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Lumo has been recognized in TIME's 2025 Best Inventions special mentions as a private AI assistant.

Unlike Big Tech chatbots, Lumo's approach prioritizes user privacy and data security.

For more details, visit the official TIME article: time.com/collections/...
Proton Lumo: The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions
Find out why Proton Lumo earned a special mention on TIME's list of 2025's best inventions.
time.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Disney didn't watch Andor
September 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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DISNEY: Wins 5 Emmys for ANDOR, a show about resisting fascism

ALSO DISNEY: Bends the knee to the federal government and suspends Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A federal judge dismisses Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times, calling it an undignified public relations exercise.
Judge tosses Trump’s $15B lawsuit against New York Times
The judge gave Trump’s attorneys 28 days to refile the lawsuit and ordered it to be limited to 40 pages, saying Trump must follow the rules requiring complaints to be clear and precise.
www.politico.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Disney has pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show after his comments on the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

The move raises questions of free speech and “what we as a country believe folks should be able to say in public forums,” Megan Messerly says on #playbookpod: ow.ly/nNZ950WYO7u
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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The bogus mortgage fraud investigation into New York AG Letitia James is at a standstill because federal agents and prosecutors don't believe they have enough evidence to get a conviction if the case were to go to trial. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Federal probe into Trump foe Letitia James hits a standstill, law enforcement officials say
James, the New York attorney general, faces allegations of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration. She has denied any wrongdoing.
www.nbcnews.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I wonder what Letitia James and Lisa Cook have in common that trump's handlers are going after them with spurious charges.

I just can't figure it out.
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Trump prepares to fire his own prosecutor for refusing to invent charges against Letitia James, a purge legal experts call a red line, echoing authoritarian power grabs built on revenge, intimidation, and fear.
'Red line crossed': Trump plan to fire US attorney 'for not bending the knee' sparks outrage
Late Thursday night, September 18, ABC News reported that President Donald Trump "is expected to fire" federal prosecutor Erik Siebert — U.S. attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Eastern District of Virginia — for not finding incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against a politica...
www.alternet.org
September 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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OPINION: "Trump’s effort to stamp out criticism and dissent is straight out of the authoritarian playbook." — The Inquirer Editorial Board
Trump’s attacks on free speech are only the beginning | Editorial
ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after the comedian, long a Trump target, ran afoul of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
www.inquirer.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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If we’re going to have government censorship in the US, a Democratic administration should take Fox News off the air.
Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship
Brendan Carr’s contempt for the First Amendment is going strong.
www.theverge.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the poor quality of civics education means Americans may not know the difference between a president and a king.
Justice Sotomayor questions if Americans know the difference between presidents and kings
The liberal justice was speaking about the importance of civics education at a conference in New York.
www.nbcnews.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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"Do we understand what the difference is between a king and president?" Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked at an event in Manhattan today.
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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📣 Political violence is gun violence, and it’s silencing our First Amendment freedoms.

The ‘individual right’ to carry guns isn’t from 1791 — it was created by the gun lobby Supreme Court justices in 2008 (Heller) & expanded in 2022 (Bruen).

#PoliticalViolenceIsGunViolence #EndGunViolence
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Agreed! In today’s Supreme Court, Jimmy Kimmel would have an extremely strong First Amendment claim against Trump’s FCC for pressuring Disney and ABC to censor fully protected commentary by firing Kimmel. Either 8-1 or 9-0.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel Should Have Strong Odds at the Supreme Court
He should sue the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Anyone feel like we are on movie 7 of Harry Potter!?

“These are dark times we live in”
September 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence.

What a legacy.
September 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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We will never forget the lives lost on September 11, 2001.

Twenty-four years later, we continue to share their stories, support their loved ones, and honor the heroes who responded that day and in the years that followed.
September 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Today, we honor the lives lost and the courage of the first responders who were impacted on September 11, 2001.

We remember not only the tragedy of that day, but the deep scars it left on families, communities, and our nation.
September 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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OPINION: "Once murder is treated as a form of politics, then no one is safe — not on the right, not on the left, not in the center." — Jack Hill
Charlie Kirk and the unbearable cost of political violence in America | Opinion
Democracy is an agreement — an agreement that words will substitute for weapons, that ballots will substitute for bullets. The killing of a political figure tears at the fabric of that covenant.
www.inquirer.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Can we take a break from it idiocy for just a few hours and mourn Ozzie? For the next week, month, fuck it the rest of the fucking year. Ozzie, you gave us an entire genre. Defined and entire culture.
July 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Mac users will get 9 big new games soon, here’s the full list ino.to/h17kbJB
Mac users will get 9 big new games soon, here’s the full list - 9to5Mac
Apple has announced nine big new games that are coming to the Mac soon, here’s the full list of all titles on the way.
ino.to
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Letterboxd Year in Review 2024 letterboxd.com/2024/
The Letterboxd 2024 Year in Review
A comprehensive summary of the highest-rated and most popular films of 2024, according to the Letterboxd community.
letterboxd.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I came across this picture years ago and its message is just as powerful today..

Stay safe, and please take care of each other.
#LA
June 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM