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rbreich.bsky.social
Trump just confirmed he'll sign an executive order banning states from regulating AI.

It's a huge victory for Big Tech, which has spent millions lobbying to stop guardrails against AI. https://youtu.be/imtkNL4v2ks?si=lA7bwZgq-9DYkij5
Big Tech's AI Power-Grab
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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janevoter2018.bsky.social
It’s as if Anne Frank was describing the state sanctioned terror in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
December, 2025
Words on a poster that says: ‘“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Anne Frank, 1943.
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Trump’s human trafficking adjacent adult son, Trump jr, is spreading Russian disinformation now. (🎥
@nextatvofficial.bsky.social )
December 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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motherjones.com
“Ben & Jerry’s has been silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power.”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Ben, Jerry told to “hand over” Ben & Jerry's by corporate big wigs
"This is another attempt to silence the social mission," co-founder Ben Cohen told the Financial Times.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
Should it side with the president, the Supreme Court could supercharge Trump’s effort to assert absolute control over agencies that regulate the economy, the stock market, federal campaign finance and communications. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments In Trump’s Bid for Total Control of Government
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
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How many newspaper Editorial Boards have called for Pres. Trump's impeachment (or resignation)?

As far as we know, only one: @sentinelcolorado.com

Our 2 part series: journalism, trust, press freedom & how a local newspaper serves its community-and democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...
First in the Nation: A Courageous Editorial Board Calls for Trump’s Impeachment
American Democracy is under siege. The President of the United States is subverting the Constitution. One patriotic Editorial Board rises to the moment.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The most transparent administration in history is now hiding both the complete Epstein files and the complete video of the Sept. 2 boat strike from the American people, only releasing the parts of each that they want you to see while concealing the rest.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
US and Russian officials participated in a coordinated attack on Europe which saw thousands of bots spread disinformation and terroristic rhetoric against the European Union.
Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev g ... EU's fatal mistake: choosing censorship over debate, ideology over reality, mass migration over security and green dogma over industry. Secretary Marco Rubio © @SecRubio • 5. Dez. The European Commission's $140 million fine isn't just an attack on @X, it's an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over. %% Vorgeschlagene kollektive Anmerkungen bewerten → Christopher Landau v ® @DeputySecState g ... My recent trip to Brussels for the @NATO Ministerial meeting left me with one overriding impression: the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and security-including censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, support for Communist Cuba, etc etc. This inconsistency cannot continue. Either the great nations of Europe are our partners in protecting the Western civilization that we inherited from them or they are not. But we cannot pretend that we are partners while those nations allow the EU's unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels to pursue policies of civilizational suicide. Post übersetzen 12:53 nachm. • 6. Dez. 2025 • 4,2 Mio. Mal angezeigt JD Vance v @JDVance X.com Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage. 畢 Angeheftet Elon Musk ® X @elonmusk| Abonnieren The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people Post übersetzen| 1:17 nachm. • 6. Dez. 2025 • 12,4 Mio. Mal angezeigt 0 ... • 13.213 | t? 19.336 0107.967| 丫 贝 2.989| 企 Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE • 2 Std. Exactly • 171ゼ］ 149 01.736 Y lit 24.738 贝企
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Elon Musk's "Free Speech" for me, not for thee.
Elon Musk has presented X as a platform with limited content protections and an emphasis on what he describes as “unrestricted speech”. Independent analyses of X since Elon Musk’s takeover have found that the platform’s actual moderation practices diverge from its public presentation as a venue for unrestricted speech. While Musk has repeatedly stated that X is committed to maximal free expression, several documented policy changes and technical interventions indicate that the platform engages in forms of content limitation that critics describe as selective or opaque. Researchers at multiple institutions, including the University of Washington and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, have reported that X continues to remove posts, limit account visibility and apply algorithmic “deboosting” to certain users or topics, often without clear explanation or transparent appeals processes. The platform has also acknowledged the existence of visibility filters, though it argues they are necessary for managing harmful or low quality content. Investigations by media organisations have shown that X has restricted or downgraded the reach of accounts across a wide political spectrum, sometimes affecting journalists, civil society organisations and government critics. In several documented cases, users reported substantial reductions in engagement after posting material critical of governments with which Musk was publicly negotiating or maintaining commercial ties. X has not disclosed the criteria used for such downranking, and the opacity surrounding these decisions has led analysts to conclude that the platform retains broad discretionary control over what circulates widely and what does not. Regulatory bodies in Europe and academic observers have argued that these practices amount to a form of selective moderation rather than the absence of moderation. In particular, researchers point to instances in which content critical of certain authoritarian or semi-authoritarian governments appears to have been restricted, while material from state aligned accounts in those same countries continued to circulate without similar impediments. Such patterns have been noted in relation to Turkey, India and China, states where Musk’s companies have significant business interests and where governments have historically demanded compliance from foreign technology firms. X has complied with a number of takedown requests from these governments, even when they involved political speech. While the platform promotes itself as a defender of free speech, its operational decisions reveal a willingness to limit speech when doing so protects commercial interests, satisfies regulatory demands from powerful states or reduces conflict with governments that hold leverage over Musk’s business operations. In practice, this means that speech may be free only to the extent that it does not jeopardise relationships with governments capable of imposing legal or economic consequences.
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
December 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.

Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.

Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.

Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Somali American U.S. citizen grabbed & detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 24 hours, “sexually assaulted her and said what could you be hiding under your hijab?”
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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murray.senate.gov
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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pinetreeactivism.org
Well now!

“If unlawful force is being used by any law enforcement officer against any person in this city and one of our officers is there, absolutely, I expect them to intervene, or they’ll be fired,” O’Hara said when asked how his officers should respond to excessive force by ICE agents.

#RESIST
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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newrepublic.com
Trump has given a full and unconditional pardon to entertainment executive Tim Leiweke—whom his own Justice Department indicted on charges of “orchestrating a conspiracy to rig the bidding process for an arena at a public university” in Austin. trib.al/qU7UmJr
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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thejenniwren.teamlh.social
What did minimum wage get you each decade? In 2025, it buys you nothing but exhaustion.

There’s not a single place in America where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford even a modest 2-bedroom. Not one. That’s the economy we’re living in. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis
December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The pardons Trump is handing out are a huge, growing scandal that not enough people are talking about. This is a money making operation - for for Trump, his family, his crypto pals, and the Trump-affiliated lobbyists and grifters who the pardon seekers pay.
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Yes, this is worth listening to.

In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.

Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...
ryanenos.bsky.social Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 4d
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
This normalizes corruption, feeding the sentiment that both sides suck and so politics is pointless. A Dem party focused on rehabilitating its broken brand would be criticizing Trump and booting out Cuellar. Let the corrupt guys become corporate lobbyists - they’re dragging our party down.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Conway: This is a criminal government. Unless you are willing to say that, you’re basically fighting on their terms. They get to lie, and they win that battle because people say, “We shouldn’t use that kind of language.”

But you get to use that language when it’s fucking true.
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Can I let you in on a little secret?

Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.

It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM