SteveLibrarian
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We have that long history to thank for Trump’s regime change at home, too.
The US wants regime change & it has nothing to do with so called concerns about democracy. The US has a long history of overthrowing govts of all types, including elected ones, & it never bothers about democracy with its client states in the M/E
Everybody knows what its about
Everybody knows what its about
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We have that long history to thank for Trump’s regime change at home, too.
Born into a culture that’s a target of racism in your country, you can either fight the racism, keep your head down, or become the oppressor. Kishwer gambled on the third & thinks she has to keep escalating as oppressor to keep her place.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Born into a culture that’s a target of racism in your country, you can either fight the racism, keep your head down, or become the oppressor. Kishwer gambled on the third & thinks she has to keep escalating as oppressor to keep her place.
“Biological people.” Wow. Where do we draw that line, Kishwer? You wouldn’t like a lot of the historical precedents.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“Biological people.” Wow. Where do we draw that line, Kishwer? You wouldn’t like a lot of the historical precedents.
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We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
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December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We know everyone is asking for your money this month, but here's a twist: We're NOT asking you to donate in December, we're asking you to spread the word.
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
Help the trans people and allies who don't know Assigned Media's reputation for excellence and originality in trans news find us!
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
Sorry/not sorry but RFK Jr.’s appearance & voice make him easy to blame for disease.
There is blood on the hands of Donald Trump, RFK, and every Republican who has allowed this sham to go on for far too long. When kids die unnecessarily and once-eradicated diseases darken the doors of terrified families and pediatricians, Americans will know who is responsible.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Sorry/not sorry but RFK Jr.’s appearance & voice make him easy to blame for disease.
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It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
www.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
There’s very little more dangerous than a wealthy, powerful man who’s convinced he’s an unassailably good person.
You see from the comments here that Cuban probably made the right choice for himself.
He was also using this site before you could limit replies, notifications, and quote posts, which would solve the problem for most people but probably not Cuban, tbh.
He was also using this site before you could limit replies, notifications, and quote posts, which would solve the problem for most people but probably not Cuban, tbh.
From the BlueskySocial community on Reddit: Mark Cuban Says ‘It Became Pointless’ To Post On Bluesky Due To The Hate He Gets There
Explore this post and more from the BlueskySocial community
www.reddit.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There’s very little more dangerous than a wealthy, powerful man who’s convinced he’s an unassailably good person.
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Vichy Twitter is a clear and present danger to the human race. anything to hasten its collapse, or at least get journalists and politicians to go elsewhere, is good
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Vichy Twitter is a clear and present danger to the human race. anything to hasten its collapse, or at least get journalists and politicians to go elsewhere, is good
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Fuck you of you think trans rights should be sacrificed "for the good of democracy".
The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.
The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.
December 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Fuck you of you think trans rights should be sacrificed "for the good of democracy".
The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.
The anti democracy machine is the anti-trans machine. Get that through your skulls.
Yes, this. They hit a profit limit with social media data & attention so they created a tool that both gets inside people’s minds & supplants human interactions.
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Yes, this. They hit a profit limit with social media data & attention so they created a tool that both gets inside people’s minds & supplants human interactions.
The stock market is currently decoupled from reality. I think that's what people said about 1928, too.
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The stock market is currently decoupled from reality. I think that's what people said about 1928, too.
Sooooooo good. Caught season 1 just before it was slated to disappear from netflix. Gary Oldman is just so astonishingly good! Seeing how many noms & how few awards... cheated. He's absolutely one of the best actors out there.
Finally watching the first season of Slow Horses. Hubs is not a fan…but then he doesn’t like mystery or thrillers the way I do.
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sooooooo good. Caught season 1 just before it was slated to disappear from netflix. Gary Oldman is just so astonishingly good! Seeing how many noms & how few awards... cheated. He's absolutely one of the best actors out there.
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Cool update to last week’s story on why language doesn’t equal intelligence: a Michigan judge cited it to justify imposing sanctions over a ChatGPT-assisted filing that mentioned real cases but misstated their facts. Congrats to author @benjaminjriley.bsky.social!
![Court filing: LLMs are tools
that “emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate
and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning.” Benjamin
Riley, Large language mistake, The Verge https://www.theverge.com/aiartificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligenceneuroscience-problems [https://perma.cc/7EHD-PLLZ]. When an LLM
overstates a holding of a case, it is not because it made a mistake when
logically working through how that case might represent a
“nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing
law or for establishing new law;” it is just piecing together a plausiblelooking sentence – one whose content may or may not be true.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7exlcsle4mjfhu3wnhcgizz6/bafkreicn2dgmwtlqwhdwlaijx5g66yqghjogfszcdp4d4afeyjfgwht2pi@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cool update to last week’s story on why language doesn’t equal intelligence: a Michigan judge cited it to justify imposing sanctions over a ChatGPT-assisted filing that mentioned real cases but misstated their facts. Congrats to author @benjaminjriley.bsky.social!
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Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
Authors! Academic libraries are congenial to getting purchase requests from you for your work. We might say no if it's not within our collection areas. BUT! Never never never pose as a fake student at our institution making a request. Easily discovered & your work will be blacklisted.
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Authors! Academic libraries are congenial to getting purchase requests from you for your work. We might say no if it's not within our collection areas. BUT! Never never never pose as a fake student at our institution making a request. Easily discovered & your work will be blacklisted.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
I’m just done with these corporate shills
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I’m just done with these corporate shills
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Since Jan I’ve been saying that Hakeem Jeffries is a huge problem, a minority leader who has accumulated enormous power over the House caucus and the party and stops action. And people have dunked on me, saying I’m just being negative towards Dems for clout.
No.
Jeffries is a problem!
No.
Jeffries is a problem!
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Since Jan I’ve been saying that Hakeem Jeffries is a huge problem, a minority leader who has accumulated enormous power over the House caucus and the party and stops action. And people have dunked on me, saying I’m just being negative towards Dems for clout.
No.
Jeffries is a problem!
No.
Jeffries is a problem!
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
The only thing worse than unfettered capitalism is capitalism fettered to an autocratic racist.
AT&T commits to ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as it seeks approval from the Trump admin to buy wireless spectrum assets
AT&T commits to ending DEI programs | CNN Business
US wireless carrier AT&T said in a letter to the US telecoms regulator that it had committed to ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a move that comes as it seeks approval from the Trump a...
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The only thing worse than unfettered capitalism is capitalism fettered to an autocratic racist.
Phew!
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Phew!