Sarah Kendzior was jokingly paraphrasing a Johnny Cash lyric in reaction to an article about Johnny Cash, but I understand how this could be viewed as violating TOS. Nonetheless, between this and misreading the meme that got Link suspended, @safety.bsky.app has work to do on contextualization.

In light of Sarah Kendzior being suspended from this site, I want to share one of their recent news letters- it reads like poetry, to me. Sarah has a way with words and always hits the nail on the head. I encourage you to read the following or any of their work open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

Hello @support.bsky.team I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended. Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable. cc: @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

New article on Sam Altman's long history of abusive, toxic, manipulative, duplicitous behavior (those aren't my words, but the words of people who have directly interacted with him). The guy is a complete conman, worthy of the derogatory moniker "Scam Altman." Read more:

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/

I’m not sure which is the worst part of ADHD, this or time blindness, but oof, yeah:

It’s the weekend. You should definitely read about the international circles that Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are moving in, #Auspol (As well as Tony Abbott, John Anderson, John Howard and Amanda Stoker.) Caveat: not saying they espouse eugenics, just that those are the circles.

Finally - the extraordinary animated film "No One is an Island," based on our "Living Well Within Limits" project can be seen! labour of love and care by animator David Bunting & futurist-artist James McKay . You can see it (and vote for it!!!) here. 😍 myhero.com/2025-peoples...

Read the latest Fascism & Liberalism blog by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social "Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good." ➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese

We can’t say you didn’t know. “Never again” is happening again. What's being described in this thread 🧵 is a concentration camp right on American soil, with all the horror and injustice that name carries.

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

Across the world, right-wingers are embracing the old idea that they’re genetically, culturally, fixed as superior. Whether as White, Western, men and/or affluent, they deserve everything because nature made them better. If we’re not willing to serve them quietly, we’re disposable. #auspol

Essentials like housing, food, energy, & childcare are not ordinary commodities. When their prices surge, they trigger redistribution shocks. Our research identifies these sectors as key drivers of inequality. Link: scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

Senate Democratic Minority Leader Schumer’s decision not to endorse Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race “was driven in large part…by his self-conception as a guardian of Israel, something he considers a core part of his personal and political identity.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

For those who don’t know, Lina Khan gave tech bros hell AND her ass to kiss when she was FTC chair. She was busting monopolies left and right. Gave Amazon and Meta the finger too. This is an EXCELLENT addition to his team.

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

1/5 EXCLUSIVE: I’m in Kampala, Uganda, where I’ll be living & reporting this month. Since it’s @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s hometown, I wanted to share a bit of the pride the people of Kampala have on NYC’s Election Day for their hometown boy (full video here, feel free w credit to thrashery)

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

Mamdani: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life but let tonight be the final time I utter his name."

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.

Oh, you were DEFINITELY “on the ballot,” motherfucker.

The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Australia’s richest person — who happens to be a devotee of Donald Trump — has emerged as one of the biggest winners of the US-China spat over strategic minerals. Read the Big Take: bloom.bg/4oPJmlo 🎨: Mark Harris 📷️: Getty & Alamy

ADHD stimulant medications increase blood flow and perfusion in certain areas of the brain that are otherwise less active in people with ADHD. The finding that they also decrease the higher risk of dementia for people with ADHD makes sense because dementia is related to brain metabolic dysfunction.

Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.

It's still so weird to me that the Planter discourse is about the Nazi tattoo (bad) and not the fact that he was A MERCENARY FOR BLACKWATER DURING THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

3 people set off of a bomb at Harvard medical school yesterday and it's barely gotten any attention. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Democratic members of a US congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case are calling on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the former prince, to answer questions about the convicted sex offender.

Here's Australia's current #1 bestselling novelist, @ronnisalt.bsky.social. 'Mr. Albanese goes to Washington'

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Oh this is a GOOD write-up. Basically some Christian Nationalist freaks need Israel to exist for their apocalypse to happen And so Tucker interviewing Fuentes (and Heritage defending it) is threatening to that because that prophecy cannot afford for Nazis to get their wish re: Jews

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions. We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments. Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?

Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Security Forces this week.

Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”. No we do not agree! Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health. It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling. Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!

Exactly this — vaccines help prevent hospitalisation and death, but they don’t stop infection or transmission. That’s why masking is still so important. 😷 Source: x.com/TaylorLorenz...

Fossil Fuels are basically an organised crime cartel.

Today was a heavy one. I know folks are hurting over the harms our best efforts didn't prevent. It's not a fair fight, and these things are going to happen. Too often, the best we can do is document the damage done.

Over 40 million people will lose their food assistance because the wealthy require fascism to further line their pockets. We have to link arms and take care of one another while recognizing these motherfuckers will take everything unless we stop them. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-war-agai...

Hot take: If you literally can't survive without it, a billionaire shouldn't own it. Digital infrastructure is as essential as roads and hospitals. Let's act like it and nationalise it now.

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen