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Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library. No war but class war The senator's mistress will […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.online/@the_blackwell_ninja, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 7h
#illinois Gov #jbpritzker responds to #trump threat to #jail him & #chicago mayor over #ice: 'Come & get me'

Speaking to reporters at a federal workers rally at Federal Plaza later Wednesday, Pritzker responded to Trump’s threat.

“Look, he’s a coward. He says a lot of things. He likes to […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 7h
“This is somebody who’s so insecure that he lashes out, pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason at all,” #jbpritzker said. “He can’t. He isn’t going to do it... he always chickens out.”

Earlier Wednesday morning, Pritzker posted on X: “I will not back down. #trump is now calling […]
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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The natural history of #enshittification according to @pluralistic:
1 First, platforms are good to their users.
2 Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers.
3 Next, they abuse those customers to claw back all the value for themselves – and become a giant pile […]
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Democracy Matters :verified: @democracymattersalot.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Until ICE requires officers to show ID and remove masks, we must assume impersonations continue.

Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/multiple-men-have-impersonated-ice-agents-to-kidnap-and-assault-women_n_689a19a2e4b07a70fa09262d […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 3d
#giftarticle

#trump to limit #socialsecurity #disability benefits for older Americans

The Trump admin is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for #poor, #senior & […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
This.
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jules / cowbell as fuck @catsrule0000.bsky.social · 3d
“Words still not only matter, but have incredible power. What we are witnessing is American fascism. I am an anti-fascist”

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gift / Will Bunch

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Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
This is it #trumpshutdown

🎥: @warnock.senate.gov
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Mark H @neonbubble.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Every now and then I see a post pass through the timeline about the drama bubbling up over on #bluesky and is anyone really surprised? There's money, there's centralised power, there's huge pressure involved. Acting like a twat is an inevitability.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5d
So I hear Jay is a real piece of work these days.

Why are CEOs of Social Media companies invariably jerks?

This is why Bluesky is no better than Twitter/X.

This is why the way forward for digitally connected humanity is small interconnected […]

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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d
If your book(s) were, or are pirated on LibGen and subsequently used by Anthropic to train its AI models, the courts have ordered them to pay a minimum of $1.5B. Authors might/could/perhaps get an estimated payment of $3,000 per work (based on current estimates of the # of pirated works trained […]
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
War ravaged Portland
The famous unicycling Darth Vader on a bridge in Portland. He is playing flaming bagpipes.
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12d
The CEO of this rotten-to-the-core company made 6000 times the pay that the workers he’s firing made.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/09/25/starbucks-will-close-stores-and-cut-900-jobs-in-1-billion-restructuring/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Starbucks Announces Store Closures and Layoffs
The company will also renovate more than 1,000 stores over the next year, CEO Brian Niccol said.
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15d
Nexstar and Sinclair have always been nothing more than radical propagandists. They’re just making it obvious now.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20d
when I used to talk about the perils of billionaire media consolidation there was a segment of folks who thought I was being hyperbolic and looked at me like I was a toddler making a dookie on the wedding dance floor

they don't look at me like that no mo
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Linux Is Best @linux.mastodon.cr.ap.brid.gy · 20d
Would you trust Russia or China? The United States is no different.

We're being told we could lose our jobs — or even face criminal consequences — for saying that Charlie Kirk is a bad man. Freedom of speech and due process are no longer guaranteed here.

We're picking off free-thinking people […]
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20d
I will never forgive MTV for this

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-the-real-world-created-modern-reality-tv?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV
The rules governing everything from “Big Brother” to “The Real Housewives” started three decades ago, with a radical experiment on MTV.
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4
The answer to this headline is “Hell no” and “Stoppit. Stop with this crap right now”

What are we doing here??

https://www.wired.com/story/model-welfare-artificial-intelligence-sentience/
Should AI Get Legal Rights?
Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4
That so many Americans saw this man and said “That’s my guy! He’s got my back!” is just so depressing. Conservative media is a hell of a drug […]
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3
Denmark working on enshrining a fundamental human right in the face of extractive tech. Bit jealous, ngl.

https://www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-makes-history-your-face-and-voice-are-now-your-intellectual-property/
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 30
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Paying ICE twice as much as teachers.
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2
We’re not from the left, or the right. We’re from the bottom, and we’re coming for those on top.
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2
The is the rot at the core. The root cause of every systemic problem in America. Every last one. It is also the harbinger of American fascism.
Musk’'s Wealth ; Bezos’'s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2012: $18 billion 2024: $447 billion 2024: $249 billion Zuckerberg’'s Wealth USA Minimum Wag: 2012: $44 billion 2009: $7.25 an hour 2024: $224 billion 2024: $7.25 an hour
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stux⚡ @stux.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29
When your code works but no idea how
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the_blackwell_ninja [EST] @the-blackwell-ninja.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29
@stux Somebody vibed that sucker right up!