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dnmnb.bsky.social
@dnmnb.bsky.social
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Old soul. Multilingual. Writer, explorer, hiker. Most of my heroes are dead.
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dnmnb.bsky.social @dnmnb.bsky.social · Apr 22
So so gorgeous. Ever since I learned of the Tompkins rewilding of lands they purchased and there conversion into National Parks, I’ve been wanting to go to Patagonia. Hopefully one day.
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
dnmnb.bsky.social
Wake me up when this is over.
January 8, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Germany condemned statements by Medvedev suggesting a hypothetical kidnapping of Chancellor Merz.

On Sunday, Medvedev said that after recent events in Venezuela, he could envisage similar operations being carried out against leaders of other countries, including Merz.
January 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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editorialboard.bsky.social
Grok didn't learn this on its own. It was allowed to learn it. Other AIs do not do this. If Grok is made in Musk's image, we have to ask what kind of man Musk is? The answer: a man who at the very least sees nothing wrong with child porn.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"As a source of shock value, easy mission accomplished and moneymaking, Trump always has Greenland. His temptation is only likely to grow." My column on why I don't think Trump is trolling. as.ft.com/r/a343beca-d...
Greenland could be next
[FREE TO READ] Emboldened by the Venezuelan operation, Trump is seeking a foreign balm for domestic pain
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January 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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@apnews.com:
Finnish Children Learn Media Literacy at 3 years old. It’s Protection Against Russian Propaganda
Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
dnmnb.bsky.social
Wean yourself from US tech to diminish their hegemony and protect your privacy.
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3d
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.

I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
parismarx.com Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
January 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children
Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children
The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them Degrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them. After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their consent, the UK’s communication’s watchdog, Ofcom, said on Monday that it had made “urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK”. Ofcom added that it would assess whether an investigation is necessary based on the company’s response. Continue reading...
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January 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.

- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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dburbach.bsky.social
Wow. Sen Kelley can submit a formal response to the charges but I defer to others on what rights if any he has to challenge the action beyond that www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
Pentagon to demote Sen. Kelly from retired Navy rank as captain, but stops short of threatened trial
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that he will demote retired naval officer and sitting Senator Mark Kelly for "reckless misconduct" after he and other Democratic lawmakers urged...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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paulrosenberg.bsky.social
Decades of morally outraged "protect the children" rhetoric & now???
esghound.com Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this. Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely. Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
dnmnb.bsky.social
U.S. poking the tiger, lion, and . . . panda. I thought MAGA meant make women obedient housewives again, and re-establish “proper” hierarchies. I thought it had isolationist tendencies, not world domination.
How wrong!
January 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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correiocb.bsky.social
🏆'O Agente Secreto' vence melhor filme estrangeiro no Critics Choice Awards

O filme concorria com 'Foi Apenas um Acidente', 'A Garota Canhota', 'No Other Choice', 'Sirat' e Belén
www.correiobraziliense.com.br/diversao-e-a...
'O Agente Secreto' vence melhor filme estrangeiro no Critics Choice Awards
O filme concorria com 'Foi Apenas um Acidente', 'A Garota Canhota', 'No Other Choice', 'Sirat' e Belén
www.correiobraziliense.com.br
January 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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#ForeverCanadian applauds and supports Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in their effort to protect their Treaty rights.

The Forever Canadian movement, along with First Nations, will oppose any attempts to fracture Canada and undermine our Treaty and Charter Rights.

#ableg
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation moves to block Alberta separatist petition in court | Globalnews.ca
The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is challenging Alberta’s separatist petition in court, saying separation from Canada cannot proceed without First Nation consent under Treaty No. 8.
globalnews.ca
January 4, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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borowitzreport.bsky.social
Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him
January 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Bigger than Teapot Dome in terms of scandals, but in the age of Trump, it doesn't even raise an eyebrow: Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5m water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine approved by Interior.
The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
I'm losing track of how many countries a man livid he wasn't given the Nobel Peace Prize has illegally bombed.

Iran. Venezuela. Nigeria. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Pakistan. Somalia. Syria. Yemen.

Not to mention threatening to annex Greenland and Canada and invade Panama.
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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houseforeign.bsky.social
Statement from Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov following the Trump administration’s military action in Venezuela:
January 3, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Dear American friends, Tommy's real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon—Tommy Robinson is one of his six known aliases. He's a twice convicted and jailed felon who has made a career of fomenting violence against foreigners. He's best friends with the Kremlin, which spots many of his operations
January 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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johnraimo.bsky.social
Jonas Nickel, Pour en finir avec le culte de la victimisation (En attendant Nadeau ; #skystorians) : www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/12/27/p...
Les Écrivains collaborateurs : Pour en finir avec le culte de la victimisation - En attendant Nadeau
Dans Les Écrivains collaborateurs. Engagement, stigmate et postérité, Tristan Rouquet retrace la trajectoire de plus de deux cents écrivains avant, pendant et après la collaboration.
www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr
January 1, 2026 at 7:07 PM
dnmnb.bsky.social
Let’s see how all his oh-so-pro-life supporters (which one might hope against hope would extend to the child) respond.
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 7d
Was the Trump Administration scripted by Charles Dickens?

I didn’t think even Trump could stoop so low.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d
Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Another step in Trump's march towards Big Brother-style surveillance within the US. www.reuters.com/business/tru...
Trump administration removes three spyware-linked executives from sanctions list
President Donald Trump's administration has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to the spy software consortium Intellexa, according to a notice published to the U.S. Treasury's website.
www.reuters.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
dnmnb.bsky.social
Coalition of the Willing!
kyivindependent.com The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 8d
National security advisers from the Coalition of the Willing countries, led by the U.K. and France, have agreed to meet in Ukraine on Jan. 3. The meeting will be followed by another meeting among state leaders, planned for Jan. 6 in France.

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Zelensky announces upcoming high-level meetings in Ukraine, France
National security advisers from the Coalition of the Willing countries, led by the U.K. and France, have agreed to meet in Ukraine on Jan. 3, according to Zelensky. The meeting will be followed by ano...
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December 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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ifpri.org
🌾 Confidence in the field: MAGNET's Agricultural Self-Efficacy Scale measures farmers' confidence in their ability to execute key agricultural tasks—from crop selection and input decisions to labor management and market engagement.

Learn more about MAGNET here: magnet.ifpri.info
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December 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM