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all2human61.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
undocked22.bsky.social
December 16, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Researchers found a 62% drop in cervical cancer deaths in young women over the last decade due to HPV vaccination! That’s huge! 

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
#MedSky #BlueSky 🧪
#medtwitter #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
November 27, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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getsome.bsky.social
The HPV vaccine is a game-changer: a 62% drop in cervical cancer rates💉👏
cbarbermd.bsky.social Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · Nov 27
Researchers found a 62% drop in cervical cancer deaths in young women over the last decade due to HPV vaccination! That’s huge! 

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
#MedSky #BlueSky 🧪
#medtwitter #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky
#MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
November 28, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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laser530.bsky.social
Link to my Substack piece of July 24, 2021, where I reported then what it took mainstream media nearly four years to tell you.

Tucker Carlson is a Putin agent, who functioned as a backchannel between Trump and Putin. MSN News came out with that story today.

open.substack.com/pub/lancefro...
December 7, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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laser530.bsky.social
["The relevant point is that Trump intends to create such a gigantic bloodbath and state of emergency in his initial months that he ends up with the power to govern with executive orders, rendering Congress irrelevant.This is modeled on Hitler's Enabling Act"]

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December 10, 2024 at 6:01 PM
undocked22.bsky.social
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On The Factional Brawl And Leadership Shakeup In The Democratic Party--
A friend responded to my commentary on Senator John Fetterman's perfidy, endorsing confirmation for Elise Stefanik, Trump/MAGA super-loyalist and 2020 election denier, trying to turn himself from Blue...
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December 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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laser530.bsky.social
This is the Substack version of my article written earlier in the week, now available and not paywalled.

Sharing this would be a good way to engage others and get people on board here for my new page.

Thanks in advance.

open.substack.com/pub/lancefro...
December 14, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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laser530.bsky.social
"Why Biden Must Issue Sweeping Preemptive Pardons For Targets Of Retribution By Trump"-- a commentary on MSNBC article by Jay Michaelson who makes a strong case for it.

"The counterarguments by legalists, MAGA, and Biden bashing liberal media pundits are bogus."

open.substack.com/pub/lancefro...
December 15, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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laser530.bsky.social
["["If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside,” he added. “But if he impedes us — if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien — I will prosecute him.”]

---Tom Homan, Trump's Nominee For Border Czar, speech to Law&OrderPAC in Chicago

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December 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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@laser530.bsky.social

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Is Facebook down? Users report problems accessing Meta platforms, including Instagram, Threads.
Users are reporting problems accessing many of Meta's social media services, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
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December 11, 2024 at 8:12 PM
undocked22.bsky.social
Facebook is down for 10’s of thousands of users

www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Is Facebook down? Users report problems accessing Meta platforms, including Instagram, Threads.
Users are reporting problems accessing many of Meta's social media services, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.
www.cbsnews.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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The NY Attorney General has REJECTED Trump's bid to dismiss his $500M civil fraud judgment post-election. The AG stated that Trump's presidency doesn't shield him from civil litigation over non-official conduct, per the Constitution and multiple court precedents.
Dear Mr. Sauer: I am writing in response to your letter dated November 26, 2024, regarding the above-referenced action. This Office will not stipulate to vacate the final judgment already entered by Supreme Court, New York County, in this action or otherwise seek to dismiss the action. As you know, this is a civil enforcement action under Executive Law § 63(12) against the Trump Organization, a business headquartered in New York, and its top executives concerning those defendants' fraudulent and unlawful actions to misleadingly inflate defendant Donald J. Trump's personal net worth in business transactions for the purpose of obtaining more favorable terms on loans and insurance policies than they otherwise would have received. This civil enforcement action was filed following a multiyear investigation by the Office, and multiple courts have rejected claims that the investigation or action were brought in anything other than good faith. See People v. Trump Org., Inc., 205 A.D.3d 625, 626-27 (1st Dep't 2022); Trump v. James, No. 1:21-1352, 2022 WL 1718951, at *12-14 (N.D.N.Y. May 27, 2022). Following summary judgment and an eleven-week bench trial, Supreme Court concluded that Mr. Trump and the other entity and individual defendants violated § 63(12). The court also entered final judgment ordering various forms of equitable relief. Defendants appealed from Supreme Court's post-trial final judgment. That appeal has been fully briefed and argued in the Appellate Division, First Department, and the parties are now awaiting a decision from the First Department. Your letter presents no basis for this Office to seek to vacate the final judgment or to dismiss this action. First, Mr. Trump's upcoming inauguration as the next President of the United States has no bearing on the pendency of defendants' appeal in this action. This civil enforcement action is not a criminal action, and Supreme Court did not impose any criminal sanction on Mr. Trump or any other defendant. Accordingly, the various actions taken by the Special Counsel's office or the District Attorney's Office of New York County in the respective criminal cases brought by those offices against Mr. Trump are irrelevant here. Contrary to your suggestion, the pendency of defendants' appeal during Mr. Trump's term as President fully comports with the U.S. Constitution. The final judgment concerns only business conduct undertaken by entities that are part of the Trump Organization and individual defendants who were acting on behalf of the Trump Organization. The judgment thus does not concern any conduct related to Mr. Trump's first term as President. Nor does it implicate any conduct that Mr. Trump might undertake after his upcoming inauguration. Presidents do not have immunity from civil lawsuits arising from unofficial conduct, and such lawsuits may proceed while the President is in office. See Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 694 (1997); Zervos v. Trump, 171 A.D.3d 110, 128 (1st Dep't 2019); see also Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 615-16 (2024). Regardless, Mr. Trump's upcoming inauguration is irrelevant to the judgment rendered against the fourteen other defendants found liable by Supreme Court in this action. There is also no merit to your claim that the pendency of defendants' own appeal will impede Mr. Trump's official duties as President. The ordinary burdens of civil litigation do not impede the President's official duties in a way that violates the U.S. Constitution. See Clinton, 520 U.S. at 705-06; Zervos, 171 A.D.3d at 125-26. In any event, Mr. Trump does not face any such litigation burdens here. The trial is over, final judgment has been rendered, and defendants' appeal to the First Department has been fully submitted and argued. Mr. Trump's official duties will not be impeded while awaiting the First Department's decision. Nor wi…
December 10, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Stephen Miller outlines how Trump administration would prioritize mass deportations
The incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy made clear this would be Trump's no.1 priority ahead of all other policies.
www.axios.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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shellehamilton.bsky.social
Much is said about Twitter tweaking the algorithm to manipulate opinion, (criticism deserved, btw) but why is FB not getting the same scrutiny? For example, @hcrichardson.bsky.social never showed up on my FB feed despite engagement, so I moved to her Substack.
December 1, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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Wednesday November 26, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to Trumps tariffs writes:
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
undocked22.bsky.social
www.stonekettle.com/2024/11/the-...
The War On Tomatoes
The war on drugs is a joke. We spend $40 billion a year, and the proof that it's a failure is that any kid can get almost any drug they want...
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November 26, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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laser530.bsky.social
New- from Lance's Substack (paywalled)

Most of you are being played by media spinmeisters, still lying through "painting-by-numbers." The final vote totals mean zero to Trump's Nazi "Team Of Rapists." Their "mandate" comes from their 💲 and genetics, not voters.

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Calling Bullshit On Democratic/Liberal Pundits-- Re: Trump's Apparent Shrinking Margin Of Victory and His So-Called "Mandate"-
There is a line being pushed to claim Trump does not have an overwhelming mandate as is being claimed by Republicans as the final vote tallies roll in.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social:

“Laura Mannweiler…estimated the worth of Trump’s current roster of appointees to be at least $344.4 billion, more than the gross domestic product of 169 countries.

…the total net worth of the officials in Biden’s Cabinet was about $118 million”

OLIGARCHS RULE TRUMP
November 26, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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kateriga.bsky.social
Amid the frenzy of the lame duck, a bipartisan group is quietly making a longshot, eleventh-hour attempt to pass federal protections for journalists and other critics before Trump and his famously thin-skinned coterie take over. Here's my scoop: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/raskin-...
Inside The Last-Ditch Legislative Effort To Protect Journalists Before Trump Comes To Town
A bipartisan group is quietly making a longshot, eleventh-hour attempt to pass federal protections for journalists and other critics before Trump and his famously thin-skinned coterie take over.
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
This story from the Idaho Capital Sun seems significant: "Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church that aims to turn America into a theocracy."
Trump’s Defense secretary nominee has close ties to Idaho Christian nationalists • Idaho Capital Sun
Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense, has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church.
idahocapitalsun.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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November 26, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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November 26, 2024 at 4:58 AM