Care & Loathing
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Actual freedom lover
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"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
The only way to assure individual liberty is to hand unprecedented governmental power to the guy engaged in blatant democratic backsliding
Kavanaugh: Broad delegations to unaccountable agencies are dangerous for individual liberty! We have used the major questions doctrine to prevent agencies from overreaching.
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
Sauer: MQD not a substitute for the removal power for the president
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel.
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: Photographer @annie-flanagan.bsky.social went to Clairton, PA, where residents live in the shadow of the country’s largest coke plant. Coke is a product used to manufacture steel.
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
This is what Annie saw — and inhaled — while on assignment in Clairton.
Link to our story below ⤵️
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Guess what the biggest budget video game ever made is. Hint: you can’t.
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Guess what the biggest budget video game ever made is. Hint: you can’t.
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The U.S. government’s grazing program was established a century ago to prevent abuse of public lands.
It’s grown into a massive subsidy program that benefits wealthy ranchers and corporations.
It’s grown into a massive subsidy program that benefits wealthy ranchers and corporations.
Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The U.S. government’s grazing program was established a century ago to prevent abuse of public lands.
It’s grown into a massive subsidy program that benefits wealthy ranchers and corporations.
It’s grown into a massive subsidy program that benefits wealthy ranchers and corporations.
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Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
![Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars.
‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.”
Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihst32abq4yk2kvsi3sg5bjedowsscsf5lfojdskehwivjizr2tme@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
To me this is a shot across the bow, not stupidity - a way to come out and say that "yes, killing the survivors is a war crime... but, of course, my friend Sec Hegseth would never do such a thing... right, Sec?"
If that's accurate, this is progress, small tho it is.
If that's accurate, this is progress, small tho it is.
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
To me this is a shot across the bow, not stupidity - a way to come out and say that "yes, killing the survivors is a war crime... but, of course, my friend Sec Hegseth would never do such a thing... right, Sec?"
If that's accurate, this is progress, small tho it is.
If that's accurate, this is progress, small tho it is.
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Enshittification is depressing
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Enshittification is depressing
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
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The authoritarian inversion of language and reality is accelerating. freedom of speech being redefined as a right to spout fascist lies and stochastic propaganda while defining pro democratic speech as “authoritarian and dangerous speech” is part of the ongoing process and the machinery of fascism.
November 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The authoritarian inversion of language and reality is accelerating. freedom of speech being redefined as a right to spout fascist lies and stochastic propaganda while defining pro democratic speech as “authoritarian and dangerous speech” is part of the ongoing process and the machinery of fascism.
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This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday – let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations.
weaintbuyingit.com
We Ain't Buying It!
Your Wallet. Your Power.
weaintbuyingit.com
We Ain't Buying It!
Your Wallet. Your Power.
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday – let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations.
weaintbuyingit.com
We Ain't Buying It!
Your Wallet. Your Power.
weaintbuyingit.com
We Ain't Buying It!
Your Wallet. Your Power.
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I'd say this was paranoid except just this week a shooting was used to justify halting all immigration and they are openly calling for white supremacist "remigration". However awful you think these people are, they're worse.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'd say this was paranoid except just this week a shooting was used to justify halting all immigration and they are openly calling for white supremacist "remigration". However awful you think these people are, they're worse.
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Answering the question of whether or not executives actually work pretty succinctly with this.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Answering the question of whether or not executives actually work pretty succinctly with this.
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What is the purpose of any of these people, except for hoarding away the resources we need to survive and exist as a society?
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What is the purpose of any of these people, except for hoarding away the resources we need to survive and exist as a society?
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The people who through the accidental accumulation of power, make all the decisions in our society constructed a broad class of cultural and digital technologies for blurring the boundaries of fantasy and reality, in which they immediately lost themselves before pushing the rest of us in to the void
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The people who through the accidental accumulation of power, make all the decisions in our society constructed a broad class of cultural and digital technologies for blurring the boundaries of fantasy and reality, in which they immediately lost themselves before pushing the rest of us in to the void
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Executive counter-knowledge and make-believe rules everything around me
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Executive counter-knowledge and make-believe rules everything around me
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🔔 Reminder: Covid-19 was a leading case of death among US children and young people during the pandemic with 821 deaths in the year from August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022 @jamanetworkopen.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 as the Underlying Cause of Death Among Individuals Aged 0 to 19 Years in the US
This cross-sectional study evaluates whether COVID-19 is among the top 10 causes of death in children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in the US.
jamanetwork.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🔔 Reminder: Covid-19 was a leading case of death among US children and young people during the pandemic with 821 deaths in the year from August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022 @jamanetworkopen.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.
I wish there was more emphasis on access to education disentangled from employability and focusing instead on enrichment because people who engage with education (or have the ability to) as enrichment interact with it differently. (And that's a whole society thing, not an in-uni thing) 7/7
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This article provides more data showing how easy it is to manipulate humans on social media.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
These researchers rerouted the algorithm on Twitter to push some users toward “antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity”.
It only took 1 week to elicit changes that used to take 3 years.
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URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart and Sam’s Club Just Recalled Cheese in a Total of 31 States and Washington, D.C.
The recall effort seems to be growing rapidly amid Listeria bacteria concerns as other retailers also alert customers.
flip.it
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp. flip.it/nqYAxK%E2%80...
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Among white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their voting decision is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Among white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their voting decision is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.
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Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Yet another harm of unnecessarily shattering lives and families for political points, this poor doggo doesn't understand where his people went -
www.facebook.com/share/r/17SD...
www.facebook.com/share/r/17SD...
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Yet another harm of unnecessarily shattering lives and families for political points, this poor doggo doesn't understand where his people went -
www.facebook.com/share/r/17SD...
www.facebook.com/share/r/17SD...
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
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‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown: She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story Location Valencia, Spain Disaster Floods...
‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown
‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown: She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story Location Valencia, Spain Disaster Floods...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown: She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story Location Valencia, Spain Disaster Floods...