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Such a letdown to immediately give unanimous consent on Matthew Whitaker's nomination to be NATO ambassador!
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Notably, Booker is still talking about policy and staying on message. Much earlier into their own filibusters, Ted Cruz was reading Green Eggs and Ham and Thurmond was reading from the phone book.
Booker has surpassed Proxmire's 16 hour, 12 minute filibuster on the debt ceiling to claim the fifth longest filibuster in US history. He's coming up on La Follette's 18 hour, 23 minute filibuster on Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill.
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Nina Turner
@ninaturner.bsky.social
· Mar 25
Don’t know how you feel about Brad Sigmond being executed by firing squad in SC, but the report in THE GUARDIAN kinda glossed over the fact that he beat his gf’s parents to death.
All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.
🎤I'm beyond heartbroken. I tuned in for her show as well as a few others but we know what this is & what they are trying to do. But when I viewed their new lineup I did not see anything at all about Chris Hayes
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MSNBC announces major lineup overhaul, new Washington bureau as Joy Reid exits company | CNN Business
MSNBC on Monday announced a major overhaul to its primetime lineup that will go into effect in April — and see Joy Reid part ways with the network — even as it shared it will establish its own Washing...
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“We continue to see this type of technology used and deployed in minority communities where there’s not a lot of political power,” says the ACLU’s Gary Daniels. “ I call it the wild west out there” — because there’s nothing that governs the technology’s use or misuse. gizmodo.com/clearly-disc...
‘Clearly Discrimination’: How a City Uses Fusus to Spy on Its Poorest Residents
Fusus’s technology allows police to tap into live feeds from public and privately owned surveillance cameras. In Toledo, Ohio, cops use the power to watch one particular type of location.
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From @theathletic.bsky.social: The Department of Education has rescinded Title IX guidance that stated NIL payments must be proportionate between a university’s male and female athletes. nyti.ms/40Z3Z4i
Department of Education rescinds Title IX guidance that NIL payments must be proportionate
How Title IX would factor into schools' revenue-sharing decisions has been a lingering question.
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“African Tech Workers Rising is organising for better wages, mental health protections and professional standards in Kenya and beyond. We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”
I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo
Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on, says Sonia Kgomo, an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising
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