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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

Last Thanksgiving my husband and I went to my parents house early on Thankagiving day. The rest of the family couldn't make it so it was just us four. We watched the parade and made a feast.

As the calendar turns to "first holiday season without mom" I'm grateful for the memory.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

I am an idealist, I know. But what's the point of not being one.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

You know not to take every impulse of your brain as solid truth. But, from what I can tell, you give the water-hungry circuit boards far more authority than it deserves when it too is often just making crap up and bad at admitting it.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

And perhaps you say, "But I don't know what chatGPT knows!" And you are wrong. You know so much more. You know context. And you know when you are lying to yourself and making up info or at best pondering hypotheses as you mull over various things you've heard before.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

But I wonder if you know it is exercising a muscle. When you consider options and make value judgements and choose between info: you are problem solving, building the story of what matters, committing the info to a longer term memory by the act of manipulating it with your mind

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

I know that formatting data and making a pro con list of a few options is not the world's most important task, that perhaps you truly believe and maybe it is true that your 10 minutes are better spent elsewhere.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 1d

I have this guttural ache when someone tells me they used AI to craft the most basic of task and saved themselves 10 minutes.

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 1d

Two federal judges ruled that President Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

Judges order federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP during shutdown. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.

trib.al

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 2d

I have once again been diagnosed as old. After the indignity of needing bifocals/progressives, I've now been told I have arthritis. . .in my shoulder.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 3d

I tend to just make eye contact with a small smile or nod or say hello if I feel like I need to interact. I don't really understand why an observational statement is a better option lol, but I hear and affirm your goal!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 4d

Is this small talk that everyone hates? I don't think I grew up with small talk. I don't think I knew what people were talking about when they said they hated it.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 4d

I *hate* when I'm doing something like taking out trash and people nearby say, "trash day again!"

I get i shouldn't be that annoyed by it but WHY does this happen? 😭

I'm left with silence as a response which seems rude or a "yup." which also seems rude. What in the world is happening.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 4d

Read an article that said ppl who sent AI to mtgs and skipped it themselves made more money.

Article also indicates the AI notes OFTEN missed *important* context.

THIS STORY IS ABOUT UNNECESSARY MEETINGS HOLDING PEOPLE BACK, NOT THE BENEFIT OF AI.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

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Christina Moss @christinaemoss.bsky.social · 4d

So I've been working on a bit that really should be a TikTok, but I have zero video creation or musical instrument skills so you're getting the text based form instead.

I call this the Horny for Jesus worship medley (or the Jesus is my Boyfriend Medley if you're feeling less risque)

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 4d

Oh man. Cracked up. These lyrics are so intense.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 4d

I kind of hate "exciting" adjectives. I briefly thought this was a weird me quirk and then remembered that "show not tell" is a whole thing.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 4d

Found my copy of Open Veins in Latin America and it is selling ok on th resell market but feels like something I shpuld keep before its no longer allowed.

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Max Weiss @maxthegirl.bsky.social · 6d

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 5d

Had a phone Dr appt this morning. Scheduled for 8 am. A week ago the text reminder said they'd call between 7:30-8:30. Ugh, but fine. It is now 8:22 and still waiting on the call. So annoyed.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 5d

We have a small kitchenette in our apartment and access to the full kitchen a floor below which has a dishwasher. So I have carted dishes up and down the stairs hundreds of times. For the first time ever a bag handle broke and all my dishes went crashing down the stairs and three mugs broke. 😭😭😭

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 5d

There are the "feed 100 in case 1 of them would otherwise starve" people.

And there are the "Starve 100 in case 1 of them doesn't actually deserve their food" people.

Far too many who claim to follow Jesus fall into the second camp.

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Nicole @nicoleintheforest.bsky.social · 5d

😭😭😭

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