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A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Trans folks are 1% of the population, but you think the imaginary fears of transphobes need to be "taken seriously"? Even if this weren't a pro-bigot stance (it is), we have real, existential problems in the US that need attn. You're not a serious candidate for any office.
August 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social Trans folks are 1% of the population, but you think the imaginary fears of transphobes need to be "taken seriously"? Even if this weren't a pro-bigot stance (it is), we have real, existential problems in the US that need attn. You're not a serious candidate for any office.
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i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
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All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
Today I told a 100yo dog-loving hospice patient (who cannot have a dog in her care facility) about @weratedogs.com and 15outof10.org and she loved it. Next visit I think we'll read some posts and look at the dogs together 🩵 Thanks for doing what you do.
Home - 15/10 Foundation
The 15/10 Foundation fills a void in the animal welfare world by sponsoring dogs unlikely to be adopted due to behavioral or medical issues.
15outof10.org
July 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Today I told a 100yo dog-loving hospice patient (who cannot have a dog in her care facility) about @weratedogs.com and 15outof10.org and she loved it. Next visit I think we'll read some posts and look at the dogs together 🩵 Thanks for doing what you do.
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Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
July 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."
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I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
July 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I’m really gonna ask you please not to turn your nose up at the WSJ story and sneer that it’s a distraction.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
These men harmed real people. They used their power and money to trap and abuse them.
That’s not a distraction, actually. That’s central to what matters.
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as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it
some are guilty
all are responsible
some are guilty
all are responsible
July 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it
some are guilty
all are responsible
some are guilty
all are responsible
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I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
July 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I almost can't believe that Elon Musk's AI called for the extermination of the Jewish people yesterday, and today not a single Congressional Democrat announced they were leaving his media network.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
A party that often claims to act against antisemitism didn't do jack shit about straight up Nazism.
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it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
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Yeah sorry we’re not celebrating “Independence Day” while fundamental elements of our democracy like due process, free speech, and access to basic care are being gutted. That’s not freedom — that’s performative patriotism.
July 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Yeah sorry we’re not celebrating “Independence Day” while fundamental elements of our democracy like due process, free speech, and access to basic care are being gutted. That’s not freedom — that’s performative patriotism.
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"It is no accident that we remember so little of this [post-Reconstruction] time when Black Americans won their rights and then quickly lost them....Today conservatives rely on a similar forced forgetting"
- @nhannahjones.bsky.social
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
- @nhannahjones.bsky.social
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"It is no accident that we remember so little of this [post-Reconstruction] time when Black Americans won their rights and then quickly lost them....Today conservatives rely on a similar forced forgetting"
- @nhannahjones.bsky.social
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
- @nhannahjones.bsky.social
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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The way we speak about our Muslim and Arab siblings in moments like this matters deeply. Our critiques should be directed at systems, regimes, and destructive powers—not at entire communities. Don’t conflate the two.
June 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The way we speak about our Muslim and Arab siblings in moments like this matters deeply. Our critiques should be directed at systems, regimes, and destructive powers—not at entire communities. Don’t conflate the two.
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Juneteenth didn’t end slavery. The 13th amendment abolished it—except as a punishment for crime. Slavery is still legal in this country. It just hides behind 20-foot prison fences.
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Juneteenth didn’t end slavery. The 13th amendment abolished it—except as a punishment for crime. Slavery is still legal in this country. It just hides behind 20-foot prison fences.
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Welcome back to Fascist Propaganda 101. Today we’re answering the question:
Is protesting…. cringe?
Is protesting…. cringe?
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Welcome back to Fascist Propaganda 101. Today we’re answering the question:
Is protesting…. cringe?
Is protesting…. cringe?
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Note the subject-object choice.
Who does what? The PROTESTS make people mad about Police Thingy.
It’s the protests’ fault.
That’s why people are mad.
It works on everyone’s subconscious level, I bet, even if you pay attention / have the analysis to see it consciously.
Pay attention.
Who does what? The PROTESTS make people mad about Police Thingy.
It’s the protests’ fault.
That’s why people are mad.
It works on everyone’s subconscious level, I bet, even if you pay attention / have the analysis to see it consciously.
Pay attention.
Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”
June 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Note the subject-object choice.
Who does what? The PROTESTS make people mad about Police Thingy.
It’s the protests’ fault.
That’s why people are mad.
It works on everyone’s subconscious level, I bet, even if you pay attention / have the analysis to see it consciously.
Pay attention.
Who does what? The PROTESTS make people mad about Police Thingy.
It’s the protests’ fault.
That’s why people are mad.
It works on everyone’s subconscious level, I bet, even if you pay attention / have the analysis to see it consciously.
Pay attention.
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Well, I actually am a theologian and I have several things to say:
1) The First Amendment crucial to defend. Crucial. Emergency time.
2) "lo tignov" probably meant "do not steal PEOPLE," no kidnapping, ironic given ICE
and "don't covet" is probably
"don't exploit," so, again
*looks at camera*
1) The First Amendment crucial to defend. Crucial. Emergency time.
2) "lo tignov" probably meant "do not steal PEOPLE," no kidnapping, ironic given ICE
and "don't covet" is probably
"don't exploit," so, again
*looks at camera*
May 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Well, I actually am a theologian and I have several things to say:
1) The First Amendment crucial to defend. Crucial. Emergency time.
2) "lo tignov" probably meant "do not steal PEOPLE," no kidnapping, ironic given ICE
and "don't covet" is probably
"don't exploit," so, again
*looks at camera*
1) The First Amendment crucial to defend. Crucial. Emergency time.
2) "lo tignov" probably meant "do not steal PEOPLE," no kidnapping, ironic given ICE
and "don't covet" is probably
"don't exploit," so, again
*looks at camera*
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Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.
Oh, you're *urging him*? I'm sure he'll listen. I'll bet he's just on tenterhooks hoping for your approval.
Head Start supports over 40M American children each year, including thousands in Colorado. As we face a child care crisis, cutting Head Start would be devastating, especially for our rural communities.
With my CO colleagues, I’m urging President Trump to preserve funding for this crucial program.
With my CO colleagues, I’m urging President Trump to preserve funding for this crucial program.
If Trump ends Head Start, 11,000 of Colorado’s most vulnerable kids could lose vital early learning
Reports of the Trump administration targeting the decades-old early learning program has the Head Start community sounding the alarm
coloradosun.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Oh, you're *urging him*? I'm sure he'll listen. I'll bet he's just on tenterhooks hoping for your approval.
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If you’re a Jewish organization that has been perfectly fine with the mass slaughter of Palestinians over the last couple of years you can LEAVE ME with your sudden interest in preserving democracy and lmk when you’re ready to talk tshuvah / repentance work
April 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If you’re a Jewish organization that has been perfectly fine with the mass slaughter of Palestinians over the last couple of years you can LEAVE ME with your sudden interest in preserving democracy and lmk when you’re ready to talk tshuvah / repentance work
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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we believe we are special and we simply are not
March 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
we believe we are special and we simply are not