SolomonDaines
@solomondaines.bsky.social
B.A. Sociology working towards Masters in Public Administration. Lover of comics and video games.
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📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did.
The fight against book bans is about democracy.
We can’t take our values for granted. 📖
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy
The fight against book bans is about democracy.
We can’t take our values for granted. 📖
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy
March 18, 2026 at 9:19 AM
📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did.
The fight against book bans is about democracy.
We can’t take our values for granted. 📖
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy
The fight against book bans is about democracy.
We can’t take our values for granted. 📖
#Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy
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Shoutout to all the money that was invested in this, that could have powered a coast-to-coast network of midsize metro dailies until the heat death of the known universe.
Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
March 18, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Shoutout to all the money that was invested in this, that could have powered a coast-to-coast network of midsize metro dailies until the heat death of the known universe.
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I saw a yank recently talk about how in America Transphobia is absolutely being led by a small bubble of centrist establishment journos, opinionists & politicians & in the same post basically go 'not like the UK, where everyone is just naturally a bigot' and MACKENZYE YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO GETTING IT
March 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
I saw a yank recently talk about how in America Transphobia is absolutely being led by a small bubble of centrist establishment journos, opinionists & politicians & in the same post basically go 'not like the UK, where everyone is just naturally a bigot' and MACKENZYE YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO GETTING IT
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If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
The push for generational change in the Democratic Party faces a test in a Chicago-area congressional district, where the top candidates span three generations: from Gen X and millennials to Gen Z. n.pr/3PD5bZ6
A race for a safe blue seat tests how far left Democrats want new leaders to go
The push for generational change in the Democratic Party faces a test in a Chicago-area congressional district, where the top candidates span three generations: from Gen X and millennials to Gen Z.
n.pr
March 16, 2026 at 9:15 PM
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%.
when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*
when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*
State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA
Nature Human Behaviour - From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts...
www.nature.com
September 26, 2024 at 8:09 PM
“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
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Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."
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As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.
March 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
As this was happening you were told shoplifting and home invasions were grave threats you needed to abandon any pretense of sympathy to address.
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anthropic: I have made AI
tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
March 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
anthropic: I have made AI
tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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american century of humiliation incoming
March 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
american century of humiliation incoming
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"UBI is not a ceiling that holds us down. It is a floor. And when you give human beings a solid floor to stand on, they don’t lie down.
They reach for the stars."
They reach for the stars."
That simply is not true. You may have read something meant to misinform you. Here is what the data actually says.
www.scottsantens.com/the-200-year...
www.scottsantens.com/the-200-year...
The 200-Year Experiment: How a 'Privileged' Basic Income in Brazil Proves We Can Afford to Be Universal
From $500 to $15,000 a Month: How Decades of Data Prove That an Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Fuels Ambition Instead of Laziness
What if I told you that the Portuguese Empire accidentally ra...
www.scottsantens.com
March 6, 2026 at 4:56 PM
"UBI is not a ceiling that holds us down. It is a floor. And when you give human beings a solid floor to stand on, they don’t lie down.
They reach for the stars."
They reach for the stars."
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Israel collects tens of billions in American subsidies, treats the trillion-dollar American military as its personal plaything, and contemptuously ignores U.N. resolutions to halt annexations of Palestinian land. In return, America gets its international reputation tarnished.
Time to End the American-Israeli Alliance
Alliances are built on shared interests. Those do not exist here.
buff.ly
March 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Israel collects tens of billions in American subsidies, treats the trillion-dollar American military as its personal plaything, and contemptuously ignores U.N. resolutions to halt annexations of Palestinian land. In return, America gets its international reputation tarnished.
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If you wanted any clearer evidence that Shield has been infiltrated by Hydra
March 5, 2026 at 6:46 PM
If you wanted any clearer evidence that Shield has been infiltrated by Hydra
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As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.
Stephen Miller: "The human rights that we are gonna protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder. The human rights we are going to protect are of the peaceable citizens who have an absolute human right to live in physical safety and security every day of their lives."
March 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
As Arendt observes, if human rights are dependent on individual states for enforcement, they will always be dependent on citizenship status. This is what allows ghouls like Miller to do what they do. The only way to actually achieve human rights is to abolish borders.
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Сut оff hаnds of every developer who worked on “Claude” and then isolate every user of this piece of shit for life
March 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Сut оff hаnds of every developer who worked on “Claude” and then isolate every user of this piece of shit for life
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Tenure protects faculty’s right to teach & students’ right to learn. It's integral to the pursuit of knowledge and research, and to free speech and expression. Scrapping tenure silences educators & stymies medical research. @AFT.org & @AAUP.org are fighting this www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...
Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities
The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher
www.oudaily.com
March 5, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Tenure protects faculty’s right to teach & students’ right to learn. It's integral to the pursuit of knowledge and research, and to free speech and expression. Scrapping tenure silences educators & stymies medical research. @AFT.org & @AAUP.org are fighting this www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...
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I think we should just go ahead and formally abolish the Senate, because this current thing where they don't do their jobs but draw a paycheck isn't really working for me
BREAKING: Senate rejects the War Powers Resolution that would have blocked Trump from continuing to attack Iran 48-52.
March 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I think we should just go ahead and formally abolish the Senate, because this current thing where they don't do their jobs but draw a paycheck isn't really working for me
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this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop
anti-trans Dems ate shit last night
March 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop
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this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
March 4, 2026 at 3:29 AM
this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible
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New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
March 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
New from Picketty's lab: The world can raise incomes toward global equity & stabilize the climate under "under very strict conditions"
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
—reduction of work hours
—consumption shift toward immaterial sectors
—major change in food habits
—a fast energy transition requiring massive low-carbon investment
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we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
March 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
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We could do $12,000 every year, or better yet, $1,000 every month (or better yet $1,300/mo per person instead of per household of four). And we could do it for everyone instead of only households under $150,000 in annual income and call it universal basic income instead of direct payments.
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.
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.
March 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
We could do $12,000 every year, or better yet, $1,000 every month (or better yet $1,300/mo per person instead of per household of four). And we could do it for everyone instead of only households under $150,000 in annual income and call it universal basic income instead of direct payments.
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man if only a massive green energy infrastructure package had been passed like five years ago
You know, I’ve been talking tonight with everybody I know in the energy industry about Iran, and to a man they’ve all now used the phrase “energy crisis“ now
March 2, 2026 at 8:37 AM
man if only a massive green energy infrastructure package had been passed like five years ago
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boy it sure is strange that they never write op-eds about how the fash regularly calling various sitting members of congress anti-american commie terrorists is disrespectful to the people who voted for them
![Quote from Washington Times editorial board
"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:222p42fegwhwfyrc3gqam76j/bafkreib4nkrafaic6rpwa7wyeesnlmjeu23sshxjjpvqtr33wk7ztuxb2y)
March 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
boy it sure is strange that they never write op-eds about how the fash regularly calling various sitting members of congress anti-american commie terrorists is disrespectful to the people who voted for them