Ashley Lake
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Ashley Lake
@ashleylatke.bsky.social
· Mar 13
Hey, porno creator, sick of going to Vegas or Miami to shoot content as red states get more insane?
We have a big gorgeous production house in happy healthy Massachusetts that we would love to rent you (w property release) at a fraction of cost - yes you can stay here too
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We have a big gorgeous production house in happy healthy Massachusetts that we would love to rent you (w property release) at a fraction of cost - yes you can stay here too
[email protected]
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I talk about her in my Black abolitionists of NYC walking tour and usually no one has heard of her but she was Rosa Parks on the bus 100 years before that incident.
In 1855 Elizabeth Jennings Graham brought a suit that initiated the desegregation of NYC transit. Raised by politically active parents (her was mother formerly enslaved, her entrepreneur father was awarded a patent in 1821) Ms. Graham was a teacher, organist, & kindergarten founder.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I talk about her in my Black abolitionists of NYC walking tour and usually no one has heard of her but she was Rosa Parks on the bus 100 years before that incident.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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even when the president encourages you to call him that?????
OPINION: "Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party’s leaders would do well to realize that." — Jonathan Zimmerman
To defeat Trump, stop calling him names
Calling the president a fascist does nothing to advance the Democrats’ cause — and more of the party's leaders would do well to realize that, Jonathan Zimmerman writes.
www.inquirer.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
even when the president encourages you to call him that?????
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no knock on Alex, but are they super mad because it's a white guy and so according to themselves they have to pay attention to him (unlike, the majority of abolitionists...)
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
no knock on Alex, but are they super mad because it's a white guy and so according to themselves they have to pay attention to him (unlike, the majority of abolitionists...)
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it's crazy how they keep forgetting to follow through on firing the people who still want to apply the law to Republicans
Republican Senator Jim Justice owes over *5 MILLION* in back taxes.
What do YOU think would happen to YOU if YOU owed the government that much money?
www.wtrf.com/top-stories/...
What do YOU think would happen to YOU if YOU owed the government that much money?
www.wtrf.com/top-stories/...
IRS files suit for over $5 million in outstanding taxes against Senator Jim Justice
GREENBRIER COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – West Virginia Senator and former Governor Jim Justice, along with his wife Cathy Justice, have been sued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for millions i…
www.wtrf.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
it's crazy how they keep forgetting to follow through on firing the people who still want to apply the law to Republicans
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👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
👀 Alex Vitale is a sociologist who wrote a very good book called The End of Policing.
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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
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for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing
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With Mamdani's election as NYC's mayor, can we expect a change in the city's policies related to sex work? There are some reasons to suspect that the answer to this question is yes.
Hopefully, Mamdani won't shy away from supporting decriminalization now that he has won.
reason.com/2025/11/05/w...
Hopefully, Mamdani won't shy away from supporting decriminalization now that he has won.
reason.com/2025/11/05/w...
What Mamdani's win means for sex
While it wasn't a part of his campaign, Zohran Mamdani has been a vocal supporter of sex work decriminalization.
reason.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
With Mamdani's election as NYC's mayor, can we expect a change in the city's policies related to sex work? There are some reasons to suspect that the answer to this question is yes.
Hopefully, Mamdani won't shy away from supporting decriminalization now that he has won.
reason.com/2025/11/05/w...
Hopefully, Mamdani won't shy away from supporting decriminalization now that he has won.
reason.com/2025/11/05/w...
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Honestly I think the story about the 2 white American men who wanted to hire homeless people as mercenaries to murder all the Black men on an island off Haiti, and then keep the women and children as sex slaves should be getting more traction because what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Honestly I think the story about the 2 white American men who wanted to hire homeless people as mercenaries to murder all the Black men on an island off Haiti, and then keep the women and children as sex slaves should be getting more traction because what the fuck
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Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms.
You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Any viable left-populist economic coalition in a diverse polity has to include people whose economic exploitation is experienced through racialized and gendered forms.
You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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You can’t ask them to bracket out those concerns as a precondition for solidarity that… just doesn’t make any goddamn sense.
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The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Grateful for this work.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Grateful for this work.
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There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
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They gobbled up all the info, destroyed so many agencies, and how did it help America and Trump's base?
It didn't.
It didn't.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
They gobbled up all the info, destroyed so many agencies, and how did it help America and Trump's base?
It didn't.
It didn't.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
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Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a po...
www.rawstory.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...
lol wait did the “centrist” Dems walk straight into it again by voting to “condemn socialism” because they thought Trump was going to be really hard on Mamdani? Classic alienating their own voters for no reason.
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
lol wait did the “centrist” Dems walk straight into it again by voting to “condemn socialism” because they thought Trump was going to be really hard on Mamdani? Classic alienating their own voters for no reason.
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Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich
The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy
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The DNC would rather spend 2 million on consultants and pollsters to tell them they have a messaging problem,
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The DNC would rather spend 2 million on consultants and pollsters to tell them they have a messaging problem,
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
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Guessed which VC firm in my first guess.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Guessed which VC firm in my first guess.