Sean Massey
            
            @seanmassey.net
          
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          Multi-Cloud and End-User Computing technologist. Independent Consultant/Analyst/Blogger, photographer, husband, father of two, pizza enthusiast, vexpert, Pokémon fan, thoughts are my own
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      Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
    
        
        
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      Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens 
    
        
        
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      This is why Gavin Newsom is a non-starter for me. 
Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.
A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
        Sure, he's "a fighter" who's landed a few good punches on Trump, but that's not the same thing as a leader.
A real leader doesn't fight back against an authoritarian takeover by using the most vulnerable as his shield.
      I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.
    
  
        
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      The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
    
      
          Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
          The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
        
          
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      This is such an amazing story. It’s easily the best I’ve read this year.
    
        
      Now live, both the print and audio versions of my story, “Through the Machine” (As featured by Gizmodo—link threaded). Again, If you only read one of my stories this year, let it be this one. And if you like it, please share. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
    
  
      Matt Walsh: “If there's a noncitizen here who would starve without EBT, I would still say we should not give it to them”
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      JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. 
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
        Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
      Now live, both the print and audio versions of my story, “Through the Machine” (As featured by Gizmodo—link threaded). Again, If you only read one of my stories this year, let it be this one. And if you like it, please share. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
    
      
          Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine
          “Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...
        
          
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      Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
    
        
      Brace for another wave of x refuges
    
  
        
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              Wil Wheaton
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            Radio Free Burrito Presents: Ur-Fascism by Umberto Ecco
            By popular request, here is Umberto Ecco's essay UR-FASCISM, published in 1995.
In this essay, he talks about living in Fascist Italy as a child, growing up under that system during the Second World
          
            
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      A year or two ago, I started keeping a list of cases where attorneys had been disciplined for submitting court documents with fake AI-generated filings. Figured it would be a short-lived phenomenon as attys became aware 
I had to stop, because the number is growing faster than I could keep up
        I had to stop, because the number is growing faster than I could keep up
      Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was "profoundly embarrassed" after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI.
    
  
        
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              Greg Pak
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      Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
    
        
          
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      New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay. 
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
      
          Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
          The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
        
          
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