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BK @bk615.bsky.social · 21d

How long will take for Trump to cancel him too
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Disney’s Message To Employees: Shut Your Trap

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 22d

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25d

JD Vance wants to go after the Ford Foundation, eh? Interestingly, the Ford Foundation has long been in the crosshairs of the American far right for their supposed funding of "hateful, radical left, anti-white propaganda." Here's an example of that talk from the 1955 edition of The White Sentinel.

THE TRUTH
THAT SHOULD BE PRINTED
THE WHITE SENTINEL
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL CITIZENS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
JOHN W. HAMILTON,
Editor
HELEN M. WOLF,
Associate Editor
P. O. BOX
156
ST. LOUIS 3,
MO.
VOL. V No.
11
Subscription $2.00 per year
Racial Integrity - Not Amalgamation
Nov. 1955
FORD FOUNDATION GIVES $50, 000 TO NAACP
THURGOOD MARSHALL, accepted the $50,000
pictured gift
above,
of the Ford
Foundation's Fund
for the
Republic.
An arrogant,
Marshall has
light
skinned
mulatto,
spent
20 years on
staff of National
the
Association
Tor the
Agitation of
His hatred for him
of
Colored People.
White Supremacy
earns
plus
salary
expenses
from
$15,000 a year, the NAACP.
TAX - BXEMPT
PORD
FOUNDATION
SUPPORTS ANTI-WHITE CONSPIRACY
NEW YORK CITY,
Oct.
28th - Thurgood
Marshall, mulatto head of the Legal Defense Pund of the National Association for the Advancement Colored People,
announced that it
had received a $50,000.00
gift from
the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic.
Marshall
said that the $50,000.00
gift from
the tax-exempt profits of
the Ford
Motor Company
would be
used
"tor the purpose of continuing our fight to remove all forms of discrimination (sic)
against
colored Americans
in education.
In other words
this money
used in fighting
will be
the White man's
rights to
educate his
White public
children in
schools.
Largest Gift Since CIO's $75, 000.00
Pord's $50,000.00
gift
NAACP is the largest since
has
to the received
the
CTo presented
1 t with
$75,000.00
last
Arthur J.
Goldberg (not
Counci l
of the
negro,
General
CIO,
W11
work with
NAACP officials in
directing
spending of slush
the
fun d.
The
large
anti-White
has joined hands
Ford Motor wi th
Company
the CIO in
all-out
aSSAuとし0.
White
Ci ti zen s.
The
AP - UP
"Silent
Curtain'
did not
send
this
over
their wires.
ROBERT M.
HUTCHINS,
Pund for
is President of
pictured
the
the Ford
Republic.
Chi cago
University
He left
come Associate
1950
to be-
Ford
Di rector of the
roundetion
made head
of
and later the
Pund
was
to
…

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · 25d

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No more grant assistance for North Platte non-profit following Charlie Kirk post

A controversial post about Charlie Kirk’s death has led to the discontinuation of grant assistance for one North Platte non-profit.According to social media pos

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · 26d

The impact of Data Centers, as most things, will be disproportionately felt by the disability community.

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My organization, MediaJustice, just put out an incredible, first of it's kind report, on the impact of data centers on the US South. Data Centers, as a way Big Tech is exploiting us, are a critic...

My organization, MediaJustice, just put out an incredible, first of it's kind report, on the impact of data centers on the US South. Data Centers, as a way Big Tech is exploiting us, are a critical i...

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · 28d

Fuck You #vaxed

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · Sep 9

AI and Nonprofit $50 million fund open for applications
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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · Sep 7

In the words of my colleague, the data supports evidence that vaccine saves lives. I believe this data. This data is accurate.

Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · Sep 7

As a physician and scientist, I believe in evidence based medicine. I believe in science. So I traveled one hour to another state armed with #BlackDoctorsMatter shirt and #mask to get my #covid19 vaccine and took my #flu shot too #vaccinatenow #vaccinesavelives

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today is Grandparents Day, and a new group, Grandparents for vaccines, has launched. Many grandparents have seen what vaccines can do, & suffered the infections that can now be prevented. They don't want us to go back to the age when measles & polio were rampant.

Grandparent For Vaccines

For Grandparents and the Allies of their Grandchildren

grandparentsforvaccines.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 7

The age of enshittenment.

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Reality Ausetkmt @ausetkmt.bsky.social · Sep 6

📚💙🧪 #BookDrop #booksky #health #death #pandemics

#the-great-influenza takes you into the first pandemic, The #Spanish-Flu. it's documented and carries with it the full weight of why the #CDC was established to keep a check on the health and well being of americans

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · Sep 7

CDC to be Center for Disease

E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · Sep 6

Name change coming next week: HHS to the Department of Pestilence.

#RFKjr

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · Sep 7

First RFK, Jr claimed thimerosal causes autism

Then it was MRNA vaccines

Now he argues if pregnant women take Tylenol, THAT could be the cause

But here’s his own NIH director saying “we have no idea” of the etiology

Kennedy already destroyed the CDC

And unless he goes
Things will get worse

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · Sep 7

Secretary of Disease Promotion
Secretary of Medical Malpractice
Secretary of Health Deterioration
Secretary of Toxic Policy
Secretary of Medical Harm
Secretary of Health Corruption
Secretary of Science Abandonment
Secretary of Health Betrayal
Secretary of Disease and Decay

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · Sep 7

Secretary of Health Destruction
Secretary of Medical Negligence
Secretary of Public Endangerment
Secretary of Health Sabotage
Secretary of Medical Catastrophe

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · Sep 7

Secretary of Death
Secretary of Health and Human Sacrifice

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · Sep 6

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

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BK @bk615.bsky.social · Sep 6

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fortune.com/2025/09/05/t...

Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner—and here’s Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there

From Gates to Zuckerberg, Trump hosted dozens of Silicon Valley icons in the newly renovated Rose Garden.

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KI-News @ki-news.bsky.social · Sep 6

AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit – Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors. Authors say the company took pirated copies of their works to train... https://tinyurl.com/2cc5jlr7 #Chatbot

AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit

Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbots

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AuntyAlias @auntyalias.bsky.social · Sep 6

AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors

If approved, the settlement would be the largest in the history of American copyright cases, according to a lawyer for the authors behind the lawsuit.

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Idomeneo @idoent.bsky.social · Sep 4

Everyone’s using AI-powered notetakers - but no one’s talking about the risks. From legal exposure to client trust, that quiet little bot in your meeting could be creating big problems behind the scenes.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · Sep 5

Okay, so Anthropic settles. The settlement is $1.5B for 500,000 authors.

They just raised $13B to get them to a total valuation of $183B.

As far as they're concerned, this settlement is a rounding error.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Sep 4

The "Mag 7" tech firms comprise 34% of the S&P 500, & we're expected to spend *$3 trillion* by 2028 on AI infrastructure. But large language models are hitting a wall. What if generative AI is delayed or even dead? Tech writer Bryan McMahon says the bubble popping will hurt all of us:

What If There’s No AGI?

The technological struggles are in some ways beside the point. The financial bet on artificial general intelligence is so big that failure could cause a depression.

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Dexter Mikeson @dextermikeson.bsky.social · Sep 5

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