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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 8h

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 12h

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 13h

This is amazing.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 9h

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 20h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 8h

I'm hoping to be in Panama by January.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 8h

Rich white men have decided to remove every safety net.

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 20h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12h

Which is true? Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that immigration enforcement is threatening food security, or they are pretending the threat is real in order to crush wages for farm workers.

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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 15h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 15h

Attorney says video shows 'CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch” before "steering unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire."

"“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in #Chicago, [h]er attorney says body-cam footage shows agents provoked it." migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-la...

Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 17h

The Dallas area Palestinian Youth Movement reported yesterday that Ya'Kub Ira, an activist and martial arts instructor, was abducted by ICE despite Ira's legal status under DACA.

"This is the second unexpected arrest of someone with proximity to the Palestine movement in the past two weeks."

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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing!🥹

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 16h

Photo story: An arabber reunion

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Photo story: An arabber reunion

It was an anachronistic scene as half-a-dozen horses and wagons came clomping in a 19th century rhythm up to the mirrored, ultramodern BioPark building at 4 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on Septemb...

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 16h

Issue 70 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a photograph of Isaac “Coach Coop” Evans taken by Christian Thomas.

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is a photo of an older Black man holding a pigeon.

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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 16h

Social Security has access to all of my banking information.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 18h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 17h

I love getting Black women customer service representatives. 💕💕💕

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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 17h

What the hell?

Katie Kat PDA Expert @spicynocajun.bsky.social · 17h

This is why I love regulations! Kill that which harms the people with rules! It’s the only way to put bratty rich greedy people on a leash.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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blackjerseygirl.bsky.social @blackjerseygirl.bsky.social · 17h

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17h

the world of republican congressional leadership, just constantly unaware of anything in the world

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that