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Sherrilyn Ifill

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And of course Trump being Trump, his racist rental policies were executed with all the subtlety of a brick to the head:

January 12, 2026 at 9:44 PM

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MEDxyz

@medxyz.bsky.social

There is a stink emanating from the House of Reps created by the refusal of Johnson to swear in Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva. Very reminiscent of the stench that rose from the Senate in 2016 when McConnell refused to hold a hearing re Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court.Someone please file a law suit.

October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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Mark Cuban

@mcuban.bsky.social

My message to Zuck

January 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM

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Casey Newton

@caseynewton.bsky.social

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

January 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM

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John Cusack

@johncusack.bsky.social

January 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM

dannyboi8.bsky.social

@dannyboi8.bsky.social

Making the idea of moving to Spain even more attractive. 👀✍🏾 #spain #gaymarriage #abortionrights #reproductivefreedom

Robert Cooper @robertcooper-us.bsky.social · Dec 6

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”