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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration is now ticketing LEGAL residents for failing to carry their papers.

We're at the "papers, please" stage of fascism.

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The Hill @thehill.com · 13h

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) threatened legal action if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) delays swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (Ariz.).

thehill.com

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Lulu @lulu.sheshed.rocks · 11h

Remigration was Germany’s non-word in 2023.

While it means to migrate back, it has become a far-right euphemism of forced repatriation. When the far right uses the term, it’s an overtly racist call for forceful mass deportation of non-white immigrants.

In case anyone was wondering about the U.S…

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

Wanna stop getting calls and texts from me about Prop 50? Send your ballot in today. That removes you from the contact lists, and helps phone bankers use their time more effectively :)

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 12h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11h

Shut it down folks, we have a winner

limousine-liberal.bsky.social @limousine-liberal.bsky.social · 11h

FAPGPT

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 11h

📌“I believe we are in danger of burning people out who have been running hot for the better part of a decade trying to stand up for Democrats."

If you are as tired of all these misleading, guilt-tripping fundraising messages as I am, I wrote this for you.

Oh, and vote YES in Pennsylvania Nov. 4!

MIXED MESSAGES

Vote YES in Pennsylvania Nov. 4, and NO to these loaded, intrusive fundraising missives ...

dearlstephens.substack.com

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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 11h

"very small rocks"

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 17h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.

“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”

(Published April with @sltrib.com)

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

www.propublica.org

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h

TOMORROW: SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in a case that could eliminate a key voting protection for minority voters to elect their preferred representatives. With fair elections and congressional control on the line, here's what you need to know:

Fair Elections — and Perhaps Control of Congress — at Stake as SCOTUS Hears Challenge to VRA

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 11h

We're always exploring alternative revenue streams, and I can't enough hype @theflytrapmedia.com's absolutely badass merch store, which features the gorgeous art of our creative director rommy torrico, along with work from freelance artists who are always paid a fair rate for their work.

The Flytrap Media

The official shop of The Flytrap Media. Buy merch, and support your favorite feminist media collection!

theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 11h

Email your legislators to support libraries: speakupforlibraries.us

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ETX Gov🏴‍☠️ @etxgov.bsky.social · 11h

And the neighbors fucking doberman broke through our fence and got really aggressive with me and the toddler while we were just sitting on the porch.

Thank God he wasn't playing in the yard and was instead playing beside me.

Spot where the doberman broke through the fence.

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Katy Manck, MLS SLMSC @booksyalove.bsky.social · 10h

Yikes!!! Glad y'all are okay.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11h

'I don’t drink': A Mi’kmaw Elder was tasered twice by two members of the RCMP for refusing to give a breathalyzer.

Mi’kmaw is Fred Sylliboy’s first language. He said he asked the RCMP for a translator numerous times.

Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered after refusing breathalyzer

A Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered outside his home in Eskasoni by the RCMP after refusing to take a breathalyzer.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 28d

“A lucrative [$2 BILLION] transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected… In the middle of both deals was Mr. Trump, who has used his power to enrich himself…”
@ericlipton.nytimes.com

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 11h

Did AI write this?

(Fuck off with this nonsense)

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

Never vote for a Republican, ever. That party is done forever.

Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 14h

I have a recurring donation to Astoria Food Pantry set for about the cost of one grocery run per month and encourage anybody who can swing it to think about what they could do for their neighborhood pantry—hard to overstate how important these non-gov resources are right now

Astoria Food Pantry End of Year Fundraiser

Help us keep grocery bags full in 2025

givebutter.com

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 14h

Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
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Don't let the data center come to town

In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides...

buttondown.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 14h

“We’ll thus continue to finance billionaires and oppress anyone darker than the inside of a Three Musketeers bar.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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