

Please visit our booth at the San Francisco International Antiquarian Book Fair. It’s an amazing show!

www.abaa.org/events/57th-...

01.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As out turns out, the β€œcivilizationβ€œ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.

01.03.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 541 πŸ” 179 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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The Other Red Hat (You'll like this one better)

February 26 is an important date in the history of resistance, and it has to do with knitters during WWII. Come read the story. If you’re a knitter, maybe you’ll want to cast on with me tomorrow? And if you aren’t, there are other ideas for you here. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

26.02.2026 03:18 πŸ‘ 2046 πŸ” 585 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 41

Creating a computer that destroys an entire country's independent capacity for reason is some Bond villain-level shit.

23.02.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

22.02.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 3577 πŸ” 2754 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 423
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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

18.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 3564 πŸ” 1300 πŸ’¬ 194 πŸ“Œ 478
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Justice for Dr. Linda Davis. ICE must be held accountable for the deadly chain of events and the cruel aftermath.

Her memory lives on in every life she touched.

19.02.2026 06:16 πŸ‘ 3776 πŸ” 1907 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 132
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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

16.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 30339 πŸ” 8791 πŸ’¬ 577 πŸ“Œ 462

Not only are they laughing at us, they’re surveilling us, predictively policing us, deporting us, data mining us, and probably have no qualms about killing us.

18.02.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The actual Democracy dying in darkness is dictated and bankrolled by a known group of tech oligarchs and the elected officials they’ve funded.

17.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
how is it possible to cram so much
ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space?
miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates how is it possible to cram so much ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space? miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.

joyce is going after elon again

17.02.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 7813 πŸ” 1276 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 161
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 35957 πŸ” 16656 πŸ’¬ 1303 πŸ“Œ 2473
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You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

The worst case scenario for an AOC presidential run in 2028 is that she’s setting herself up for 2032 or 2036.

She is going to be president somedayβ€”it’s just a matter of time.

16.02.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 17072 πŸ” 2446 πŸ’¬ 1598 πŸ“Œ 312
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We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.

15.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 6985 πŸ” 2105 πŸ’¬ 187 πŸ“Œ 115
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Feb. 15, 1837 | Congress Ratifies Treaties Removing Indigenous Peoples From Their Lands in the Midwest Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1837, Congress ratified two treaties that removed Indigenous peoples from their homelands in the Midwest. This also added nearly 2,000,000 acres of territory that permitted slavery to the state of Missouri.

15.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 4
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The great SΓ©rgio Mendes would have turned 85 today. πŸŽ‚

His song β€œMas Que Nada” (1966) was the first US hit to be sung in Portuguese. β€œIt opened a lot of doors for me,” he said, β€œIt’s a great, haunting chant that is fun to play .., but I had no idea it would become such a special song.”

#RIP

12.02.2026 02:05 πŸ‘ 526 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 5

Spoiler alert: When top officials have to start saying in an agency’s defense β€œno, no, no, that’s a totally legitimate law enforcement agency,” they have already lost and it is, in fact, no longer a legitimate law enforcement agency.

12.02.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 1710 πŸ” 405 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 14
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Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

11.02.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 26153 πŸ” 8673 πŸ’¬ 829 πŸ“Œ 492
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The Democrats idea of fighting fascism.

10.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 6776 πŸ” 1695 πŸ’¬ 396 πŸ“Œ 187