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Do what you can, with what you have, from where you are.
"Those with the power to make you believe absurdities, have the power to make you commit atrocities."
– Voltaire, sort of
Do what you can, with what you have, from where you are.
"Those with the power to make you believe absurdities, have the power to make you commit atrocities."
– Voltaire, sort of
If federal law enforcement had handled the monsters on the Epstein list decades ago, they wouldn't be running our country (into the ground) today.
August 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If federal law enforcement had handled the monsters on the Epstein list decades ago, they wouldn't be running our country (into the ground) today.
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AI assistants are becoming more powerful—but also more risky. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s Ruchika Joshi argues we need to treat AI memory not just as a feature, but as a governance tool that empowers users and reduces harm. Read the full piece: www.techpolicy.press...
We Are Not Talking About AI Memory Enough | TechPolicy.Press
Surprisingly little attention is paid to what AI assistants remember about us and how we can shape their memory to control what they do, writes Ruchika Joshi.
www.techpolicy.press
August 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
AI assistants are becoming more powerful—but also more risky. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, CDT’s Ruchika Joshi argues we need to treat AI memory not just as a feature, but as a governance tool that empowers users and reduces harm. Read the full piece: www.techpolicy.press...
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President Trump's new AI action plan seeks to prevent states from creating legislation to protect people from AI harms.
In the absence of federal laws to defend our rights from AI companies, states must act.
In the absence of federal laws to defend our rights from AI companies, states must act.
Trump is attempting to forestall state AI regulation. Just like the moratorium that was stricken from the reconciliation package, this attempt threatens significant harm, raises legal questions, and potentially violates the Constitution, writes ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke.
Trump AI Action Plan Raises Legal Questions, Potentially Violates Constitution | TechPolicy.Press
ACLU senior policy counsel Cody Venzke says Congress should conduct oversight to ensure agencies stay within legal and constitutional boundaries.
www.techpolicy.press
August 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
President Trump's new AI action plan seeks to prevent states from creating legislation to protect people from AI harms.
In the absence of federal laws to defend our rights from AI companies, states must act.
In the absence of federal laws to defend our rights from AI companies, states must act.
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Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
August 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
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Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
What the DOJ Is Doing Behind the Scenes
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
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July 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to…
www.propublica.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
www.ucs.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
This is happening because we didn't punish insurrection. If we don't have the equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials for what's happening now, it will be our country's greatest failure to date.
July 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is happening because we didn't punish insurrection. If we don't have the equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials for what's happening now, it will be our country's greatest failure to date.
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Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
July 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
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The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
www.propublica.org
July 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Do not tolerate fascism.
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Do not tolerate fascism.
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the story of this administration is going to be a question of which wins out: the enthusiastic capitulation of elite American society to fascism or supercharged thermostatic backlash
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
the story of this administration is going to be a question of which wins out: the enthusiastic capitulation of elite American society to fascism or supercharged thermostatic backlash
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Hammering liberals for totally made up "antisemitism" controversies while Trump slurs against jews isn't "hypocrisy" - the fact that this represents nonsense makes it a thrilling demonstration of their power over us and their control of the media. Hilarious to conservatives! They laugh and laugh
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Hammering liberals for totally made up "antisemitism" controversies while Trump slurs against jews isn't "hypocrisy" - the fact that this represents nonsense makes it a thrilling demonstration of their power over us and their control of the media. Hilarious to conservatives! They laugh and laugh
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Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.
July 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.
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Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
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When will Democrats in Congress - all of them, not just a few brave ones - stand up and fight back against these Nazi policies the US government is engaged in under Trump?
June 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
When will Democrats in Congress - all of them, not just a few brave ones - stand up and fight back against these Nazi policies the US government is engaged in under Trump?
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NEW: A @wired.com investigation into 911 calls from ICE detention centers shows a system inundated by medical crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
This is the human cost of ICE's soaring arrest rates. It is disturbing reading. And it is going to get worse.
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
This is the human cost of ICE's soaring arrest rates. It is disturbing reading. And it is going to get worse.
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
www.wired.com
June 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
NEW: A @wired.com investigation into 911 calls from ICE detention centers shows a system inundated by medical crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.
This is the human cost of ICE's soaring arrest rates. It is disturbing reading. And it is going to get worse.
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
This is the human cost of ICE's soaring arrest rates. It is disturbing reading. And it is going to get worse.
www.wired.com/story/ice-de...
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Compare and contrast
June 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Compare and contrast
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Trump's executive order seeks to disenfranchise millions, weaponizing voter purges and challenging election results. This power grab aims to ensure Republicans maintain control, even at the cost of democracy, as Trump denies past losses and plots to secure future victories.
Republicans Are Already Plotting to Steal the Midterms
With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.
newrepublic.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Trump's executive order seeks to disenfranchise millions, weaponizing voter purges and challenging election results. This power grab aims to ensure Republicans maintain control, even at the cost of democracy, as Trump denies past losses and plots to secure future victories.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
Many Bay Area housing orgs were caught up in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s push to end ‘social advocacy’ grants in the wake of DEI scrutiny.
www.mercurynews.com
May 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity quietly cuts funding for affordable housing, homelessness groups
Reading the list of seven pollutants, only a couple are really familiar, so I looked them all up...
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May 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reading the list of seven pollutants, only a couple are really familiar, so I looked them all up...
bsky.app/profile/lara...
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...
bsky.app/profile/lara...
www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...