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necoras.bsky.social @necoras.bsky.social · 9h

So is CNN just straight up carrying water for authoritarians now? I've never seen a network hiccup that still blinks. Or that re-records an interview to take back something the interviewee wasn't ready to claim yet.

Trump aide freezes on live TV after controversial claim about president

A Trump administration official faces criticism after allegedly claiming US President Donald Trump has "plenary authority" while on a live interview with CNN.

www.abc.net.au

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OJ (Owen Jones) @iowenjones.bsky.social · 9h

Everything's fine!

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h

📈 Gold surpassed $4,000 an ounce for the first time Wednesday as investors piled into the safe haven investment over various economic concerns including the US government shutdown.
➡️ u.afp.com/Smmi

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 9h

Donald Trump is calling for the Chicago mayor and Illinois governor to be locked up because they won’t bend the knee to his fascism and legitimize his lies and propaganda.

Locking up political opponents to crush dissent is fascism, whether you like the word or not.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 19h

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 9h

Which is what should happen to a nasty invasive species.
#AIIsSoShitTheyCantFindAUseForIt
#YouMustHaveItEvenThoughItsShit

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Special Pleading Service @ftzpltc.bsky.social · May 26

"My entire business model relies on me breaking the law!"

elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

ALT: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall

media.tenor.com

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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 9h

Epstein Epstein Epstein
#TrumpRapesChildren
#KiddyFiddlerInChief
#FilthyPederast

David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 9h

'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon Donald Trump because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to one Dem in Congress.Rep. Eric Swal...

www.rawstory.com

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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 9h

His daily proof of life hate vomit

#USARottingFromTheHead

John Dandridge @jonthetherapist.bsky.social · 9h

Trump calls for JD Pritzker and Chicago mayor to be imprisoned in morning rant

www.rawstory.com/trump-267416...

Trump calls for JD Pritzker and Chicago mayor to be imprisoned in morning rant

President Donald Trump called for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be imprisoned Wednesday morning amid his administration’s deployment of National Guard members to Illinois’ largest city.“Chicago May...

www.rawstory.com

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Just A Grandmom @grandmompa.bsky.social · 9h

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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 9h

Wow.
I mean,well fuck.
Trump has literally declared a civil war against "states with Governors he hates" and this is the drivel they produce.
If nothing else,surely this is a moment in history that a political writer would live for

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Milo🌵 @milohagie.bsky.social · 1d

Seditious Traitors

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Tampa Bay resister 🇺🇸🇨🇿🇨🇴🏴‍☠️⚡️🐶🎧 @depechemodefan101.bsky.social · 9h

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 19h

Great reporting!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 21h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 12h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 15h

🔥Barbara Pocock slices up Richard Windeyer from Dept of Finance for allowing PwC back into govt contracts
RW “We were making a judgement about when we think the organisation is sufficiently changed & different”🤔
BP “How can u make that judgment over the top of the police?”💥 #Estimates

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Francis is my name. & (Jimmy on the beach) @francisflannery.bsky.social · 13h

The Frog calls for back up..
..heh heh!

VIBIN NEWS™ @vibinnews.bsky.social · 14h

Vibin News™ Exclusive | Sources say streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress. How do you feel about these protests? Deserved?
#breaking #world #news #truth #vibinnews #protest #portland #ICE

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 14h

Bloody hell don’t these massive contract bids💰 provide for a proofread/reference check?? Just so bloody, unbelievably shoddy. www.afr.com/rear-window/...

KPMG corrects its own phantom reference

Deloitte isn’t the only big four firm slipping up on its citations, though it’s still the only one blaming the robots.

www.afr.com

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 14h

"The Senate has a general power ... to compel evidence; in other words, to require the attendance of witnesses, to compel the answering of questions and the production of documents, and to impose penalties for contempt, including prison sentences."

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-cri...

The Criminal Offence of Contempt of an Australian Senate Inquiry

The Senate has constitutional power to compel witnesses to attend and testify at a committee hearing as well as to produce materials. Here’s a rundown of the rules.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 14h

The Senate has the power to jail her for contempt. AFAIK it never has, and won't

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 18h

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

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James C Rocks @jamescrocks.com · 15h

From #ABCScience:

There are lots of other areas being affected negatively by #AI as well. The world we now live in is turning out to be a very different one from that rather hopeful one that so many predicted in the middle of the 20th century.

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Fears of online journalism Armageddon as Google changes the game

One year on from the rollout of Google AI Overviews in Australia, exclusive data shows steep year-on-year declines in readership for the top news websites as smaller publishers warn of lay-offs.

www.abc.net.au

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely

Plugged in 🔌 since birth

YoungJay76 @jim1993.bsky.social · 1d

America is the most propagandised Country in the whole World

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 16h

Can’t afford not to be informed and vote below the line, with LibLab Duopoly serving same masters.

“You simply can’t achieve something like that by accident. Reckless indifference, perhaps. Wilful acts of bastardry, more likely. Accident, no.” Ken Henry.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

‘Wilful act of bastardry’: Henry condemns tax system for crushing young Australians

Former Treasury boss Ken Henry says a succession of governments have used the tax system to deliberately hurt young people, propping up the old and vested interests like mining.

www.smh.com.au

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 18h

71 yr old Labor Minister for Trade and Tourism & Special Minister of State since 2022, Don Farrell can’t be bothered to listen to question by David Pocock Senate Estimates. Senator for SA since 2016, after previous term from 2008 to 2014.

His arrogance, disrespect on full display. Time he went.

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