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Martha Dietzel
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I like to make and do stuff. Living in LA and West Coast kid for last 20 years. Born and raised in the Ozarks.
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clementcomposer.com
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
Oh, the weather outside is frightful And since we've no place to go It doesn't show signs of stopping How I hate going out in the storm The fire is slowly dying
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
geez good thing we’re only using it for health insurance claims, legal arguments, mortgage rates, teaching students, predicting crime, mental health care, automating government services, fact checking, and pointing out other AI
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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snmrrw.bsky.social
Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming.

The bus should have two senators
snmrrw.bsky.social Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · Jul 1
The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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scientits.bsky.social
Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak
June 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA
June 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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scmaestra.bsky.social
"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?’ - Judith Butler
chadloder.bsky.social Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Jun 21
Democrats have convinced themselves that they've mastered this 5-D electoral chess strategy where they sacrifice small out-groups in the hopes of appealing to centrist voters.

Giving the government the authority to un-person any group of people always turns into a fascist nightmare for everyone.
June 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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controller.lacity.gov
🧊 UPDATE: ICE RAIDS HAVE NOW COST LA TAXPAYERS $32 MILLION

🚔 $29.5 million or 92% relates to LAPD's response to protests against ICE including citywide tactical alert costs

🛠️ $1.4 million relates to clean-up / public property damage

🧑‍⚖️ Does not include potential lawsuits
Bar Chart that shows City of LA Estimated Costs Related to June ICE Protests: $32,042,107 (as of 6/17/2025) Police have the tallest bar of related City costs to the June protests with $29,533,243 Fire Department has very much shorter bar with $1,169,362 Then General Services with an even shorter bar with $593,000 Street Services $523,210 Public Works Board $85,713 Tourism $48,586 Street Lighting $32,601 Other Depts. $56,393
June 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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jlazarus.bsky.social
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 17
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
Brad Lander is shown being detained by federal agents in a courthouse. Lander wears a dark blue suit, blue shirt and blue striped tie. The agents wear sweatshirts and blue jeans. A headline reads: "Brad Lander Is Detained By ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse." Photo by Olga Fedorova/Associated Press.
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
I hope Mejia runs for mayor.
controller.lacity.gov LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @controller.lacity.gov · Jun 17
UPDATE: The City of LA has spent $19.7 MILLION so far in response to the June protests against ICE.

This spans a week-and-a-half thru June 16, 2025.

(These do not include potential lawsuits or liability claims)
June 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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janessagoldbeck.bsky.social
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
trader joe’s has put out a bounty on ICE
June 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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michaelianblack.bsky.social
Sure sounds like DEI
slothropsmap.bsky.social Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Jun 11
It sure looks like Trump is trying to pay people $1,000 in crypto to attend his fascist birthday party in DC.

Bonus if you’re “people of color and ethnic groups.” washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/wa...
T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat fillers will check in on the morning of June 14th at 9:00 a.m. Extras are required to wear Red, White and Blue clothing and will be provided a RED hat to wear. GOLD accessories are acceptable as well. The team will advise the extras where to stand or sit according to the line of sight from a VIP viewing platform area. Extras and Seat fillers will be paid a flat daily fee and will be provided a lunch of fast food and soda. We encourage people of color and ethnic groups to sign up for maximum perception control and these individuals will be prominently displayed on the televised broadcast and local viewing screens to be seen by the VIP platform. compensation: Flat Fee of $1,000, paid in cryptocurrency - Provided by FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT LLC
June 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
So this week we’ve had a man impersonating an ICE agent tie up a woman and steal $1000; a man impersonating a police officer assassinate a top Democratic politician & her husband (and shoot another Democrat & his wife); and a man impersonating a king hold a military parade for his birthday
June 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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lapublicpress.bsky.social
LAPD is illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol.

Under California law, police agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities.
LAPD is illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
Under California law, police agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state public agencies or federal entities. Law enforcement agencies across Southern California viola...
lapublicpress.org
June 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
Reminder: the Trump admin put a 22-year-old in charge of the country’s domestic terrorism prevention office.

He graduated college last year. And has no known national security expertise.

But he did work for the Trump campaign.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
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June 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
June 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
It is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the assassination of one democratic lawmaker and the attempted assassination of another is not fascist violence, calculated to suppress political resistance to a fascist project. At this point I am not going to try.
June 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The brilliant @phoebewahl.bsky.social has made her ABOLISH ICE poster available as a free download for protest signs.

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Free: Abolish I.C.E. Poster - Digital Download
Add to your cart and check out for download. No purchase required. PLEASE NOTE: The image you have downloaded is copyrighted by Phoebe Wahl, 2018-2025. By downloading this image, you are granted NO ri...
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June 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
hey look a list of 75 people to primary

clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025158
June 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.
madycast.com mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · Jun 8
(ABC7) cops are violently hitting and shooting tear gas and less lethals into protestors at point blank.. It's likely people are being severely injured
Cops tussling with protestors and pushing them back
June 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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alexblagg.bsky.social
welcome to the revolution, waymo
June 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds"

gizmodo.com/its-breathta...
This new way of doing things appears to be corrosive not just to students but also to teachers. Koebler’s investigation shows that the AI lobbyists courted schools by making appeals to instructors, showing them that the likes of ChatGPT would make curriculum-building and assignment-giving that much easier. Now, teachers, too, seem to be taking the easy way out, as a recent New York Times story shows that college professors have been using chatbots to create their lesson plans, just as their students are using them to complete said lesson. The result of all of this is so obvious that it doesn’t really bear repeating, but I guess will anyways: Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds. The tech industry’s subscriber-based, “as-a-service” model is obviously on full display here, except that the subscription will be to intellectual capacity. The more you subscribe, the less “organic” capacity you’ll have.
May 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM