chipbeckett.bsky.social
@chipbeckett.bsky.social
Old commie coming to be nearer the anarchists. Bad gardener.
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Jewellery can be confiscated from refugees to pay for processing them, as one minister gleefully told the press—seemingly blissfully unaware of the horrific echoes such a despicable policy conjures up.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/19/l...
Labour rolls out the full fash playlist - Freedom News
Far-right glee tells you all you need to know about the government’s asylum plans ~ punkacademic ~ Plans announced by the Home Secretary Shabana …
freedomnews.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🚨 Call to action!
The universal Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine recommendation is under threat at the upcoming ACIP meeting (Dec 4–5, 2025).
🗣️ Public comment prior to the meeting is OPEN until Nov 24
💬 How to submit written or oral comments:https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/index.html
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"By excluding trans and non-binary people, it's just not doing what I think it was set up to do. It excludes people that have helped create the community that I was nominated for."

"Sharpe said trans women were important players... and urged them not to be disheartened by Cycling UK's decision."
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Q: "The Attorney General said that she would refuse to release any information that would re-victimize the victims. I'm just wondering whether that stands after the passage of this law?"

Blanche: "The law isn't signed into law yet."
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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"Some parents shared deeply distressing accounts of what they have heard about the services, including stories of patients as young as 11 being continually asked about their genitals and sex life."

Parents say: “They are killing our children” share.google/zAlvx2QNLX1a...
Parents say: “They are killing our children”
Parents cry out in despair for their children at the NHS Sussex investigation into WellBN's prescription of gender dysphoria medication
share.google
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Trump's EPA is proposing rule changes that if approved would result in fewer ponds, streams and wetlands being protected from development and pollution under clean water rules.

Read all about this proposal and what it means @bloomberg.com (w/a gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How Trump EPA's Rewrite of US Water Definitions Would Affect Climate Change
The agency wants to change the definitions of waterways protected under the Clean Water Act.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Studies of fecal bacteria have led some researchers to propose a link between the gut microbiome and autism.

But a new paper argues the claim rests on shaky foundations. https://scim.ag/48lckEh
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say
Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations
scim.ag
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Since helping Trump return to power, the Supreme Court’s GOP majority has permitted a long list of his lawless actions, using its shadow docket to back him roughly 90 percent of the time.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think - The American Prospect
It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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UK Pulls Access To Intel Since It Doesn’t Want To Be Part Of Trump’s ‘Murder People In Boats’ Program

This won't matter to Donald Trump or the dozens of administration officials who live to please him. In all likelihood, it will just lead to Trump and his administration smearing one of this…
UK Pulls Access To Intel Since It Doesn’t Want To Be Part Of Trump’s ‘Murder People In Boats’ Program
This won't matter to Donald Trump or the dozens of administration officials who live to please him. In all likelihood, it will just lead to Trump and his administration smearing one of this nation's allies for being weak on crime and too supportive of people who are being murdered by the US government. But it should matter to everyone else.
www.techdirt.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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To that end, in my newsletter — in the “closing my tabs” bonus section for paid subscribers — I shouted out some college student journalists tonight:

www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Lindsey Graham: "I don't think I've ever been on a show more unnerving than tonight. You've got US senators and members of the House suggesting to our men and women in the military that they should be disobeying unlawful orders issued by President Trump and his military."
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Getting subpoenaed by the US government over bluesky posts
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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These two men chased a disabled homeless woman out of a mostly empty industrial area parking lot where she parked her car to try to sleep.

The face of evil doesn’t look like a movie villain. It just looks like people like this. Laughing, smug, self-assured, as they attack people trying to survive.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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For me it's the way the press pool just quietly went along with it because he's the president

The entire point of this country is that we don't have to let some guy do whatever he wants just because of his title. We don't have to respect him or go along with him just because he holds an office
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM