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In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Elizabeth Catlett
Name a woman you consider a genius
December 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Make sure to watch Deportation, Inc., the new investigative video series from @lawfaremedia.org and @situ-research.bsky.social on the vast web of companies that make up the rapidly growing deportation economy.
Deportation Inc. - YouTube
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I preached this on the old bad bird site:

If you don’t know what someone’s initials stand for, simply use their other fully spelled out first or middle name.

If all you have is initials, use their last name.

Courtney Bourtney Vance
Furray Murray Abraham
Jolkein Rolkein Rolkein Tolkein
December 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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hi, cis folks!

this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers.

they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both.

tap into the 🧵for a quick action.
a sequel:

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Congratulations again to every major media editor who tried to sell Peter Thiel’s fake Appalachian messenger boy as a Reasonable Empathetic Conservative
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/jd-v...
JD Vance: our coalition accepts everyone who thinks the Democrat Party is controlled by Jewish financiers - Lawyers, Guns & Money
You can’t accuse him of being subtle: Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-p...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"

wrong

I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI

get good
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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“Alexander Farmer, a student at the school, gave a powerful speech …”

"Use our voices in this school and in our neighborhoods and anywhere where people will listen,” he said. "If we stay silent, the separation continues. If we speak out, we can help protect families who deserve to stay home.”
North Carolina 9th grader Marielle Peloquin Mueller wrote up a report on her school’s walkout:

“Families, students and the people of North Carolina and the U.S.A. are tired of screaming for equality."

thelocalreporter.press/local-studen...
December 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I have to say weird stuff or I'll die, simple as
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...
The Rules of Grief
The post-Kirk purge was never about decency. Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder proves it.
www.readtpa.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Say hello to our striking baristas in Buffalo, NY! 11 days into our national ULP strike and we're only getting stronger 💪

RT if you stand with baristas and won't buy Starbucks while workers are on ULP strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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One woman chewed through her umbilical cord after giving birth in jail — another delivered into a cell toilet

'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies endure inhumane conditions in jails

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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UPDATE: In the National Guard / Oregon case, today Oregon filed a request at the Ninth Circuit formally asking to consolidate the appeals — of the TRO and the partial final judgment — and opposing the stay and administrative stay sought by DOJ. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.

he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.

situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM