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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1h

This now, please! I was so upset when Daily Table closed — we need a similar option. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/m...

Boston city councilors propose publicly-owned grocery stores to make healthy food more accessible - The Boston Globe

The idea has recently attracted attention as a key policy proposal pushed by New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 3h

Obscene. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...

A Marine Park in Canada Warns That It May Euthanize 30 Beluga Whales

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1d

I have heard a stupid number of hours of Sen. Kennedy (R) talking and questioning people testifying. I swear his voice quivered a bit as he ask the few tough questions of Pam Bondi today. I suspect Sen. Kennedy thinks the rule of law is seriously compromised at best.

Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1d

I am worried about the “humanity” that creates this, and those who use it in this way, and also about the society that’s just one huge effing nothing in response to such abuses. Bystander behavior at its worst. futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: VALIS, right? @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 1d

Ah yes. In no way is this repeated usage of the image of arguably one one of the most famous disabled people in history symptomatic of a eugencist society running on meta-eugenic structures. Nor is is it indicative of the way gen AI enhances the fash aesthetics. In. No. Way. AT ALL. (!) /sarcasm

J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

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The text from a tweet from @Lauren_N_Rod shows a photo with a description that reads A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1d

This really sounds like an extended metaphor for something

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, most of those detained aren’t white, but some are. And do you really want to be giving tourism $$ to a country that has closed itself off to all actual refugees, but has established a pipeline for apartheid-loving white South Africans to get super-preferential treatment?

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1d

Breaks my effing heart to say it, but I think no one should voluntarily travel to the U.S. right now, unless it’s to visit a relative on deathbed, and you just have to accept it’s possible that you might get detained for weeks if you come. No calls to lawyers or loved ones permitted, no meds.

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 1d

Dear World: Please call off all events in the U.S. requiring global travel. It’s just not worth it, and a declared and organized boycott from people abroad might help. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

New Race-Day Worry for the Chicago Marathon: Immigration Enforcement

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“Outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, federal officers pushed crowds of protesters hundreds of yards down city streets and fired tear gas, flash-bang grenades and pepper balls without any clear signs of provocation.”

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Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

This Trump administration policy of generating an artificial civil war on the basis of big lies is of course meant to be frightening but it is also anti-American, unlawful, stupid and pursued by wildly unpopular people.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: On the topic of “who you know” — Good ol’ boys at Massport think it’s perfectly acceptable for a PUBLICLY owned building on PUBLIC land to host political signage.

I don’t give a damn who owns the ground lease. The shameless privilege is off the hook.

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 3d

The snuggly orange kittens say hi

Two orange kittens lie on a blue comforter. One is lying with head and shoulders resting on the other’s rear haunch.

Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 5d

Billionaires are trashing education, as well as politics and the news. They need to be taxed out of such obscene power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 5d

As co-founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force, I take no joy in saying "I told you so."

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Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone with an ounce of integrity gets purged.

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 5d

“The lawsuit boils down to two things: the ‘great level of deference’ owed to the Executive Branch when federalizing the National Guard, and the obvious truth that (it) is … completely out of its gourd and posting through it.” www.theverge.com/policy/79204...

Oregon’s National Guard lawsuit hinges on Trump’s Truth Social posts

“The president thinks it’s World War II out here.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5d

I saw a post the other day that said something to the effect of ICE is a job guarantee program for racists and domestic abusers and they weren't wrong

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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Sarah Dylan Breuer @sarahlaughed.bsky.social · 5d

I suppose the next logical step is to erect a giant statue of a portion of his leg, so his followers can worship his golden calf on the National Mall. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...