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𧔠How many times have you heard "Blacks are 13% of the population and commit 50% of violent crime"? Well, racists have been using the UCR wrong for their tired narrative. Let's set the record straight. Pull up a seat, folks.đȘ #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
How can Meta train its models on millions of pirated books and research papers with nobody going to jail? How can a single mother be forced to pay $250,000 for sharing 24 songs on KaZaa, while genAI companies can steal content with impunity? whatwelost.substack.com/p/big-tech-a...
Even worse, it appears members of his Admin, Lutnick, positioned themselves to profit off of their illegality while publicly supporting the tariffs-check out what his so sons are doingâŠ
Corruption all the way down - but now I understand why he enthusiastically repeated the lies about other countries paying tariffs - running cover for the grift
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Stopping to look up, breathe, and appreciate a moment of beauty to recharge for the struggle.
I think this happens more than we want believe in big organizations. People go along with terrible things because they think they âhave toâ and everyone else acts like itâs normal and fine. Itâs actually hard pushing back alone, and then being fired, and they carry on anyway.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
One thing that really hits you when you're directly affected by gun violence in schools is that there's nowhere to hide. Public, private, religious, whatever - unless you're going to homeschool your kids, we live in a world where they're at risk of something like this happening.
Highly recommend to watch this and check out the fundraiser while youâre at it:
Is she going to tell kids how AI can help exacerbate their mental health crises and suggest ways to off themselves? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Watch Last Week Tonightâs episode about Deferred Prosecution Agreements - executives avoid accountability for decisions to kill people all the time youtu.be/xNo8Ve-Ej6U?...
Whether or not AI can suffer matters less than the suffering its human creators can cause aftermath.site/ai-suffering...
No, his mother found him hanging in his closetâŠher son is gone and she had to find him that way, exactly as ChatGPT helped him arrange his death
Sadly, I have dense breast tissue so they stretch and smash mine flat so aggressively they leave bruises on my ribs, and then I get a letter saying they canât see through my breast and I need an ultrasound screen, but insurance wonât cover it so I must pay out of pocket - it sucks every time I
Letâs just say, having the guy who bankrupt six of the companies he ran, now allocating billions of dollars of US taxpayer money as investments may not be such a great idea! This is crazy! I wouldnât let him manage a dime of my money!
His nails look bad - multiple health issues could cause the bruising and dry, ridged, yellowing nailsâŠ
Been hearing a lot about Rockbridge Network lately, something we should all be aware of:
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." âThe Declaration of Independence
Here, fixed it.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasnât much reporting on it. But Iâm not finished thinking about it! 𧔠An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 âblast-proofâ windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
I am congenitally resistant to conspiracy thinking, but this really does feel like a eugenic plot. There is some dark, pseudo-Darwinian thinking on the right that equates illness with moral unfitness, and prefers that the weak die, indeed demands that they be culled. Truly a death cult.
Also notableâshe has a pretty flexible definition of âconcerningâ behavior. Perhaps we should demand a definitionâŠ
Sure, on the one hand, this will make people worse off and contribute to climate change, but on the other hand it means higher demand on the energy grid which raises electricity prices for us all! đ„ł
The 8 billion tons of plastic waste on Earth pose a grave and growing danger to human health, according to a new report. Ahead of international negotiations on a plastics treaty, authors warn that countries urgently need to cut production.
Iâm glad that the woman at the center of this story was able to make the choice she felt was right for her and her family. But whatâs happening here is horrifying: conservatives are valorizing these stories strategicallyâthey want to make the skyrocketing maternal mortality rate *positive*
I don't want a ballroom in The White House. I want healthcare.
Curtis Yarvin keeps being extremely racist in publicâand Vice President JD Vance keeps following him. Hmm, why is that? www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...
Love this.
Not just him - itâs how a lot of them got rich(er)
Their goal seems to be replacing the masses with automatons and AI.
Absolutely surreal to watch White House reporters ask Leavitt questions about tariffs moments after she and Gabbard used this briefing to baselessly accuse Obama of crimes punishable by death. Weâre a sick joke of a country.
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
This is an excellent video. I may show in my global inequality class this fall. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oOvf...
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
I love buying school suppliesâso much potential!
You may have missed this with all the other news going on. But if you are a veteran or care about our veterans, I hope you pay attention. đ§”đđ»
Defense tech, AI surveillance, and far-right pro-Trump ideologies are merging as Silicon Valleyâs obsession with profit fuels a dangerous new era of "the war on terror 2.0." In my latest video, I dig into how Shaun Maguire is playing a leading role in this new landscape. Please watch and share!!
Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
ââŠtherefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.â -John Donne
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This man is speaking truth to us. If you watch anything today, please let this be it: I had to split it this is 1/2.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire "a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth" buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie.
The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazilâs military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
I donât think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make whatâs happening now look like childâs play. And people are disappearing.
IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org
Called and spoke to a staffer â thanks for the links and info
Gah, Kinkaid (my autocorrect disagrees with this spelling)
They (collectively) are pining for a time that never existed. They want to live in 50s era TV shows or Kincaid paintings
Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors whoâve decided itâs somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so⊠in the pursuit of accuracy.
Next week's newsletter (wheresyoured.at) includes a message to anybody in the tech media, or really anybody covering anything in business and tech in any way.
Every location shown is now up for sale, unless WE the people stop it. đ Weâre still on a democracy, itâs up to us, tell them what you think about it. Call YOUR SENATORS or spam their social media with comments. Make sure they know what we think about this plan. #publiclandsinpublichands
Take note.
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đš Thereâs a lot of horrific news out of Washington right nowâbut you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down whatâs in the bill and why itâs a full-scale land grab. đ§”
They built this country They built this country on graft and blow Built this country They built this country on graft and blow Elon says he bought an election, put DJT in place DJT says to save billions, cut Elon off from space Knee deep in the bullshit, stinking up the right
Everyone acting as if itâs inevitable that humans will largely be removed from business, and leaders gleefully crowing about the employment apocalypse, is bleak. If weâre not people creating things for other people, whatâs the F-ing point? LinkedIn is an AI dystopian wasteland
When your car is stolen and stripped down for parts and all that is left is the body, you cannot rebuild it. You have to get a new car. This is also an analogy for what is happening to our country. You think they won't strip mine Yosemite/the Grand Canyon? Make camps for dissident intellectuals?
I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Every time someone tells me they use AI to summarize books or articles for them I ask, how do you know it was accurate? What if itâs not? How would you know? And they seem to have not thought about this risk at all.
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..." "A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Everything is sad and terrible and awful, but the prickly pears are still blooming oblivious to any outrage or tragedy. Take time to notice the beauty so you can power up for the fight.
It is completely obvious that RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya plan to take away as many vaccines as possible from Americans. Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you donât understand it, itâs probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.
"I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom." - Abraham Lincoln
Dana Point Protest, PCH and Crown Valley Pkwy. May 24th.
And in America the family gets to deal with bankruptcy too because they have to pay for the state coerced intensive healthcare thatâs costing them $10k+ a dayâŠand the fetus wonât make it anywayâŠitâs deeply fucked
One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about —ïž
You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? Thatâs us right now.
Also, the average American parent doesnât have the science literacy to understand the studies if they do read them - mom boards are a hive of misunderstood reading to make false claims about vaccine dangers
Imagine the biggest problem in your life being about which bathroom a total stranger uses. Imagine pretending random people you'll never meet are somehow victimizing you with their existence. Imagine being that hard up for troubles that you have to invent them just so you can play the victim.
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I will say it again: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Here we go again
Last one for Tax Day â NOAA đ The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. đĄ NOAA turns science into safety â for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.
We canât afford silence right now. Share this post. Talk about it in your group chats, your circles, your Sunday brunch, your book club, your kidâs soccer sideline. We donât need permission to sound the alarmâwe just need each other to hear it.
Everyone has their own priorities and no one can possibly attend to or care about every fire this regime sets. But ppl being disappeared without due process and sent to a foreign prison should fully panic everyone body and soul and I need more folks with bigger voices to start screaming about it
Aliso Viejo, CA - April 5th, 2025. The line of protesters stretched a half mile down the road in red south Orange County. Lots of honks from supporters and a small group of counter protesters with suspiciously large flags.
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
Hey guys remember the Hillary Clinton email server? Seems kinda, small today, doesnât it?
ButâŠher emails
To help keep track of all the programs the Trump Administration wants to cut, I figured there was no better format than a bracket. Hereâs mine.
When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO... "Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads... "The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire
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WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF BULLSHIT PARTY IS THIS??? WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE DEMS DOING THERE???
As a professor of English, allow me to try, humbly and with the proper respect, to offer an appropriate response to the Presidentâs address: Fuck you, you fucked-up fuck, and fuck all the fuckers who willingly fuck with you, especially. You can all fuck all the way off, and then fuck off some more.
