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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3m

“But your honor, how am I going to steal everybody’s stuff if stealing everybody’s stuff remains illegal? Can you see what I’m up against here? I’m just a man with a dream of owning everybody’s else’s stuff, THWARTED by facts and legalities and red tape and the owner of the stuff trying to stop me.”

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6m

Nick Clegg argues lack of fairness because it’s impossible for him to win the game if he has to follow the rules.

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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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 8m

This is where I bought my first raincoat that was actually designed to keep the rain away. RIP.

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Grist @grist.org · 12m

Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go?

The presidential campaign bad-mouthed FEMA while using crowdfunding to donate to evangelical nonprofits.

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#Disaster #Climate #Trump #Donations #FEMA #GoFundMe

Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go?

On a dusty, warm day last October, nearly a month after Hurricane Helene tore across the southeastern United States, Donald Trump stood behind a podium in Swannanoa, North Carolina, to pledge funding ...

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 10m

Snaps for that!

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 41m

It’s Shirley Season 😈

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 45m

Starting my October horror posting...

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Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

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

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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.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 20h

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Defector @defector.com · 16h

Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said.

Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 16h

Which seems pretty spooky.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 21h

From the 6 Surgeon Generals who served across administrations since President Bush: "Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

I still feel cheated.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

So what I’m hearing is, he should have played Christian Grey when he had the chance?

Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI, I spent the entire day on Friday watching Netflix's "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" and then reviewing it.

It was neither an appealing activity nor an appealing show. Audiences keep lapping up these shows about how the audiences lapping the shows up are the REAL monsters.

‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Review: Charlie Hunnam Dons Frilly Undergarments and Flesh Masks for Netflix’s Trashy Takedown of True Crime and Those Who Love It

Focusing on the figure who inspired 'Psycho,' 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and more, the latest installment in the anthology series also features Laurie Metcalf and Tom Hollander.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

They think journalists work with sources like Jimmy Olsen at The Daily Planet.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Also no selfies or FaceTime!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Hey .

The reason I recommend people talk to DV and immigration experts ( and I am NOT one )

Is that people don’t understand real dynamics of abuse when it comes to marginalized people

Especially when it comes to fighting fascism

People treat you worse when they find out you’re harmed

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are.

And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Florida has been awarded $608.4 million, the full stockpile of funds available within a new FEMA program designed to compensate states for detaining undocumented immigrants. Florida was the only applicant for the grant program.

Florida Awarded $608 Million Grant for Migrant Jails Under FEMA Program

The state will also get $38 million from ICE for equipment and transportation involved in detaining non-citizens.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 1d

Featured story, from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social: Free Speech is just a political football to Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans who now delight in prosecuting people for speaking their minds.

For Greg Abbott, Free Speech Is Just Another Political Prop

Charlie Kirk defended the First Amendment. Texas betrays it in his defense.

www.texasobserver.org

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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 1d

That's a bubble and one that's four times the size of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Expect to see everyone promise to stay in the room while finding quiet ways to edge towards the door before the stampede begins. It's how every bubble ends.
#EconSky #AI

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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