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poet, crafter, poodle-parent, queerio, disabled, Jew-ish, femme, transmasculine, glitter. They/Them/Theirs, please.
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ICYMI — thousands protested ICE in MINNEAPOLIS…
December 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Using stolen material. Stolen from writers and artists.
This series does not teach AI writing or content replacement. It focuses on workflow efficiency, analytics, and tools that support—never replace—human creativity.
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed"

You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source.

In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:
Liberation is a Riot, Part 1: Debunking the Sanitized Nonviolence Myth
Based on shoddy research, bad history and outright lies, status quo propaganda portrays a sanitized version of ‘nonviolent’ protest as the only option, to damaging effect. It’s time to debunk it, and ...
transnews.network
December 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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as a trans journalist, echoing this.

dont talk to journalists about diy.
Don't talk to journalists about DIY HRT.
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Eugenics Rising.

It is an incredibly dangerous time for disabled Americans.
December 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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There’s still no clear plan for where these programs or scientists go, how the work continues, or how disruptions are avoided. Congress could intervene but for now, this is a deliberate move to dismantle core public-safety science under the banner of ideology.
December 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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It's not just TomboyX, by the way! Trump's FDA has sent these warning letters to 11 companies that sell Binders.

- TransGuy Supply
- ShapeShifter Apparel
- GenderBender
- gc2b
- TomboyX
- FLAVNT Streetwear
- Early to Bed
- TOMSCOUT
- For Them
- Fluxion
- UNTAG

www.fda.gov/inspections-...
December 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
They keep saying and doing what they say. So let’s keep believing them & working with our neighbors to do what’s right. Pogroms aren’t right, just in case you were wondering.
Trump is trying to incite a pogrom against Somali Americans.
BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.
December 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Let us think about Ahmed El Ahmad, a 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah, and hope his lesson in solidarity is what we take from this horrific event
December 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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If you're not Jewish and you're having trouble contextualizing the Sydney attack, imagine a shooting at a public Christmas tree lighting in NYC. Little kids running around. Lovely Hanukkah lights. Maybe some singing. That's what these gunmen shattered. That's what we have to carry into Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Anti-Jewish violence does nothing but confirm the Zionist narrative around Jewish safety. If we want to challenge it, we need to hold fast to the better alternative.
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@bobs-burgers.bsky.social you need to know about my leg
December 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The Wall Street Journal says this investigation led Instacart’s stock price to fall.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I get it but I just gain so little engaging with people who are wrong on issues. We don't need to fetishize the media's sole religion of people who disagree coming together to agree to do what? something terrible? I do get a lot talking with people I share values with who disagree on how we get free
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Damn good questioning here.
FBI operations director Michael Glasheen says antifa is the government’s “primary concern” as “the most immediate violent threat” domestically. Bennie Thompson asks where antifa exists in the US and how many members it has.

“Well that’s very fluid.”

A remarkable exchange. Full:
December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
There are anti-discrimination laws for a reason! Religion is a protected class!
The House has gone a little crazy with the reprimands lately, but calling for the destruction of an entire religion (genocide, I believe you call that), would warrant some action in a normal legislative body.
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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ICE are thug scum.
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Donald Trump is committing murder in the Caribbean and violent ethnic cleansing at home.

If you are in need of an impeachment charade to be inspired to the work of getting rid of his congressional enablers, I'm not sure what to call you except a complete asshole. I don't know another word for it.
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This is troubling on multiple fronts, including standing #EEOC policy. But I digress, we aren’t worried about a diverse and equitable workforce anymore….
$100K civil liability for aiding and abetting gender affirming care of a minor in Florida if FL 2026 H 0743 is signed.

@legialerts.org

legiscan.com/FL/text/H074...
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Electronic Frontier Foundation is putting together a toolkit with various ways to fight the agenda of online age verification in all its forms: eff.org/age
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM