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"A document that once made me proud of all the places I’ve traveled is now a badge to prove I belong," writes columnist Laura Yuen. "It speaks volumes that a person like me is scared — somebody with so many privileges, including my perfect American English."
"Aren’t you scared, too?"
"Aren’t you scared, too?"
Yuen: My parents thought we had made it. Now we carry papers.
Living under ICE’s crackdown has changed how some Minnesotans of color, including U.S. citizens, move through the world.
bit.ly
January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
"A document that once made me proud of all the places I’ve traveled is now a badge to prove I belong," writes columnist Laura Yuen. "It speaks volumes that a person like me is scared — somebody with so many privileges, including my perfect American English."
"Aren’t you scared, too?"
"Aren’t you scared, too?"
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Tech companies have been engaged in human experimentation for many years without having to pass through any form of review board.
Scientists must go through review prior to experimentation.
But Tesla tests driverless cars. Social media plays with algorithms. Etc…
It’s all human experimentation.
Scientists must go through review prior to experimentation.
But Tesla tests driverless cars. Social media plays with algorithms. Etc…
It’s all human experimentation.
December 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tech companies have been engaged in human experimentation for many years without having to pass through any form of review board.
Scientists must go through review prior to experimentation.
But Tesla tests driverless cars. Social media plays with algorithms. Etc…
It’s all human experimentation.
Scientists must go through review prior to experimentation.
But Tesla tests driverless cars. Social media plays with algorithms. Etc…
It’s all human experimentation.
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An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
ABC "News" (The American one) has fired Terry Moran. I guess I will be getting my news from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the other ABC).
June 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ABC "News" (The American one) has fired Terry Moran. I guess I will be getting my news from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the other ABC).
Just one more way to disconnect us from the real world.
back in 1993 @tomtomorrow.bsky.social was mocking this same stupid proposal in one of his comics. some terrible ideas never seem to go away. (panel from the April 27, 1993, edition of This Modern World)
May 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Just one more way to disconnect us from the real world.
236 years... It was a good run.
April 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
236 years... It was a good run.
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Robert F. Kennedy is unfit to be anywhere near issues of public health.
He should never have been confirmed, and he must be forced to resign.
Kennedy’s arrogance and stupidity is killing children.
He should never have been confirmed, and he must be forced to resign.
Kennedy’s arrogance and stupidity is killing children.
…of over 20 healthcare workers who had been battling the Texas measles epidemic on the front lines.
• Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy is actively blocking the release of vital vaccine data in midst of America’s rapidly expanding measles epidemic
The CDC has remained…
• Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy is actively blocking the release of vital vaccine data in midst of America’s rapidly expanding measles epidemic
The CDC has remained…
April 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Robert F. Kennedy is unfit to be anywhere near issues of public health.
He should never have been confirmed, and he must be forced to resign.
Kennedy’s arrogance and stupidity is killing children.
He should never have been confirmed, and he must be forced to resign.
Kennedy’s arrogance and stupidity is killing children.
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Well, I guess the UK is not a safe place anymore.
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Well, I guess the UK is not a safe place anymore.
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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rather than an
ethno-nationalist model
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March 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Possible for billionaires to be idiots?" I am beginning to think that it is a requirement.
I’ve followed Jason for a long time and he was one of the first voices on Twitter to teach me that it’s very possible for billionaires to be idiots.
February 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"Possible for billionaires to be idiots?" I am beginning to think that it is a requirement.
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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.
www.sfgate.com/california/a...
www.sfgate.com/california/a...
February 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump.
www.sfgate.com/california/a...
www.sfgate.com/california/a...
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You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
DHS has ordered its entire investigations division - composed of 6,000 agents - to divert focus on drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting immigrants
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Thousands of DHS agents shift to deportation instead of drugs, weapons and human trafficking
Redeploying Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a broader Trump effort. But some fear many serious transnational crimes will go unprobed.
www.azcentral.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
41 years late, but here we are.
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
41 years late, but here we are.
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
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Eric Meyer, whose newspaper was raided by police last year, has a message for journalists struggling with their sense of purpose: Go on the offensive. #ksleg
Publisher of raided Kansas newspaper delivers advice to journalists: 'Make democracy great again' • Kansas Reflector
Eric Meyer, editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, delivered remarks as he was inducted alongside his mother, Joan, in the Kansas Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame.
kansasreflector.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Eric Meyer, whose newspaper was raided by police last year, has a message for journalists struggling with their sense of purpose: Go on the offensive. #ksleg