Elizabeth Barcelos

There’s been a lot of framing of Elon Musk’s “spicy” AI tools as weird or cringe or inappropriate, and all of that is true. But it misses the larger point, which is that this technology is sexually abusive and deeply misogynistic—part of the right’s playbook to oppress women and girls

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If Elizabeth Warren has no fans, I am dead.

Me: I want an espresso martini.

Husband: I’m just gonna do a coffee.

Me: So a virgin espresso martini.

Negotiating tech A searchable inventory of contract provisions from over 175 union agreements showing how collective bargaining has been used to address workplace technologies, protect worker rights, and shape technol...

Are you a union negotiator, researcher, policymaker, or journalist tracking how digital tech is used at work--and how unions are responding?

Explore @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social's inventory of collective bargaining provisions related to workplace tech: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/negotiating-...

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)

What is freedom?

Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them?

Or if your boss can change your work schedule on a whim or block you from getting a new job?

Lina Khan explains how excessive corporate power makes us less free.

"This whole thing is just such bulls**t": Not every Democrat wants to talk about Epstein "I don't think this issue is big outside the Beltway," one prominent centrist House Democrat told Axios.

my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

Grateful today for the fact that when I die, people will not be remembering me for being a union buster and billionaire stooge.

A man who helped damage journalism as a tool for a tech oligarch in the long term

Oh hey, you should come work with me!

Hey, he took out four of them back in Lo3W.

I’m not a shit starter, I’m a prompt engineer

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.

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@SenWarren on X: CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

@warren.senate.gov: CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

Democrats remain on X because they think they have greater reach. The numbers are all fake, though. Take a look at these identical posts from Elizabeth Warren.

X followers: 6.6 million
X reposts: 1,321
X likes: 4,489

Bluesky followers: 390,400
Bluesky reposts: 1,500
Bluesky likes: 3,600

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests.

We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

It was a privilege to join @50501sanjose.bsky.social and thousands of Americans coming together across the country to make good trouble in the memory of the late John Lewis. #GoodTroubleLivesOn (1/2)

I learned a lot at the elite institutions I attended (despite being Asian and poor). I loved my education. But once I was at Harvard I could no longer avoid the reality that the quality of pedagogy was not the important part, it was the proximity to power that I was locked out of by virtue of birth

Another day, another reason to be justified in being a certified AI hater and refusing to use it for my work.

Creativity is a muscle and even routine writing tasks, while sometimes inconvenient, keep that muscle in shape.

Elon Musk @elonmusk • 51m His personality is inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades Elon Musk @elonmusk •10h What should we name our male @Grok companion?

Every time I think the second hand embarrassment can’t get worse he goes and outdoes himself

Cuomo wants to make it a referendum on socialism and doesn’t realize it’s a referendum on sex pests.

I'm imagining someone in the White House rocking back in an office chair, and thinking to themselves: "These optics? Exquisite. Impeccable. Politically sterling. Now is the perfect time for this."

Moderates are desperate to point any progressive losing as a sign that our messaging, our policies, and our candidates can't win.

Even when it's really just one progressive beating another one.

The momentum is real. People are hungry for change and for fighters, not cowards fleeing to the middle.

the big anti-trans NYT story today relies entirely on a data point refuted by my reporting in December for @rollingstone.com, citing a poll figure that the pollster told me in an interview does not reflect how the electorate felt about trans rights in 2024

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstances as their caretakers vanish or flee.

No hell hot enough.

brave to admit three paragraphs in that the entire thesis of your article is wrong

Just got out of Superman. Definitely the cultural reset we needed post-Snyder.

And as expected, everyone who called it too woke or whatever was telling on themselves.