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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 5h

Couldn't agree more about the importance of this PSC race in Georgia. Thanks to @volts.wtf for covering it!
www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve been working on this story for years … and he just … said it on television …

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 5h

I have some bad news for JD Vance if he thinks violating the oath of office is "pretty criminal."

abcnews.go.com/Politics/pri...

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 4h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 4h

the book isn't out for another 3 days but it's already #11 in its category on the world's largest bookseller...pretty good sign

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

“No public access line”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New LMS platform adopted

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

Conspiracy theorists talk about the media running psy ops but my one and only psy op in this life is convincing my law school friends to be public access advocates in case they ever get appointed to the bench

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

“No public access line”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 4h

It's called tradition. And that's why I've proposed renaming Staten Island Keriklandia.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h

“I saw it happen with the outgoing Mayor and thought, ‘why not me?’”

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 5h

"Look I'm pretty corrupt and have a lot of potential crimes I can be charged with, and I can use that to barter to make our city exponentially worse."

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5h

a close up of a man 's face with a shaved line on his head .

Alt: Guy tapping his temple and smiling

media.tenor.com

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 5h

Look I want to leave my options open about being a human doormat for a mad fascist should I improbably get elected

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h

Original post should read “crackpot indictment of AG Tish James.” There’s no defending it

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 4h

This man simply cannot hold elected office ever again

The Cruelty and the Casualties

Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.

nymag.com

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5h

Reminder that Tish James released an investigation that eventually led to Cuomo‘s 2021 resignation. Cuomo is vengeful just like Trump

Andrew Cuomo files a complaint against Letitia James for her sexual harassment report

Andrew Cuomo is alleging New York's attorney general assigned biased lawyers to the investigation of him and did not pursue evidence that undermined the sexual misconduct accusations against him.

www.npr.org

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 5h

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Karen says... @karengautney.bsky.social · 4h

In most states, pointing a gun at someone who is not an imminent threat to you is a crime. It's the principle of proportionate force. The civilian had no gun, no weapon, and was outnumbered considerably. What kind of lame ass goon needs to "protect" himself in that situation by pointing a gun?

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juridical.bsky.social @juridical.bsky.social · 5h

Same group? Is that a pistol being pointed at the guy in blue?

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 6h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

I liked James Franklin until two of his recruits allegedly SAed a 17-year-old, and he ducked every question and had his PR guy answer. So he can go kick rocks.

Franklin refuses comment on PSU rape charges

Penn State coach James Franklin declined to answer questions after two of his former players were accused by police of raping a 17-year-old girl in July.

www.espn.com

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 4h

fucking goons

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 6h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 4h

This shutdown is proof that Trump and his MAGA Republicans don’t care about the American people.

They don’t care about federal workers who aren’t receiving paychecks, they don’t care about your flights, and they don’t care about Americans being able to afford health care.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h

The first wave of missed paychecks from the government shutdown is likely to hurt the economy in many communities.

The longer other services remain shut off, the more the shutdown’s effects will spread.

The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this week as missed paychecks and the absence billions of dollars of government ...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 4h

For all the excellent uses of AI, a BIG, BIG problem is that some people are using it as a way to automate semi-fraudulent (or even literally fraudulent) tricks designed to bypass their regular responsibilities.

In this extreme case, to profiteer by forcing students to buy a fake textbook.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 4h

It's pretty obvious that Trump sees only Republicans and Republican-led states as worthy of his and the federal government's attention. The only Americans that matter to him are the ones who vote for him.

MSN link gets you around the WaPo paywall: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Trump escalates his use of federal power to target Democratic states

Democrats see a pattern of inflicting pain on places that are politically unfriendly, while Trump has declared his intent to hurt liberal areas and policies.

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