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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 9h

You could at least have the decency to endorse Mamdani before you swipe his schtick.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 11h

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. Demented to think it was good.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 9h

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 11h

AI can be very stupid. What’s worse are the companies taking millions and employing contractors to train LLMs overseen by utter morons.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 12h

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 12h

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine what they do to Palestinians.

Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 12h

The DFAT reports contain allegations of prison guards kicking and slapping the detainees, using "sleep deprivation" techniques, and confiscating medication. Others said they were not physically abused but "humiliated", with one claiming he was told to "dance like a monkey".

Australians released from Israeli detention after alleged beatings

Seven Australian activists arrested while trying to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza have been deported to Jordan, the ABC understands.

www.abc.net.au

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Just some light reading for today... www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

@citizensforethics.org

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

The headline encourages one to think that liking Chick-fil-A is in fact his main qualification

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 1d

What a tool.

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Vlad Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

We need a real opposition party.

Your daily reminder #36768.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Schumer: I want to say to Donald Trump, to Johnson, and to Thune: come to the Capitol, sit down in public, and debate us on the health care crisis that’s afflicting Americans.

The public needs to see this.

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 1d

excited to see material like the anti-palestinian op ed he published in our college paper make its way to cbs
kenyoncollegian.com/opinion/2016...

SJP brings extremism to campus — The Kenyon Collegian

Palestinian poet, writer, and activist Remi Kanazi, Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) latest guest, compares Jews to the KKK. He poses in support of terrorists and advocates violence. His pre...

kenyoncollegian.com

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 1d

Hope he meets a similar fate.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, when I want to know what the Black community in Chicago is thinking, I always turn to someone who's really got their finger on the pulse: Stephen Miller.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

“It is a struggle for Palestinians to survive, let alone conceive in Gaza.”

Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat spoke in front of the UN security council about Israel’s systematic attack on the reproductive capacity of women in Gaza

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 1d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza.

But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news.

It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 2d

Holding hearings in the parking lot? What is a judge without a judiciary?

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

So the argument is that Congress giving *judges* this power ≠ Congress giving *courts* this power?

Umm…

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

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Rebellawprof @rebellawprof.bsky.social · 3d

What happens when barbarians kidnap you.

Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 3d

A real one. Absolutely abhorrent for any of these advocates to be mistreated for trying to deliver aid to Palestinians.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...