molly
@djmollyparton.bsky.social
Bicoastal (WNY & Albany)
Former journalist, aspiring librarian
Honky tonk bingo dj (on hiatus)
Former journalist, aspiring librarian
Honky tonk bingo dj (on hiatus)
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SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.
My report:
My report:
ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.
www.thehandbasket.co
June 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day.
My report:
My report:
I have always wanted twitter/bsky to be my dumping ground for sitcom thoughts but then I log on and see news about ~serious important things~ and feel bad posting my ideas for a queer designing women reboot (redesigning women obv)
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I have always wanted twitter/bsky to be my dumping ground for sitcom thoughts but then I log on and see news about ~serious important things~ and feel bad posting my ideas for a queer designing women reboot (redesigning women obv)
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"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason"
Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
Trump’s commissars are looking for ideological enemies.
www.theatlantic.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"American officials have now been explicitly asked to make lists of their contacts with other Americans, for no practical, legal, or national-security reason"
Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read @theatlantic.com on a State Dept witch hunt
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Staring into space realizing all the crazy communist boys were right
April 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Staring into space realizing all the crazy communist boys were right
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Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."
April 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."
Oops did some impulsive online shopping lol!! (Subscribed to several paper magazines)
April 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Oops did some impulsive online shopping lol!! (Subscribed to several paper magazines)
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My first experience of censorship with ChatGPT shows that criticism of Big Tech is not super allowed because it does not seem to be related to propaganda. However, it generated a picture slowly and painfully before refusing to go any further. #GAIexperiment
March 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
My first experience of censorship with ChatGPT shows that criticism of Big Tech is not super allowed because it does not seem to be related to propaganda. However, it generated a picture slowly and painfully before refusing to go any further. #GAIexperiment
Watched the Secret of Kells this weekend and was LOSING it because it was so beautiful 🤩
I went to see Princess Mononoke in theaters last night. The theater was absolutely packed on a random Sunday night. The entire crowd applauded at the start and end of the movie of a movie that came out in 1997. Ai may steal Miyazaki style but it will never be a Miyazaki film. Ai art isn’t real art.
April 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Watched the Secret of Kells this weekend and was LOSING it because it was so beautiful 🤩
@wired.com referencing my media hero #MarshallMcLuhan 🥹 so excited to read a whole print magazine (and not have to return it to the library) #liltreats
April 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
@wired.com referencing my media hero #MarshallMcLuhan 🥹 so excited to read a whole print magazine (and not have to return it to the library) #liltreats
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The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won.
Now, we must carry the fight forward.
Now, we must carry the fight forward.
Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.
www.thenation.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The great champion of independent, speak-truth-to-power journalism, and of the democracy that can only survive if the press is free, Robert W. McChesney, has died at age 72. He fought the media oligarchs and the politicians who served them — and often won.
Now, we must carry the fight forward.
Now, we must carry the fight forward.
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The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
www.npr.org
March 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
viewing Trump as first & foremost a media/TV personality makes the Designing Women roasts of him that much more devastating
March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
viewing Trump as first & foremost a media/TV personality makes the Designing Women roasts of him that much more devastating
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Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
March 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
if you see this will u send me the link to a spotify playlist that you made that you think someone might like? it doesn't have to be good just not AI
March 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
if you see this will u send me the link to a spotify playlist that you made that you think someone might like? it doesn't have to be good just not AI
I wanna put together a zine with pages from people’s personal notebooks, notes, planners, journals…. Can be anonymous. DM me? lol
March 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I wanna put together a zine with pages from people’s personal notebooks, notes, planners, journals…. Can be anonymous. DM me? lol
It’s hard being full of good ideas and only being able to execute like 0.1% of them
March 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
It’s hard being full of good ideas and only being able to execute like 0.1% of them
If I ever ask to hear music that is so quiet, almost a whisper, a sweet nearly nothing, play me Michael Cera’s cover of Clay Pigeons
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
If I ever ask to hear music that is so quiet, almost a whisper, a sweet nearly nothing, play me Michael Cera’s cover of Clay Pigeons
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Not an exaggeration to say this was pound-for-pound the most effective piece of US public diplomacy in China. Twitter was blocked, but U.S. embassy pollution tweets forced Beijing to start publishing its own pollution data, which fed public outrage. Result: millions breathing vastly less toxic air
U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad
Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Not an exaggeration to say this was pound-for-pound the most effective piece of US public diplomacy in China. Twitter was blocked, but U.S. embassy pollution tweets forced Beijing to start publishing its own pollution data, which fed public outrage. Result: millions breathing vastly less toxic air
Lenten stack let’s see yours #irishliterature
March 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Lenten stack let’s see yours #irishliterature
I wanna see people’s #scrapbooks & #collaging setups & long term projects lists but NOT professionals or influencers but average pokes… I think of making a feed/account for this tho I imagine some exist lol
March 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I wanna see people’s #scrapbooks & #collaging setups & long term projects lists but NOT professionals or influencers but average pokes… I think of making a feed/account for this tho I imagine some exist lol
what? that racket? oh that's just the sound of the irish american girlies starting their annual lenten derry girls rewatch 🙏☘️🍻
March 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
what? that racket? oh that's just the sound of the irish american girlies starting their annual lenten derry girls rewatch 🙏☘️🍻
People feel crazy for making lists of lists they have or need to make—this is not crazy at all, this is information organization, this is what cataloging is, and lists of lists is essentially what a database is. You’re just trying to organize your info!
February 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
People feel crazy for making lists of lists they have or need to make—this is not crazy at all, this is information organization, this is what cataloging is, and lists of lists is essentially what a database is. You’re just trying to organize your info!
calling my rep daily asking her to protect the post office because social media is causing mental, emotional and physical illness and we all desperately need to be able to send cute notes and cards and letters and pictures to each other otherwise what is the point
February 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
calling my rep daily asking her to protect the post office because social media is causing mental, emotional and physical illness and we all desperately need to be able to send cute notes and cards and letters and pictures to each other otherwise what is the point