Hailey Smith
khaileys.bsky.social
Hailey Smith
@khaileys.bsky.social
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Apple removes its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature from customers in the UK after pressure from the government. Very troubling news.

ADP provides end-to-end encryption, allowing only account holders to view items such as photos or documents they have stored online.
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end to end encryption.
www.bbc.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Mini Moo is past her first 30 days of treatment and is doing amazing. We are working with Miso’s dad to get her on the lifesaving meds first thing tomorrow, hoping we’re in time.

If you’d like to help donate to the cost of their care, please head to linktr.ee/crits4cats for all the ways you can.
Crits For Cats, Inc Cat Rescue | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
A small cat rescue in Eastern Maryland focused on TNR, Fostering, & Adoption
linktr.ee
February 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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PLEASE SHARE/REPOST

jellybean, the cat of a friend of my partner, is very sick and the family can't even afford a check-up let alone treatment. please consider helping out and donating what you can.

#Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatsOfBsky gofund.me/735e81e9
Donate to Urgent Vet Care Needed for Jellybean, organised by Yarizzi Vega
Hi everyone. This is a fundraiser for my beautiful cat Jellybean. I don’t know how … Yarizzi Vega needs your support for Urgent Vet Care Needed for Jellybean
gofund.me
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Molly did great for her surgery today. They found a second mass and removed it as well, and also removed the lead pellet some asshole shot her with at some point. She is home with her foster mom resting now. We could still use help offsetting the cost of her procedure if folks can help/share.
Tomorrow, Molly, matriarch of a local colony and mom to at least one, and probably more, C4C graduates, goes in for surgery to remove a mammary tumor. We’re going to biopsy it, so we’ll be looking more at the high end of her estimate. If you’d like to help, linktr.ee/crits4cats has all the ways.
February 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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gofund.me/4824d711
Please help me do whatever I can to save my girls, and to make sure the rest of my kitties survive.
Share this link, and kiss your pets on the head and tell them how much you love them because you never know how quickly they might leave.
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I wish Americans would understand that Democrats ignoring international law (and their own Leah law) and Republicans ignoring US law are not separate acts but intrinsically connected. You can't stop the latter while ignoring the former.
February 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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We are grateful beyond words for the incredible support that has flooded in for our Emergency Aviary Project. We're so very close to the goal - can you donate or share to help us finish this final stretch? Thank you so much! ❤️🪶❤️ donorbox.org/mmfs-protect...
Emergency Aviary Project | Merrymac Farm Sanctuary (Powered by Donorbox)
As you can probably imagine, we at Merrymac are urgently worried about avian flu right now. We’ve devoted a lot of time over the past month to research and consulting with veterinarians and state offi...
donorbox.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🚨NEWS: Elon Musk’s sudden renewed push to kill the CFPB came 10 days after his social media company cut a deal with Visa to go into a scandal-plagued payment business the agency has been trying to regulate to make sure Americans’ money isn’t stolen. https://buff.ly/4hSGFMq
Musk Targets His Companies’ Regulators
The billionaire’s push to kill the CFPB followed his social media company’s deal that might have been scrutinized by the agency.
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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We need your help. At Merrymac we have almost 100 bird friends so we’re obviously terrified by the spread of bird flu. We’ve been scrambling to get new procedures, equipment, and structures in place but it has been expensive. Can you donate to help us save our flock? donorbox.org/mmfs-protect...
February 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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"I think Mr. President Trump knows...there's only one solution to this complex situation. Just give us our rights. Give us our self-determination"

Watch: We talk to Gaza Municipality's Asem Alnabih, the friend who found Refaat's body and brought him home electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...
Watch: Finding Refaat's grave, rebuilding Gaza for Palestinians
On this week's livestream, Gaza Municipality spokesperson Asem Alnabih tells us about how he found his beloved teacher's makeshift grave and brought him home.
electronicintifada.net
February 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Hi Pete! Thanks for making sure Elon got away with breaking numerous laws over the past four years, great job sir
Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
February 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“Immigration and human rights advocates have been stymied in immediately challenging the Trump administration’s policy of sending migrants to Guantánamo, in part because the government has not released the identities of the roughly 50 men it is believed to have flown there so far.”
February 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $7.41 billion in weapons sales to Israel.

$6.75 billion in bombs & weapons guidance kits
$660 million in Hellfire Missiles

"This sale will increase interoperability with U.S. forces," the administration writes.
February 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Internet, I need your help finding homes for 19 bunnies from a highly successful trapping and adoption program.

They can be anywhere in the eastern US. If we don’t find them in the next month, they will be killed by an evil HOA.

Let me tell you the backstory. 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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theyre getting married tomorrow, lets spread the word, see if we can't chip in for a lil wedding gift!
February 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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We are sobbing here. $250 Chewy Gift Card to his lucky adopter!

🚨 JOEY; 19 YEARS OLD & at the shelter. Let’s network & find him a HOME to live out his ✨ golden days/years by….. SHARING this post! He is an absolute doll!!! 🧡🙏🏻

Available for adoption at LCAS 🧡

www.loudoun.gov/4118/Animal-...
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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“Even if charges are never filed, people have to look over their shoulder to wonder, is the government going to come after me because I report something that the government doesn’t like me to say?”
“The Federal Communications Commission is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing right-wing backlash to the radio station.”
FCC Investigates SF Radio Station for ICE Reporting, Sparking Press Freedom Fears | KQED
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José.
www.kqed.org
February 7, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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This guy is a quisling in every sense, went to India on an official visit and immediately did a podcast with the Fuentes of India and tried to mainstream him in the West, has ties with hindu nationalist extremists of the worst sort, just an absolute scumbag of the first water
Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.)

www.politico.com/live-updates...
House Democrats try, and fail, to subpoena Musk
Notably missing the vote was Rep. Ro Khanna, who is close to Musk.
www.politico.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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A far-right Zionist group is making a list of pro-Palestine activists to send to the Trump administration for deportation.

Read more: interc.pt/3Q97hgu

📹 @jordanuhl.com
This Far-Right Group Is Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
YouTube video by The Intercept
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February 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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I get that this was rushed out, but I did break this story and it would be nice to get cited, especially since I cite @wired.com. Wired is even cited in the headline from a PULL QUOTE from one of my sources.

www.crisesnotes.com/day-seven-of...
February 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This is still correct. The 30 hours of debate is happening all night.
That's good!

But it's not objecting to unanimous consent.
Dems are going to go home tomorrow (Thu) afternoon.

February 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Summary: the Democratic Senators are not doing all they can do to stop Trump's nominees.

Why? Because they don't want to fight. They don't want to change their lives and live in the Senate chamber for weeks.

Take that-- all you Democratic volunteers who spent months in PA.
/end
February 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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The Democrats are actually holding the Senate open all night like we asked, it's getting punchy lol. Livestream:
WATCH: Senate considers Scott Turner as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM