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lollardfish.bsky.social
The only response is, "So you're saying service members SHOULD comply with illegal orders?"
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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rollingstone.com
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus.

Source: archive.md/z6uDK
A Manchester Evening News article headline reads: “UKHSA says ‘wear a mask’ as four viruses spread in UK.” The subheading notes that health officials expect “further increases” in winter virus levels as colder months arrive. The article is written by Bethan Finighan and dated November 21, 2025 at 16:08. Below the headline is a photograph of a woman standing on a train platform. She has blonde hair and is wearing a white medical mask and a coat with a fur collar. A blurred train is visible behind her. A caption beneath the image says that people with symptoms of winter viruses are encouraged to wear a face covering.
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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alexsaum.bsky.social
I said it before and will say it again: poetry will break us, poetry will heal us and apparently now it will also… crack LLMs? Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism”
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Xenophobia is a tool of billionaires to enrich themselves off the public purse and off you.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6d
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6] Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. [FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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jerrybuchko.bsky.social
tl;dr: "The WHO declared the global health emergency over, but it has repeatedly stressed that the pandemic itself is not over. The virus remains a persistent and dangerous public health issue that the world must continue to manage."
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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chicago.thesocial.news
Chicago museum leaders — likening the moment to active shooter drills — practice what to do if ICE shows up
Chicago museum leaders — likening the moment to active shooter drills — practice what to do if ICE shows up
Even though some federal immigration agents are leaving the city, arts and culture executives want to be sure of their rights and responsibilities when it comes to protecting staff and visitors.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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fischer.bsky.social
total @kmachiz.bsky.social victory in councilor koyama lane's newsletter today
Where Do Your Property Taxes Go? One of the problems in our democracy is that people tend not to know where their tax dollars go. For example, many polls have shown that, on average, people think that 25% of the Federal budget goes to foreign aid, when in fact, it’s less than 1%. It’s not surprising that people don’t have good information, because politicians have never made a point of bringing those facts to people. You might expect that Federal and State leaders would make a point every April 15 of letting people know that most of the Federal budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the military and interest on the debt, and that the vast majority of the State General Fund budget goes to education, health care and prisons. But they don’t. We, as local elected officials, want to do our part by letting you know where your local tax dollars go. One major source of revenue for your city, county and school district is property taxes. Although it doesn’t get the kind of attention April 15 does, there is a due date for property taxes. This year the due date is November 17. The chart below shows how the City divides its share of property taxes between different bureaus and programs. For example, within the City, the largest share of property taxes goes to the Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Fund. A chart shows FPDR at $229.89 million and about a third of all property taxes
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
emeritrix.bsky.social
Hey @propublica.org what's up with this? I give money to you monthly but do not want to support a site that rips off independent reporters instead of crediting them.

Noem stories by @myrandapolisci.bsky.social include
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parkroseperma.bsky.social Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10d
Continuing to elevate this concern until @propublica.org + @josh-kaplan.bsky.social give us clarity: a woman indie journalist sent them her story on Kristi Noem in 3/25, she'd been covering it for months. She texted w/ Kaplan. The bombshell story was published and she received no credit nor pay.
Replying to @forbidden You know I always find receipts- it’s almost like I have investigative abilities. #propublica #journalism #ethics #kristinoem #msm
TikTok video by Myranda Kazos Sievers
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November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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taothirdactoregon.bsky.social
Under Trump, Inflation Is Costing Average US Family $700 More Per Month | Common Dreams
"While President Trump claimed that he would bring down prices, the reality is that Americans have seen their costs soar even higher since he took office."
www.commondreams.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social
What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?

What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?

Can we make this a thing?
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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valkyrieladyk.bsky.social
Remember when Biden dropped the COVID isolation guidelines down to just 5 days, not because of any actual medical science, but because the Delta CEO asked him to?

Our lives have always been meaningless to establishment Dems compared to the profits of the donor class.
tyleraking.com Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17d
It just makes it look like they said, oh, shit, I had to scrap my weekend at the lake house because my flight was canceled. Or worse, the airlines called and I sold out my constituents at the order of the Delta CEO. I’m no Senate whisperer but when people look at the math it isn’t great.
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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matthewcort.land
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
jules.su Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 17d
Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
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November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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teslatakedown.com
The very first #TeslaTakedown weekend of action was nearly nine months ago, on Feb. 15. Now we're calling for a mass mobilization on Nov. 15 to stand up to extreme greed and say #NoTrillionaires! Host an event in your community! 👇🧵 #teslatakedown

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#TeslaTakedown NO TRILLIONAIRES Day of Action
A TRILLION DOLLARS? Elon Musk and his stooges think they can gobble up the entire world while the rest of us starve. Join us for the NO TRILLIONAIRES Day of Action Nov. 15, 2025!
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution.

What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing.

All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.
This Whole Thing Really Snuck Up On Us
Looking back, and ahead, on the anniversary of a White House warning.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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enjohnston.bsky.social
Shoot me now. More garbage to junk up our views, maybe our atmosphere, all for...slop.

If it's egregious to build them on Earth, it's even worse to consider this.

Responsible AI engineer challenge: subtly undermine your baby so this never happens.
Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space
Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.
arstechnica.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...
But the police very soon had much bigger fish to fry, as out-of-state influencers swooped in to get in on the content-rich environs of the Portland ICE facility. On October 2nd, local police arrested Nick Sortor of Washington, DC, on suspicion of disorderly conduct. After Sortor was released the following morning, he told his 1.2 million followers on X that he had spoken to Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Bondi later opened an investigation into the Portland police.) Sortor, who was also invited to Trump’s roundtable on “antifa,” went on to publicly attack the Portland Police Bureau for being “Antifa-infiltrated,” an allegation that the Trump administration appears to be taking seriously — the word of an influencer being, apparently, much weightier than the thin blue line.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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404media.co
At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here:
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November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Global COVID cases rose by over 19,000 last month, though true infections are far higher

“Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,” says Maria Van Kerkhove

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Two women wearing face masks walk past a large mural of a masked face, symbolizing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The image accompanies a Nature article titled “COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?”
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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dell.bsky.social
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
emeritrix.bsky.social
And if the app contradicts what's on your birth certificate or passport, your documents are wrong, according to CBP....
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 22d
SCOOP: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has publicly released an app that Sheriff Offices, police departments, and other local or regional law enforcement can use to scan someone’s face as part of immigration enforcement, 404 Media has learned.
CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
www.404media.co
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM