Page Hill Starzinger
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Page Hill Starzinger
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Thank you @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for introducing “My Body Knows Its Limits” today on The Slowdown. “One of the things I’m wary about when it comes to ‘AI’ specifically, is [a] . . . lack of embodiment. What is a brain without a body?” @slowdownshow.org

www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
October 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The Paramount-Skydance merger is corruption in plain sight.

These corporations paid $36 million to Trump in bribes.

Then they had CBS cancel Stephen Colbert’s show for criticizing Trump.

The Trump regime is a criminal enterprise, and billionaires are buying into it.

Boycott Paramount & Skydance.
FCC approves Paramount's $8 billion deal with Skydance, capping months of turmoil
The stamp of approval from the Federal Communications Commission comes after months of turmoil revolving around President Donald Trump’s legal battle with “60 Minutes,” the crown jewel of Paramount-ow...
www.pbs.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is what it looks like without a United States Congress.
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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So many emptying or dying towns across so many countries determined to keep out migrants. It was great to see one mayor at least try something different and succeed, even if his country turned on him. Maybe someday Lucano's leadership in Riace will be recognized. www.bbc.com/news/in-pict...
Riace: The Italian village abandoned by locals, adopted by migrants
Once heading for the status of ghost town, Riace is now growing as migrants have moved into abandoned homes.
www.bbc.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Something worth noting is how the press is leaning into the framing that what’s happening in LA is a both sides issue or that they are riots. Even when the LAPD is saying it’s under control, suddenly for the first time in their lives the press is willing to ignore them
June 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Just to be clear: the President has mobilized the Marines on American soil because people are protesting masked, secret police kidnapping people with no due process and shipping them to foreign death camps.

It’s not a misunderstanding or an oversight.

That is all it is.

There is no other side.
June 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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There are now more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than in Iraq & Syria. There are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria.--ABC News
June 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
June 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a crowd of protesters peacefully demonstrating in Downtown L.A to protest ongoing ICE raid operations, Trump’s federalization of the National Guard, and the mobilization of 700+ Marines to the area

📍Los Angeles, CA
June 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Re-posting this for the prose. 🙏🔥
I live in Los Angeles and let me put what's going on in context. Downtown Los Angeles is less than 5 square miles and the City of Los Angeles is 502 square miles. So the orange shit stain is spending all our money on his "flex" What an absolute waste of human tissue he is
June 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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BREAKING: Massive Anti ICE crowd in Chicago marches to demand an end to mass deportations and show solidarity with LA

“Nobody is illegal — all power to the people!”
June 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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BREAKING: We're asking a court to stop the Trump administration's fast-track deportation policy.

ICE should not be able to arrest people at their immigration appointments and deport them without any due process.
June 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Protestor shot in the head by the LAPD today and they wouldn't call an ambulance.

Notice how few protestors there are.
June 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Stephen Miller ordered ICE to ramp up arrests—focusing not on violent criminals, but anyone they could grab. Home Depot raids, protests, and military escalation followed. This isn’t law and order. It’s chaos by design. Dangerous, deliberate, and disgraceful.
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Order Likely Sparked Immigration Arrests And Protests
Orders to federal agents to increase the arrests of people without criminal convictions likely sparked immigration arrests and protests.
www.forbes.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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This might be the most batshit insane one I've seen yet. LAPD point-blank shoots a woman trying to walk home, no one else around.
LAPD Officer Shoots Lone Unarmed Woman Trying to Get Home
www.reddit.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Just saying.
January 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Amazing strategy to silence all public health communications riiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhtt when we might have some bird flu to talk about
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.

No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.

And no indication how long the pause will last.

With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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"Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per Trump's executive order, all of them would be female."
January 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Just learned that my legally cast ballot in North Carolina is among the 60,000 challenged by Jefferson Griffin in the NC Supreme Court race. I’ve been registered at my current address for multiple election cycles, confirmed my registration as valid before Election Day, and showed ID.
January 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We know all this already, but there’s a thread on X with what perports to be this letter from an X employee ( presumably now no longer employed there)…. I have no way to verify this. It’s just bracing if it’s authentic—even if we know we know this.
January 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM