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breaking up big tech, enforcing regulation, and building alternative open-source infrastructure has never been more urgent
Normal and great
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
> Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS texts are no longer private.
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer
Warning — what happens on your Android phone, doesn’t stay on your Android phone.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
breaking up big tech, enforcing regulation, and building alternative open-source infrastructure has never been more urgent
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Ambrose Akinmusire
DJ Paypal
Laurel Halo
Armand Hammer
RAP Ferreira
Ambrose Akinmusire
DJ Paypal
Laurel Halo
Armand Hammer
RAP Ferreira
introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
Gorillaz
Flying Lotus
Mef & Red
Cool Kids + Pac Div + Q-Tip
Hiatus Kaiyote
Gorillaz
Flying Lotus
Mef & Red
Cool Kids + Pac Div + Q-Tip
Hiatus Kaiyote
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
NKOTB (Magic Summer Tour)
Soul Asylum
Rilo Kiley
Ben Folds (Five)
Less Than Jake/Blink 182
NKOTB (Magic Summer Tour)
Soul Asylum
Rilo Kiley
Ben Folds (Five)
Less Than Jake/Blink 182
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Ambrose Akinmusire
DJ Paypal
Laurel Halo
Armand Hammer
RAP Ferreira
Ambrose Akinmusire
DJ Paypal
Laurel Halo
Armand Hammer
RAP Ferreira
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Affordability in 1963 looked pretty good (minus Jim Crow, which wasn't de-jure abolished until CRA 1964 and VRA 1965).
In 2025, everyone is poor.
Source: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
In 2025, everyone is poor.
Source: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Affordability in 1963 looked pretty good (minus Jim Crow, which wasn't de-jure abolished until CRA 1964 and VRA 1965).
In 2025, everyone is poor.
Source: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
In 2025, everyone is poor.
Source: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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NYC knows how to rise to moments like this.
The @council.nyc.gov should advance bills that strengthen our sanctuary city laws & our rapid-response capacity today + identify vulnerable funding streams so we are better prepared for tomorrow.
Full testimony: comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/tes...
The @council.nyc.gov should advance bills that strengthen our sanctuary city laws & our rapid-response capacity today + identify vulnerable funding streams so we are better prepared for tomorrow.
Full testimony: comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/tes...
Testimony of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander Before the New York City Council: Protecting New York City from Federal Overreach, Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
Good morning Chair Restler and Members of the Committee, and thank you for convening this important hearing on protecting New York City from federal overreach. This is an urgent moment. National Guard...
comptroller.nyc.gov
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NYC knows how to rise to moments like this.
The @council.nyc.gov should advance bills that strengthen our sanctuary city laws & our rapid-response capacity today + identify vulnerable funding streams so we are better prepared for tomorrow.
Full testimony: comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/tes...
The @council.nyc.gov should advance bills that strengthen our sanctuary city laws & our rapid-response capacity today + identify vulnerable funding streams so we are better prepared for tomorrow.
Full testimony: comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/tes...
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This IG account is doing strong work on JE‘s unexplained political entanglements
1/3
www.instagram.com/reel/DRFf86M...
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www.instagram.com/reel/DRFf86M...
@angie__mariie on Instagram
275 likes, 14 comments - angie__mariie on November 15, 2025
www.instagram.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This IG account is doing strong work on JE‘s unexplained political entanglements
1/3
www.instagram.com/reel/DRFf86M...
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www.instagram.com/reel/DRFf86M...
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They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
They rounded a bunch of random Venezuelans with tats and pretended they were in tren de aragua, then started blowing up random Venezuelan boats they claim “carried drugs,” in order to slowly groom their base into supporting a full ground war on Venezuela that was always about oil
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.
![“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.
[...]
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate. [...]” --Clarissa Pinkola Estes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6tr6tuzlx2db3rduzr2d6r24/bafkreia7abvxxu23nuszlxdcjcjvyzlayircvy7gj3ko7f35zpdtli4fga@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.
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9️⃣ Isaias Peña Salcedo — Bell, CA
A U.S. citizen and aspiring Marine detained during an ICE raid.
“I gave them my passport, but they didn’t care.”
A U.S. citizen and aspiring Marine detained during an ICE raid.
“I gave them my passport, but they didn’t care.”
Inside 70 hours of hell for aspiring Marine detained in Bell immigration raid
When Isaias Pena Salcedo was detained without charges, his desperate family searched facility after facility for answers, leaving him so shaken he now says "I'd rather move countries" than serve the n...
lapublicpress.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
9️⃣ Isaias Peña Salcedo — Bell, CA
A U.S. citizen and aspiring Marine detained during an ICE raid.
“I gave them my passport, but they didn’t care.”
A U.S. citizen and aspiring Marine detained during an ICE raid.
“I gave them my passport, but they didn’t care.”
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NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
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You must never try to appease the opinion of someone who chooses not to recognize the good that they themselves can do because that person is not trying to see the goodness in you.
September 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
You must never try to appease the opinion of someone who chooses not to recognize the good that they themselves can do because that person is not trying to see the goodness in you.
the small acts of care i make through-out the day keep me sane
September 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
the small acts of care i make through-out the day keep me sane
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Lindsey Boylan asks the question everyone is asking: Why aren’t establishment Democrats behind Mamdani?
September 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Lindsey Boylan asks the question everyone is asking: Why aren’t establishment Democrats behind Mamdani?
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The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.
Ouch SCOTUS
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.
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Local man embraces fascism.
AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker...
www.forbes.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Local man embraces fascism.
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We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.
September 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.
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"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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wow
Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go
the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of He...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
August 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
wow
integrity
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
integrity
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What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
what teachers never stopped teaching you? what texts?
August 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
what teachers never stopped teaching you? what texts?
