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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 10h

The political project of the Trump Admin is mass death. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. This is the real threat, not the people they target to justify their actions.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Nopetopussy Galore @buddhaontheroad.bsky.social · 7h

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Mar 16

Consider how, up til now, if you couldn't find a book, you just didn't have that book. It was not available to you.

Now, if you search for a book, odds are you'll get a thousand shitty genAI regurgitations of that book, weird sketchy print on demand listings, that book remixed and digested.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17h

Baseball is finally over. We now return you to your regularly scheduled fascist authoritarianism.

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jen ramos-eisen 🇵🇭 @jenramose.online · 17h

finally: the ALCS where the city of Vancouver fights each other

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 18h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot stop the mass firings overnight. But I can wear a mask to protect myself and those around me

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 18h

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

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Nopetopussy Galore @buddhaontheroad.bsky.social · 18h

Not my complaining voice.

Bi Bochette @lindsayjhaynes.bsky.social · 19h

Have we considered the possibility that there will be no one to face the Jays on Sunday because the Mariners and Tigers will still be playing this game

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

I would expect the amount of ai content especially trying to muddy the waters around government actions like the fake reporter arrest video to accompany any actual video of fascist violence coming online in an effort to discredit it all as ai.

The information war is getting much more serious now.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone thinking this much power won't be abused should consider what's going on in the US right now. Even if for some reason you're confident that the party *you* voted for can be trusted (spoiler: it can't), do you trust all of them?

Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 2d

Until a few years ago, it was a criminal offence in Canada to scare the Queen of England

The Carney government's new hate crime proposals have a similar aim—to protect the ruling classes from discomfort and political dissent

My latest for @breachmedia.ca

breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...

New hate crime law is a cover for suppressing Palestine protests ⋆ The Breach

The proposed 'Combatting Hate Act' is built on the idea that protests inspire hateful violence, and gives police the tools to crack down on expression

breachmedia.ca

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 20h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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:

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

Fuck yeah you should.

Using a swearword in your Google search can stop the AI answer. But should you?

Artificial intelligence is more than Trump deepfakes of Tilly the actor. It’s used in smartphones, customer service, healthcare – even legal cases. Is it possible to avoid?

www.theguardian.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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TNR Breaking News: Stephen Miller Accidentally says "I" when Discussing Trump's powers

written above a photo of stephen miller looking like a ghoul in a shiny suit

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d

It's an ouroboros of fascism.

The influencers who create the content distributed by the platforms and put on national TV to be heard by Trump to make decisions that inform the influencers who create the content distributed by the platforms and put on national TB to be heard by Trump to make decisi

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

www.wired.com

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Nopetopussy Galore @buddhaontheroad.bsky.social · 1d

I hate it here.

WIRED @wired.com · 1d

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money." www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

give me a prize for how peaceful i am or i'm going to fucking destroy you

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to god CBC acts like the country is already conquered sometimes.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 2d

Classic CBC. "Bill could lead to law enforcement acting more freely in Canada"

How does a US bill lead to this, without Canada actively allowing this? Can we use the active voice? Can we actually use words the way that journalists are supposedly able to?

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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