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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 18m

Another pleasant law enforcement interaction, fully in compliance with the Fourth Amendment, per Justice Kavanaugh

#KavanaughStop

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 22m

Every federal department has a RIF plan. And back in February, they were all ordered to update them. RIFs can be legal, if they follow the plan. But based on the President’s comments yesterday, there is good reason to believe that (a) they aren’t, or (b) the plan itself is illegal. My bet is (a).

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20m

I think it would be a huge public service if major media outlets interviewed people given RIF notices and let them explain in detail what their jobs are so that people can judge for themselves whether these positions are wasteful like Trump and Vought claim or whether they help the country prosper.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2h

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

Quite a difference from the online hed

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, "objective evaluation of warfighting capability," why didn't someone think of that

(the quoted poaster is a junior infantryman turned physical therapist turned antivax crank)

infantrydork posting a meme implying that "objective evaluation of warfighting capability" is a fix everything easily switch, because he is a big dumdum .

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 8h

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 9h

god that was so much baseball. like a “you ate all your Halloween candy in one night” amount of baseball

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

Firing the entire staff of the Morbidity and Mortality report is insane.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: