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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Hi bluesky I made you a giraph ok thanks
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You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.
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Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!)
The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness.
LOUDER.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!)
The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness.
LOUDER.
Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in.
Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.
It's like his work never happened.
Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol.
It's like his work never happened.
September 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!)
The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness.
LOUDER.
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!)
The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness.
LOUDER.
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The real trajectory is that reactionary, undemocratic, unconstitutional, white nationalist and supremacist political forces have always resided in the United States, and that is once again what we are dealing with, albeit with exceptional characteristics.
September 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The real trajectory is that reactionary, undemocratic, unconstitutional, white nationalist and supremacist political forces have always resided in the United States, and that is once again what we are dealing with, albeit with exceptional characteristics.
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The Trump administration's actions, paired with ABC's capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.
But, we all have a right to express ourselves, and we won't stop defending that right.
But, we all have a right to express ourselves, and we won't stop defending that right.
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Trump administration's actions, paired with ABC's capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms.
But, we all have a right to express ourselves, and we won't stop defending that right.
But, we all have a right to express ourselves, and we won't stop defending that right.
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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.
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/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.
September 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
/6 Also: if a Left-wing activist even remotely as strident as Charlie Kirk had been assassinated, Charlie Kirk would have smirked and applauded, as would have many of the people who are going to be loudest about Charlie Kirk. Don’t buy the hypocrisy.
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We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
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The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
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Heads up: ICE took a Brazilian trans woman in DC.
Her name is Alice Correia Barbosa.
No one has been able to find her.
If anyone hears anything at all, please DM me or reach out to OP on Reddit:
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
Her name is Alice Correia Barbosa.
No one has been able to find her.
If anyone hears anything at all, please DM me or reach out to OP on Reddit:
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
From the washingtondc community on Reddit: Trans Woman Violently Taken by ICE
Explore this post and more from the washingtondc community
www.reddit.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Heads up: ICE took a Brazilian trans woman in DC.
Her name is Alice Correia Barbosa.
No one has been able to find her.
If anyone hears anything at all, please DM me or reach out to OP on Reddit:
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
Her name is Alice Correia Barbosa.
No one has been able to find her.
If anyone hears anything at all, please DM me or reach out to OP on Reddit:
www.reddit.com/r/washington...
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Bacteria and archaea living in the Earth’s crust collectively outweigh more than 200 million blue whales, according to calculations by the microbial geochemist Karen Lloyd.
The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable | Quanta Magazine
A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push…
www.quantamagazine.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Bacteria and archaea living in the Earth’s crust collectively outweigh more than 200 million blue whales, according to calculations by the microbial geochemist Karen Lloyd.
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how could they breach PACER, that system is the pinnacle of 1998 technology
BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.
Cartels may be able to target witnesses after major court hack
There is growing concern that cartels and foreign actors could use the stolen data to identify informants and foil criminal probes.
www.politico.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
how could they breach PACER, that system is the pinnacle of 1998 technology
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Just to reiterate: What this administration is doing right now is orders of magnitude more dangerous for academic freedom and free speech than anything the right has spent the last 30 years complaining about.
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It’s a crusade of cruelty.
NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
apnews.com/article/migr...
apnews.com/article/migr...
New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water
A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.
apnews.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It’s a crusade of cruelty.
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ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
June 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
After realizing he’s American, they just slink away.
Their only explanation: “Why were you running?”
Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.
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Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news
June 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news
I miss compassion, reason, and honesty.
June 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I miss compassion, reason, and honesty.
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This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
June 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is the vulnerability that lots of pseudo-intellectuals take advantage of too! Just speaking fluently can convince some people that what you're saying must also be smart...
