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Congrats, Kristi!
Hope you can do for Homeland Security what you have done for SD tourism!
@joemygod.bsky.social
@joemygod.bsky.social
Congrats, Kristi!
Hope you can do for Homeland Security what you have done for SD tourism!
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America isn’t ready for what AI will do to jobs, Josh Tyrangiel reports. For The Atlantic’s March cover story, he spoke with economists, CEO whisperers, and politicians about how the technology will reshape the economy—and test the country’s institutions: theatln.tc/dJ29sokd
February 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
America isn’t ready for what AI will do to jobs, Josh Tyrangiel reports. For The Atlantic’s March cover story, he spoke with economists, CEO whisperers, and politicians about how the technology will reshape the economy—and test the country’s institutions: theatln.tc/dJ29sokd
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The DOW has fallen below 50,000 today.
$1 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market.
No one tell Pam Bondi.
$1 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market.
No one tell Pam Bondi.
February 13, 2026 at 2:43 AM
The DOW has fallen below 50,000 today.
$1 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market.
No one tell Pam Bondi.
$1 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market.
No one tell Pam Bondi.
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Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the deficit.
Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit.
Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit.
February 13, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the deficit.
Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit.
Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the deficit.
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Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
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Millennials living through their jobs replaced by AI, unaffordable housing, $1.7 trillion student loan debt, a global pandemic, 4 recessions, and 7 stock market crashes, all before hitting 45.
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Millennials living through their jobs replaced by AI, unaffordable housing, $1.7 trillion student loan debt, a global pandemic, 4 recessions, and 7 stock market crashes, all before hitting 45.
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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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AU calls for end to ‘extermination’ of Palestinians, decries African wars https://aje.news/52drba
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
AU calls for end to ‘extermination’ of Palestinians, decries African wars https://aje.news/52drba
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As New Delhi endures another winter of deadly smog, public anger is growing over a pollution crisis India's government has failed to resolve.
India’s Toxic Air Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point
Months of deadly smog in New Delhi are sharpening public anger over a pollution crisis the government has failed to fix.
bloom.bg
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 AM
As New Delhi endures another winter of deadly smog, public anger is growing over a pollution crisis India's government has failed to resolve.
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"Dell's decision to keep working in Israel sends a clear message: Palestinian lives are disposable – and so are the lives of its own employees."
"[P]ressure Dell and other companies to end their complicity."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Protest #Technology #Genocide
"[P]ressure Dell and other companies to end their complicity."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Protest #Technology #Genocide
Why I quit Dell over Gaza
I could no longer sell my labor to a company enabling genocide.
electronicintifada.net
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"Dell's decision to keep working in Israel sends a clear message: Palestinian lives are disposable – and so are the lives of its own employees."
"[P]ressure Dell and other companies to end their complicity."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Protest #Technology #Genocide
"[P]ressure Dell and other companies to end their complicity."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #Protest #Technology #Genocide
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Israeli violence in the West Bank isn't as dramatic as in Gaza, but it is methodical, durable, and sometimes harder to understand. Here’s how Israel is using settler terror, financial policies, and legal tactics to suffocate Palestinian life.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/how-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/how-...
#Palestine #Israel
How Israel is eroding life for Palestinians in the West Bank
Israeli violence in the West Bank isn’t as dramatic as in Gaza, but it is methodical, durable, and sometimes harder to understand. Here’s how Israel is using settler terror, financial policies, and...
mondoweiss.net
February 13, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Israeli violence in the West Bank isn't as dramatic as in Gaza, but it is methodical, durable, and sometimes harder to understand. Here’s how Israel is using settler terror, financial policies, and legal tactics to suffocate Palestinian life.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/how-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/how-...
#Palestine #Israel
#privacymatters
@janekleeb.bsky.social
Why haven’t @nebraskadems.bsky.social senators introduced a bill to ban surveillance pricing?
Do they think their Republican constituents *like* paying more?
In fact, why haven’t Republican senators done this? Are they waiting for Dems to get there first?
@janekleeb.bsky.social
Why haven’t @nebraskadems.bsky.social senators introduced a bill to ban surveillance pricing?
Do they think their Republican constituents *like* paying more?
In fact, why haven’t Republican senators done this? Are they waiting for Dems to get there first?
Oregon lawmakers are joining a national fight to ban "surveillance pricing" — AI-driven tech that lets grocery stores change prices in real-time based on your personal data and ZIP code.
Oregon Lawmakers Join National Push to Ban ‘Surveillance Pricing’ in Grocery Aisles
Oregon lawmakers are joining a national fight to ban "surveillance pricing" — AI-driven tech that lets grocery stores change prices in real-time based on your personal data and ZIP code.
stumptownsavings.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:31 PM
#privacymatters
@janekleeb.bsky.social
Why haven’t @nebraskadems.bsky.social senators introduced a bill to ban surveillance pricing?
Do they think their Republican constituents *like* paying more?
In fact, why haven’t Republican senators done this? Are they waiting for Dems to get there first?
@janekleeb.bsky.social
Why haven’t @nebraskadems.bsky.social senators introduced a bill to ban surveillance pricing?
Do they think their Republican constituents *like* paying more?
In fact, why haven’t Republican senators done this? Are they waiting for Dems to get there first?
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The Justice Department's top antitrust enforcer is out just weeks before it's set to go to trial against Live Nation over its alleged entertainment monopoly. Semafor recently reported that Slater had been sidelined in negotiations over the case. www.theverge.com/policy/87816...
Top DOJ antitrust enforcer is out weeks before Live Nation trial
The agency is in charge of monopoly cases against Apple and Google, too.
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The Justice Department's top antitrust enforcer is out just weeks before it's set to go to trial against Live Nation over its alleged entertainment monopoly. Semafor recently reported that Slater had been sidelined in negotiations over the case. www.theverge.com/policy/87816...
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Even when it starts to fray at the seams a bit, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die feels like the perfect encapsulation of everything that makes life in 2026 feel so insane. Didn't expect it to be more Weapons than Black Mirror. My review:
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a rollicking parable about this moment in tech
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a rollicking parable about this moment in tech
Gore Verbinski’s latest film wants you to put down your phone.
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Even when it starts to fray at the seams a bit, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die feels like the perfect encapsulation of everything that makes life in 2026 feel so insane. Didn't expect it to be more Weapons than Black Mirror. My review:
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In one swoop, Trump kills US greenhouse gas regulations
In one swoop, Trump kills US greenhouse gas regulations
The EPA is rescinding a landmark public health finding.
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 7:40 PM
In one swoop, Trump kills US greenhouse gas regulations
Ring walks away from Flock. Statement is a doozy! www.theverge.com/news/878447/...
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
www.theverge.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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Nebraska SOS Bob Evnen on the conservative Omaha talk radio station KFAB about handing over sensitive voter data to the DOJ:
February 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Nebraska SOS Bob Evnen on the conservative Omaha talk radio station KFAB about handing over sensitive voter data to the DOJ:
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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History rhymes. At the beginning of the Japanese American incarceration- I’ll never call it an “internment” again because fuck euphemisms - the WRA camps weren’t prepared to feed/house not just the sheer # of people, but whole families. Many prisoners had to plant illicit gardens for sustenance. 1/x
And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.
1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
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1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
21/
February 12, 2026 at 4:44 AM
History rhymes. At the beginning of the Japanese American incarceration- I’ll never call it an “internment” again because fuck euphemisms - the WRA camps weren’t prepared to feed/house not just the sheer # of people, but whole families. Many prisoners had to plant illicit gardens for sustenance. 1/x
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100% support this idea.
I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 AM
100% support this idea.
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The Omaha Nebraska based Gallup after 88 years will no longer poll presidential approval in compliance w King Trump
The Secretary of State of Nebraska Robert Evnen will handover my voter information to the Trump DOJ
Nebraska is a MAGA state of compliant submissive pussies
The Secretary of State of Nebraska Robert Evnen will handover my voter information to the Trump DOJ
Nebraska is a MAGA state of compliant submissive pussies
Nebraska SOS Bob Evnen on the conservative Omaha talk radio station KFAB about handing over sensitive voter data to the DOJ:
February 13, 2026 at 12:51 AM
The Omaha Nebraska based Gallup after 88 years will no longer poll presidential approval in compliance w King Trump
The Secretary of State of Nebraska Robert Evnen will handover my voter information to the Trump DOJ
Nebraska is a MAGA state of compliant submissive pussies
The Secretary of State of Nebraska Robert Evnen will handover my voter information to the Trump DOJ
Nebraska is a MAGA state of compliant submissive pussies
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Don’t forget scott weiner. He’s running for Pelosi’s seat and is also against this ONE-TIME tax of wealth above 1 billion dollars. Both newsom and weiner are tools for the billionaire class. They’re also both pro genocide.
January 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Don’t forget scott weiner. He’s running for Pelosi’s seat and is also against this ONE-TIME tax of wealth above 1 billion dollars. Both newsom and weiner are tools for the billionaire class. They’re also both pro genocide.
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California actually has a history of dominance by industries, but now, threatened by a one-time tax on their wealth, the billionaire industry is trying to outright buy the legislature and governor's mansion. From Harold Meyerson:
prospect.org/2026/02/02/b...
prospect.org/2026/02/02/b...
To Avoid a Tax Hike, Billionaires Decide to Take Over California - The American Prospect
Facing a proposed wealth tax that would restore health cuts, they’re pouring money into their own gubernatorial and legislative candidates.
prospect.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:08 PM
California actually has a history of dominance by industries, but now, threatened by a one-time tax on their wealth, the billionaire industry is trying to outright buy the legislature and governor's mansion. From Harold Meyerson:
prospect.org/2026/02/02/b...
prospect.org/2026/02/02/b...
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Remember when Republicans made the law that would not allow tax money to go toward abortions even though they were legal at that time? They created the precedence for defunding ice detention centers.
February 10, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Remember when Republicans made the law that would not allow tax money to go toward abortions even though they were legal at that time? They created the precedence for defunding ice detention centers.
