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Futurism @futurism.com · 3h

Look out!

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 5h

Our pay equity bills are up for a vote today — and we’re confident they will pass. These bills follow the cutting-edge blueprints set by the European Union and the UK — proven models for closing wage gaps and bringing pay equity out of the shadows.

Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 21h

NYC has been helping lead on wage equality in the past few years - Two additional bills are up for a hearing tomorrow.

Would require employers with 200+ employees to submit annual transparency reports, and for the city to do an annual pay equality study.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 15h

Some bi personal should have a yearly party and call it the biannual party

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 16h

Had a couple hours to kill in Denver before a flight, walked into Tattered Cover and saw some familiar titles!

Book covers: No More Police by Kaba and Ritchie, Black Marxism by Robinson

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 19h

One thing that needs to be hammered home about fascists: they’re a bunch of whiny fucking losers.

The heart of the movement is men who always wanted to be bullies but are too weak and insecure to even do that properly.

Link: www.jphilll.com/p/why-are-fa....

Why are fascists such losers?

Vance, Miller, ICE and all the rest

www.jphilll.com

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 1d

Classic big tech. It’s not enough to destroy the planet, everyone else has to subsidize it too.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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Nik Streng @nikstreng.bsky.social · 1d

The Feds are giving right wing influencers and media outlets special privileges to the ICE building in Portland. They’re lying about local media getting the same access.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Feds grant ICE building access to conservative media, influencers, ignore local Portland press

Not all news organizations have been granted the same access to the ICE facility and the people who work there.

www.oregonlive.com

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 1d

I will never willingly watch AI slop. Never.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear they’ve just made them so much worse. Like incredibly worse

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 2d

Once you understand how Unilever has ruined the brownies at the Ben and Jerry factory you’ll be done with capitalism

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

You know how dire this shit is for the LAT to be like "we should write honest on this one maybe"

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 2d

Stephen Miller leads GOP charge equating Democrats to 'domestic terrorists'

Trump advisors amp up extreme rhetoric against Democrats during government shutdown, immigration raids

Miller's rhetoric comes amid a federal crackdown on Portland, Ore., where he says the president has unchecked authority to protect federal lives and property.

www.latimes.com

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 2d

We’re about zero days from major news outlets accidentally posting AI videos they think are real

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Texas AFL-CIO @texasaflcio.org · 3d

Hilton Americas-Houston workers like Marcela are making history as the first-ever hotel workers to go on strike in Texas history – and they're going to win!

Donate to the @unitehere.org Local 23 strike fund to support the fight in #HTX: www.gofundme.com/f/support-hi...

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 3d

Bad news feels inescapable. There’s a lot of it, it goes viral, and things are getting worse.

But resistance is also everywhere, and it doesn’t get the same attention.

We need to share mass resistance, to inspire hope and so that more and more people join in.

www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

Resistance is everywhere — it just isn't getting enough attention

Nepal, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Madagascar, and the United States

www.jphilll.com

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 4d

Look around and you’ll see people rising up everywhere.

Link: www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

It doesn’t feel like it, but we’re in an era of uprising and resistance. The horrors and bad news can be overwhelming, but born out of necessity, born out of horror at genocide and disgust with fascism and being fed up with poverty and oppression, people are rising up around the world. In Greece a general strike this week against a 13-hour workday proposal brought the country to a halt. In Nepal a Gen-Z led uprising recently overthrew the government. An August wave of mass protest in Indonesia against corrupt elites shook the system to its core. In Madagascar protests against the government’s inability to provide basic services like water and electricity currently have the President on the verge of stepping down. France is, once again, wracked by huge nationwide protests against austerity.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 9d

"This guide is made from their words and wisdom. It includes help from families and trusted people in the community. Each section is designed to help people who have lost someone to violence."

An Illustrated Resource Guide for Families of Homicide Victims in St. Louis

The Marshall Project compiled guidance on grieving, working with law enforcement and more from those who have lost someone to violence.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 6d

I once saw a lengthy Hebrew tattoo all the way down a woman’s spine. When I asked what it was she said she wasn’t sure exactly but David Beckham had it

Rachel FigueroAAAH! 👻💀 🎃 @jewyorican.bsky.social · 6d

Time for a post-holidays PSA: Before you get a tattoo in a language you don’t understand… don’t.

I think this was supposed to be “butterfly”

What’s written instead is a direct translation of the words butter (the dairy product) and fly (the insect)

(Butterfly btw is פרפר)

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 7d

"Meta is in the best position to resist providing this information, and the fact that they appeared willing to comply without any thought for the constitutionality of the request essentially leaves it up to the individuals targeted to ... contact lawyers to intervene on a very tight timeline."

Truthout @truthout.org · 7d

Meta sent emails to 6 people informing them that ICE had served the company with a subpoena demanding extensive personal information about the users. The accounts, most notably StopIce.net, are part of a broader crowd-sourcing movement that works to publicly identify masked ICE agents.

Trump’s ICE Turns Its Target to Activists, Not Just Immigrants

ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 6d

Everything I learn is against my will etc

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 7d

Please never mention Ezra Klein around me. Thank you

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d

The UN OCHA has issued a list of the latest catastrophes facing Palestinians in Gaza as Israel intensifies its bombardment and siege ⤵️

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qngd86

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 7d

Why does every remotely famous person now have a podcast

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 9d

Big tech says data centers are the next frontier, and they’re right. Except they’re the next frontier in the capitalist destruction of the planet much more than they’re a major economic breakthrough. Ultimately data centers embody everything wrong with this system.

www.jphilll.com/p/dont-sacri...

Don't sacrifice the real world for AI

Data centers, billionaires, and the economic model we live in

www.jphilll.com

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 11d

ICE openly declared its intention to collectively punish the town of Broadview for 1) protests and 2) *statements criticizing them*!!!!!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11d

ICE has escalated week after week. They have told the village of Broadview that tonight will be a "shitshow", terrorizing residents and using more force against protesters.

I would not be surprised if we see dramatic escalation from ICE tonight. 2/6
www.fox32chicago.com/news/broadvi...

ICE to launch ‘enforcement action’ in Broadview amid outcry over feds' response to protests

Broadview officials said ICE agents will launch “enforcement action" throughout the village on Saturday amid heated protests.

www.fox32chicago.com

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