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Cats, Books, WYSIWYG.
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Trump bankrupted the farmers through his idiotic tariffs and now he’s going to give them your tax money to make up for his abject stupidity.
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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JUST IN: DOJ confirms Trump asserted executive privilege to shield more than 4,100 documents form police and lawmakers suing him over the Jan. 6 riot.

Our earlier story on the privilege claim: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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This is nauseating...

www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Seven years ago, Hamilton County prosecutors and Harodl Wayne Nichols’s lawyers reached a deal to re-sentence him from death to life in prison. The judge refused to accept it.
Prosecutors and Jurors Don’t Want Harold Wayne Nichols Executed. Tennessee Plans to Execute Him Anyway
Seven years ago, Hamilton County prosecutors and Nichols’s lawyers reached a deal to re-sentence him to life in prison. The judge refused to accept it.
ballsandstrikes.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Here are eight ways that Senate Democrats should be holding Trump and corporate wrongdoers accountable — one for each member of the Cave Caucus.
8 Ways Senate Dems Should Have Been Holding the Line With Oversight | Revolving Door Project
Here's a congressional oversight target for each of the eight Senate Democrat that caved to end the government shutdown.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Thread, long but very worth it.
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Here is why MAGA-aligned actors, fascist sympathizers, pro-Kremlin agitators, and other hostile online personas / troll farms are engaging in a coordinated effort to support Elon Musk’s attack on the EU, the Digital Services Act, and European democracy. spookyconnections.com/2025/12/06/e...
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Message by Michael de Adder, Canada marks 36 years since the Polytechnique Montréal anti-feminism attack, honoring the 14 women slain in 1989!
December 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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My law firm is currently intervening to defend against this in the first 8 lawsuits DOJ filed. More soon.
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I think the four pieces I edited by incarcerated queer journalist B Speaks may be the thing I'm proudest of this year. Speaks is an incredible writer, with an ability to take you into the world of the GA prison, and its trans and queer inmates, that takes my breath away.
In August, we got a bit of extra money from a generous donor, and I used it to expand into coverage of trans life in American prisons.

This piece, by incarcerated journalist B Speaks, describes the chaos Georgia's forced detransition regime, currently halted by the courts, wreaked in one prison.
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids

The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE.

This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."

Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.

If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!

store.ironcircus.com
Iron Circus Comics
Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:

1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)

2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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This is fucking unconscionable
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in
www.eff.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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this is your fault, Bill

personally, specifically, your fault

you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it

you own this and I hope you choke on it
“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?

Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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February 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The most important line in a solid piece by @iandunt.bsky.social

"And yet for all its flaws, Bluesky offers something which is becoming vanishingly rare in the modern world: a vision of life without the algorithm. What I see is what I have chosen to see. We own our own destiny on Bluesky."
Thank God for Bluesky
A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM