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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · 11d

Lacking Congressional Authorization, Trump Starts “Secret War” Against Cartels truthout.org/articles/lac...

Lacking Congressional Authorization, Trump Starts “Secret War” Against Cartels

Trump has “zero” authority to designate cartels as “enemy combatants” without congressional approval, one critic said.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · 13d

"This is the fifth case like this in the last year or so. The prosecutors’ office have charges in four group beatings of transgender women in the Seattle area so far."

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings sin...

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · 20d

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park

The removed signs also discussed the local Wabanaki relationship to the area.

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park

The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 29d

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Sep 4

How a Century of Anti-Communism Cleared the Way for Trump’s Authoritarianism truthout.org/articles/how...

How a Century of Anti-Communism Cleared the Way for Trump’s Authoritarianism

This trope has long been used to justify repression of anarchists, communists, liberals, immigrants, and unions.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Sep 3

Experts Say Trump Administration’s Deadly Boat Attack Amounts to Extrajudicial Killings truthout.org/articles/exp...

Experts Say Trump Administration’s Deadly Boat Attack Amounts to Extrajudicial Killings

“Trump is claiming the right to conduct extra-judicial assassinations,” a civil rights attorney posted on X.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Aug 30

"If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. …"
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Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · Aug 30

On the one hand, hey we beat Judgement Day!

On the other hand Sarah Connor is out here judging all of you for using AI like it's a free brain extension. She judges you immensely. And I'm with her to be honest.

The Butlerian Jihad is coming.

Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · Aug 29

Aug 29th 1997 - Skynet become self aware.

📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

3 Screenshots from the movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991): First, a man in a suit sits in a clinical, white-walled room watching a TV monitor that displays a woman in a white tank top sitting at a table across from another man; the subtitle reads "- I'm sure it feels real to you. - On August 29, 1997...". Second, a close-up of the TV monitor shows the same woman and man in the interview room, with the subtitle "anyone not wearing two-million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it?". Third, the terminator is driving a car through a desert looking at a passenger with the subtitle "The computer becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29."

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kathykadane.bsky.social @kathykadane.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now the US trying it on for size.
www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · Aug 25

Story: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/kilma...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained at ICE office in Maryland

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into immigration custody after checking in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its office in Baltimore on Monday morning.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Aug 16

Photo of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor from Terminator 2 glaring through tangled hair with text that says 'Sarah Connor is watching you use AI for everything Especially those of you posting an AI image of her that says she's watching you use AI for everything'

Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Aug 16

I am familiar with all the comics, it's not from any. Someone ran it through a bunch of AI testers, which and those are pretty certain. After months no one has screamed that their art was stolen, either. Someone's getting a kick out of it.

Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Aug 16

AI.
Apparently someone thought it was a great joke to get people to post an AI image against AI....and is probably thrilled that this one actually seems to be posted more than now than the one from the actual movie. 😞

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hamas always intended to release the hostages, but every deal was nixed by Israel. There is no deal that does what they want, which is to completely eliminate Palestine. This is ethnic cleansing, this is genocide.

Hamas should release all the hostages. But it's foolish to think that would end the war

The narrative that "the war would end if Hamas released the hostages" has become a recurring talking point. It's a fantasy.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 23

“It seems that my death won’t come from an Israeli missile or a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s bullet — it will come from hunger. Slow. Silent. Cruel.”

The Last Thing We Had in Gaza Was Flour. Now Even That Is Gone.

My father feels dizzy every single day. I lost four kilograms in just one week. People are collapsing in the streets.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Pretty sure it was created precisely troll us. And, yes, there is a still from T2 that is also used but the AI one seems to be more popular. And there's so many more stills from the movies that would work great.

Actual still from Terminator 2 of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor smoking a cigarette with the caption "Sarah Connor watching you use AI for everything"

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Governor Ayotte: Thank you for vetoing the book ban and bathroom ban. Now, veto trans youth healthcare bans.

Governor Kelly Ayotte just vetoed a book ban and a bathroom ban targeting our LGBTQIA community, especially transgender and gender nonconforming people. Now, she must veto two bills that would block f...

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Jul 21

Puerto Rico Enacts Most Extreme Care Ban in America, Targeting Trans People Under 21

Civil rights groups aim to fight the wide-reaching ban in court, which outlaws most kinds of gender-affirming care for trans young people.

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Sarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · Jul 19

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The Farmed Human

How humans become "meat" for AI

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · Jul 16

BREAKING: Today the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled to deny attempts by Energy Transfer, the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, to force Unicorn Riot to turn over internal documents from our reporting on the historic, Indigenous-led #NoDAPL movement:

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Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena - UNICORN RIOT

St Paul, MN — Unicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet another phase: The Minnesota Supreme Court release...

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · Jul 15

📩☎️ What is our government doing or proposing to protect children from harmful airborne viruses? Let’s ask our government officials!

New Studies are calling attention to serious #LongCOVID in children!

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New Studies are calling attention to serious Long COVlD in kids! 🚨 S.1: A joint study by researchers from @harvard & @murdochuniversity of 147 @massgeneral pediatric patients show severe COVlD &...

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 14

“Don’t eat carrot cake. Eat real food,” said Medicaid and Medicare Administrator Mehmet Oz to people who are concerned about Medicaid cuts, after bringing Fox host Stuart Varney a carrot cake as a gift.

Dr. Oz Tells Americans Who Are Concerned About Medicaid Cuts to Eat Less Cake

Millions of Americans will lose health care coverage due to the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”…

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Jul 12

The Republicans are always making the Democrats sound waaaaay better than they are. But then that is part of the Good Cop/Bad Cop game they've been playing for so long.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 11

Once the impact of Trump’s tariffs are taken into account those in the lowest 20% income bracket will not keep the $40 in benefits that Republicans have touted, but rather end up worse off by about $300.

Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse.

Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.

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Saigh Ghlas @saighghlas.bsky.social · Jul 9

Just sharing some photos, from 5 and 4 years ago of our Greyhounds Ruadhán (red fawn), Trú (brindle) and the much missed Cairbre (white-faced fawn). Cairbre loved the pond and always wanted to lie it on hot days. This means on hot days I miss him a lot. I'm sure they always do.

Three Greyhounds a red fawn, a brindle and a fawn standing in unmowed grass with daisies and goldenrod among other plants

Two Greyhounds, brindle and a red fawn standing in front of a rundown looking house and even more rundown looking fence.

An elderly white-faced fawn Greyhound lying in a pond with water up to his shoulders with his eyes closed.

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