Sierra Skier
@sierraskier.bsky.social
#Resist #Woke I am ready to fight for my country. NorCal is home. World traveler. Animal lover. Life-long Liberal. Lover of jazz and wine. Childless cat lady. Atheist. Happily married. She/her. NO 🛑 DMs/drugs/MAGA/Nazis/scammers/porn, I will block you.📎
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Sierra Skier
@sierraskier.bsky.social
· Jan 27
I know many of you cannot simply stop shopping at certain retailers, either because they're the only option, or because they carry specific items you need. But we can reduce what we buy, stop buying what we don't need, and support as many small businesses online. Together, we will have an impact.
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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Transcripts of a 2019 phone call between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would "shock" Americans. @repvindman.bsky.social is urging Congress to declassify this "highly disturbing" conversation. He joins me at 11 a.m. EST to explain why. #Velshi
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Transcripts of a 2019 phone call between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would "shock" Americans. @repvindman.bsky.social is urging Congress to declassify this "highly disturbing" conversation. He joins me at 11 a.m. EST to explain why. #Velshi
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Rubio: That Ukraine plan was never ours, it's Russian wishlist we're factoring in to negotiations, but not our position.
Trump: Marco, do you want your war with Venezuela or not?
Rubio: But this—
Trump: Marco...
Rubio: America developed the plan with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians.
Trump: Marco, do you want your war with Venezuela or not?
Rubio: But this—
Trump: Marco...
Rubio: America developed the plan with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Rubio: That Ukraine plan was never ours, it's Russian wishlist we're factoring in to negotiations, but not our position.
Trump: Marco, do you want your war with Venezuela or not?
Rubio: But this—
Trump: Marco...
Rubio: America developed the plan with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians.
Trump: Marco, do you want your war with Venezuela or not?
Rubio: But this—
Trump: Marco...
Rubio: America developed the plan with input from both the Russians and Ukrainians.
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“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika... “In my experience it’s always people who don’t understand AI who are enchanted by it.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“Once you’ve seen how these systems are cobbled together – the biases, the rushed timelines, the constant compromises – you stop seeing AI as futuristic and start seeing it as fragile,” said Adio Dinika... “In my experience it’s always people who don’t understand AI who are enchanted by it.”
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
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November 22, 2025
November 22, 2025
On Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers, themselves veterans of the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
November 22, 2025
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Nurses save lives every single day, and now the Dept. of Education wants to make their degrees harder to afford. In the middle of a national shortage. It makes ZERO sense.
I work beside these heroes. I see what they give. And I’m not staying quiet while Washington makes their path even harder.
I work beside these heroes. I see what they give. And I’m not staying quiet while Washington makes their path even harder.
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Nurses save lives every single day, and now the Dept. of Education wants to make their degrees harder to afford. In the middle of a national shortage. It makes ZERO sense.
I work beside these heroes. I see what they give. And I’m not staying quiet while Washington makes their path even harder.
I work beside these heroes. I see what they give. And I’m not staying quiet while Washington makes their path even harder.
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Well, well, well....
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Well, well, well....
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
Let's think about why the Russians leaked it and why Trump is pushing for it at this particular moment. Could they think his days in the White House are numbered and they need to grab whatever they can?
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What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
What a shit show. Everyone could see this plan was written by the Kremlin. Adopted by Witkoff and Trump who demanded Ukraine accept it by this Thursday. After a firestorm of objections by Europe and Republican senators it appears Rubio wants to distance himself from it.
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"US would take charge of $100 billion in frozen Russian assets and receive '50% of the profits from this venture.'
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"US would take charge of $100 billion in frozen Russian assets and receive '50% of the profits from this venture.'
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
European taxpayers, who provide almost all of the military and humanitarian support to Ukraine, are expected to contribute $100 billion to its reconstruction."
tinyurl.com/yc7etnw4
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"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment"
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
November 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Timothy Snyder: Russian invasion is on a world war scale, but Ukraine alone is fighting it, keeping us in a 1938-like historical moment"
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
#BlueSkyFriends Call your Senators & House Member & demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine & Europe.
Stand With Ukraine 💙💛
#You'reNotAlone
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Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
Email CDC-INFO
Users can use this form to direct questions to the CDC.
www.cdc.gov
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items:
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for...
2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈
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President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community. n.pr/43La07b
Trump says he's terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
President Donald Trump said Friday night that he's "immediately" terminating temporary legal protections for Somali migrants living in Minnesota. The state has the nation's largest Somali community. n.pr/43La07b
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The administration’s rush toward war with Venezuela is reckless and unlawful.
I won’t stand by while we’re marched into another disastrous intervention. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and stop this escalation.
I won’t stand by while we’re marched into another disastrous intervention. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and stop this escalation.
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The administration’s rush toward war with Venezuela is reckless and unlawful.
I won’t stand by while we’re marched into another disastrous intervention. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and stop this escalation.
I won’t stand by while we’re marched into another disastrous intervention. Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and stop this escalation.
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November 21, 2025
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
November 21, 2025
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This young man has it exactly right.
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🚨BREAKING: Zelensky officially REJECTS Trump’s Peace Deal.
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Zelensky officially REJECTS Trump’s Peace Deal.
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
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(1/9) The CG and Hate Symbols: What We Know So Far (a thread).
Yesterday, WaPo reported that the CG has removed swastikas, confederate flags, and nooses from a list of "hate symbols". This is both technically correct, and an oversimplification.
Yesterday, WaPo reported that the CG has removed swastikas, confederate flags, and nooses from a list of "hate symbols". This is both technically correct, and an oversimplification.
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
(1/9) The CG and Hate Symbols: What We Know So Far (a thread).
Yesterday, WaPo reported that the CG has removed swastikas, confederate flags, and nooses from a list of "hate symbols". This is both technically correct, and an oversimplification.
Yesterday, WaPo reported that the CG has removed swastikas, confederate flags, and nooses from a list of "hate symbols". This is both technically correct, and an oversimplification.
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RISKY BUZZWORDS: Indian Health Service officials have flagged the words, “immunizations” and “vaccines” for additional scrutiny, requiring approval from public information officers for them to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients. @maryhudetz.bsky.social
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
RISKY BUZZWORDS: Indian Health Service officials have flagged the words, “immunizations” and “vaccines” for additional scrutiny, requiring approval from public information officers for them to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients. @maryhudetz.bsky.social