Liz Renner (she/her)
@lizin402.bsky.social
mother. writer. producer. aquarian to my bones. member of NE State Board of Education.
“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.” - Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.” - Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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This is a concentration camp
July 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is a concentration camp
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Only - and I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH - if audiences don't know it is AI. If they pass it off as human and reveal its origin later, yeah, that *could* happen. People need to know the art they are consuming is intentional and not "generated."
AI will ’likely’ produce a bestseller by 2030, says Philip Stone, head of publisher account management at NielsenIQ BookData, at #MPConf 👇
AI 'likely' to produce bestseller by 2030, Nielsen's Philip Stone tells Marketing & Publicity Conference
AI will ’likely’ produce a bestseller by 2030, according to Philip Stone, head of publisher account management at NielsenIQ BookData.
ebx.sh
June 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Only - and I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH - if audiences don't know it is AI. If they pass it off as human and reveal its origin later, yeah, that *could* happen. People need to know the art they are consuming is intentional and not "generated."
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Breaking: The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to rethink their exposure to the world’s dominant currency. https://on.ft.com/4ev1ux1
June 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Breaking: The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to rethink their exposure to the world’s dominant currency. https://on.ft.com/4ev1ux1
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Yet another ICE impersonator caught. How many are they not catching?
As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.
As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.
June 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Yet another ICE impersonator caught. How many are they not catching?
As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.
As @MarshaBlackburn @SenJohnson & Sexton try to protect masked unidentified vigilantes with legislation— we should be banning this dangerous insanity instead.
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Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immig...
www.latimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.
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I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
June 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I was briefed on the intelligence last week.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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NEW: VoteVets Responds to Trump’s Illegal Strikes on Iran
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
NEW: VoteVets Responds to Trump’s Illegal Strikes on Iran
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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
June 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
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ICE deports Florida pastor's wife even though judge issued stay of deportation order. She was denied her medication—shackled by wrist, stomach & ankles, leaving severe bruising.
Daughters: "We paid everything they asked us, filled out forms, and not skipping anything.”
Daughters: "We paid everything they asked us, filled out forms, and not skipping anything.”
June 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
ICE deports Florida pastor's wife even though judge issued stay of deportation order. She was denied her medication—shackled by wrist, stomach & ankles, leaving severe bruising.
Daughters: "We paid everything they asked us, filled out forms, and not skipping anything.”
Daughters: "We paid everything they asked us, filled out forms, and not skipping anything.”
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TEXAS: “4 years after Abbott announced TX would be the first to build its own border wall, lawmakers quietly stopped funding it… cost taxpayers $3 billion+… full of gaps migrants & smugglers can easily walk around…”https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/
June 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
TEXAS: “4 years after Abbott announced TX would be the first to build its own border wall, lawmakers quietly stopped funding it… cost taxpayers $3 billion+… full of gaps migrants & smugglers can easily walk around…”https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/
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Make this go viral.
Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?
June 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Make this go viral.
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These soulless people see this as a lucrative business for “doing what they love” (his words not mine.)
You know who else had that same energy? Slave catchers in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
You know who else had that same energy? Slave catchers in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
These soulless people see this as a lucrative business for “doing what they love” (his words not mine.)
You know who else had that same energy? Slave catchers in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
You know who else had that same energy? Slave catchers in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
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He really doesn’t know, or if he does, he wants to maintain the oblique threat that somehow the military can arrest people
SLOTKIN: Does the uniformed military have the ability to arrest and detain protesters?
HEGSETH: Um. I --
S: It's a yes or no
H: Troops are given very clear orders
S: What are they?
H: They're public
S: So say it -- yes or no
H: They are there to protect law enforcement, ICE officers
HEGSETH: Um. I --
S: It's a yes or no
H: Troops are given very clear orders
S: What are they?
H: They're public
S: So say it -- yes or no
H: They are there to protect law enforcement, ICE officers
June 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
He really doesn’t know, or if he does, he wants to maintain the oblique threat that somehow the military can arrest people
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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
www.ricksteves.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
June 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
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Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!
June 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!
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Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
June 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants.
Inaction is complicity.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
June 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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From the last time Americans said "no kings"
June 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
From the last time Americans said "no kings"