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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Fuck Bluesky for complying with this ID verification shit
BlueSky doing ID verification
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
“None of these laws actually crack down on Big Tech. Instead, age verification schemes consolidate power among the largest and most powerful tech conglomerates and allow the companies to harvest and profit from even more highly sensitive data from users.“
Social Media Is a Literal Lifeline for Many Kids. Don't Ban Them From Using It
US politicians want to replicate Australia's draconian law prohibiting children under 16 from using social media. But experts say such bans will actually make kids 'significantly less safe online.'
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
I wrote about the unprecedented mass censorship and surveillance laws that Congress is trying to ram through in the name of “protecting kids” and how none of this is about protecting kids. In fact, these laws cause great harm to all of us, for @zeteo.com
Social Media Is a Literal Lifeline for Many Kids. Don't Ban Them From Using It
US politicians want to replicate Australia's draconian law prohibiting children under 16 from using social media. But experts say such bans will actually make kids 'significantly less safe online.'
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...
Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
[FREE TO READ] Acolytes of the broligarchs have a grip on key nodes of Washington’s power ministries
as.ft.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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sheila-a-dillon.bsky.social
Today, @mayorwu.boston.gov announced that the City has converted the Hillcrest in Roslindale into permanently affordable housing through the Acquisition Opportunity Program and the Boston Acquisition Fund. Additionally, First Citizens Bank announced a new $1 million contribution to the Fund!
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
GREAT news
Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves ICE detention after federal judge ordered his release, attorney says
A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
www.cbsnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Last night marked Kuf Alef Kislev—the 81st anniversary of the Satmar Rebbe's escape from Nazi-occupied Europe. His rescue and founding of Williamsburg's Hasidic community shaped our city. Grateful to celebrate this history with the community and greet the rebbes.
December 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.

Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.

Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
These laws are to censor LGBTQ voices off the internet. The co-sponsor of KOSA, just one of the 18 censorship/surveillance laws, said we need to pass it to protect kids from “the transgender in society”. These laws will remove ALL anonymity from the internet endangering activists, journalists,etc
KOSA Won’t Just Silence LGBTQ Voices; It Will Also Be Used To Hide Abortion Info From The Internet
We’ve highlighted in great detail how KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act), sponsored by Senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn, which currently has an astounding 46 cosponsors, will be used…
www.techdirt.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
🚨 URGENT!!!!!! Congress is trying to ram through 18 massive censorship/surveillance laws TODAY 🚨

CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them

—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)

badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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atrupar.com
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
Was just saying yesterday that even for the internet, even for rule 34, it is alarming how much disney princess ai porn is out there. glad disney has decided this is a technology worth investing in and supporting

www.404media.co/disney-inves...
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
www.404media.co
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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bradlander.bsky.social
I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game

Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.

It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing
Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant
Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.
popular.info
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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peark.es
Lander going after Rep Dan Goldman in NY-10

*BRAD LANDER TO LAUNCH HOUSE BID AS SOON AS WEDNESDAY: POLITICO
December 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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samleecole.bsky.social
normal country in a normal timeline www.404media.co/pete-hegseth...
Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal'
The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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techmeme.com
Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)

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December 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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techmeme.com
Sources: at a November meeting in the Oval Office, Jensen Huang told President Trump that a flurry of state AI laws could cause the US to lose the AI race (Wall Street Journal)

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December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
I am tired of South Africans who don't understand the values or traditions of this country moving here and wrecking the place.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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truthout.org
Last week, in a highly unusual move, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
Trump’s EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered “Safe” to Inhale
Formaldehyde is a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
truthout.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
thanks @businessweek.bsky.social 💚
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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danahull.bsky.social
Bloomberg's annual jealousy list is out! All the scoops and stories we wish we'd broken and written from our journalistic comrades, both independent and at rival publications: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Stories We Most Admired in 2025: Businessweek’s Jealousy List
The stories we admired most this year.
www.bloomberg.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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mattyglesias.bsky.social
Next up in Elon’s book club
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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mayorwu.boston.gov
High housing costs are the greatest threat to our competitiveness and years of residential property tax increases compound this threat. I’m fighting to protect residents and stabilize taxes.

I just wrote to Boston's business community asking for their support of our residential tax relief plan. 🧵
Steve, Jim, Tamara, and Doug: I write with an update on this year’s City of Boston property tax valuations, following last year’s good faith effort to partner in delivering balanced, reasonable residential tax relief so that the businesses you represent would benefit from excellent city services and greater stability for the Boston residents who are your community, workforce, and customer base. As you recall, in early 2024, the City projected significant increases to residential taxes as a result of declining commercial values. We worked proactively to cushion this impact by proposing a revenue-neutral, temporary measure that Boston had successfully implemented in the past with legislative approval and business community support. Working together over weeks of negotiations, your organizations agreed to a three-year compromise, stating that you were “proud that we worked with Mayor Wu to reach a resolution that mitigates short-term property tax increases for residents while avoiding significant new burdens on commercial properties. ” The legislation was passed twice by the Boston City Council and the State House of Representatives, but ultimately did not receive a vote before the State Senate after being procedurally blocked by a single Senator. After that compromise was abandoned by your groups and the State Senate, Boston residents were left facing a significant tax increase, while the commercial share of the tax burden has never been lower. Your organizations suggested that the final property valuations were not as dire as the worst case scenarios presented, although they landed squarely within the range of estimates presented throughout the process. Your coalition had anchored the compromise to a shared goal of protecting residents from double-digit annual tax increases, targeting a threshold of 9% increases. Yet after you withdrew support for our compromise, the average single family homeowner had to bear a 10.4% increase (alt text limit reached) the average single family homeowner. This is why we proposed a five-year residential tax relief measure (compromising down to a three-year measure), anticipating that this multi-year transition would require multi-year protection for residents. With taxes for the average single family home projected to be up 34% from 2023 to 2026, Boston residents are facing serious financial hardship. Meanwhile, the tax bill for the average Class A office tower is projected to decrease by 4.4%, or $210,000. If the Legislature fails to act on our pending home-rule petition, the share of the City’s tax levy paid by commercial property owners will fall to 53.9%, the lowest level since Proposition 2½ passed 45 years ago. Residents will shoulder an even greater share of the tax levy, matching the predictions we made one year ago. We are all doing our part to ensure fiscal responsibility in uncertain times. In April, our administration put forward a constrained City budget that limited overall budget growth in FY26 to 4.4% (and just 1.7% growth for City departments), with reductions equivalent to 500 positions. As we prepare for another fiscal year with significant economic uncertainty, the City will continue to limit and further reduce expenditures in the upcoming budget cycle. The high cost of housing is the greatest threat to our regional and statewide competitiveness in today’s economy, and years of significant residential property tax increases compound this threat. Our administration has made historic progress on producing affordable housing units and boosting homeownership, reduced commercial vacancies, converted underutilized office space to housing, and invested our budget responsibly in city services and initiatives that have maintained our AAA bond rating and helped Boston consistently rank highly on quality of life indexes. However, allowing continued double-digit residential property tax increases threatens to weaken our economic prospects and our (alt text limit reached)
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM