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#UK - Disabled man dies in poverty and squalor after DWP removes his benefits, just as Labour cuts PIP by £4.5bn
The body of a disabled man was found in his flat in distressing, squalid conditions, just weeks after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) wrongly removed his disability benefits because he had failed to return a claim form. disabilitynewsservice.com/disa… #brexit #poverty #squalor #austerity #ukpolitics #politicsuk #labour #ukgovernment
lno suprise..they killed him
fk and hopefuly more people in uk join the disabled people protesting (they did protests aready)
https://bsky.app/profile/broadwaybabyto.bsky.social/post/3llj4rq7acs2i (politics too ofc )
Disabled people deserve the right to live within their communities, as independently as possible.
They often need support in order to do that, which was provided by the Administration for Community Living.
Shutting it down will likely lead to more people being institutionalized & losing autonomy
Julia Métraux (@metrauxjulia.bsky.social)
The Administration for Community Living, housed in HHS, is shutting down. I spoke to disability experts for @motherjones.com about questions they have for what’s next, the services ACL provides, and how this move may lead to more folks being institutionalized. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Oh, Muskie, my sweet. Yes, we do want to destroy your "influence" (= complete control), because we believe in democracy. Where ordinary people (remember them?) have a say.
And no, the "Nazi stuff" isn't fake. We saw you, light of my life, heart of my heart's desiring, we *saw* you make a Nazi salute. We *know* you enabled a fascist president, and spent $400 million to get him elected. We *know* you supported the neo-nazi AfD in Germany.
*You* are the evil one.
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Private groups work to identify & report #student #protesters for possible #deportation
When a protester was caught on video in January at a NY rally against #Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask & headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along w/her name & employer, were circulated online.
#Trump #immigration #law #FacialRecognition #technology #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #dissent #CivilRights
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According to an eyewitness who tried to intervene, a family walking their kids home from school in New York was snatched and abducted by ICE and NYPD officers in broad daylight last Friday.
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A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
#XiaofengWang Xiaofeng Wang
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One day, maybe soon, we will stop being shocked by news like this, but that day is not today.
#NYU canceled a speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she was going to discuss the genocide in #Gaza. A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as #antisemitic"
Now, this, this is the way to defeat an autocrat: flocking behaviour. Rutgers University Senate has called for the Big 10 academic institutions to create a joint defence fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
That link's below. But for a précis of why and how this shit can actually work, here's a piece I wrote during Trump's first term:
globalcomment.com/how-to-defea…
It can be done. You just have to have a spine. Go read the resolution
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Tim Walz responds to Elon Musk following their exchange over Tesla stock. fxoxo.com/153450/ #Fauxmoi #Gossip
SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS HAVE NEVER TURNED TO GENOCIDE. AI SLOP PUTS YOU ALL IN GRAVE PERIL.
🇺🇸 USA: RFK Jr. makes eyebrow-raising comments about people who get COVID-19.
"He said that healthy Americans were not dying of the disease and that it only affected sick people" 🤦♂️
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China’s EV boom set to push gasoline demand off a cliff
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Electric models and hybrids have accounted for more than half of retail passenger vehicle sales in the four months from July.
Yeh we all knew eugenics is the goal (forgetting qnother word i thibk but)
France, Belgium scoff at anti-DEI letter from Trump administration
“We have no lessons to learn from the boss of America,” said Belgian Deputy PM Jan Jambon.
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Motherfuckers!!!!
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
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#DOGE #BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #SissySpaceX #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
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Incredible reporting from @ProPublica on what it's like aboard ICE's deportation planes. Horrifying. We're the worst country on earth.
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Multiple people have already died in #Trump’s custody
These are #DeathCamps
…44-yr-old #MaksymChernyak, a #Ukranian man suddenly fell ill & died at #Krome last month.
#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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it indeed needs to be reported and protested again...even tho more will die, it needs to be pointed and in the end stopped as soon as possible
if only the rest of the world was doing something for that too (more openly, cause surely some politicians are already talking about it but)
There are two systems . . .
apnews.com/article/el-paso-wal…
#FreeLuigi #Injusticesystem #luigimangione #UHC #Texas #ElPaso #Texas
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Fellow Canucks, do not go to the USA:
"In multiple instances since mid-February, families with young children have been detained in cells at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls.
"An Investigative Post reporter personally confirmed one of those family detentions. In that case, the family was held for two weeks."
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No /About page.
No /FOIA.
No PIO.
No calendars.
No visitor logs.
No list of staff.
No asset disclosures, or ethics agreements.
No weekly press conferences.
No open meetings.
No advisory committee.
The U.S. DOGE Service is not even close to the “most transparent organization in government ever.”
America's Gestapo.
"ICE is checking documents on the subway. ICE is outside New York public libraries that hold English-as-a-second-language classes. ICE agents handcuffed a U.S. citizen who tried to intervene in a detention in Harlem. ICE vehicles are parked outside Columbia. (1/2)
btw there are a lot of countries
But one country is missing
One that would be certainly more relevant in trade alone than half that list and politically one of the most important in the current context
yeah it mentioned several times on social media
not one but 2
one is Big other is starting on B
#Musk’s PAC Quietly Deletes Video of #Wisconsin Woman Saying She Was Paid To Vote
"Multiple sources at the NIH, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed…that at least 10 principal investigators who were leading and directing medical research at the agency had been fired. Among them is Dr. Richard Youle, a leading researcher in the field of neurodegenerative disorders previously awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his groundbreaking research identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease."
“After arresting and jailing the young woman in Georgia, Tifton police subjected her to one more indignity—they sent the remains of her miscarriage for an ‘autopsy’. Even after the results showed she’d lost the pregnancy naturally, the county prosecutor stood by the charges.”
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The eVisa scheme (UK) has proved chaotic.
Travellers stranded at airports, refugees unable to rent a home or get a job, and a man being made homeless – these are some of the horror stories we have heard since the Home Office’s eVisa scheme came into effect.
But there's a simple solution to this mess: allow physical proof of immigration status.
Write to your MP to demand this change ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/wri…
#eVisa #immigration #homeoffice #migrants #migrantrights #ukpol #ukpolitics
predatory capitalism, big pharma style
#BigPharma #SaveLuigiMangione #PredatoryCapitalism #politics #GreedyBastards #healthcare #ProfitsOverPeople cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-as…
Palestinian aid workers likely shot ‘execution style’, forensic expert says
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Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera
I'd like to say that, despite some incidents, most schools in the world don't need armed forces and drones
Over the past several years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built out an expansive surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Many of these technology acquisitions have been made under the auspices of Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, an $11 billion program that has supercharged the state’s decades-long border militarization. texasobserver.org/texas-dps-su…
DPS records obtained and reviewed by the Texas Observer in recent months shed new light on the scope of the state police’s surveillance toolbox. The agency has spent millions acquiring an array of powerful—and controversial—artificial intelligence software tools that can mine billions of images to provide facial recognition, track vehicle locations from automatic license plate readers, monitor phone conversations of inmates in Texas prisons and jails, break into and search for data evidence from seized cell phones and computers, and even t…
Hmm can't name any Uni camp protests in Texas but
Ai, Drones, Protests all have common idea.
No, the drone is armed with non-lethal weapons, it's not there for regular surveillance, but to take down shooters
You have snipers camping at protests in USA.
You can't ignore that and say they will use drones only in ethical way.
Also shooters is only US problem, so there is that.
Where did I say that they are using it in an ethical way?
taking down only shooters, is what I got from your answer.
While I imply that protests aren't a single person and you don't need surveillance on it. You just fetch them on the crowd.
There are cameras for AI surveillance in place anyway.
I didn't say it didn't need surveillance, I said that it's not there for surivellance
we on different wavelength right now.
So I will just expand on my message instead of continuation of your response.
I didn't hear of any big protests in Texas but the AI is used in government for profiling and collecting data for police. Same AI can be used to coordinate drones for "active shooters" as answer to Uvalde school shooting where police was scared to go in, but on other hand it's also good tool to scare people into submission and stop any protests on sight.
Right, I understand now what you were trying to say. I could see them used that way. My intend of posting that was nodding to the school shooter problem and how they are doing anything, but trying to solve the issue
btw I didn't know by heart that Uvalde was in Texas, had to search it up
I know people who grew up on the US Border in Vancouver in the 60s and 70s. The border was a ditch they could walk or ride across as kids and go to the corner store. Those days ended years ago, but they are almost unthinkable now.
The warnings from Canada on travel to the US are frankly deeply shocking.
“The federal government updated its travel advisory on Friday, warning Canadians of possible detention should one be denied entry to the United States.
“Comply and be forthcoming in all interactions with border authorities,” reads the advisory. “If you are denied entry, you could be detained while awaiting deportation.”
The government also warned that travellers should expect to be heavily questioned and may have their electronic devices searched.
“Individual border agents often have significant discretion in making those determinations,” the advisory reads. “U.S. authorities strictly enforce entry requirements. Expect scrutiny at ports of entry, including…
https://mstdn.ca/@ChristineMalec/114287613261480676 @tawdry oxide
Fuck I love Mastodon! No other platform has ever given me as a Blind person such access to the public sphere as I've gotten today from alt text of protests in the United States. Thanks to all you gorgeous folk for demonstrating that inclusion matters, cause it sure does to me!
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I have further expanded the maga-collaborators.net website.
It now tracks #colleges and #universities in addition to #law firms and other #corporations that are #collaborating, #capitulating, or #resisting the #Trump #regime.
Please share this link to help spread the word! I'll be adding to and upgrading this website regularly moving forward.
And please send tips to help fill in the gaps in the data to the email address listed on the website.
I watched some Joon the King videos over the fall of a bunch of content creators, many of whom whose names I knew, but hadn't much engaged with like Hasan Piker, DSP and Boogie2988. It's incredible like they are either from rich families or completely awful with money. Like, goddamn, Boogie actually made some decent money with crypto and instead of building on his realized winnings, he went back in again and lost it all
And there's DSP who doesn't have money to pay people or his taxes, but keeps buying merch
Well, Hasan and the Completionists are fine financially, but they probably got taught financial literacy, and they wouldn't fall far either with their wealthy families
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/114291376570621645 @proper grove like do I put this here because it's too political joke?
whats the joke here?
You mean it is not funny that they attempt to dissuade negative PR from USA by claiming being owned by Canada?
It's not Russian Mcdonalds that left and subsidiary rebranded
The new logo of Russia's rebranded McDonald's, whose name translates in English to "Delicious, that's all."
McDonald's Russia
I am only 45 minutes in, and there is still 2 hours and I am already cringing to death. Yandere dev is really a sad person.
Not even close to the actual Yandere game
No mask on
your face
You big
disgrace
Spreading
your
germs all
over the
place.
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Smells like Black Monfay
I thought my portfoliow as flayed last week, but no. when the markets in Germany opened there was more to rip down
Asian markets seemingly don't peform better, Nikkei hit thr circuit breaker
Gotta be fun when the US markets open
but yea her being a "renowned expert in sexual violence research" is insane when she talks like that
I mean, no disrespect against experts in general, but I talked multiple times about the thing in Berlin
That was also on the motion of a reputable psychologist
(well, reputable at the time, after this not so much)
but chariot you have to trust the experts or your some [insert whatever buzzword is popular] 
Well, in some sense, I don't have much of a choice to trust experts in many fields, because I know nothing about those fields. In cases like this, there is some common sense, but e.g. what can I do but to trust medical experts. Not like I know better than them
but your a Doctor chariot
My decisions as a Doctor involve sending children to mine rocks and to fight terrorist in the field, to send a women in bikini into the snowy north to squirt corrosive water on people and to recruit people daily that already work for me
You can not trust me
but for real experts should be challenged on there work/findings too many bad apples or just plain ole mistakes
its one thing when its more abstract science its another thing when it can effect people potentially millions
I mean, certainly, and science agrees.
have you seen the BobbyBrocolli videos about fakes in science?
Particularly the one about cold fusion?
yea but people aren't being challenged like they should hence mary koss still being a "renowned expert" and not homeless behind a gas station
give it a watch, if you find the time.
All of Bobby Brocolli's videos are interesting
Limbo like Limbus????
the brainrot is terminal 
Certainly. But one problem is, there is a limited amount of people who can challenge them, namely other experts or experts from related fields, and then they need to find the time and reason to do so. Everyone has their own work and not the time to comp through every new thing
I mean, that's something that was always wild with the US for me. That you have precedences that are decades, hundred years old
Old laws that don't make any sense anymore
The US legal system is a very ugly car with new and old stuff tapped on it
An old Montana law states that students who ride their horses to school must have their horse tended to by the school principle.
In a way that's somehow uglier than most other devoloper countries
I can't watch this right now
Is this about parking spaces?
Or were they legally allowed to shoot native Americans while on the horse?
Ah, that is pretty funny
Also, I didn't say that out of nowhere, I was once gifted a book with weird laws around the world
and somewhere in the USA there seems to be law where you can still technically legally shoot "Indians" when you're in a plainwagon circle and they are moving around it
Man...
Like, most of these laws remain unchanged because it's very unlikely to be a thing. but TECHNICALLY, you could create such a situation and be legally fine
im seeing a bunch of uncitated articles about the indian thing and nothing solid
Well, the book cold be outdated, wrong or I could misremember details
seems like a silly urban legend
that some german publisher picked up cause they saw it from an us source
Could very well be
like tht thing about firefighters letting fires burn
cause they worked for different insurance
Yeah, that one doesn't even make sense in that absolute way, because house fires famously don't respect property boundaries
Nevertheless, the US has some old laws due to the nature how that works
German laws get cleaned up more. Sometimes because we lose a world war, but still
We had some old state laws that weren't changed for a while because they were overwritten by federal law anyways
e.g. Hesse had the death penalty until recently
Was not necessary to change, because federal law already prohibits it, but they did so anyway at some point
meant that as more of a general comment with him as an example but if yall wanna invade you have my support
im sure trump would cut a deal for yall, 50/50
meh, don't pull us in your colonizing shit, we're over that ||for now||
reverse zimmerman telegram
Play miside to heal yourself
I have seen parts of it, but it's a bit too scary for me
Interesting, it trends up again, I hear a lot of anger for people who waited for the 15:30 drop, luckily I purchased this morning
And well, good night to everyone with a knockout
White House figures out how it texted secret bombing plans to a reporter
Waltz apparently accepted iPhone contact suggestion without verifying accuracy.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Remember the "mysterious" hepatitis outbreak in UK kids that baffled experts back in 2022? The one we were told was due to adenovirus (or even strawberries, allergies, and lockdowns)? The one that labeled ppl mentioning the C word as fearmongerers? Turns out it was #covid19 .
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114298775373193185 @glad cradle
Today's real 'fake news' incident (which added $2.4 trillion in market value and erased it nearly as quickly) hopefully will be dissected in every journalism class and newsroom. cnn.com/2025/04/07/media/fake-…
The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga
Pretty sure my city is experiencing its biggest Shahed swarm of the war. 17 explosions so far
HELLO! Since it turns out Gumroad is *also* headed by a muskrat dicksucker, I decided to move the shop for my physical goods over to ko-fi. You can now find it here:
I'll continue to announce new stuff here, too, but if you subscribe on ko-fi you'll get nice email notifs, too!
terrifying video
#ICE (#homelandSecurity investigations) rolling up to kidnap a young woman, interrupted by her lawyer (she probably called him)
racial profiling of the lawyer's colleague- assuming she's their target
performing a "welfare check"
bullshit
that's local police's job
a plain clothed goon squad of 5 federal employees?
that's for abducting people
video is from james rivera an attorney in northern #virginia
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Three Facts MAGAs Don’t Like:
•75% of the people Trump kidnapped & trafficked to an El Salvador torture camp have NO criminal record
•23% of them have NO violent criminal record
•A 150 year study by Northwestern U found that Immigrants (doc or undocumented) have ALWAYS had lower crime rates than US citizens
Fascist Trump blames immigrants to distract from his own failures. Period.
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@tawdry oxide
The UK has no money and needs to cut disability
Anyways, how about tax cuts
in canada it seems maid progressed again
i read people claiming that now, your caregiver (family usually) can say "i'm burnt out" and the disabled person gets killed the next day
That doesn't sound right, can I get a source on that?
Especially the part of the disabled person getting killed without further ado the next day
i'll be searching
still i'm not surprised
and even without that
carer killing their disabled relative is common
etc
they already happened in fact
maid being provided on the same or next day
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/rushing-to-death-in-canadas-maid-regime-ramona-coelho-for-inside-policy/

"public policy think tank" internet seems to say
tho wikipedia points
"MLI's analysis has been described as market-oriented.[9] It is affiliated with the Atlas Network, a conservative and libertarian group based in the United States."
(no i didnt read the full thign...i'm trying not to.... uuuh.....)
there is also a nederland health ethics teacher who wrote something but unsure if it's only in french (for reasons??)
and is mentionning that societal pressure is accentuating in the nederlands regarding that
So, several questions, give nthat MacDonaldLaurier is a right wing think tank
They link "Navigating Complex Issues within Same Day and Next Day MAiD Provisions", but it's hosted by themselves
I can not find it on government websites
i dont know if said reports are a public thing or not in canada
Despite it saying "Ministry of the Solicitor General" on the document
but yeh trying not to think too much about it
eugenics is raising etc we see disabled people tell how someone in their area ended up using maid because forced by situation etc etc ...so...
It's just the example in the article doesn't make sense given the rules of MaiD
But I also don't know enough about it to properly refute it either
Any other sources?
I still don't get how being allowed to choose when you want to die is eugenics
The worry is that people are pushed or even forced into "choosing". Which is why there are safeguards for that, which subsequently is why I question that next day thing
Because especially to avoid that time is most of the time a thing, unless there is something really urgent like imminent death in a few weeks or loss of the ability to voice your opinion
Also the examples in the article don't even seem that bad? I am sorry, but if someone asks for assisted death and then their situation worsens so much that they aren't even able to consent completely on the day it is supposed to happen, I feel like that is exactly the reason they wanted to die in the first place, to avoud living like that
The value of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk has dropped 37 percent this year, and 7 percent just today, after Trump has said he will now put tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
US consumers voted for lower prices, and Trump promised lower prices on day 1. Now they wont be able to afford their own medicine.
I am so glad, I am steady with my investments
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1jvbiy2/trump_pauses_reciprocal_tariffs_for_90_days_for/
My portofolio went back up like a rocket, all the best to the people who pulled out, trying to catch a new low or even worse shorted the market
As you look at your 401K in shambles, keep in mind that someone in this administration made an “investment" that earned 2,100% _in one hour_.
If you knew what they knew, you could have made $2.1M from $100K today. Or if you're an asshole billionaire, a lot more.
Good luck investigating this insider trading. Guess which branch of government is in charge of monitoring this illegal behavior?
"#ICE director says #deportations should be run like ‘#Amazon Prime for human beings’"
Jesus fucking Christ
The #sadism has no bottom. #Dehumanization is the gleeful loudly announced goal
All of the bigots and morons out there will love it or not care
None of this is going to end well, there is some really scary shit coming
Police murdered Philando Castile because they “feared for their lives” after Philando disclosed he had a registered licensed legally owned firearm.
AG Bondi restored Mel Gibson’s gun rights, which were stripped because he violently beat his wife.
The system isn’t broken, it’s working as intended to uphold white supremacy.
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@pine yacht The Democratic party was so fat and satisfied taking corporate money and allowing some left wingers into the big tent and to make some pandering, but not where it matters
Don't get me wrong, the Democrats as an organization are still better than the Republicans and their fringe big tent
However, the system worked only as long as everyone wanted to play the same game
As we see with Trump, as soon as the people who don't, eclipsed the old party who wanted to play the game in power, the whole system got chonked
ive always said it was a matter of time 
Now that Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that Trump executive must do all possible to ensure Abrego Garcia’s release from prison in El Salvador, supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…, the case returns to federal district court. Judge Xinis is already ordering action. storage.courtlistener.com/reca… 1/ #LawFedi
"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student... Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs."
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USA Secretary of Education references the importance of AI in a recent speech, except she pronounces it as "A 1". Popular steak sauce brand jumps on the opportunity....
Elon Musk uses his power over the federal government to eliminate press releases and email and restrict public messaging to HIS PRIVATELY OWNED PLATFORM.
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The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear colleague” letters, as it shifts its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. The news comes amid major staffing cuts at the agency.
I remember saying something along these lines.
That Musk want Government announcements be done via twitter only.
Just reiterate yes you need twitter, you won't get physical mail as well
You're kidding right? Her work on cells and aging is a threat to US security? I guess that's true if it means longer lives for the fascists in charge.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement has twice refused her lawyer’s petition for parole, contending that she is a flight risk and a threat to U.S. security."
Who wants to bet POTUS ends up pardoning Smirnov, or otherwise vacating his conviction?
"The Department of Justice said it is reviewing the criminal case brought against a former FBI informant convicted of peddling lies about former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden and is moving for a judge to release the man from prison immediately while his case is on appeal."
"Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges."
"Smirnov's lies were later seized on by House Republicans to bolster their efforts to impeach Joe Biden over unproven claims that he corruptly used his position as vice president in the Obama administration to benefit himself financially once out of office."
"The United States intends to review the government's theory of the case underlying Defendant's criminal conviction,"…
Unsurprisingly many people getting the ‘you must leave the US now’ emails think they’re phishing. They’re being sent by DOGE. politico.com/news/2025/04/11/d…
Gosh, maybe we shouldn’t let Big Balls vibe code the deportation system
Nicole Micheroni (@nicolemicheroni.bsky.social)
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs less to house people.
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-home...
yeh been years since it been working very well, but ofc, many other countries want to punish homeless people and shit so...
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids.
Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations to bring reliable electricity to remote communities — setting a model for other African countries. #ClimateChange
Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US
The #measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance.
The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
apnews.com/article/measles-tex… #Texas
Via Nathan Kalman-Lamb
One of hundreds of people abducted by #ICE & sold to slavery in #ElSalvador was a 19 yr old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela & no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
#Trump #law #immigration #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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They're defying ALL the court orders. It's a dictatorship now, and they want to make sure you know.
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Being a tourist in the USA could land you in jail. Furthermore, you have to have your papers on you at all times.
Tourism is 9% of the USA's GDP. Trump just flushed away $2.4 trillion. Money spent in small businesses, restaurants, hotels, Airbnbs etc.
6.3 million jobs directly related to tourism.
Cr: MinC
From Germany:
Abnormal Coronary Vascular Response in Patients with #LongCOVID Syndrome – a Case-Control Study Using Oxygenation-Sensitive Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Image is from latest Science for ME weekly update
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
@covid19 #Coronavirus
#COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #COVIDー19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver
@auscovid19 #auscovid19
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The German National Library @DNB_Aktuelles AI team just published a paper "Automatic Subject Cataloguing at the German National Library" in LIBER Quarterly (open access):
The paper documents in detail how they use open source tools such as Git, Data Version Control and Annif to implement automatic assignment of DDC classes and GND subject terms to digital publications in various formats. Great work!
#libraries #cataloguing #opensource #Annif #machinelearning #AI
Correct use of AI/LLM 
french ministry of agriculture asked for a "causasian profile" (read white) and to replace couscous by cassoulet for a govt ad to promote bio food (the french minister of agriculture is racist "there is no state racism in france, the police isnt racist" etc) she also opposed lgbt wedding and said it would be "an irreparable attack against the human race"
there is an article but you can't access it fully + it's in french
"I literally drove my car to Canada for the weekend, & on the way back, I was treated like a criminal,"said Atallah, who has been a #US #citizen for 10 yrs.…
"So I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my priveleged information…,"Atallah said.
After several requests, Atallah says CBP called his sister, an #immigration atty.
"It's not about the immigrants,"Celine Atallah, Bachir's sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's …all of us."
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👋 #Fediverse Friends
The US has provided a "Rat On Them" form for Reporting Healthcare providers who offer gender affirming care.
👉 ** It really would be a shame if their servers were overwhelmed with bogus reports, eh.
Pretty sure you know what to do with this.
👉 Boosting this might create issues so think about it first, right....
VPN = ON
EDIT : WHY ARE CANADIAN PROVINCES LISTED?!!
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Seth Rogan Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored. “It’s amazing that others…in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science.” Can’t give a science prize w/o science. 🤷♂️ kottke.org/25/04/seth-rogan-sp…
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Whistleblower on Zuckerberg
"I witnessed Meta work hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party on custom-built censorship tools that silenced & censored their critics.
"When Beijing demanded that Facebook delete the account of a prominent Chinese dissident living on American soil, they did it, & then lied to Congress when asked about the incident in a Senate hearing.”
~Sarah Wynn-Williams, fmr Facebook director & author of Careless people
RFK Jr saying the quiet part out loud…
In an article about autism, he talks about how autistic people will never pay taxes, hold a job, go on a date etc. “worthless”. Useless eaters.
This is straight up eugenics.
It’s also wrong. Many people with autism or disabilities can do ALL these things, but our worth should not be predicated on that.
Everyone has intrinsic value regardless of economic ability or contribution.
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#hhs #uspoli #rfkjr #autism #disability #ableism #eugenics #fascism
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ofc, it's all tied to institutionalization, segregation, eugenics...
Elon Musk DMed a woman on X named Tiffany Fong — a conservative crypto influencer — asking if she would have his child. She declined and exposed the interaction to some of her friends.
Musk blocked her after hearing this, cut her ad revenue payments (which he was presumably inflating), and now has a plan to replace the DM function with something called “X Chat.”
Full story by The Wall Street Journal (it is a real fucking ride): wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-chi…
Musk refers to his offspring as a “legion,” a reference to the ancient military units that could contain thousands of soldiers and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire.
@glad cradle I just can't
I swear these billionaires could announce they're going to start hunting us for sport and some people would still be out there defending it with they're whole chest like
"you're just mad because you can't run fast."
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UPDATE: We've added 11 more names to our DOGE tracker, bringing the total to 77 staffers affiliated with Musk.
Plus, you can now filter our database by federal agency. Check it out ⤵️
projects.propublica.org/elon-m…
#DOGE #ElonMusk #Musk #Government #Data #Research #USPolitics #Trump
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Police are paying big money for unproven “undercover bot” tech that uses AI-generated online personas to collect intelligence, @404mediaco reports. “So like, what is it effective at, violating protesters’ First Amendment rights?” asks EFF’s Dave Maass. 404media.co/this-college-prote…
Omfg.
What is America doing?
This is the law right now?
“Texas Oil Drillers Can Bury Toxic Waste on Private Property Without Telling the Landowner. A New Bill Seeks to Change That.”
Why would anyone want to buy property in Texas right now?
COVID.gov now redirects to site promoting unproven “lab leak”
The site previously hosted links to resources on Long COVID, vaccines, and testing.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/04…
It was only a matter of time - a contracted, approved grant to the Internet Archive was cut with no warning.
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"This AI output is highly inaccurate."
"Nah, you're just prompting it wrong."
"How do I go about prompting it the right way?"
"You really need to know the subject you're asking about. Then you can help it avoid making mistakes."
"If I know the subject deeply myself, why am I asking an AI about it?"
"It helps to train the AI."
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Awful news. The first major wildfire of the season in this part of Alberta - and the wonderful Ukrainian Heritage Village is at risk. If you are in Lamont County, you may need to prepare to evacuate. ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/ou… #Wildfire #Alberta #Edmonton #LamontCounty
Murderer Phoenix Ikner arrested alive reminded me:
-Payton Gendron murders 10—arrested alive
-Nikolas Cruz murders 17—arrested alive
-Dylan Roof murders 9—arrested alive
-Patrick Crusius murders 23—arrested alive
Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Aiyana Jones: Innocent—murdered by cops
The system isn't broken—it was built this way.
Modernity is weird because it’s full of problems that are too big to fix but too small to explain without sounding insane.

Alito has just filed his dissent from last night’s Supreme Court order directing the Trump executive not to remove any Venezuelans detained pursuant to AEA in Northern District of Texas. Thomas joins. They take the position I sketched in an earlier thread today: that there was no appealable order or rulings before the Supreme Court bc the trial court judge had not ruled on plaintiffs’ TRO and class certification motions. #LawFedi 1/ supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
“Musk and Thiel propose making this network of hundreds of surveillance and attack satellites into a subscription service that the Musk/Thiel/Luckey consortium would own and the Pentagon would subscribe to. Not only is this crazy and absurd but it goes without saying that in no normal time would anyone at the Pentagon be okay with the US not owning the hardware at the center of national defense.”
A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.
‘The #BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporation’s concerns that discussing the technology risks “treading on areas of public controversy”’
Controversial to #FossilFuel industry and #Reform voters who are trying to kneecap anything that will help us avert #ClimateBreakdown.
#HeatPumps are NOT controversial outside UK.
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A friend of mine recently returned from a trip to the EU. At customs in Nashville coming home, she said she saw a white European female traveler having to take off a jacket and show all her tattoos and explain what they mean. CBP is evidently targeting everyone, not just people they think look "foreign." Nobody should visit the US.
#Republican senator removes the topic of " #consent " from sex ed curriculum.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article304015606.html @hidden ether @eager tide
Not what I had in mind but just in case
yeah after proper read it isn't what I saw...
that's still some BS that they can just search you like that
I'll just drive to Mexico lol
Just pay extra attention on what happens and ask around if they have troubles or not.
Sometimes knowing how to behave is best bet.
Will do
My mom was a primary school teacher in the latter half of the last century. During book-banning debates at her school system in the 1980s — over Dungeons & Dragons themed books, of course; Satanic Panic was in full swing — a speaker who’d been brought in by the banning side said that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach critical thinking skills because if you needed a thought, God would give it to you. There was much agreement from the audience, she said.
I think about that a lot these days.
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"Trump administration texted college professors' personal phones to ask if they're Jewish."
theintercept.com/2025/04/23/tr…
As all academics know, you can't ask this question in a job interview.
eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquir…
But I guess it's OK when it's not a job interview, when it's the govt asking, and the govt includes a high-ranking official who gives #Nazi salutes.
This happened at #BarnardCollege. Probably no accident that Barnard is affiliated with #Columbia. Trump officials said they had a right to the personal contact info, and the school handed it over.
#Antisemitism #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #WTF
@academicchatter
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Mark Zuckerberg wanted to fly his helicopter from his gigantic superyacht to go skiing on Swedish mountains and offered villagers tens of thousands, but they flat out refused, saying the noisy chopper would disturb their reindeer
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"That billionaires would fly private jets to luxury yachts, then board helicopters to chase the last snow-covered peaks in Europe—while attempting to silence Indigenous voices—is being seen as a microcosm of global environmental inequality."
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🚨 ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
From a trusted source: We received a heads up that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
There is credible evidence that such things are being planned for removal, and that their absence would then be used to justify punitive actions, such as terminations or future penalties. 1/n
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BREAKING: Trump regime REVERSES cancellation of foreign student visas for ~4700 students. This, after 23 judges nationwide blocked enforcement & activists filed 100+ lawsuits challenging the fascist act.
Your Activism Matters!
We cannot let up. Rümeysa Öztürk & Mahmoud Khalil are still imprisoned.
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Horrifying!
A 2-year-old #UScitizen was deported ‘with no meaningful process,’ a judge suspects.
A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the #Trump admin had deported a 2-year-old US #citizen to #Honduras “with no meaningful process” & against the wishes of her father.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #DueProcess #judiciary
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Analysis: 71% of Dem Voters Say US Should Cut Aid to Israel Until It Stops Attacking Civilians
"The voters surveyed were asked to choose between a more progressive & a more moderate approach to six issues: the Israel-Palestine conflict, transgender sports policy, economic policy, healthcare, climate policy, & immigration."
'The officer who shot him [3 times in the back after he was assaulting people with pepper spray] has been suspended from duty pending a homicide investigation.'
Germany: Thousands protest police shooting of Black man
A Black man died due to wounds sustained during a police shooting during an altercation in Oldenburg last weekend. Thousands have taken to the streets calling for justice and condemning what they call structural racism.
dw.com/en/germany-thousands-pr…
There’s important background to the Trump-Patel FBI arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan following ICE’s attempt to use her courtroom as a place to find and arrest an immigrant. Learn more here: statecourtreport.org/our-work/…
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Long, detailed and correct piece from Tagesschau about the problems with hydrogen trains in Germany tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/energ…
In my twenties, I was denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I “might meet a man who wants kids”
I fought for years to get the surgery, spending weeks out of every month stuck in a hospital bed needing iron and blood transfusions. Too disabled to work. Fainting almost daily. In constant pain.
No matter how sick I got, the hypothetical future husband and baby came before my health. What these imaginary beings might want was more important than what I needed.
When I finally had the surgery, I had a severe post operative complication. The surgeon didn’t believe me. She sent me home.
I had to go to the ER four times before they found the life threatening internal bleed. Each time dismissing me as “attention seeking” or accusing me of not understanding some pain was to be expected.
My then boyfriend saved my life. He got loud and refused to take me home, saying he was convinced I would die.
It turns out, he was right. I had a giant bleed in my…
been trying to write a TL;DR about #PopeFrancis and his work and solidarity with trans women, especially sex workers, but there really isn’t much in English; so y’all have to deal with articles in Spanish.
so let’s get this clear: when he said the RCC only recognized two genders, he was being explicit about that historical fact. he wasn’t saying trans folks didn’t have a right to exist. on the contrary, his letters on how transfolks are welcomed as godmothers & godfathers are key… 🧵
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https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/114410118628220479 @tawdry oxide
i dont remember what org thisis but it's good to at least see somthing yeh.. + the supreme court in the uk litteraly went (in practice) "trans people can be refused to use any facility" (one of the written thing was "a gay thing can refuse trans men" "a lesbian thing can refuse trans woman" + a part saying that in some circumstances, a trans person can be excluded from using their "sex" facility but also the other one")
People are, reasonably enough, upset that Trump fell asleep during the Pope's funeral. But having him fall asleep during major events with other world leaders is probably less damaging than whatever he might have done if he had been awake.
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https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/114410567014836512 @glad cradle
British Government legal logic:
Kill someone with a car - 2 year suspended sentence and 10 points in your licence
Kill someone with a bicycle - LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Two people were taken by ICE agents at the courthouse in downtown Charlottesville. When they first showed up, the ICE agents were in plainclothes and one of them was wearing a balaclava. Two bystanders stood between the ICE agents and the people they wanted to kidnap and began questioning them and trying to figure out who they were.
Now ICE is promising to prosecute the two bystanders.
These violent ICE raids and kidnappings are getting scarier and more violent by the day. A 4 year old child (who is a US citizen) with stage 4 cancer was deported with no medication or the ability to contact any doctors. The implementation of the Alien Enemies Act, the justice department authorizing law enforcement to ignore the fourth amendment and enter homes without judicial warrants. The seizing of cell phones and tech from journalists, scientists, researchers… straight up gestapo shit.
The intimidation and criminalization of anyone even remotely questioning authority, fighting back…
Honestly wish I'd discovered Clive Barker sooner, especially after this direct quote.
Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”
“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”
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"Even if Wikipedia’s content was biased (it isn’t), even if every editor was actively trying to push an anti-Israel narrative (they aren’t), that would still be protected by the First Amendment. The government doesn’t get to threaten organizations over their editorial choices, no matter how much certain prosecutors or publications might dislike those choices."
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https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/114419141370192522 @tawdry oxide
Cool! A clinical trial run by the NCI confirms that a single dose of the HPV vaccine used to prevent infection with the papilloma virus is just as effective as 2 — & also helps to prevent cancer. The shots prevent cervical cancer & anal, penile, and some head-&-neck cancers.
“I think we can all agree that one dose & two doses of … these fantastic vaccines work really well,” said Kreimer, the NCI investigator.
statnews.com/2025/04/28/hpv-va…
i got tired of seeing the meme with the ai-art otter (i don't even remember what the meme was about) so i quickly sketched an otter holding a sign. i didn't use the original for reference, so the sign proportion is totally different. also i don't often draw otters so this might not look very otterlike. also it's grumpy
feel free to use it however you like
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The election eve truck-ramming that killed 11 people and injured dozens more in Vancouver sent waves of grief across Canada's Filipino community, integral to Canada in part through many members' roles as caregivers. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/… #worldnews #canada #philippines #massmurder
We were traveling out of Barcelona when the #SpainBlackout hit. We were actually waiting in line for the train. Power went out and cell service cut around noon. I was able to get wifi from a nearby hotel (I hope room 123 doesn't mind). I found an outage map for the city, but the map was entirely down. I overheard someone say it was national and found an article about that, but there really wasn't any info yet.
After waiting for a while with no info, the train station was evacuated. My partner found a route by bus. So we took our kids and bags and started walking. Finding the right stop was challenging. #OrganicMaps doesn't seem to have bus lines and #CityMapper doesn't do great offline. The kids don't sleep well when traveling, so this was all compounded by several days of sleep deprivation.
Navigatng was difficult. We managed to find a hotel with a generator who let us use their wifi to update our maps.
So we traveled across the city. Trafic lights seemed to be the…
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t?page=3 @rapid umbra
Spain's apagón/ power outage:
Possibly due to solar inverters switching off when anomalous frequency detected. Not a wind issue though. Nor was it a lack of baseload. Antonio Turiel raised this issue of renewables + grid instability 2 years ago and was mocked for not being a grid specialist.
Here's and informative thread: mastodon.energy/@Sustainable20…
curious to see if we find out the clear answer, yesterday was such a pain, and I'm sure many people struggled even harder
A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts
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Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws.
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#Hegseth has taken Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou off of the library shelves, but left two copies of Adolf #Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the library.
Just consider that for a minute: midshipmen can now read the #antisemitic manifesto of one of history’s most evil men but god forbid they read the autobiography of a Black woman recounting her lived experience.
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A Justice Department attorney has sent an email to our lawyer, David Seide, informing him that USAGM expects VOA staff to begin a “phased return” to work and programming to resume next week.
United has canceled 35 round trips out of EWR starting this weekend after FAA fails to agree to limit traffic to what the airport can handle and air traffic controllers left their posts amid radar problems.
Uh, yikes.
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A THREADED RANT
that PERSONAL JESUS ad is everything that is wrong with American #evangelism aka #christofascism.
it uses the smash hit from Depeche Mode’s album VIOLATOR; and if you know anything about the band, you know KINK and most specifically SADOMASOCHISM were their bread and butter.
sure enough, refreshed my memory about this song and it was inspired by Priscilla Presley’s “Elvis & Me”.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person…
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In 1861 a guy named Semmelweis published the findings from a study he performed. He required medical students and doctors to wash their hands in chlorinated water before attending delivery of babies. The mortality rate of women cared for by these providers dropped from 18% to 2%.
His theory of transmissible disease carried on the hands of doctors was dismissed by colleagues. He was comitted to an asylum, beaten by the guards, and died of sepsis weeks later.
RFK is those fucking guys.
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NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
“Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski Down in Billionaire Style”
I got told I should use a paper straw and should cycle to work with a bike to save the planet. We're all gonna pay for their lifestyle.
#taxtherich #climatechange #eattherich #markzuckerberg
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“Park Service suspends air-quality monitoring at all national parks The monitoring program collects data on the levels of harmful air pollutants at the 63 national parks in the United States.”
“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crus…
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Just read an article from an #ai influencer musing on the Innovative power of AI.
Tasked with breaking the Enigma code, an AI system trained to recognise German using Grimm’s fairytales, utilizing 2,000 virtual servers, cracked a coded message in 13 minutes.
Let's pause for a second to let it sink.
And let's think for a second
Alan Turing “Bombes” could decipher two messages every minute.
😱. Suddenly the AI result isn't all that impressive any more.
AI cuts out all the research, knowledge gain, and insight. With all the resources available today, it still performs worse than a solution from 70 years ago (to be precise 26 times).
And this is seen as an impressive innovation 🤡🤯
https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/114472533667364342
Good guy Bill geits
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114472693946305924
Oh right
Musk and Doge shut down USAID, gutting $60B in aid
UNICEF & WHO warn 14 million may die by 2030 from lost vaccines, food and clean water
Does the US step up to fix what they have broken?
No
Bill Gates responds pledging $200B through 2045 to fund malaria work, sanitation, and climate efforts
This is not sustainable world when we hope billionaires will to show up to protect the world from billionaires
Random reminder that #BillGates is the reason why AstraZeneca #COVID vaccine is patent-encumbered:
wired.com/story/opinion-the-wo…
Gates bragged about convincing Oxford University not to open-license its vaccine. Gates leveraged his $750 million donation to the university for vaccine research—even though its vaccine was developed in a publicly funded lab. Eventually, Oxford sold the sole right of production to AstraZeneca, with no guarantee of low prices and an extraordinary opportunity for profit.
🚨INVESTIGATION: The aviation industry's corporate clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights is now selling that private info to the Trump administration's immigration police, according to federal documents reviewed by The Lever. levernews.com/airlines-are-col…
I think I’ve stopped using #Facebook hard enough (I still use it to visit Groups) that I’ve now fallen firmly into “generic user” category for ads.
And the majority of ads I receive are…guns and gun-related paraphernalia, Christian nationalist-adjacent jewelry, and pro-Trump-branded products.
Whenever I click on “why am I seeing this ad?” the only criteria they ever display is “18+ and living in the US”. So I guess that’s what most US Facebook customers see these days, by default.
Orwell had a brilliant wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, who was erased from history. Disappearing women is how patriarchy creates itself. Erasing women makes men into the main characters in life and in history, and women into supporting cast, or caste.
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Foreign Emoluments Clause – U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8
Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act – 5 U.S.C. § 7342
Federal Bribery and Illegal Gratuities Statutes – 18 U.S.C. § 201
This is illegal.
Before blatant corruption and the the destruction of the rule of law was “presidential “
Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water
The National Park Services bars all swimming and wading due to the health hazard.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/05…
today is ME/CFS awareness week so
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a neurological disease. But misinformation from decades ago, which claimed it was psychological has resulted in stigma that still impacts the care of patients today.
“Someone who is so physically unwell is being treated so poorly, as if they can just snap out of it,...
this
and covid can trigger this (also other infections etc but yeh)
andthe more you "try to push through" the worse it gets usually (also true for some other thigns etc)
i'm myself not at my best these..days
(it's also fibromyalgia awareness day iirc)
and eh many chronic conditions uh... have better andworse times
also france started debating on the law to kill people
if voted as is, the law would be the worst in the world (most permissive already)
just have to have a chronic condition
more or less.
no problem if you pushed a person to use the law to die
problems (criminalized) if you advocated against using the law to die
no check u had access to paliative care (only 30% who need them have access to them in france according to an official thing and a paliative care doctor org)
i forget stuff
It is fucking impossible to own a modern device today.
If you dont update your device - your fucked because security
If you update your device - the vendor fucks you with some bullshit "we've updated our terms and services"
Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?
She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.
And she was picked up by the deportation force no…
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We're getting close to the needed signatures against conversion "therapies" in the EU!
Signed as a German. Come on the rest of you, es gibt reichliche Deutsche hier!
We now have the 7 countries over the line, we just need pure numbers - go go go
Direct link: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
Think I should share this even if I it might be pointless. (no clue who wants or wills to sign)
The petition to stop conversion therapy EU wide has gained around 200k new signatures over the past two days!! There's time left till the 17th to get another ~385k signatures big goal but it might be possible if all of you share the heck out of it and sign it if you are from the EU!! <3
yeh it's very close!
This is the way.
A high school freshman track athlete took second place behind a trans athlete, and a Republican leader used the situation to push hateful propaganda. The girl responds:
"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points... No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby."
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"Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lied to federal judges about the reasons they needed warrants to enter the homes of Columbia University students and arrest them, according to attorneys investigating the matter."
According to the allegation, the warrant application was a "pretext" so they could "try to arrest two students, including one green card holder, in order to deport them."
"To be successful, a European citizens' initiative has to reach one million statements of support as well as minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries."
The initiative "Ban on conversion practices in the European Union" made both.
- 1,245,603 online signatures plus an unknown number of paper signatures
- 11 countries, France did 1202% and Croatia passed in the final minutes.
Congratulations!
yeh it's a big uh
communication win
(as the EU can decide not to do anything with it iirc)
but it's good to see that
i apparnetly forgor to share here but for ME/CFS (Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic fatigue syndrome) awareness day, a good vid
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a neurological disease. But misinformation from decades ago, which claimed it was psychological has resulted in stigma that still impacts the care of patients today.
“Someone who is so physically unwell is being treated so poorly, as if they can just snap out of it,...
i'd say pls watch to get awareness and all
but ofc uh
it's painful
Police could search homes and phones after pregnancy loss
New national guidance suggests officers look for menstrual tracking apps or abortion drugs
Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss.
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#Coinbase saved on payroll by underpaying for work outsourced to India so that its customers could get defrauded of at least a few hundred million dollars *already*. They (the customers) will no doubt now be stalked for years by cybercriminals who have their passport, home address, and bank information.
#ThatsSoCrypto, but also this is why Coinbase donated so much money to get Donald Trump elected so #DOGE could, in Elon's immortal turn of phrase, "delete #CFPB" (meaning destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who were helping customers deal with their complaints about Coinbase).
#crime #crypto #fraud #uspolitics #uspol #cybercrime #infosec
Jeff Bezos rewarded MBS for killing and dismembering his Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by committing to build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia.
"it takes five years for Bezos to go from posting his photo op with the headstone of a murdered reporter to making billion-dollar deals with his killer.”
🤡 Pro-war pop singer Shaman will represent #Russia at an upcoming alternative to Eurovision, called Intervision, which Putin revived earlier this year in response to his country’s ban from the European singing contest.
Federal judge rules that Trump violated the law and abused his power when he sent armed agents to seize the U.S. Institute of Peace—a nonprofit organization established by Congress.
He is guilty of "a gross usurpation of power," "contrary to statute established by Congress."
Seems like news.
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In France, computer engineer Sacha Montel launched "Detrumpify Yourself" a free, open-source app designed to help consumers identify hidden US ownership behind everyday products.
Everyone knows Coca-Cola or Heinz are American, but many don't realize Lu, Milka, or Le Petit Marseillais are too," he told BI, naming three widely consumed brands in France.
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RAW MILK TIME
I was surprised to find most of the "raw milk cures ___" talking points from the last 20+ years come from one (1) raw milk dairy farmer in California.
Let's get to know him!
Mark McAfee, 5th generation dairy & almond farmer in CA, complains "the government is out to get him." Just because he's been accused of starting multiple outbreaks!
But he's a good guy! He visits those sick kids in the hospital in his private plane.
(source: motherjones.com/politics/2025/…)
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'Mayhem' as ICE officials arrest multiple people at immigration court in Phoenix tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor…
Federal agents arrested multiple people at the immigration court in Phoenix on Tuesday, creating a situation one attorney described as "mayhem" as people believing their cases had just been dismissed were taken into custody outside.
#Tucson #Arizona
yeh
over 50 geoguesser map authors blanked out their maps in response to geoguessr participating in a saudi-backed esports cup aftermath.site/geoguessr-black… and have announced the community-run Rainbow Classic tournament, featuring women and lgbt players, intentionally running concurrently with the official one old.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/com…
@latent jasper bit politics but to answer if you wondered what with popular maps on Geoguessr happening.
ugh, just unnecessary drama, whatever
At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/114551695722066376
Censored but still human boobs.
The Guardian: Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
"...The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.
Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive...."
Disgusting attack on not just Harvard but education, enlightenment, and freedom of expression.
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/poli…
D.V.D. v. Trump, the case involving immigrants removed to third-party countries without due process, just gets wilder and wilder. Two developments today. This thread is about the judge's latest opinion and order for yet another preliminary injunction in the lawsuit. Full document at storage.courtlistener.com/reca…. #LawFedi 1/
My fellow Dane Kasper Juul Eriksen who has been living in the USA for 12 years with his wife and children, has now been detained by Trump’s ice goons because he forgot to fill out a form in 2015.
You really know the destructiveness of an administration, when it becomes their goal to deport family fathers for the crime of being hardworking tax payers.
Insane.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/trumps-hhs-urges-therapy-for-transgender-youth-departing-from-broader-gender-affirming-health-care so they're openly promoting conversion "therapy" now and the msm's whitewashing it
Thread: How fascist policies are destroying the research that's been studying my brain for 8 years
I've been part of a Stanford adolescent brain development study since I was a kid - 8 years of my life contributing to science. Yesterday I saw firsthand how Trump's authoritarian bullshit is literally erasing scientific knowledge.
For years, this study included questions about gender identity - because, you know, that's actually relevant to understanding how adolescents develop. This year? Completely gone.
The researchers explained that Trump didn't just gut NIH funding - he made it illegal for any federally-funded research to even mention gender identity. They can't use the word "gender" at all. Only "sex" with binary options.
I watched these scientists - people I've known for years, who've dedicated their lives to understanding human development - have to explain how politicians are literally censoring their research. They called it "awful" but they had no choice: c…
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Pay attention.
"After poaching some of the best Western auto talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally with charging rates, ranges, luxury design, technology, and sheer volumes.”
DOGE goon fired after admitting that he was surprised to find that "government works" and is "not as inefficient as I was expecting."
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Elon Musk being surprised an “intelligence world” system is locked down tickles me. washingtonpost.com/business/20…
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After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left
“In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different," one student said.
nbcnews.com/news/asian-america…
With almost no exceptions, journalists have again been conned by Elon Musk and his PR minions.
One key exception, as usual, is Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/d…
A PR person (whose name I've forgotten) once said to me, "You people" -- the press -- "are so easy."
Is anyone really surprised by this? except maybe a large number of Covid deniers in the medical community?
Heart and vascular damage, which cumulates with every reinfection, has been known for years
Unfortunately, yet another damning report which will be completely ignored
Wear a Mask!!
we keep saying this
med report state this
organ damage accumulate yeh
so yeh....
Trump pulls Isaacman nomination for space. Source: “NASA is f****ed”
"NASA's budget request is just a going-out-of-business mode" without Isaacman.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/…
Over on BlueSky, authors are sharing their #unbound horror stories. It’s awful. So much worse than I imagined. It’s Alan Dean Foster vs Disney all over again.
Unbound went into liquidation and immediately a new company, Boundless, popped up. They now own all of Unbound’s assets … and none of its debts.
There are so many authors owed tens of thousands of pounds each. Many of them have no other source of income and this represents a year’s worth of royalties.
i heard it was bad....but not THIS bad..
”He’s [Peter Thiel] known as the godfather [of the PayPal mafia] because he’s so well connected within both Silicon Valley and the U.S. government. And because he’s used his network to invest in companies and in people. Remember, he’s the one who put JD Vance on the map. He funded Vance’s Ohio Senate campaign and then orchestrated his first meeting with Trump.”
—Katrina Schwartz, What Is the PayPal Mafia?
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#peterthiel #thiel #jdvance #trump
yeh peter thiel and some others are incredibly dangerous..
The Dissident
This is an alarming escalation by the Trump administration and it's campaign of eradication of trans people.
Today, the FBI tweeted a call for the public to report hospitals or clinics performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors. Framing these treatments as "mutilation," the Bureau directed tips to 1-800-CALL-FBI tipline, launching an
- Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. reuters.com/world/us/fema-staf…
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a GROUNDBREAKING new treatment for aggressive breast cancer with a 100% SURVIVAL RATE. By combining chemotherapy with Olaparib (Lynparza) BEFORE surgery, EVERY patient who received the protocol survived the CRITICAL three-year post-treatment period. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Elsa??
The FDA has it's own "#AI" and it's named "Elsa".
We're all going to die.
Elsa is speeding up clinical protocol reviews and scientific evaluations, along with finding "high-priority inspection targets."
The F-fucking-DA
tbh does anyone else here dislike it when somebody they/them's you when you dont use they/them pronouns to refer to yourself? i personally dislike it but bc from experience, cis people dont listen when i tell them to stop, so ive stopped reminding people not use they/them pronouns when referring to me.
Thailand urging holiday travellers to wear masks in the wake of the latest Covid variant Nimbus (nicknamed razor blade throat).
We’re starting to see more & more media outlets discuss masking… which is highly unusual given they’ve been driving the “it’s over” narrative for years.
Respirators work!
indeed...
yeh, my pronouns change but well. but yeh if people know it's she, well using she is the way.
they works for people u dont know yet / people using it / talking in general about a person you dont know or something
We have allowed a multi system vascular virus to spread unchecked for nearly 6 years.
Public health has failed to advise folks of the risk to long term health, or of the fact that there’s no such thing as “mild” COVID.
Yet doctors blame sudden rise in young stroke patients on everything BUT Covid
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ofc
dangerous clowns wondering, every 6 months there is such an article
it's indeed covid.
but as Kelly says, you'll litteraly find articles be like "dr say it might have been because of consequences from lockdown"
or random shit
if i die from a stroke in the next year or so i blame it on trump
ah yummy, first time a neonicotinoide was detecting in rain water in japan
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
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One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
propublica.org/article/trump-d…
#News #DHS #Extremism #Trump #Security #Terrorism #Government
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In 2023, a record-breaking marine heatwave in the North Atlantic Ocean, driven by exceptionally weak winds and a shallow surface mixed layer, led to severe weather events across Europe and beyond. The heatwave, exacerbated by long-term climate change and reduced sulfate emissions from ships, serves as a warning for future extreme weather.
Arizona Daily Star - A deputy US marshal was mistakenly detained by immigration agents inside the federal building that houses Tucson's immigration court. tucson.com/news/local/border/a…
After a judge found #DJT admin deportation of immigrants to Sudan illegal, instead of returning them to US, #Drumpf admin exiled them all into legal limboland, including their US govt personnel escorts, all now suspended without a final destination in #Djibouti with #ICE employees stuck with deportees, living out of a dangerously hot metal cargo container at behest of #StevenMiller and other unconcerned #WhiteHouse acolytes
Keep your eyes on New York because what happens there could turn the 2024 Presidential election upside down.
...In open court last Thursday, Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court, ruled that discovery must proceed, pushing the lawsuit brought by SMART Legislation into the evidence-gathering stage. The lawsuit seeks a full hand recount of the Presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County...
Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see davelane.nz/explainer-digitech…) 1/n
@glad cradle and that's how ai can backfire
News that isn't about nazis breaking up on twitter:
-Roundup of US #PublicHealth catastrophes, measles, poultry #BirdFlu toll: 174,461,898
-New #Covid variant updates + surges in 22 countries
- #LongCovid surpasses asthma in US kids
-US changes Covid vax rules again
france gov thinking about fucking up the social security system (less stuff u dont have to pay for etc) notably for the people who manage to get an ALD (long term affection, there are various ones, associated with a number, for cancer, for transitioning if you're trans, chronic condition, etc)
not even 2 weeks after national assembly voted a big yes on euthanasia law ("assisted suicide")
and parliament just deleted the right for inmates to vote from prison for legislative and mayor elections
ah also, former president nicolas sarkozy who was convicted after a very long time of escaping a trial, was convicted to havig an electronic ankle device, in less than a year, bam no more of that, nothing.
at the same time, christian tein, kanaky independantist leader was arrested a year ago and deported from kanaky to mainland france prison. he's still there. his crime? being an important figure of kanaky independantist. 17k km from his home. No trial.
and indeed, covid is going strong everywhere. new variant. tho, again, 3 ish times a year there is a spike in cases, many are contaminated more than once a year so... yeh
get covid again and again, get long covid / dormant condition awaknes / me/cfs : you're now disabled and might not be able to work. now you realize how it is and cant protest and all (not only street demo, but like, even online, many struggle)
etc.
also
(the guardian and daily mail uk are garbage, they trash and trash on trans people and their right, they're clearly responsible for what's happening too)
20mph speed limits save lives. Research from London:
"Child casualties dropped by 46%, and children killed by 75%"
20mph = Fewer maimed and dead children.
Difficult to argue with that.
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We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.
His tool concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
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"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference...is free and open to the public, including journalists." https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-defense-conference-journalists/
Fascinating story. tl;dr: UFOs are BS. The coverup isn't of UFOs but of the fact that they're fictional.
Gift link:
The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology
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Cannot wait season 5 or 6 to adapt this chapter
ik this is supposed to be the off topic channel but that kaltsit face is sending me
CNN Correspondent Detained By LAPD, Camera Crew Arrested
#News #CNN #JasonCarroll #LAPD #LosAngeles
It is with great sadness that I am doing what I would once have thought unthinkable. Following Salim Abdool Karim's superb Faraday Lecture 10 days ago, i have decided to return my own Faraday prize, awarded in 2014.
The silence of the Royal Society in the face of Elon Musk's rampage (a member of the RS since 2018) across US science is incomprehensible to me.
We must all draw the line somewhere in the face of authoritarian attacks and this is mine.
ft.com/content/877853df-1687-4…
Muther f⁕⚠︎ers
A 28-yo #pregnant #woman set to give birth as early as next week is speaking out about being detained by #immigration authorities in #California, even after telling agents she was a #UScitizen.
Cary López Alvarado lost her balance as agents "shoved her" during her arrest over the weekend, she tearfully told NBC #LosAngeles from a #hospital bed. “That’s when I kind of leaned forward, trying to protect the stomach.”
#law #PoliceBrutality #Trump #Gestapo
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ICE expands immigration raids into California’s agricultural heartland
LAPD shoot US woman with a rubber bullet for trying to get into her home, they were blocking her entrance and there was no protest in sight.
“Holy fuck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” ( www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlore) #3E #StopICE
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Building on what @GeePawHill mentioned yesterday. I don’t think I’ve seen a “riot” with the trailer tractor portable stage driving the mariachi band down Olvera Street.
Don’t let them shift the narrative; don’t let the “anarchists” (armchair or otherwise) or the antagonists make it seem as if the people as a whole are violent. #LosAngeles will be fine.
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Well, the #PosseComitatusAct has officially been violated.
#NationalGuard troops have detained #civilians in #LAprotests, commander says
National Guard troops already have temporarily detained civilians in the #LosAngeles #protests over #immigration raids, the commander in charge said Wednesday, but they quickly turned them over to *#LawEnforcement* [the 30 second rule is only for food fools].
#Trump #law #democracy #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo
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ICE agents accused of hit-and-run in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
What's this?
Orange juice for one cent?
These are #Canadian shelves, and these are #American products
This is at a Loblaws in #Ontario, photo taken on Monday
#Canada retailers pretty much have to give #USA products away as Canadians #boycott the #US and #Trump's bellicose verbal diarrhea and #tariffs
#Florida #citrus growers: you voted for this
(ps:
the food banks don't have any room for this juice, because so much unsold American food is already going to the food banks)
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Here are the 8 new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), who have replaced the 17 members fired on Monday by HHS Sec. RFK Jr.
As expected, many of them are anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, who have made a living trashing vaccines and scientists, and peddling quack treatments.
Instead of the glowing official bio, let's read how epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, and others describe these people.
bsky.app/profile/elizabethjaco…
apnews.com/article/cdc-acip-va…
#Politics
1/n
The #AirIndia plane crash is so tragic. I was just on a Boeing 787 last month. The planes are modern in every way.
I did some research, and every single fatal hull-loss accident on major commercial carriers in the last 10 years involved #Boeing. Zero #Airbus accidents on major airlines during that time.
Daily Beast:
LAPD Chief Calls BS on Trump’s Claim That Cops Asked Him for Troops
DIDN’T HAPPEN
Jim McDonnell says police were “nowhere near” the stage where they needed federal assistance
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It is fascism.
At a journalism event I asked about using the word so journalism can cover and explain it. I was told that we can't call fascists fascists because it would put off the fascists.
This is fascism. Those who refuse to identify it are not doing journalism.
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“Two people deeply familiar with the Charleston 787 plant told the Prospect they had particularly acute quality concerns over planes that were delivered to Air India.” 😱
🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
In Harajuku, a grassroots queer art show unfolds with tenderness, humor and defiance. From painted Pride flags to political woodblock prints, 30 artists tell their stories. japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/… #culture #art #lgbtq #tokyo #art #paintings #tokyorainbowpride
I watched the parade in all its glory so you don’t have to.
(abc coverage on YouTube)
How bizarre.
It started with what appeared to be a military museum presentation of historical military uniforms.
The fashion show commentary over the loudspeakers was definitely a thing.
If Trump was going for something similar to one of those parades in Moscow or Pyongyang, I’m not sure he hit the mark. For one thing, no flag-waving crowds lining the parade. It looked like a double barricade and a line of police blocking what crowds did show up.
Most participants marching or driving down the street look… ashamed, or disappointed, to be there. It has more of an ancient world feel of a defeated army being paraded before the victor.
The tank parade was a bit more ominous, accompanied by some instrumental guitar rock music.
It didn’t look like many people showed up, with a lot of the shots showing empty space on both sides of the street. When they showed the people who…
MSNBC reporter at the 1:15 mark.
“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department.”
(Courtesy of Justin Satzman jsatz.bsky.social - bsky.app/profile/jsatz.bsky.so…)
#nokings #LosAngeles #Protests
This is what protesting looks like. Don't believe MSM when they cherry pick the violence to turn us against each other.
We don't have to ask fight the same way, just keep fighting and supporting each other. #Solidarity
Quentin Tarantino is once again on the streets of #LosAngeles with the other protesters. He decided to interview members of the National Guard.
This kind of video is gonna influence a lot of clueless white people. Well done, Tarantino!
#militaryparade #trump #NoKings #civilwar
In the end, we completely overshadowed Trump's parade this weekend but it wasn't cheap.
We had perhaps 2000 protests, the big ones drawing 10,000 plus. Most went off without a hitch, but a few had some very ugly incidents:
The first did not occur at a protest, but was used as a failed excuse to ask people to stay home. This was the shooting of two Dem politicians AND their spouses by a presumed right winger.
Then there is the report of at least one person shot at a Salt Lake City (NOT Las Vegas) No Kings protest, possibly an attempted mass shooting.
In Culpeper, VA someone deliberately accelerated an SUV into the crowd, somehow with no reports of injuries
These three incidents stand out as heavy civil war crap. Then there were the lesser incidents, this is only the ones I am aware of:
Tampa caught a break: a MAGA meathead brandished a gun at protesters but thought it through and did not fire at our people. Someone called the…
Australian man interrogated at LA airport and deported back to Melbourne for his writings about pro-Palestine protests. His social media posts, too, which he said he deleted before flying, were used as material.
"Clearly, they had technology in their system which linked those posts to my Esta … a long time before I took them down,” he said. “Because they knew all about the posts, and then interrogated me about the posts once I was there.”
You love to see it.
“ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.”
This is the reason why our Constitution has an emoluments clause. And every day that the House GOP refuses to do any oversight of the Trump family's grift is another day that our Republic gets a little more fragile. Thread: ft.com/content/13a6cead-af71-4…
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Florida child welfare authorities turned over a 17-year-old foster child to ICE, sparking intense criticism that the action could hinder efforts to protect children in the state’s large immigrant communities. The Honduran teen was removed from his Pensacola foster home Monday morning — in handcuffs and shackles.
Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵💫
Full-size image: storage.mollywhite.net/trump-f…
Disclosures: oge.app.box.com/s/k0hxcezgk7j1…
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Court documents show MN assassin Vance Boelter utilized multiple peoplesearch sites fueled by data brokers to profile his targets.
We can now add “political assassination/terrorism” to the list of results of poor privacy practices and the data broker industry.
(Ironically, via LinkedIn linkedin.com/posts/kevindreyes… )
Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to demand access to your device and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill
Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.
SLC Tribune - The Colorado county sheriff’s office whose deputy pulled over a student during a traffic stop — and let her go with a warning — has discovered its info was secretly shared with ICE, leading to the student’s federal detainment just minutes later. sltrib.com/news/education/2025…
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Oh boy - #SpaceX #Starship 36 exploded on the Massey's test stand at Boca Chica, TX tonight.
The spacecraft was 164 feet (50 meters) tall.
wtf
-# ↩ Alice :neocat_flag_transbian:
@alice @luna @Starcross This is very fishy. The article doesn't mention much of the technical details, it doesn't seem very well written (typos) and the sheer scale of this is a little unbelievable.
It's more likely that someone hacked Forbes, or that someone generated 16 billion bogus credentials and now wants some fame and money.
didn't see lots of noise on mastodon so not sure if report honest or not.
High school seniors in Mississippi will no longer have to pass a U.S. history test to graduate after the State Board of Education voted to eliminate it this fall.
Mary Werner, a former English teacher, was the lone dissenting vote.
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France "interior minister"/home office minister litteraly organized round up of "illegal migrants" in the whole country by sending the police to many train stations and places . police asking locals if they knew of illegla migrants, "interrogating " and identity controling non white people.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/
Still a worry but not as omg panic as forbes one.
As you read CATO's report on how 65% of the people ICE has detained committed no crime, remember that @padilla.senate.gov was asking why Kristi Noem always invoked the same 6 cases when Noem's goons assaulted him.
That's why.
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The London police had 7 cops turn up to arrest an autistic activist in his supported accommodation flat. He had only attended some meeting and handed out flyers- he had no intention of being involved in disruptive protest and says he now suffers from PTSD as a result of police treatment.
This is exactly what Trump plans to do to our national parks, forests, wilderness area.
Trump bulldozes the White House Rose Garden.
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An expert advising Australia's teen social media ban tech trial has resigned.
"I think there’s been some questions raised everywhere about the way that this trial was constructed and the process of it,” Qoria managing director Tim Levy told Crikey.
6–3 will be written on America’s tombstone.
SCOTUS greenlit DHS deportations to third countries—with no notice, no hearing, no protection
Sotomayor: “a gross abuse of… discretion.”
DHS flew migrants to Guantanamo, then El Salvador
Others were dumped in Libya and South Sudan—ignoring direct court orders
The law required notice and a chance to seek protection from torture.
DHS defied it
Now the Court did too.
"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"
Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.
US Embassy Thailand - All who are applying for an F, M or J nonimmigrant visa must adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ for vetting.
th.usembassy.gov/visas/
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Headline: ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
Subtitle: A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
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This announcement is alarming. It is unclear what "a legitimate business need" means or who will make that determination. Are they planning to review the research plans of individual scholars? archives.gov/college-park #NationalArchives #authoritarianism
NEW: "If ICE is holding 59,000 immigrants in civil detention across the country, it would be the highest number on record that I'm aware of," said Austin Kocher, a professor at Syracuse University who studies the U.S. immigration system.
Jeff Bezos is arriving for his wedding in Venice in a mega yacht and his guests are turning up in 95 private jets.
We're here avoiding food waste in our kitchens. 😑
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Indian court rules trans women are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’
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Some good news
Mark Zuckerberg went to Svalbard on his massive superyacht that spews more greenhouse gases in a day than most people do in a year. He got a cold reception.
UPDATE: 2 more impersonators in Houston alone. (One was shot by a man’s wife)
How long are we going to let this madness go on? We should be requiring agents to ID themselves, not legislating to protect masked vigilantes. @MarshaBlackburn
Bezos reserved and paid for every single private space in Venice. Every hotel room. Every dining space. Every single one.
Don’t tell me these motherfuckers can’t pay more in taxes so poor kids can eat and everyone can have health insurance.
The decadence is revolting.
-# Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social)
He did what now
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Democratic Assemblyman #Zohran #Mamdani’s mayoral primary victory in New York City
has prompted an #elite #panic, the likes of which we’ve rarely seen:
Billionaires are desperately seeking a general-election candidate to stop him,
former Barack Obama aides are publicly melting down,
corporate moguls are threatening a capital strike,
and CNBC has become a television forum for nervous breakdowns.
Meanwhile, Democratic elites who’ve spent a decade punching left are suddenly trying to align themselves with and take credit for Mamdani’s brand
(though not necessarily his agenda).
On the surface, this freak-out can seem as if it’s about policy.
Mamdani’s proposals for
free buses,
universal free child care,
faster small-business licensing,
higher taxes on the rich,
some publicly owned grocery stores,
a higher minimum wage,
and rent freezes
are indeed shocking to oligarchs conditioned to getting everything they want.
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Hey, Youtube, wtf?
It labelled a mix starting with a Ukrainian folk song as "Russian pop-music"
Opened it, and pretty much the entire mix is Ukrainian folk songs. Wtf
Michael Moore's Oscar-nominated 2007 film, "SiCKO" on America's healthcare system.
cause it's now avail for free on ytbue
“ProPublica’s reporting revealed these cancelled contracts were delivering essential services … and exposed the cruel and dumb AI formulas DOGE bros used to cancel contracts,” Sen. Blumenthal said. “Veterans and all Americans deserve transparency.”
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#DOGE #Veterans #AI #Health #Government #Technology #Journalism #Transparency
white sup urgh
This Is Not a Drill: Living the Climate Emergency
🌡️ Japan had hottest June on record
🌡️ Spain records highs of 46C
🌡️ Portugal recorded 46°C in some regions
🌡️France recorded 41.9°C in Vinsobres on June 30, with dozens of monthly records broken.
🌡️Greece reported a high of 43.2°C with minimum temperatures exceeding 31°C in some areas.
🌡️Turkey hit 45°C, with minimums as high as 33°C in some areas.
An iPhone app called ICEBlock, which allows anyone to lawfully and anonymously report ICE sightings and get notified about nearby ICE agents, went viral overnight after criticism from the US Attorney General.
FYI: The app doesn't collect or store user data. (I checked by doing a network traffic analysis of the app.)
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The #Trump admin has *declined* to release nearly $7 billion in federal #funding for #schools that helps pay for after-school & summer programs, support for #students learning English, #teacher training & other services.
The money, which was already allocated by #Congress, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump *#Education* Department notified #state education agencies that the money would not be available.
Open letter from #EPA employees says their boss has
has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)."
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We're living in a fever nightmare.
RFK Jr. Says AI Will Approve New Drugs at FDA ‘Very, Very Quickly’
"We need to stop trusting the experts," Kennedy told Tucker Carlson.
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Politico - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegaly deported by the Trump administration, details his mistreatment in a Salvadoran prison, claiming he suffered “severe beatings,” sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers. politico.com/news/2025/07/02/k…
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Louisiana Republicans have passed a new law that effectively eviscerates people's ability to claim their innocence and seek relief once they've been convicted.
A massive blow to the rights of people in prison in a state that's full of wrongful convictions:
Trump pardoned this monster
But a Tennessee jury just sentenced him to life in prison
He had a "kill list" targeting the FBI agents and other officials who helped investigate his role in Jan 6
Plotted to kill them all
He is one of the MAGA thugs who chased Officer Goodman through the Capitol
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A Jan 6 Rioter that was pardoned by #Trump has been rearrested for trying to seek violent revenge against the FBI for his initial jailing.
“An American military veteran was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for plotting to attack an FBI office and assassinate law enforcement officers in retaliation for his arrest on charges that he was part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, court records show.”
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‘Star Wars’ actor Kenneth Colley dead at 87 after contracting COVID, pneumonia.
The 87-year-old British actor was taken to hospital with an arm injury following a fall but soon contracted COVID, which then developed into pneumonia.
Source: archive.md/gZRVo
big fucking yikes re: lead content in vapes. is this going to have the inverse effect of removing lead from gasoline 🙃 ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-…
Tesla confirms Cybertruck sales are down to just ~5,000 units #tesla #ev #musk electrek.co/2025/07/02/tesla-c…
According to the BBC World Service news bulletin the Guadelupe river in Texas rose by 8 meters in 45 minutes. Governor Abbott speaks in biblical terms about this disaster as if it were just bad luck or a random event.
Continued denial is going to give us a lot more of this inexplicable stuff. #climatechange
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why #Tesla’s cars keep crashing - theguardian.com/technology/202… "shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?"
“ELLIS’ EXPERIENCE IS the latest in a rising trend on the conservative internet: right-wing accounts blaming transgender people for a national tragedy or a violent incident, scouring for pictures and unverified clues to falsely connect them as perpetrators of tragedies without any evidence.”
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they been doing that for a while like 4channers and shit going "this school shooter is a radical leftist trans person !" and shit.
tho maybe it became even more widespread
(its all mocking the people who say stuff like the above, the views arent serious)
(except when theres a "/uj" tag)
r/al: Trans people are totally valid! So is my right to say not to them because I have a genital preference. YOU'RE NOT SAYING MY GENITAL PREFERENCE IS INVALID ARE YOU?!
r/agb: If you're trans, you should go find bisexuals. Leave us alone.
r/bisexual: Woohoo! Best of both worlds!
this honestly feels like a pretty accurate description of those three subreddits
Also, not aimed at you, obviously, but speaking to the broader (cis) crowd here:
People can sleep with, or not sleep with, whoever they want, but I do think a lot of cis lesbians should really examine where their genital preference comes from and what underlying beliefs and societal background motivates it.
I can't help but shake the feeling that "genital preference" is too often the end product of starting at "trans women are gross, disgusting, ugly men" and working backwards from there, whether the latter belief is one that the holder would openly endorse or is even fully conscious of. Implicit bias is a hell of a drug.
It's saying "I have a preference for the features of [more dominant social group], of which I am a part, because I have been told that these features are more desirable and moral, and that's completely valid and I won't question it"
And also, "penis means man and I will not disentangle these concepts in my head"
I do not even want to be romantically or sexually involved with cis lesbians.
I am T4T precisely because I don't want to deal with having to coach a cis person into seeing me as a human being, let alone as a woman.
this feels pretty close to my position on "genital preference"
why was i pinged
I quit Twitter two and a half years ago, when the Nazis were still largely organic and free range. Now that X is featuring mass produced AI Nazis, I’m feeling smugly prescient. Thank you, Mastodon, for being here. albertaviews.ca/goodbye-to-twi…
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maga was never "pro-life" they were pro-birth, they dont care about life.
Not relevant, they can talk shit. Point is they talk what make people listen to them and drop points that hard to defy/defend.
Rolling Stone - Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot goes full Nazi, calls itself ‘MechaHitler’ rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…
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i mean they never cared about kids
if they cared so much about masses of cell clumps why not the perpetrators in the Epstein files
oh wait its because its not just Clinton whos in them
Trump regime ICE forces brutally attacked a man who screamed for help at a Walmart in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walmart staff removed the witness filming, the employees were collaborating with ICE in covering up the incident. #3E #StopICE
oh ok wallmart is evil and complicate
L.A. activist indicted for giving face shields to anti-ICE protesters.
Alejandro Orellana, a 29-year-old member of the Boyle Heights-based community organization Centro CSO, faces charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting civil disorder: According...
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GIVING FACE SHIELDS
A guy whose name is "Divy Nayyar" has made an AI white guy called "Josh" who complains he can't get a job because "Indians are taking over the job market" ??? #AI
im seeing drama over ai in another sub 
i wont say which side im on bc i suspect my position on ai (albeit progressive imo) is unpopular here
It varies but scroll #1240743141997281362 Where I post industry news.
I at this point is staunch hater. Was 50/50 but the cost and inclusion in everything made me hater. We will scan your documents for AI, sorry for NDA!
i follow george tekei
yeah i dont care what anyone says any lne who supports this or is complacent should be killed
or at the very least socked in the head
rfk should be killed though.
I keep on thinking about the #Postoffice #Horizon scandal (for those of you not based in UK: About 1,000 post office operators were wrongfully prosecuted and convicted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015, because of faulty Horizon accounting software that suggested they had committed fraud).
It is absolutely terrible how all this unfolded (so much racism in it, too, no doubt) and the devastating impact this had on so many families.
Didn't hear about this
"Canadian #wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to #Canada's ambassador in Washington"
Great!
So you #USA #Republican #GOP are ready to address #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis now
Right?
The letter isn't just a cringe display of profound ignorance about *why* there are #wildfires
Right?
Fucking morons
“The rise of temperature has sent a shiver down our spines. We have never before witnessed such weather here.”
As the death toll from severe flooding continues to climb in Texas, USA — and conspiracy theories spread — Pakistan is grappling with its own climate crisis.
Accelerated glacial melt driven by record-breaking summer temperatures, combined with monsoon rains, has triggered deadly flash floods and landslides across the country.
holy based (cw: mention of murder)
o7 if this gets me banned off discoed
gop denies climate change
gop blames silver iodide for texas floods
gop doesnt look into the 20% reduction in weather balloon launches by the NOAA which is why the data was so innaccurate and skewed
From a predicted 6 inch rainfall flooding to in reality a 21 inch.
instead MTG that pos just goes out and starts raving about weather control bans
silver iodide doesnt even make much of a raindroplet let alone a cloud even in good conditions
what is causing this is the warming ice caps continuously melting
and isreal burning a hole into the stratosphere
and climate change deniers being a bunch kf idiots and when they do accept its real they go "well nothing we can do"
An oil company is teaching courses on energy and the environment to schoolchildren in the Shetland Islands.
shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/09/conc…
I'm posting this in case publicity can help #ArianeBurgess, a Member of the Scottish Parliament, in her fight to stop it.
pro big oil ethics
"it's just a cooling period"
An honor student with no criminal record who followed steps to legally migrate to the United States is now in a detention center. Make America Racist Again.
Happy to share our new (open access) paper "Climate change risks on key open marine and coastal mediterranean ecosystems" rdcu.be/evGGx
This analysis is a significant update of the work done for the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change, MedECC medecc.org/ @jpGattuso
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A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.
#law #HumanRights #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality
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https://mastodon.online/@davidsirota/114837190903567888 @chrome chasm
🚨NEW: How Texas Republicans rejected pleas to fund a flood warning system — while enacting tax cuts for the rich.
Gov. Abbott is now lashing out at those demanding answers.
A deep dive with Houston Chronicle reporters who busted open the story. levernews.com/how-republicans-…
oohh great
btw the whole reason there wasnt one for decades was because ever since the massive flood in the 80s theres been consistent low floods for a decade but they couldnt be bothered to sound the sirens for every minor flooding incident
but with the House 13 bill that was rejectied in favor for tax cuts
that wouldve been a good middleground so no more boy-cried-wolf at every minor flooding with the use of sirens
unfortunately gop voted for tax cuts
Yours truly's newest article. On gendered disinformation by the manosphere in India. It covers various angles of the disinfo and networked discourse: social, political and religious and how they intermingle. And suggests some solutions. This is no longer a niche issue. It's pervasive and dangerous. Plenty of research (academic and practitioner works) cited in my article.
genderit.org/feminist-talk/cha…
#gender #disinformation #GenderedDisinformation #manosphere #OGBV #TFGBV #incels #currycels
We should kill law enforcement on principal
(AP) - Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain. apnews.com/article/texas-flood…
China has blown up 300 dams and decommissioned more than 300 hydropower stations to try to save upper Yangtse River ecology. It is the largest river restoration ever attempted.
#China
#riverrestoration
#yangtze
#environment
Kristi Noem didn't renew the expired call center contracts for five days, resulting in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) failing to answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line from flood survivors in Texas. It's malevolence mixed with incompetence over and over again.
https://mastodon.art/@kristinagehrmann/114845205508814481 https://www.hireillo.com/blog/artist-email-scams-revisited/
Scams targeting artists are getting more elaborate. This is a new one I didn't know yet. Scammers are now using AI to write initial emails that look more legit than in the past: hireillo.com/blog/artist-email…
Getting into the nitty-gritty of this scam, once you’ve agreed on the job you send the fake client your bank details so they can pay you the deposit. A fake bank website then sends you an email to open a live chat window on their website. They inform you that you must make a refundable deposit to release the fake client’s job deposit to your account. That’s the con!
Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change report on NASA website as promised #ClimateCrisis
#ICE declares millions of undocumented #immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #Trump #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #autocracy
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The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight
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There is help. Don't let these haters bother you. You're stronger. And we're here with you. It gets better.
"Trump closes LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline – here’s where to get help" - thepinknews.com/2025/07/16/as-…
Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people?
Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes.
Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE.
That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.
It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.
Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx til support for interracial marriage in the us only cracked 50% in 1997
In Glasgow 64 year old Sean Clerkin has been charged under the Terrorism Act for holding a placard reading "Genocide in Palestine, Time to Take Action".
He's effectively banned from the city centre until his court date.
UK courts are slowly filling with groups of these elderly, peaceful "terrorists", making a mockery of the law.
The family of a green card holder “was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say.”
When this is all over—and I have to believe it will be over one day—there need to be trials.
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
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#news #science #health #medicine #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult
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This seems enormously significant, and I hope it actually is.
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when they gonna reinstate jim-crow laws
they already do it in the west with palestinian lives, "jews who feel oppressed" feel threatened of bakeries making food aid for starving kids
take that attitude and bring it for anyone of a brown complexion in america
Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue
Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?
The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
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https://x.com/WhatDaFaaaaak found the most evil straight woman on twitter
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over. Meanwhile people are shoving a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because a glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems.
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Stop it. Stop trying to visit America. I am an American living in one of the most virulent MAGA states, and I am begging you to cancel any and all plans to visit the US. There is nothing, and I mean absolutely NOTHING in this country worth your safety or your life. This is not the America you remember. It is a Nazi zombie running on hate and cruelty and you are risking your life to give it even more money.
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They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants
to concentration camps,
and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses
to concentration camps.
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#EO #executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless #mentalHealth #ICE #concentrationCamps
https://archive.ph/YHIJ4 cis people talking over trans people, exhibit 99999
indeed...
Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters
Temperatures are up to 12 degrees Celsius higher than seasonal averages, Turkey's meteorological service said earlier this week.
Hospitals have reported a surge in cases of dehydration, heatstroke and foodborne illnesses, according to Turkish newspaper .
Turkey also battles disastrous wildfires
[it’s actually cold & rainy the last couple weeks in #Berlin]
Trump’s policies are shifting international STEM students away from US universities. International student interest in U.S. bachelor’s engineering degrees dropped by 41 percent between January and May.
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Missionaries have been secretly and illegally placing small devices on the lands of isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon in an attempt to convert them to their faith
The 'In Touch' devices - made by a Baptist group in Atlanta, Georgia USA - play out passages of the Bible. Weatherproof and fitted with solar panel, they run indefinitely.
The devices have been found scattered throughout the Javari region, near Brazil's border with Peru.
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ICE is lying it's ass off bringing false accusations against protestors. It's not "embarrassing", it's fucking fascism.
"Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims
Revealed: records show border patrol gave inaccurate testimony about people it jailed. Prosecutors now face ‘embarrassing’ dismissals"
fuck these people, leave indigenous people and lands...
A 16 year old developed sepsis and severe hypoxia yet was left for over 8 hours in an ER waiting room.
He suffered cardiac arrest and died.
This hits far too close to home. I almost bled out in an ER waiting room in Ontario, and only survived because my then bf got loud and “demanded” I be seen
-# Ontario family sues hospital and staff over son’s death | Globalnews.ca
In early February 2024, a migraine kept Finlay van der Werken home from school. His condition got worse, and his mother took him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
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When you have to defend your own actions in public from people who complain that you saved a child’s life, it’s proof that your society is fundamentally sick.
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This NYT quote about “AI” in 80s Pac-Man is comically bad.
But rather than dwelling on that, the way the ghosts work to make it feel like they were “thinking” is a really cool example of the exact opposite. It's a series of really simple deterministic rules:
web.archive.org/web/2019110702…
Take a few things happening in parallel in a highly specified way, throw in a little randomness (no more complicated than rolling dice), and we start assigning agency to the ghosts in the game.
This happens because 1) our brains love to anthropomorphize, and 2) we don't perceive the rules immediately.
And that's today's AI in a nutshell… More simple rules, more rolling dice—just massively scaled up!
Now you can do 10,000x more in the same time, so the result is again indistinguishable from magic, and we trick ourselves into assigning agency and even “intelligence” to the outputs.
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So #reddit now require #ageverification and your birthdate for watching #aljazeera
Google drive deleting random docs on the mere suspicion of containing bad words is predictable but still pretty fucking crazy.
i wanna see the wars these people will fight over once enough of them start believing in a different god to the main one in the amazon😂
god imagine instead of breaking national laws to teach medicine or something
You break it to...
throw bibles
america is rotten, white boy with q fucked up hair and nose is from Kentucky the brown man is from Philadelphia.
his facebook posts and shares are just more lf the same
A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.
This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1. We wrote about those earthquakes, wondering: should they be considered warnings of elevated risk? We didn't have a good answer then, and we still don't.
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INTERVIEW: Japanese schools are supposed to make "all reasonable accommodations" for disabled students. We talked at length with one student, however, who said her request for exam accommodations was met with disdain, resulting in a protracted battle.
-# Disabled Japanese Student's iPad Exam Request Leads to Long Battle - Unseen Japan
In Japan, schools are supposed to make all reasonable accommodations for disabled students. One student says it wasn't so easy.
OMG THE 51ST STREET SHOOTER KILLED BLACKSTONE’s CEO OF REIT?!?!?
Blackstone are backed by the Saudis and one of their missions is to make it impossible for Americans to own a home. with the Saudi money they’ve been buying up whole communities and towns. one of their CEOs is the guy pushing the neofeudalism of “nobody will own anything” but the capitalists.
no wonder the shooter was very specific.
another #CEO bites the dust.
Luigi Mangionied, even.
The war on uterus owners is in full swing, with abortion bans and forced birth policies causing a significant increase in maternal and infant mortality.
A woman in Tennessee was denied pre natal care for being unwed.
The Trump regime just announced it would incinerate $10 million in oral contraceptives rather than provide them to those in need, and Republicans are trying to pass a law banning women from flushing their miscarriages.
A woman in South Carolina was recently arrested for a miscarriage because she placed the fetal remains in the garbage. The hospital called child protective services on her.
My latest talks about my own battle with bodily autonomy and why I think things have become more worse:
disabledginger.com/p/what-my-h…
#abortion #roevwade #misogyny #uspol #fascism #bodilyautonomy #MyBodyMyChoice #disability #ableism #discrimination
the fact hospitals are even complying with it to this extent calling the authorities on an improperly disposed miscarriage.
are civil responsibility and ethics dead
@hidden ether hey so america is openly trying to kill women now
you just know a majority of those maternal and infant deaths are from teen pregnancies
honestly anyone insane enough to equate abortion with the Holocaust should just be beaten into a coma.
also Luigi did it, another executive of a monopolizef asset conglomerate was executed
he inspired more
its working
it helps that every photo they take of him in prison just makes him hotter
So ICE raided a construction site in our neighborhood and two of the workers tried to get away. They got in their truck, hit one of the ICE vehicles and drove off. The ICE officers *opened fire* on them. They abandoned their vehicle in the neighborhood to try to escape on foot. So now we’re all ordered to “shelter in place” and “stay away from windows” so the swarming gestapo can shoot up the place with a free hand.
How’s your day going?
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🇷🇺 Some were fleeing "wokeness". Others said they were sick of racism. Dozens of Aussies have even applied.
But for Westerners seeking a better life in #Russia, things can backfire — badly.
"A 2023 study found that a single Chat GPT-3 request processed at an Arizona data center uses about 30 milliliters of water, compared to 12 ml per request in Wyoming. That doesn’t seem like much (it’s less than a shot-glass) until you consider that there are at least 1 billion ChatGPT queries worldwide per day and growing, using a total of some 8 million gallons of water daily, worldwide."
One way rich people get that way is to stiff their creditors. Trump has done it for decades. In this report, CNN shows how Musk has adopted that tactic.
Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells
In laboratory studies, the active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two types of breast cancer cells that are particularly difficult to treat. Crucially, the toxin left healthy cells unharmed.
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Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral drugs
The first widespread success in curing HIV may come from children, not adults.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/08…
"World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990"
"It is therefore very surprising that, 25 years later, there is a misguided effort to bring this test back."
- Professor Andrew Sinclair
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I analyzed more than 100 extremist manifestos: Misogyny was the common thread. “Misogyny now acts as a ‘gateway drug’ to broader extremist ideologies. This is particularly true in digital spaces where hate and grievance are cultivated algorithmically.” theconversation.com/i-analyzed…
I had the Blueberry talk with GPT5. kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/…
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After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Literal "hallucinations" were the result.
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recent destructive flooding roundup:
China, Japan, India, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico
this happens so often now, in so many places - torrential rain dumping huge amounts of water, it is clear that #climateChange isnt filling up the seas like a bathtub. it's the violent displacement of massive amounts of water
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OMG this is real.
This simulation is wild.
"Trump Burger Restaurant Owner Is Now Facing Deportation
Roland Beainy, a Lebanese immigrant and owner of several Trump Burger restaurants, is facing a hearing later this year after being accused of immigration fraud and overstaying his visa"
This is just nuts. A person showed up with bromism, a condition that was probably last seen in the early 80s, because a chatbot suggested bromide salt as an alternative to table salt.
Deskilling of GI docs using AI was also reported this week. What the heck are we even doing?
NEW RESEARCH: Parked cars can account for 10 percent of the surface areas of some cities. It turns out that their albedo (reflectivity) can significantly contribute to the urban heat island effect.
Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road.
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Trump wants to replace PBS with PragerU, a far-right organization that’s not actually a university.
In one of their children’s cartoons, Columbus refers to slavery as “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”
Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents
SpaceX urges Trump admin to reject Virginia's broadband grant proposal.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Man accused of throwing sandwich at US border agent charged with assault.
Assault with a deadly sandwich? Good grief.
#news
A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now
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A judge has freed Sean Dunn—who threw a sandwich at an ICE fascist—ruling that a felony charge is excessive.
To be clear, MAGA snowflakes celebrated Trump for pardoning Nazis who physically beat cops to death with pipes, but tried to charge a man armed with a sandwich with a felony.🤔 Incredible.
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Sandwich guy is free
yey
what the hell is this social platform I've never heard of it
Mastodon is part of Fediverse. So here short video explain before I start talking about terminology.
https://youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nno?si=Yt8yrY9_ZHncaUic&ref=news.elenarossini.com
The Fediverse explained in 4 minutes: watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.
This video was initially released on PeerTube on Tue June 10th. For more info: https://news.elenarossini.com/
Cinematography by: @samaaberg6107 and @patelriyen (IG: windycityfi...
already found three transphobes being frequently upvoted and respected in a supposedly pro-trans subreddit
# Ensure users accessing pornography sites using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are still subject to highly effective age assurance
This could be achieved by amending the Online Safety Act to bring in an additional provision which would require VPN providers in the UK to put in place Highly Effective Age Assurance to screen underage users and prevent them from accessing pornographic sites
And so it begins. (Page 38)
You must be fucking kidding me
"Two people fighting the Bear Gulch fire on the Olympic Peninsula were arrested by federal law enforcement Wednesday, in a confrontation described by firefighters and depicted in photos and video.
Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state."
What the actual F.
"The travel trend involves flying out first thing in the morning and exploring a new place for several hours before flying home in the evening on the same day."
The CO2 these "day trips" will last in the atmosphere for 300 to 1,000 years!
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical tra...
Worth a read but TLDR Person followed UK laws>transitioned with all the government( and some humiliation in medical physical/mental checks)> UK government denied both his marriage pre and post transition and person documents pre change amd after change are both in force aka man-woman .
@tawdry oxide it's sad thing to read.
unsuprising.... yeh..................
these garbage persons wishing for it they all have blood on their hands (including starmer and his gov and shit and all)
Only 62% come on Canada we can do better than that, it's a simple choice, say no to American Spirits!
Company behind Jack Daniel's s...
cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia…
#boycottusa #Canada #Denmark #Mexico #Panama #Greenland #theCommonwealth #NATO #Europeanunion #Gaza #Ukraine #Palestine #Yemen
A Florida court detained a US Citizen of Latino ethnicity for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed he's a Citizen—but held him in jail anyway. As a human rights lawyer, I criticized the ruling online as unjust.
For my online critique, a Florida Chief judge filed a formal bar complaint to try to strip me of my law license. I've had to spend nearly $10,000 in fees to fight back: qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-ch…
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Over 850 COVID-19 cases reported in Moldova in past week
Specialists recommend that citizens observe simple yet effective measures: maintaining social distance, avoiding crowded places, observing hand hygiene and respiratory hygiene...
yeh it's surging everywhere
uk, france, germany, moldova, the us and more
wish they did mention masking
hopefuly govt will do something like issue a booster campaign, info campaign about masking etc (somehow, some us states have been doign this)
Madness.
Stay out of Florida.
“Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say”
So it's apparent to most that the statements and decisions coming out of the #US Govt are stupid
But how stupid is the #USA exactly?
Pretty fucking stupid:
GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites
One scientist says it's like buying a car and running it into a tree to save on gas money.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/…
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why is it so popular nowadays to infantilize young adults nowadays?
A month ago, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is responsible for reporting US job statistics.
Trump believed her numbers where “phony”, because they showed a labor market suffering under Trump’s disastrous presidency.
Trump then hired his loyalist E.J. Antoni — a white MAGA dude — and now he has reported the August job numbers… Which are much worse.
Reporters should ask Trump, when Antoni will be fired.
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So if anyone thought it was just a joke, the official White House account reposted Trump’s message about Chicago.
#chicago #trump #whitehouse
There is a long tradition of breaking specific laws to show that the Rule of Law (in its normative sense) is being compromised by non-sensical laws - such civil disobedience has a well-established pedigree.
As arrests of those breaking the proscription of Palestine Action, by holding placards silently, exceeds a thousand, I think we can safely say Labour is now confronting mass civil disobedience; if they know their history they'll know they are likely on the wrong side of this!
More hero cops in London this afternoon, bravely putting their lives on the line by arresting a 68-year-old woman for terrorism.
This wicked criminal had been wearing a t-shirt supporting #PalestineAction whilst telling a reporter that her father was a holocaust survivior. But the boys in blue bravely put a stop to the deadly t-shirt-wearing. (#DefendOurJuries)
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DragonCon, a prominent science fiction convention, ejected an artist for peddling AI output and lying about it.. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/03/dra…
Something clicked for me yesterday. I read about #RFKJr 's latest claim that #Tylenol causes #autism when used during #pregnancy , and I thought:
"Hey, I have read something very similar in a German #folklore text!"
And here you have it:
"If a mother uses a spell in order to ease her birth, then the Evil Enemy tries to lure these children in particular. Thanks to this magical influence, such children - if female - are born with the drive to trude. But male children are driven to theft (the 'Bilwez Cut!')."
"Truding" in this context means becoming a "night hag"-type spirit while sleeping who torments and squeezes other spirits (the "sleep paralysis" phenomenon) while the "Bilwez Cut" is the ability to magically cut down the ripe grain fields of others and steal the grain without spotting you. You can read the entire text at the link - though beware, it's full of ableist nonsense.
But now I am intrigued - both in JFKJr's modern claims (and presumably his fellow c…
How did I miss last year’s most gonzo biotech story?
Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 81, illegally imported body parts of Marco Polo argali sheep, the world's largest, from Kyrgyzstan, and sent the genetic material to a lab to create cloned embryos, court documents say.
Climate science has been pretty darn good for a long time,
"We were quite amazed how good those early projections were, especially when you think about how crude the models were back then, compared to what is available now," Törnqvist said. "For anyone who questions the role of humans in changing our climate, here is some of the best proof that we have understood for decades what is really happening, and that we can make credible projections."
A reminder that stories about people booing Trump at the US Open must not be published because it makes him feel sad.
This story about all the people booing Trump must not be disseminated!
"While some cheers were heard, the overwhelming reaction to Trump's fist pumps and waves were jeers and boos from tennis fans."
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#ubuntu is still ignoring us, the word queer or the phrase "I am queer" is still forbidden.
A handful of users on mastodon shared this post already:
blahaj.zone/notes/aca8zuhiducu…
i want to quote GNOME here:
We can’t afford to stay silent in times when history is literally being erased, and fundamental human rights are being revoked. Silence is complicity. We will not falter at this attempt to divide queer communities. We also encourage everyone to be as outspoken as they can be.
Never forget: We are stronger together.
In light of these circumstances it is especially encouraging to see the community of queer contributors growing steadily. We are here and we are not going anywhere - the GNOME community is and will always stand with queer people. We’ve got your back.
this quote from @gnome thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
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Image #1: photo of an ICE agent wearing a skull mask.
Image #2 (link below): 2021 article from the West Point Combating Terrorism Center, explaining how that mask is an established symbol of a white nationalist/fascist terrorist group.
They're not even trying to hide it now. ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-mar…
ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-mar…
^ @adamgreenfield
A decades-long peace vigil outside the White House is dismantled after Trump’s order. The vigil was launched by activist William Thomas as an anti-nuclear weapons protest outside the White House in Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. on June 3, 1981
Law enforcement officials on Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down
Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told The Associated Press that the Park Police removed it early Sunday morning. He said officials justified the removal by mislabeling the memorial as a shelter. #USPol
Australian Border Force have stopped $11.4 million worth of methamphetamines entering Australia from the U.S.
"The 62-year-old was stopped by Australian Border Force (ABF) officers when touching down at Brisbane Airport on a flight from Los Angeles on September 5."
Gee America, looks like you have a big drugs problem, I guess we'll have to put sanctions and tariffs on you..
https://www.reddit.com/r/actuallesbians/comments/1nb7r43/why_does_the_subs_description_say_straight/ looks like reddit is complying with trump's agenda to eradicate trans people
I'll point out -- because news media are PHENOMENALLY bad at mentioning this -- that recessions can only be declared retroactively BY DEFINITION. Meaning that when one is officially declared, you've already been in it for at least six months.
I'd bet we're already in one right now.
So over on Bluesky I attempted to engage with the ICEBlock account about the criticisms they have received from infosec professionals. I decided to start from the assumption they're receiving harsh criticism from many directions, and so perhaps misinterpreted the biting "tone" often seen in infosec as a sign of bad faith. I tried to see if I could have better luck approaching them if I tried a conciliatory tone.
I did not succeed.
Wow these studies keep finding that so called "AI" doesn't increase productivity but does increase number of errors I wonder when anyone will pay attention to them
*glances over at giant pile of ignored covid research showing it's highly dangerous but could be mitigated with clean air infrastructure, decreasing sick days and increasing productivity*
Ah well. Nevertheless
The UK Online Safety Act is ballooning in scope.
Bumping up 'self-harm' content as a priority offence means these sort of posts will be stripped from social media for adults and kids.
ORG's @JamesBaker explains how this change to the law will result in therapeutic or support content being censored.
Watch now ➡️ peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w…
#OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #onlinesafety #freespeech #freedomofexpression #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
"Denmark aims to eradicate cervical cancer by 2040 thanks to a national HPV vaccination campaign and screening programme, the Danish Cancer Society said on Monday."
"Neighbouring Sweden could however beat Denmark to the post: it aims to eradicate cervical cancer by 2027, according to the Regional Cancer Centres in Sweden."
Vaccines work.
This is amazing news.
Scotland has also been reporting great news on this front.
A new report from TransActual demonstrates not only the emotional toll, but the degree to which trans people are having to reshape and limit their lives to avoid the new dangers posed to us in the UK.
Read the report at: tinyurl.com/community-living-i…
Things are tough right now. If you're struggling, seek support. Go to transactual.org.uk/wellbeing for self-care resources and details of support services.
#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
https://www.reddit.com/r/truths/comments/1nef78p/this_user_misgendered_me/ rando misgendered me today
Have you ever heard a Shahed drone?
Here's the sound millions of Ukrainians hear every day & night: the moped-like buzz growing louder, circling above, the terrifying wait before final explosion. Families hide in corridors, bathrooms, shelters, holding their breath.
Ukraine’s Harmoniia Orchestra has turned this into music, creating an overture that imitates a Russian Shahed drone attack. It captures the fear, buzzing & bursts of explosions as air defense shoots it down.
🎥 Harmoniia Orchestra
US scientists fight back!
The NOAA is being restored independently.
People who have never mentioned Charlie Kirk are being wrongfully targeted online and doxxed. @taylorlorenz reports on two such cases. Ali Nasrati discovered, after receiving a barrage of abuse and death threats and being suspended from work, that an X account started in May was using his name and a photo stolen from his social media. Cynthia Rehberg, a school principal in Wisconsin, was misidentified by a conservative influencer from a Facebook post, after which her district received 800 voicemails calling for her firing. "Over 200,000 people think that I'm somebody that I'm not," Nastrati told Lorenz, referring to the amount of views one of the X posts attacking him received. "I don't know if anybody's following me. I don't feel safe going into public areas. I don't know who's there. I don't know who is going to be able to recognize me or not, or who might do something. I'm constantly looking behind my back."
Boeing faces $3.1M fine for door plug blowout, hundreds of safety violations
FAA found factory violations, says Boeing sought approval for unairworthy planes.
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NEW YORK—Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrate. “We’ve had a few guys in there posing as members and trying to manipulate them into committing acts of violence we can arrest them for, bu...
V guardian:
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
CNN's media critic, Brian Stelter, says Disney's CEO is in a "no-win" situation because he has to choose between Trump and his company's reputation.
Think about that -- the notion that choosing integrity means losing. Think about what it says about American media in these grotesque times.
Making the honorable choice might mean losing some money. But having history remember you as a quisling to fascists and a traitor to human rights? That's a vastly greater defeat.
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https://www.rheinmetall.com/Rheinmetall Group/brochure-download/Vehicle-Systems/D1188e0...
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
-# Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."
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I was working for a class I'm giving, looking up types of occupations in railway companies, when I stumbled upon this Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(ca…
Tama was a female calico cat who gained fame for being a railway station master and operating officer in Wakayama.
Fun, I thought.
Cute, I thought.
Then I read "As a result of her promotion, she was "the only female in a managerial position" in the company" and now I'm in a bad mood again.
My study of old #folklore gets more and more relevant to current-day affairs.
Example: All of these narratives about "Things That Cause #Autism " are basically recycled folk tales about #changelings .
Right now, we are at the: "The child is WRONG somehow - the mother must have been careless!" stage.
And it's only a very small step to: "My child is WRONG somehow! Thus, I must abuse it until I get my REAL child back - the one I always wanted!"
The context changes, but the underlying narratives stay the same.
This would've been hilarious if people like this weren't influencing world politics
https://archive.ph/6C1yA for the full article
Starmer to introduce digital ID cards. You just know it’ll be used to out trans people as well as the stated purpose of harassing anyone who doesn’t look white enough. Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme bbc.com/news/articles/c4g54g6v…
DOGE so efficient that no one knows who does what and who is in office!
Also armed security to protect (elite) from other workers for like having been cursed!?
Also office rooms made into sleeping rooms. The usual.
ICE brutality around the country highlights the importance of #IndivisibleSantaFe #NewMexico signs to help businesses assert their privacy rights when ICE shows up. thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents-…
We are hoping #indivisible groups from around the state will download the printable materials and distribute them in their communities. Materials and info at indivisiblesantafe.org/follow-…
ℹ️ Note: Network data show US internet provider Spectrum (AS11427) has experienced widespread outages in various parts of Texas including Dallas; the operator attributes the incident to fiber optic cable damage from a stray bullet 📉 #SpectrumOutage
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo rages, with 61% death rate & funding running dry
“In the past, the US Agency for International Development, USAID, has provided critical support to respond to such outbreaks. But, with funding cuts and a dismantling of the agency.. health officials fear it will be difficult to compensate for the loss.”
We are 60.000 people in front of the Brandenburg gate in Germany right now protesting for the freedom of Palestine, the end of Israeli occupation, ending the genocide and especially German complicity in it! Something like this would've been unthinkable, only a short time ago.
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On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.
https://apnews.com/article/kash-patel-guns-new-zealand-fbi-d5747377f957d61645d47324bfa...
Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'
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Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years. “All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees…” prisonjournalismproject.org/20…
According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans and striking a huge new deal with China. That diminished the price of U.S. soybeans and weakened U.S. trade leverage with China, which immediately pulled out of its existing arrangements with soybean farmers in America’s heartland. finance.yahoo.com/news/leaked-…
Look at this massive parking lot in China, all covered in solar and equipped with EV chargers. Utterly dwarfing anything like it in the US or Europe, AFAIK. english.news.cn/20250918/85aad…
A federal judge grants the New York Times’ request for a list of security clearances held by billionaire Elon Musk. storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
https://www.reddit.com/r/The10thDentist/s/kVtvkg2JfY transphobe, mass report
https://www.reddit.com/r/lesbiangang/comments/1i9gwve/comment/m92odye/ report every comment in this thread for transphobia
https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brain-myth-25-development next time you see somebody spreading the "brain matures at 25" myth, send them this
⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show that operator Vodafone UK is experiencing a national outage with broadband and mobile data impacted, corroborating widespread user complaints 📉 #VodafoneDown
I loved this parody flier for Trump-Epstein childcare services spotted at a #NoKings rally today so much that I made a copy of it for your use.
America needs your help to spread the word on telephone poles and bulletin boards everywhere!
Bonus: The phone number is for Trump Chicago hotel
This will be a super-effective meme you can use anywhere.
Love the crowd size contrast. When you spend $61 million on your own birthday military parade vs when a day is dedicated solely to tell you what a dick you are. 😂 #NoKings
I've gotten lots of notes from people today about 2 potential space debris falls.
One looks like a Chinese rocket stage that fell on Australia (nitter.net/RaviHJagtiani/statu… and satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2025/007…)
And one is a suspiciously high altitude aircraft windshield strike over Colorado universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/11….
We just keep rolling the dice with reentries, and at some point a lot of people are going to die from it. nature.com/articles/s41598-024…
This is dumb.
"Hey, let's do something that Doctorow @pluralistic will struggle to make up a term for..."
Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
h/t @L1vY
Three mosquitoes have been found in West Iceland, the first confirmed discovery of mosquitoes on Icelandic soil, according to the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. As reported by RÚV, the insects were identified earlier this month by Björn Hjaltason, who reported the find in the Facebook group Insects in Iceland. “At dusk on October 16...
LOL. Women warriors, gay penguins..."heteronormative lens," sexist lens...it all comes out eventually. :)
"Reports on the homosexual behaviour of penguins in Antarctica were hidden for over 100 years"
"But due to the longstanding tendency to interpret animal behaviour through a heteronormative lens, researchers have often failed to acknowledge the full spectrum of sexual and social diversity in the natural world. They've even buried reports that reveal it. "
https://www.reddit.com/r/lesbiangang/comments/1ogbute/disappointment_again/ so called "ally of trans people" posts in terf subreddit
@jade dew saw this one you can relate https://meow.social/@drmaddkap/115429747006063459
Occasionally, a student asks me why being transgender is not considered a mental disorder. I can give you the scientific and diagnostic reasons why not. But I’ll usually answer the following way instead.
Because people who are transgender have shit figured out a hell of a lot better than most other people.
Think about that for a minute. Individuals who are transgender have gone through the long and painful process of self exploration to figure out why they don’t feel right. And after all of that, they came to the conclusion that their biological body is mismatched to who they really are.
Tell me anyone else that has gone through that much introspection that much study that much thought to figure out how they can live in a way that makes them happy. And they recognized that by making the choice that will make them feel happy, they’re gonna have to deal with social stigma, bigotry, and violence every single day.
Compare that to your garden variety bigot who gets angry…
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i love love love them
i used to listen to them often while cooking
i absolutely can relate
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines can trigger the immune system to recognize and kill cancer, research finds
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The Alberta #UCP has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to shield themselves from legal consequences.
A summary of the act:
Here are the 20 key takeaways from Alberta’s 2025 Back to School Act (Bill 2) — the highlights that matter most for understanding what this law does:
• Ends the Alberta teachers’ strike that began Oct 6, 2025, and the lockout by TEBA that began Oct 9, 2025.
• Forces all teachers back to work immediately — strike must end at once.
• Forces TEBA and school boards to end any lockout immediately.
-# ↩ David Mitchell :CApride:
• Makes it illegal to strike or lock out at all going forward for the duration of the Act.
• Imposes a mandatory collective agreement — teachers do not get to vote on ratification.
• The agreement is retroactive to Sept 1, 2024 and will run until Aug 31, 2028.
• The terms are taken from the recommended bargaining proposal signed Sept 23, 2025.
• The Act applies to all Alberta teachers, school boards, the ATA, and TEBA.
• The Act overrides the Canadian Charter (sections 2 & 7–15), the Alberta Bill of Rights, and the AB Human Rights Act via notwithstanding clause.
• It explicitly blocks any court or tribunal from challenging its constitutionality. Judges and arbitrators are not allowed to even look at it.
• Anyone violating the strike/lockout ban faces fines up to $500 (individuals) or $500,000 (organizations\…
-# ↩ David Mitchell :CApride:
• No one can sue the government or seek damages of any kind for anything done under this Act — past, present or future.
• Teachers’ salary grids will get 3% increases in 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027
• Substitute teachers’ daily rate rises to $271/day Sept 1 2025, then increases further in later years.
• 1000 new teachers per year will be hired province-wide in 2025–26, 2026–27, and 2027–28 to address classroom complexity.
• Northern & remote allowances are created — up to $6,300 per year depending on school location.
• Government also commits to hiring 1500 new Educational Assistants by Aug 31 2028.
• Teachers retain access to COVID-19 vaccinations at no cost, facilitated by the government.
• The entire Act automatically repeals on Aug 31 2028, unless ended earlier by the government
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This is vile
Oh look, another rich, white billionaire saying #climatechange isn’t so bad
cnn.com/2025/10/28/business/bi…
What does Microsoft need from the US Government, Bill? I know you’re not CEO any more, but this reeks of the same fucked up bullshittery we saw Tim Apple do at the White House.
OH, and congratulations on the shitty timing. You know, just as #Jamaica faces the largest storm in its history….
And look, the crux of what he’s saying is “ tackle hunger, and disease” but if you don’t tackle climate change as well, those other things will get WORSE. This isn't an 'either, or' situation.
We have to tackle anthropogenic climate change. We have to tackle hunger. And we have to tackle disease. We can't do just one. We have to do all of them, and that means... changing how we deal with world wealth.
Tax the rich. Build a society where all have a chance to thrive… not just a few.
Love his energy. He said 'there is nothing I want there.'
The US is becoming a stinky fart cloud.
US revokes visa for Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka share.google/eInzXzNn7awKeHLl9
A permanent basic income for artists? Could this be a scheme to counter the massive AI attack on art?
Good news, hard times.
New South Korea law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms.
Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots.
And It Will Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies. But, unlike similar laws elsewhere, the new law doesn’t just apply to new construction – existing lots will have to comply.
Yay.
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show that messaging app Telegram has been restricted in #Kenya as KCSE school exams are held, following an established pattern of internet censorship measures intended to limit cheating on exam days
So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.
If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"
They never say more. They delete their comment instead.
My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.
Because they're cowards.
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This sounds really innocuous, but Teen Vogue just axed their whole politics desk — everybody working on it has been laid off. This is devastating: it was a publication with a lot of reach and it was consistent in how it spoke out against this administration.
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“Trial starts for assault case against DC man who tossed sandwich at federal agent on viral video”
“The defendant is being prosecuted for the obvious reason that he was recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range,” they wrote.
“point-blank range”
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!??!?!?
am just columbusing that #ZohranMamdani is the son of Mira Nair.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Nair
HOW WAS I NOT TOLD ABOUT THIS?!?!??!?!?
🗣 MIRA NAIR IS ONE OF MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL #GENX #FEMINIST MOVIES & #DOCUMENTARY DIRECTORS YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT
India Cabaret, Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala are masterpieces.
go read about Zohran’s momma and watch her #movies. this explains A LOT!
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Wanna know something extremely creepy?
A friend of mine was recently traveling in europe.
She got back to the US this week, and sees a LinkedIn invite from someone who she doesn’t know (not unusual) but lives in the area she just visited (more unusual).
Further investigation revealed it was the border control guy who checked her passport at the airport.
NO. NO NO NO. Not at all. Do not.
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Federal agents in Illinois used tear gas, pepper balls & excessive force against protesters—including near a children's Halloween parade. Bellingcat verified 28 incidents appearing to violate a court order restricting crowd control tactics during immigration raids.
can i ask for everyone's help here in mass reporting a transphobic comment on reddit (if you have an account)? https://www.reddit.com/r/lesbiangang/comments/1mr1lrj/comment/n92mfq0/
"The Japanese government and some of the nation's top manufacturers have warned Vietnam that a planned ban on petrol-powered motorbikes in Hanoi could spark job losses and disrupt a $4.6 billion market that is dominated by Honda.
Honda controls 80% of the two-wheeler market in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, sales of electric motorbikes and e-bikes made by Vietnamese firm VinFast rose 55% to nearly 70,000 in the second quarter of 2025 from the first quarter."
'San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder spoke out publicly, saying: ‘Waymo thinks they can just sweep this under the rug and we will all forget, but here in the Mission, we will never forget our sweet KitKat.’ #caturday
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⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in the northern #Philippines corresponding to the approach of Super Typhoon Fung-wong's landfall in Luzon; the new incident comes only days after Typhoon Kalmaegi knocks out power and telecom lines #UwanPH
My heart is so heavy … I lost a friend and mentor yesterday and the disability community lost a leader.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice. She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
To be visible in a world that seeks to make us invisible.
To be unapologetic about the ways I am different and the things I need to move through this world.
To be a voice for those who don’t have one and to always fight against ableism and eugenics.
I can’t believe she’s gone.
The Disabled Ginger wouldn’t exist without her, and I hope that I can honour her memory through my writing.
Hug your loved ones close.
Remember none of us are guaranteed a tomorrow and may we all be as visible, proud and fierce as Alice was.…
Orlando Sentinel: Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
"...Paul John Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp a year after World War II ended. His family legally emigrated to the United States in 1952 when he was five.
More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce...."
If you haven’t seen the PSA from Epstein’s human trafficking victims, it’s an absolute gut punch. If you’re someone who has experienced SA, you may not wish to. It can be triggering.
Speaking of "Broken by design", let's talk about BMW.
Maybe 20 years ago, a mechanic friend of mine was outraged to learn that one of his customers' brand-new 3-series was upgradable. You buy a 318 and convert it to a 320, or something. Very cool. But the way it worked was the mechanics would replace some of the bodywork trim, replace the badge on the back, and then replace some of the engine-control software.
See, the cheap slow car and the expensive powerful car were the exact same car. Same big engine, same structure, but the cheap one was artificially detuned to be slower and worse and given slightly uglier mouldings.
This offended his engineering instincts. "I don't understand why you would go to university, get a mechanical engineering degree, design something and then sell it with the handbrake welded on and then charge people more money to remove it." And while I understand the business and marketing logic, I too am offended by the thought of actually making a p…
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/
Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.
Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:...
#1240743141997281362 Type of post.
I myself put here something not #1240688320200179774 but still bad enough for #1240826667535175741
“Aggressive tactics by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents drew the ire of Rhode Island’s governor and state Supreme Court chief justice this week when a high school intern was detained and questioned before being released.
The incident, captured on video, showed ICE agents detaining the teen, who is taking part in an internship experience at Rhode Island Superior Court, as he was being driven to school by a judge.”
Well look at that, the only good idea the little nazi fucks have ever had.
rawstory.com/doge-employees/
alright, thanks, didn't know about that one
RHODE ISLAND???? 
Want to know what climate change will look like?
The drought in Tehran has gotten so bad that people are seriously talking about evacuating the city!
"Tehran — the richest city of Iran, the most politically powerful city with more than 15 million in the metropolitan — is facing day zero in a few days or a few weeks," said Kaveh Madani, director of the United Nations University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health.
"Day zero" means NO WATER.
All of Iran is in a drought — the worst in nearly 60 years. Tehran has had no rain at all since the start of September, and no rainfall is expected for the foreseeable future.
The city depends on five major reservoirs for its water: Lar, Latyan, Amir Kabir, Mamlu and Talegan. Lar Dam is at only 2% of its capacity, while Latyan is 9% full. Amir Kabir, one of the most important dams for Tehran, is 11% full. Mamlu reservoir is only 1% full. Only Taleqan remains above one-third.
Right now the incompetent government is…
"Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting America, saying the group once known as the Boy Scouts is no longer a meritocracy and has become an organization designed to "attack boy-friendly spaces."
In a draft memo to Congress, which sources shared with NPR but which has not yet been sent, Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion."
Why? Because they dropped the word "Boy"?
The original headline is revealed by the URL: “How Device Hoarding by Americans Is Costing the Economy”. Got that? DEVICE HOARDING. It’s official: CNBC is completely out of touch with how the billionaires are hoarding all the money (aka, “Costing the Economy”!), leaving ordinary folks struggling to buy food, let alone a new $1100+ iPhone every year.
Dear Fedi friends.
As some of you may know, I have a wonderful daughter Lila who had a severe form of epilepsy at the age of 5 months. This epilepsy is called West Syndrome.
We had to go through a hell of a treatment to stop her seizures. The thing that helped her was called "Synacthene Retard". It's basically ACTH, a synthetic hormone similar to adrenocorticotropic hormone produced by our anterior pituitary gland.
My daughter was one of the last kids who had a chance to get the Synacthene Retard from the lab that produced it (Alpha Sigma). This was late March 2024. And in May 2024 Alpha Sigma said they discontinued this product without ANY public explanation.
I am trying to inquire about the disappearance of Synacthene Retard from French pharmacies. I am looking for contacts of a medical journalist or an expert in pharmaceutics to help me lead this investigation. It may save lives of dozens of other kids with that suffer from West Syndrome. Thank you!
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Society claims "young men are turning to the Far Right because of feminists" and not "young women are turning to feminism because of Far Right men" because the FIRST RULE of patriarchy is to blame women for everything a man does.
#RapeCulture #ChildRape #WomenAndGirls #WarOnWomen #politics
From dodgy age verification to censorship, the UK Online Safety Act has gone wrong.
That's why over 500k people have told the government to think again.
MPs will debate this petition on 15 December.
Tell your MP to turn up for our digital rights ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tel…
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #censorship #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #ageverification
@crystal flame ^
You'd have thought this would be a bigger story.
A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care.
A Met whistleblower claims it was “covered up” by the force.
Holy fuck, look at the size of these things.
More than 700 sink holes have opened across Turkey, due to extreme drought.
via AccuWeather
Bellingcat’s Kolina Koltai uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos.
Find out how we uncovered the administrator behind the deepfakes by reading the full investigation here: bellingcat.com/news/2025/12/15…
europesays.com/ie/235204/ They thought they were just producing energy… but the solar panels awakened the desert #Éire #Environment #IE #Ireland #Science
"The findings were surprising. Instead of degrading the fragile desert, the solar panels appeared to be giving it new life.
From wasteland to microclimate
One of the most remarkable discoveries was the improvement in soil health and overall ecological vitality beneath the panels:
• Areas directly under the panels scored 0.4393 for “general” ecological health.
• Transitional zones between the panels and the open desert rated lower, at 0.2858.
• The untouched desert surrounding the site had the weakest score—0.2802.
The reason? The panels provide constant shade, trapping moisture, lowering ground temperatures, and reducing evaporation. In dry regions where water is scarce, even small shifts in these factors can spark major changes—encouraging plant growth and supporting microscopic organisms vital for fertile soil."
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To folks who have studied world history, they would know that Ahmed el Ahmed risking his life to save Jewish people is not the exception, but the norm. Throughout world history Muslims have protected Jewish people from attack and persecution. Muslims and Jews have been allies against injustice. It's critical we recognize and lean into this history of humanity.
I provide the receipts in detail here: lets-address-this-with-qasim-r…
So @EUCommission president #VonDerLeyen has caved into pressure from the German #CDU #CSU government and car industry: She proposed yesterday to axe her own #GreenDeal flagship that was supposed to end the sales of combustion engine cars by 2035.
Her unconvincing blah blah press release blathers of #innovation, #CleanMobility and #competitiveness in order to hide what it really is: a subsidy for #FossilFuel billionaires paid for with the #health of our children.
saw news call a 22 year old sa victim a girl 🤮
the infantilization of young adults is a scourge that must be eradicated
So remember how I told you a group of tow truck drivers in #LosAngeles started coming together to follow and then tow illegally parked ICE vehicles during their illegal raids?
Also, remember how people said I was lying about it?
Yeah. So. They are now tracking them down, and starting to harass and charge some of the tow truckers who took their cars. It looks like most of them will beat the charges, but yeah.
like can we at least respect victims by not infantilizing them?
limewire.com/d/oEbEa#dWWMnbJzNw
Bari Weiss would probably be very upset if everyone were to download a copy of this video and watch it. It's the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that CBS pulled off the air in an act of cowardice and capitulation to the fascist regime.
It seems that it was briefly available for users in Canada, and someone was able to make a recording of their screen with the contents.
EDIT: A webrip (non phone recording) to circulate: archive.org/details/60minutes-…
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Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches
Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting
Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.
But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.
Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?
The reason is taxes.
Income from work is the most heavily taxed type of income,
as it is subject to both income and payroll taxes.
A self-employed person who makes a modest income of $60,000 will pay over $13,000 of it in payroll and income taxes.
Meanwhile, high-income earners who earn a $400,000 salary can pay about 30% of their income in payroll and income taxes.…
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Study of men who embodied a young woman in VR finds they felt disgust & anger when catcalled. Even those who were not catcalled felt fear: the situation of being a young woman alone at night in a subway station being enough to generate the sense of fear.
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A small but growing number of parents in China are rethinking the country’s rigorous education system and switching to homeschooling, despite a current ban on the practice. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/… #asiapacific #society #china #education #eastasia #children #schools
https://aus.social/@KathyReid/115862872190279818
https://aus.social/@SeaFury/115863402689199971
@bright lodge hope no one of your friends suffering
Are you evacuating in the #vicfires?
Register with Register. Find. Reunite. before you leave so you can be tracked and accounted for:
Victoria is on fire. Check website for status — but only click on site if you are in Vic. Help reduce traffic on site for those who need it #vicFires #bushFire emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
Prof Rachel Oliver has now upped the ante by writing to Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, arguing that the failure to act on Elon Musk heightens the risk of sexual and other harassment of women in academia and STEM more widely. The letter can be read here: drive.google.com/file/d/18poQr…
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NEW: GoFundMe strictly bans fundraisers for “the legal defense of financial and violent crimes,” yet is currently running one “to help pay for any legal services” for the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good. Its conflict is not even the least bit contestable.
-# GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
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lol owned
Quoting the corgi from cowboy bebop (@realqrampage.fightins.online)
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lmao Scott Adams died
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All cops are bastards because when Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good by shooting her three times in the head, none of the cops present tried to stop him or apprehended him, and because those same cops made sure that doctors could not treat Good before she died, and because cops have helped Ross hide rather than hunting him down and arresting him for murder, and because cops around the country haven’t spoken out to demand the arrest of this fugitive murderer because they think he did the right and justified thing, because all cops are bastards.
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I thought this was talking about the British TV guy for a sec 💀
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM). lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-la…
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TIL: The earliest use of the word "terrorism" identified by the Oxford English Dictionary is a 1795 reference to tyrannical state behavior, the "reign of terrorism" in France."
The term was coined to describe the actions of the state during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, where agents of the Committee of Public Safety, referred to as "Terrorists," enforced the government's policies with violence against perceived enemies.
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France is the 1st country to reach its signature threshold for the European citizens' initiative to completely suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. We need to reach one million signatures (we have 230,000, including 120,000 from France) and 6 other countries need to reach their thresholds! It is essential that we continue to sign, but also try to take this initiative beyond our borders! If you know people from other EU countries, please share this link with them !
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#/…
[Water balloons! In frozen #Minneapolis!
Brilliant!]
"Outnumbered and soaked with water balloons, Jake Lang's anti-Islam protest chased off...
On a frigid Saturday afternoon, hundreds gathered near Minneapolis City Hall to drown out Lang's message, ultimately soaking the right-wing influencer with water balloons and preventing him from burning a Qur'an or marching into the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood as he planned."
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Trump picks Warsh to head the Federal Reserve come May; hours later we learn that Walsh appears on a 2010 guest list for an Epstein part. Of course. rawstory.com/kevin-warsh/
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/pol/ was created in the same month.
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︀︀told you all of this culture war bullshit was planned.
Quoting /leftypol/ - leftypol.org (@leftypol_org)
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︀︀4chan founder m00t is on the Epstein Files.
They just heavily gassed. Went thru my full face again. the medics were saying it was going through their masks too. There were very young children present. This is the road nearby ten minutes after the gassing started. The gas is still visible as I type this. Crowd regroup and energy is high. “Killing in the name of” now playing on loud speaker. More later nothing will upload not even pics
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CONTEXT FOR #EU EUROPEANS:
Minnesota is known as the state with the largest concentration of Scandinavian migrants. not coincidentally, it is also one of USA’s coldest states. Americans often joke that Minnesota is the whitest state in the Union.
this is important because #MAGA fascists fetishize Scandinavia. they often say their social democracies succeed for a lack of Others, aka The Blacks & sundry POC.
#GOP #Republicans are furious the "whitest" state is defending BIPOC & fighting #ICE
@[email protected]
Thomas Zimmer: "Extremists like Stephen Miller simply cannot fathom that there is an authentic resistance fueled by a sincere rejection of the MAGA project. The idea that white people would act in solidarity with their non-white neighbors is beyond what the Trumpists can imagine."
#racism #politics copy: @renewedresistance
Raw Story:
Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’
Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday.
rawstory.com/trump-epstein-267…
#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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To be clear, this is ICE pointing munitions directly into peaceful protestors’ faces.
Alissa Azar
Will upload camera pics when I get home but for now here’s a pic on the camera. Pointing munitions at faces. Will share stuff as I can it took a million tries to upload last pic
So, rather than watch the rest of the performers bow out of gigs, he's just going to close it down for construction? Can't wait to see what he does with the place. From WaPo:
"Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July. Under the proposal, the Kennedy Center could close on July 4, coinciding with America’s 250th anniversary."
“I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind, anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “In other words, if we don’t close, the quality of Construction will not be nearly as good, and the time to completion, because of interruptions with Audiences from the many Events using the Facility, will be much longer. The temporary closure will produce a much faster and higher quality result!”
This is so dumb
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Comment by u/MartyrOfDespair:
One of the many posts about the part
The person on 4chan who leaked him about to be reported and alleged a swap is an actual lieutenant at the prison.
Edit: [Another one that explains better.](https://xcancel.com/heatherc_77/status/2017876540030...
This should be getting more attention in the press:
ibtimes.co.uk/jk-rowling-calle…
Whatever excuse you're using to keep the books on your shelves - you lose.
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I've told people forever that #4chan is a shit website full of shit people and run by shit people.
Now, they also know the owner is heavily linked to #Epstein and the #pedophile ring... And that the "right-wing mentality" birthed from 4chan was plotted out by Jeff & the 4chan owner
mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 from tw/x: 'genuinely is wild seeing every single left wing political theory being proven absolutely right over the space of a few days.'
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#Capitalism #ConspiracyTheories #Left #Socialism #Anarchism #USpol #EUpol #Europe #JD20260207
“GO F*CK YOURSELVES” — South Park writer who owns Trump Kennedy Centre web domain profanely responds to legal pressure to give it up.
This is the website:
trumpkennedycenter.org
Loads of photos of Trump from the Epstein files!
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So many things about right wing ideology that seemed inexplicable to me become understandable as the #EpsteinFiles get released.
15 years ago, no one cared about #trans people. They were free to lead their boring lives. Then kind of all at once, demagogues around the world became actively anti-trans, spouting rhetoric and pushing legislation. "Why now?" I wondered then and to this day.
Because Jeffrey Epstein was anti-trans. He asked his friends to take up the mantle and of course they did. The wave of anti-trans sentiment we suffer through today is because people wanted to suck up to a rich pedophile. No deeper conviction than that, no coherent philosophy. Epstein said so and thus it was.
He is no longer around to ask but I can only assume his motivation was because while sexually abusing teenaged girls Epstein did not want to be surprised by a penis. This whole moral panic is because of the sexual abuse preferences of one billiona…
Charlie Stross
Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures:(The network in question also tried to discredit women who accused powerful men of rape. Transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, rape culture: it's all part of the same phenomenon.)
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Why you have to question my decision Maia...
Banning social media for kids below 16...
I really appreciate the folks at @privacyguides talking about trans people when discussing real-name policies.
For people like me who cannot legally change our names or genders at all (🇭🇺), a real-name policy is effectively a perma-ban from a platform.
I'd never wish upon anyone the pain of searching "Is "legal name" required for [service]" and finding out that you either have to choose between not using it or having an anxiety-inducing panic-ridden terror-show slowly infest it. What to many is a mild annoyance to us is an impassable wall.
And now with age verification it has gotten even worse. How can I prove my age when my ID doesn't match my name? How can I even prove the account is mine? It's either deadname, or deletion.
It's cost me friendships, mutuals, the fun of using the internet... All that's left are the strongholds like Mastodon, built to resist these very policies. Besides them, where else could we go?
Courtesy a climate-related account on LI, take a look at this. Just so's ya know, the current extent of our climate crisis and the worse that is to come was entirely a choice that was made. For us, not by us, but it was a choice.
Here's the link to the OG document if you want to check Dunsky's work.
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Thank you Wired magazine for not paywalling this(!) it's the only reason i even found out that ICE plans to lease an office in Tukwila, WA.
Wired has a *ton* of info here that tells you where ICE plans to expand across various U.S. cities - and *quickly* .
Read here: wired.com/story/ice-expansion-…
Remember the big blackout in SF? And how we were curious about why the ballet had generators and the rest of the neighborhood was in the darkness for days?
Turns out the mayor personally requested for it for his daughter’s performance
When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it, you cannot POSSIBLY be vetting all of them to a high standard of trust. Your logs ARE leaking. End-to-end encryption between more people than can fit around a dinner table is pointless.
This article confirms what I already assumed, that “open source [information sense, not code sense] intelligence gathering on social media” includes, for the US government, asking for links to join groups that may *feel* private. My own discord has literally like a thousand idlers. It would be very *lucky* if none of them were logging for potentially nefarious purposes! And I remind the active users of this occasionally.
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Looks like #California may be next. Are you ready? have you been studying the good people of Minnesota? Got your whistles and what not ready. Got signal?
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The federal government is quietly purchasing warehouses for a massive expansion of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, according to documents posted online Friday by a Republican congressman. Additionally, a federal official said that California and New York are among the "next" for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge similar to the campaign in Minneapolis, with plans to embed hundreds of new ICE offices in Sacramento, Irvine, Santa Ana and Van Nuys, according to an explosive report by WIRED.
According to the WIRED report, ICE is leasing space in two Orange County cities — at an office park in Irvine and at the federal building in Santa Ana.
"This is news to me," Irvine Mayor Larry Agran told The Orange County Register. "We try to maintain some channels of communic…
Please do not travel to the United States.
"How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention"
"Maria Antonia had learned English at her private school in Medellin. She overheard one immigration officer tell another that if she had been 10 years old, they would have been able to keep her separated from her mom. That, she said, is when the real fear set in."
> I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day
The examples included here are horrible. Not just the sex-shaming, but that too.
I'm far from convinced that a social media ban is the answer, but the comment is still well worth reading - especially by men.
I can’t stop thinking about Nurul Shah Alam, the disabled refugee who died after Border Patrol left him outside in the cold with no way to contact friends or family.
It took five days for him to die.
He was blind and didn’t speak English.
They took the pole he was using as a cane.
This man survived an actual genocide only to be killed by the incompetence and cruelty of the Trump regime.
Five days of wandering around lost, sick and disoriented.
It was all preventable.
They could have taken him home.
They could have called his family.
They could have refused to leave him for dead.…
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Common Dreams
Surveillance footage contradicts DHS claim that Border Patrol agents dropped nearly blind Rohingya refugee Nurul Shah Alam at a "safe location." He was found dead days later. Why did they leave him at a closed Tim Hortons in freezing temperatures? Demand answers and justice for Shah Alam. #JusticeForShahAlam #EndImmigrationAbuse
DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!
Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-con…
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As activists in Texas face decades in prison for zines + attending an anti-ICE protest, Republican organizers in group chats are planning for "acts of extreme violence against Black people, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting."
The most ham fisted cover up in history.
Just one day after Republican billionaire Bill Ackman gave his best wishes to an obviously AI-generated young white woman comes news that a million thirsty MAGA men have been following and buying foot fetish pics of a fake soldier character named "Jessica Foster." fastcompany.com/91507096/jessi…
37 pre-teen and teenaged children rescued from a human trafficking ring in Hemet, California. 50 identified; 13 still missing.
This follows a larger sting that occurred a few months back involving forced sex work/trafficking ring. No one seems to be talking about this. How serious and how often it occurs. Especially in the light of recent island activities. So here is the presser.
Please. If you have kids. Talk to them. About everything.
The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet. Judged ordered them removed from the internet on Friday. #USPol #DOGE (Links to download below from IA)
The videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian.”
404media.co/the-removed-doge-d…
Torrent file to download them from IA: archive.org/download/Doge-Depo…
Watch the DOGE depositions at IA: archive.org/details/Doge-Depos…
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Some stuff you should be watching:
- China / Taiwan
- Russia / Ukraine
- Epstein deletions and findings
- Minneapolis
- Strait of Hormuz politics and economics
- Lebanon
- SAVE act and obviously related passport and ID invalidation hijinks. And postal service hijinks
- OS level age validation
Reality of War.
#illustration #cartoon #war #battle #conflict #chess #politics #geopolitics #truth #reality #Messege #soldier #commonPeople #photo #satire
Every year, January to April, people accuse me of fearmongering in my reporting. Every year around this time, bills pass. And without fail, every year, the ratchet tightens.
And now Idaho just passed a bill that could put me in prison for years—for washing my hands in a bathroom.
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Hmm, it's cheaper to buy an apartment for your dead relatives than it is to bury them in some parts of China. At least your neighbors would be quiet? 🤔
The Guardian: China to ban storing remains of dead in ‘bone ash apartments’
Practice of using apartments to store relatives’ ashes has risen as rapid urbanisation and aging population increases competition for cemetery plots
for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.
is trump healing jeffery epstein with his hand
Quoting Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social)
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Trump just posted this of him as Jesus. Straight up heresy.
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