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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 1h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 1h

Intellectual METAbolism

Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 1h

Sliwa desperately wants to stay relevant -- the nasty ads campaign didn't work so it's time to be a victim now.
This will probably be his last campaign but I might be wrong.

Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 1h

I hope they run out of space

Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 1h

it could be dementia as well

Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 3h

Is the cultural change organic though?

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 3h

It’s called changing the collective memory. After a while, the “alternative truths“ will replace all the historical records.
Welcome to the Soviet playbook.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4h

Biden wasn’t president yet. These folks aren’t too bright

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 4h

Point of no return 😂 The protests so far are ‘one person show’ — white folks over 50 mainly. We are not united and, unless they start coming for our TVs, we never will be.

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t believe you don’t talk about National Security Presidential Memorandum-7.
NSPM-7 makes me and half of the United States domestic terrorists.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 16h

Tons of right-wing influencers also at the Portland ICE facility, including January 6th insurrectionist David Medina.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 14h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 14h

Feds shot a member of the press, John Rudoff, in the arm with a pepper ball. My ears are still ringing.

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 14h

It's all performative. She is reassuring her MAGA base that she still cares. Never mind all the money she made in stocks thx to Trump's tariffs threats.

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 14h

Class lawsuit, maybe?
But how does one sue a broken machine?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 14h

:0)

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 18h

Cycles cycle, but nobody was talking this way in 2008-12.

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 19h

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 19h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

1,000 TROOPS: TN National Guard vet, who is protesting the Trump-@GovBillLee military/police takeover in Memphis, says deployment order is for a year. Takes us to the November election…

Commercial Appeal reported the same troop number. www.tiktok.com/@itsrachelda...

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Major Paincake @majorpaincake.bsky.social · 22h

Wtf? 😳

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment