Brian Bjoern MD
@brianbjoern.bsky.social
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Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!
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Why are we having Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiate anything? Years ago Jared Kushner couldn’t even get a security clearance and now the two of them are just globetrotting the world making real estate deals out of countries. The blatant corruption is incredible.
February 18, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Why are we having Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiate anything? Years ago Jared Kushner couldn’t even get a security clearance and now the two of them are just globetrotting the world making real estate deals out of countries. The blatant corruption is incredible.
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"WEXMAC TITUS allows ICE to treat immigration enforcement like a national security operation rather than a standard civil immigration one...This gives the agency access to a much faster contracting process with less oversight and public visibility.”
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concen...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concen...
For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
WEXMAC TITUS helps contractors bypass the traditionally lengthy government contract bidding process
www.thehandbasket.co
February 18, 2026 at 4:22 AM
"WEXMAC TITUS allows ICE to treat immigration enforcement like a national security operation rather than a standard civil immigration one...This gives the agency access to a much faster contracting process with less oversight and public visibility.”
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concen...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concen...
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While Boston is preparing for chaos created by ICE and the Trump administration, local leaders and officials are looking for guidance to protect their people. In no universe should local law enforcement have to debate how to protect people from federal authorities.
February 18, 2026 at 12:33 PM
While Boston is preparing for chaos created by ICE and the Trump administration, local leaders and officials are looking for guidance to protect their people. In no universe should local law enforcement have to debate how to protect people from federal authorities.
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Trump has a plan to undermine the 2026 midterms: depress who can vote, and create chaos on Election Day. The courts and election integrity organizations will have to stop the first. To stave the latter, citizens will need to work to prevent Election Day intimidation.
The 2026 Elections: Resisting the Rigging - The American Prospect
As Trump becomes more desperate, citizen resistance only grows.
buff.ly
February 17, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Trump has a plan to undermine the 2026 midterms: depress who can vote, and create chaos on Election Day. The courts and election integrity organizations will have to stop the first. To stave the latter, citizens will need to work to prevent Election Day intimidation.
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Insanity. They are laughing at us.
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Insanity. They are laughing at us.
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He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
How many of the media outlets eulogizing Rev. Jesse Jackson today spent decades trying to undermine his work & turn him into a punchline?
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”
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Last Friday, Gov Healey committed MA to a 3 year, multimillion-dollar contract with OpenAI, to deploy its AI tool for all 40,000 executive branch employees. She did this based on the recommendation of a task force dominated by execs w financial ties to OpenAI.
Read more at: bit.ly/3OdOC5B
Read more at: bit.ly/3OdOC5B
Healey's OpenAI state contract and why it matters to you — Erika Uyterhoeven for Somerville
www.electerika.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Last Friday, Gov Healey committed MA to a 3 year, multimillion-dollar contract with OpenAI, to deploy its AI tool for all 40,000 executive branch employees. She did this based on the recommendation of a task force dominated by execs w financial ties to OpenAI.
Read more at: bit.ly/3OdOC5B
Read more at: bit.ly/3OdOC5B
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Trump officials have blocked Minnesota law enforcement from accessing materials to investigate the death of Alex Pretti.
They also refused to cooperate with Minnesota officials to investigate Renee Good’s death.
What don’t they want the public to know?
They also refused to cooperate with Minnesota officials to investigate Renee Good’s death.
What don’t they want the public to know?
February 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Trump officials have blocked Minnesota law enforcement from accessing materials to investigate the death of Alex Pretti.
They also refused to cooperate with Minnesota officials to investigate Renee Good’s death.
What don’t they want the public to know?
They also refused to cooperate with Minnesota officials to investigate Renee Good’s death.
What don’t they want the public to know?
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
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GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔
Nothing to see here, folks!
We are being looted so hard by these crooks
Nothing to see here, folks!
We are being looted so hard by these crooks
February 16, 2026 at 8:33 PM
GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔
Nothing to see here, folks!
We are being looted so hard by these crooks
Nothing to see here, folks!
We are being looted so hard by these crooks
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Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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Charlottesville!
Even the middle school kids did a walk-out this week!
February 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Charlottesville!
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A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
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What does DHS do with unlimited resources and unchecked power?
They kill people and detain children.
DHS is the greatest threat to the homeland. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
They kill people and detain children.
DHS is the greatest threat to the homeland. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
February 14, 2026 at 7:14 PM
What does DHS do with unlimited resources and unchecked power?
They kill people and detain children.
DHS is the greatest threat to the homeland. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
They kill people and detain children.
DHS is the greatest threat to the homeland. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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So much of the rot in this country stems from our failure to fund public goods and regulate private wealth. In that context, people who need your money won't care how terrible you are.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/n...
Consultants Offered Epstein Access to Top N.Y. Democrats if He Donated
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:28 AM
So much of the rot in this country stems from our failure to fund public goods and regulate private wealth. In that context, people who need your money won't care how terrible you are.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/n...
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The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.
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Our policy director @jonathancohn.bsky.social and @massbudget.bsky.social’s Phineas Baxandall earlier today testifying about why we need to permanently opt out of the regressive corporate tax cuts in the Big Ugly Bill. They are bad this year, bad next year, and bad every year thereafter. #mapoli
February 12, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Our policy director @jonathancohn.bsky.social and @massbudget.bsky.social’s Phineas Baxandall earlier today testifying about why we need to permanently opt out of the regressive corporate tax cuts in the Big Ugly Bill. They are bad this year, bad next year, and bad every year thereafter. #mapoli
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It’s okay to be scared, but we have got to stand up—to ICE, to this administration, for all our communities.
@tegareacts.bsky.social and I talked about the strength found in standing up to this administration together.
@tegareacts.bsky.social and I talked about the strength found in standing up to this administration together.
February 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
It’s okay to be scared, but we have got to stand up—to ICE, to this administration, for all our communities.
@tegareacts.bsky.social and I talked about the strength found in standing up to this administration together.
@tegareacts.bsky.social and I talked about the strength found in standing up to this administration together.
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The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.
I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.