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maddow.bsky.social
i mean...

uh...

well...

lordy.

this defies summation. incredible story.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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nytimes.com
When OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings to appeal to more people, some users were left spiraling. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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lorak.bsky.social
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This feels like a trap.
Massachusetts Mom Shocked After High School Sends Sons Home With 'Military Consent' Forms
www.comicsands.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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kathjaneway.bsky.social
#HISTORYREPEATS
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October 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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maddow.bsky.social
this is… not how it works.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pentagon Demands Journalists Allow Government to Vet Information
The US Defense Department is requiring journalists to agree to use only pre-approved information about the military or lose their credentials to cover the Pentagon, the latest Trump administration eff...
www.bloomberg.com
September 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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bluemaninredok.bsky.social
Has Trump ever heard of this???

Very doubtful!
September 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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floofmcgoof.bsky.social
Another video of ICE attacking bystanders who are trying to stand up against Shitler’s gestapo. 🤬🤬
This was an 80 year old owner of the car wash, trying to tell ICE that they have his employees paperwork in the office. Instead-three men tackled his man, & denied him hospital services when he asked!
September 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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butterflygirl24.bsky.social
DOX the MFs who assaulted the lady. They pushed her, sprayed chemicals on her n the one MF tried to put her in a choke hold! #iceout #chicago
September 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
cinedependent76.bsky.social
Come say High. High on life stream. 18+ twitch.tv/cmdrspacedog
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September 20, 2025 at 6:29 AM
cinedependent76.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/chin...
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
apnews.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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marcelias.bsky.social
J.B. Pritzker got it exactly right, Donald Trump is sending the military to blue cities because he wants to undermine free and fair elections in 2026. Trump believes that military deployments in blue cities is his path to keeping power and Republican victory.
August 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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mattbaume.bsky.social
The response to this should be choosing crosswalks throughout the city to repaint as rainbows, one new rainbow crosswalk per day at a random location, as long as this bullshit lasts. The cops can't watch all of them.
sun-sentinel.com South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · Aug 24
A Florida Department of Transportation crew early Sunday painted the Pulse crosswalk back to black and white for a second time as supporters continued to try to restore the rainbow-colored crossing. Now, police agencies are monitoring the site.
DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site
A squad of Florida Highway Patrol and Orlando Police Department officers surveilled the dozen people who were using chalk on the rainbow crosswalk on Sunday. Advocates said it was an intimidation t…
www.sun-sentinel.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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mattbaume.bsky.social
Great queer history here and it’s nuts that more transit agencies don’t do this
tonycoppoletta.com Tony Coppoletta @tonycoppoletta.com · Jul 24
Been meaning to write about this...

I’ve had the privilege to be allowed by my employer to be behind and see to fruition our Pride Train. Every year it’s meant to be a showing of welcoming and inclusion, though started as just a train wrap and mean to run from June 1 thru at least Market Days.
The 2018 Pride Train with a wavy pattern of the classic six pride colors and the words "Ride with pride!" below the window line as people exit the train at the Wilson station. Bonus detail: my partner and family are in the foreground since we were taking the Red Line together! The 2022 pride train stopped at Howard at the end of a northbound trip, which had bold stripes of both the classic pride flag, plus Black and brown in front and then the full set of trans flag stripes at the other end of the car to represent broader aspects of the community as designs progressed. The 2024 Pride Train had a wavy, almost 60s- or 70s-like pattern of stripes that swooped up at one end and down at the other, creating bold horizontal stripes across the car body and inverted rainbow shapes at each end. The design was conscious to put Black and brown and trans colors at the cab ends of each reversible train, so no matter which way the cars were facing, those colors would be seen first as the train comes into view or enters a station. A picture of the 2025 CTA Pride Train with bold, wavy stripes of color, again aligned to put the Black and brown stripes and trans stripes at the front end of each train by ensuring they appear at the cab ends of each car and thus are forward no matter which way the train is rolling along the tracks, with the classic pride colors right in step behind them.
July 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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In essence, Bondi declared that the president, through the attorney general, has sweeping power to arbitrarily favor companies or individuals and exempt them from federal laws that he believes interfere with his foreign policy powers. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...
Trump Is Using TikTok To Claim Imperial Powers
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
NEW: With Texas set to begin a special session that includes drawing a new congressional map next week, national Democrats say they’re exploring ways to stop the Republican plan. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Under Trump, ICE and border patrol are targeting and detaining Indigenous peoples. This piece doesn’t just tell a story. It challenges how we talk about borders, citizenship, and belonging.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land—ICE Versus the Indigenous in MAGA's America
Where would they send us?
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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July 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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nytimes.com
In the race to power the world, China is far ahead of everyone on clean-energy technology. Its lead is growing fast.
China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
cinedependent76.bsky.social
I laughed so hard.
May 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Clear your schedule. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is dropping by for an all-new The Weekly Show tomorrow.
April 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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me this morning www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them. There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview. The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams, hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
April 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM