Cliff Poole 🌹

Just finished another door knocking shift reminding my neighbors to get out and vote for Darializa! Three more days to elect a fighter to abolish ICE, and fund our communities instead of unjust wars. Please sign up to volunteer and help bring it home for Dari! #LFG www.darializaforcongress.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

The great promise of AI is that humans can dumb ourselves down enough to be replaced by something shittier and everyone will be too dumb to know the difference. But on the bright side, at least a few fascist billionaires will get even richer.

This tracks.

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Any definition of a “great economy” that is compatible with higher education and libraries being gutted is unserious

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

6 pm in Inwood, NYC’s greatest neighborhood!

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Cancel the High School Pilots . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

“AI programs are not human; they are human creations. Their complexity does not diminish the responsibility of their creators. If the programs cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them. If the programs break the law, the companies should face the consequences.”

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

Dead on analysis here. Read the 🧵and then read the article by Liliana Mason. Powerful stuff.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

Today: Lyft pays $272M for underpaying CA drivers 2016-2020. Last week: DoorDash pays $131M for underpayments in NYC. The scale of the grift is huge: this is just 2 companies in 1 state/1 city over a few yrs. My big Q: what’s happening everywhere else?? (1/3) talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-m...

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

As a Jewish person who has long been concerned about antisemitism, I think it’s fucking bananas that Republicans’ biggest donor is a neo-Nazi and that’s not really a political scandal—but we’re constantly talking about whether my friends on the left have a problem.

Some immigrants without attorneys are being sent into secret courtrooms on another floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where lawyers, observers and reporters are being denied access.

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!

Shanah Tovah Mr. Mayor! 🍎🍯

"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them.

The correct headline would be: Increasingly Desperate Trump Offers Illegal Bribe to Voters in Last Ditch Attempt to Avoid Humiliating Midterm Losses

I’m starting to suspect that Republicans aren’t the salt of the earth working class party they claim to be.

Elon Musk: #1 Republican Party donor and world’s most prominent neo-Nazi.

I just finished Here Where We Live Is Our Country. It’s one of the most moving and powerful books I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Such a promising initiative. THIS is why I knocked all those doors. Happy Labor Day!

Two-thirds of NYC’s income growth since the pandemic went to the top 1%. The richest 0.001% — about 50 families — saw their average income soar from $315 million in 2019 to nearly $600 million a year. It’s time to build a city that works for everyone.

Going after criminal bosses who steal from their workers and criminal landlords who harass their tenants! What a concept! Love that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has the courage to hold rich people accountable for crimes against working class New Yorkers. ✊🏽

Manhattan has the fewest murders year-to-date in recorded history, down 55% from last year. There is always more work to do, and we will continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners at the NYPD to keep our borough safe! abc7ny.com/post/nypd-ny...

ok but renewable energy is cheaper than oil energy. in part *because* of the wars in Ukraine and Iran

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Meanwhile, some people (including some Democratic elected officials) still believe that thinking Palestinians are human beings actually is The Real Antisemitism.

We are witnessing a shock redistribution from the many to the rich: The profit share is at its highest level since WWII. The first bump was sellers’ inflation which ushered in Trump. The second bump is Trump’s chaos casino designed to push up profits.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

I’m tremendously proud of Sam Poole, speaking out as part of @sengonzalezny.bsky.social New York Fights AI Data Centers Tour

Governor Hochul, are you listening? “To make New York State a place where young people can afford to stay…stand up against the data centers raising our bills and ruining our air and water by signing the Responsible Data Center Development Act!”

Go tell someone who reads a normal amount of news that Trump wants to sell off parts of Yosemite to a private Las Vegas developer and see if they believe you. It's one of those parts of the Republican Party so outrageous that people don't believe it's real.