AKM
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Actively working to be a good human— for me this is being a good neighbor, a good citizen, and not just follow the general drift of society…and prayer helps me do that! Proud parent of two, one of whom is trans, who I love and protect, always.
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My greatest empathy for scientists who are forced to testify as equal to total grifters.
December 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My greatest empathy for scientists who are forced to testify as equal to total grifters.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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As "60 Minutes" finalized its "Inside CECOT" report last Thursday, CBS sent the White House a request for comment. A WH spokesperson responded within a few hours. The quote was not included in the "60" report – so, judge for yourself whether it should have been included or not >>>
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
As "60 Minutes" finalized its "Inside CECOT" report last Thursday, CBS sent the White House a request for comment. A WH spokesperson responded within a few hours. The quote was not included in the "60" report – so, judge for yourself whether it should have been included or not >>>
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TREACHERY: Canadian company airs factually accurate news report even though it makes Donald Trump look bad and one of his lackeys in media censored it in the US.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
TREACHERY: Canadian company airs factually accurate news report even though it makes Donald Trump look bad and one of his lackeys in media censored it in the US.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
NOT TREACHERY: Conspiring to overthrow Constitution. Rewarding Russian aggression against a US democratic partner. Taking foreign bribes.
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The American people deserve to know the truth—did Tom Homan accept a bribe from undercover FBI agents or not?
Despite what the government claims, his personal interests are not more important than the American people.
Despite what the government claims, his personal interests are not more important than the American people.
The Trump-Vance admin claims it closed its investigation into border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepting a $50k bribe – yet it refuses to confirm the existence of records related to the investigation.
Our case proves the government is continuing to stonewall, and we will keep fighting for the truth.
Our case proves the government is continuing to stonewall, and we will keep fighting for the truth.
No one is above the law. The public deserves transparency & accountability from government leaders. We'll be in court to get answers.
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The American people deserve to know the truth—did Tom Homan accept a bribe from undercover FBI agents or not?
Despite what the government claims, his personal interests are not more important than the American people.
Despite what the government claims, his personal interests are not more important than the American people.
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FYI Philly friends: HIAS PA, the resettlement agency in PA for HIAS National, has operated in Philadelphia since 1882. They had to terminate their refugee resettlement program this year due to federal funding cuts. They desperately need our support to continue their legal and social services.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
FYI Philly friends: HIAS PA, the resettlement agency in PA for HIAS National, has operated in Philadelphia since 1882. They had to terminate their refugee resettlement program this year due to federal funding cuts. They desperately need our support to continue their legal and social services.
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Indiana Department of Correction Commissioner Lloyd Arnold and Warden Brian English last week gave the Capital Chronicle an hour tour — the first news media inside the facility. No photos were allowed behind the walls.
via @indianacapitalchronicle.com
via @indianacapitalchronicle.com
Behind the walls of Indiana’s ICE detention facility
Bundled in tan prison garb and coats emblazoned with “ICE,” dozens of immigrant detainees at Miami Correctional Facility played cards and checkers in a common room outside their cells.In another…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Indiana Department of Correction Commissioner Lloyd Arnold and Warden Brian English last week gave the Capital Chronicle an hour tour — the first news media inside the facility. No photos were allowed behind the walls.
via @indianacapitalchronicle.com
via @indianacapitalchronicle.com
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Dear Media,
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Dear Media,
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
When JD Vance says "take the country back," what do you think he means? What would the party that controls the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and various state goats—plus leading businesses, media orgs, and more—take back? Take what from whom?
Thanks,
Anti-bigotry Americans
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I'm not sure what I'm more upset about: the word meggings, the fact that I thought he was wearing no pants, or that In between moment before I figured it out and wondered why his skin was melting
December 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I'm not sure what I'm more upset about: the word meggings, the fact that I thought he was wearing no pants, or that In between moment before I figured it out and wondered why his skin was melting
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this is also why I am on here talking about books & art & generally entertaining folks with my chaos anctics.
this is not a brief period of resistance on the path to resuming normal.
while I hope life is not always quite this frazzling, this is my task for the rest of my days.
joy & spite.
this is not a brief period of resistance on the path to resuming normal.
while I hope life is not always quite this frazzling, this is my task for the rest of my days.
joy & spite.
This is our job literally for the rest of our lives. That's just what it is. Dig in, find your organizing home, and get to work.
December 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
this is also why I am on here talking about books & art & generally entertaining folks with my chaos anctics.
this is not a brief period of resistance on the path to resuming normal.
while I hope life is not always quite this frazzling, this is my task for the rest of my days.
joy & spite.
this is not a brief period of resistance on the path to resuming normal.
while I hope life is not always quite this frazzling, this is my task for the rest of my days.
joy & spite.
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December 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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In other news: it's the winter solstice, so every day from here on out will get longer and brighter for us here in the northern hemisphere!
So. You know. We've got that going for us at least.
So. You know. We've got that going for us at least.
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
In other news: it's the winter solstice, so every day from here on out will get longer and brighter for us here in the northern hemisphere!
So. You know. We've got that going for us at least.
So. You know. We've got that going for us at least.
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I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.
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That’s a funny note to end the episode on
December 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
That’s a funny note to end the episode on
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This is entirely to please Trump, who has voiced criticism of 60 Minutes under the new owners, who are the definition of rank amatuers, emphasis on rank. This Stephen Miller interview suggestion is idiotic in the context of this story and shows a startling lack of sophistication or smarts.
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This is entirely to please Trump, who has voiced criticism of 60 Minutes under the new owners, who are the definition of rank amatuers, emphasis on rank. This Stephen Miller interview suggestion is idiotic in the context of this story and shows a startling lack of sophistication or smarts.
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Doing another piece with Miller later is fine, but to add him here after the administration declines to officially have any comment is a suck up gimme. The real word we are looking for here is complicit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Doing another piece with Miller later is fine, but to add him here after the administration declines to officially have any comment is a suck up gimme. The real word we are looking for here is complicit.
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“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
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Sometimes I wonder what many of us sacrificed our livelihoods for, when we we were courageous and spoke out about Gaza, while failing to stop the genocide.
Part of our success was, I think, in helping others to speak out when their turn came—a spark that will keep lighting until we’re all free
Part of our success was, I think, in helping others to speak out when their turn came—a spark that will keep lighting until we’re all free
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sometimes I wonder what many of us sacrificed our livelihoods for, when we we were courageous and spoke out about Gaza, while failing to stop the genocide.
Part of our success was, I think, in helping others to speak out when their turn came—a spark that will keep lighting until we’re all free
Part of our success was, I think, in helping others to speak out when their turn came—a spark that will keep lighting until we’re all free
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Jeffries should hire a crew to go there and take it down. He has just as much right to change the name as the Board (Trump) does.
Rep. Jeffries signaled it is illegal for Trump to rename the Kennedy Center without “legislative action.”
“The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action."
Read more:
https://go.govbrief.today/kennedy-center-trump-signage
“The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action."
Read more:
https://go.govbrief.today/kennedy-center-trump-signage
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Jeffries should hire a crew to go there and take it down. He has just as much right to change the name as the Board (Trump) does.
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@bencollins.bsky.social The Onion ("America's Finest News Source" - trademark) stays in business by offering festive holiday discounts on subscriptions to old-timey ink-on-paper editions of The Onion delivered directly to grateful subscribers by the equally-old-timey United States Postal Service.
How in hell does The Onion stay in business?
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@bencollins.bsky.social The Onion ("America's Finest News Source" - trademark) stays in business by offering festive holiday discounts on subscriptions to old-timey ink-on-paper editions of The Onion delivered directly to grateful subscribers by the equally-old-timey United States Postal Service.
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I do believe the USA is redeemable and I absolutely don’t think we’re doomed -
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
December 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I do believe the USA is redeemable and I absolutely don’t think we’re doomed -
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
but nothing condemns our current system and our culture more than the fact we have *chosen* to elevate the nation’s most genuinely disgusting and worthless people to positions of supreme power
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i’ll admit, living in sf i don’t think about power outages a lot—let alone plan for them—but here are just a few things giving me big pause tonight:
1. robot cars adding to problems and/or creating new ones in already tenuous situations
see these many examples: bsky.app/profile/anic...
1. robot cars adding to problems and/or creating new ones in already tenuous situations
see these many examples: bsky.app/profile/anic...
At least five FUBARed Waymo robots:
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
i’ll admit, living in sf i don’t think about power outages a lot—let alone plan for them—but here are just a few things giving me big pause tonight:
1. robot cars adding to problems and/or creating new ones in already tenuous situations
see these many examples: bsky.app/profile/anic...
1. robot cars adding to problems and/or creating new ones in already tenuous situations
see these many examples: bsky.app/profile/anic...