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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2h

We are in a time of frightening darkness but people are still stepping up and doing the right thing.
We must keep kicking at the authoritarian darkness until it bleeds daylight.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The National Guard mainly exists for domestic purposes as a compact where Governors agree to help each other in cases of disasters.

It runs on trust and norms of reciprocity.

Having Governors send their troops against the will of the receiving state creates some real long term problems.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of reasons this kind of undercover work doesn’t happen in the U.S., but no good ones it shouldn’t

Adrian Polglase @adrianpolglase.com · 10d

We've been undercover in the UK's biggest police force revealing evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at Met Police's Charing Cross station. Here's my article: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Henning Dekant 📎 @quaxquax.bsky.social · 1h

They are sitting right next to each other on the political spectrum where the horseshoe’s ends meet.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 9h

The only people nuttier than those who claim to support Trump and Ukraine are those who are adamant that Trump and Maduro are great opposites. Trump is simply trying to be an American Maduro, power with no belief and, of course, a commitment to personal enrichment.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 6h

To summarize. If Trump wanted to send Ukraine Tomahawks, he could right now. If Trump wanted to sanction Russia, he could right now. If Trump
wanted to seriously bolster Ukrainian air defense against Russia drones/missiles, he could right now. But he’s not, so he doesn’t want to.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 5h

💔🕯️ Update: Konstiantynivka. Russian bomb took the lives of a 4-year-old girl and a priest who tried to hide the child in a church.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

🇺🇦🚀 When our partners tell us about the transfer of 30-50 long-range ATACMS, it's nothing when we use 130-150 of our drones during the day. There should be ten times more if you want to see the effect, - Zelensky.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3h

🇲🇩 Russia will not stop and will look for new ways to influence Moldova to destabilize the situation, - President Sandu

"Moscow tested its hybrid attacks in elections, culminating in presidential elections and the referendum on the EU. But the real goal was parliamentary elections," - Sandu said.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 4h

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.

100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.

SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills

The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.

www.notus.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 5h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 4h

When you are used to friendly audiences, and then the boos slap you in the face.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 7h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 9h

Claire Jones on authoritarianism. Article in link:

"Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism & won’t stand or fall with Trump. It's also naive to think Reform's survival depends on Farage, given its place in the global authoritarian ecosystem".
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/eme...

Emergency alert: Trump, Farage and the authoritarian web

It would be a mistake to assume democracy is our default state, or to underestimate the gladiatorial power of its modern enemies Project 2025 is aligned with global authoritarianism and won’t stand or...

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @dradka.bsky.social · 12h

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🚨31st Brigade's reconnaissance company need two SUVs to carry out combat missions in Zaporizhzhia Oblast🇺🇦

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13h

However, the obvious glitches reveal how genAI works. Rather than simulating a world, it visualizes concepts based on patterns found in existing content: a reporter is a person with a mic & a detainee is a person with their hands cuffed behind their back. Combine the two, and you get three arms
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13h

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13h

Moscow region 🔥👀

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