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Malmo Mahalo
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geraldmcgrew.bsky.social
*Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic”*

by John Ross

www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-dark-...
A Dark Money Network is Recruiting U.S. Mayors to Criminalize Pro-Palestine Speech
Right-wing mega-donors are flying mayors to an all-expenses-paid summit in New Orleans, where they’ll push a policy framework that codifies mainstream criticism of Israel as “antisemitic.”
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
“…there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good.” 🔥
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Here’s what voters are seeing while waiting in the grocery checkout.

@peoplemag.bsky.social
people.com/donald-trump...
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
JD Vance's motorcade ran over and nearly killed a Tennessee police officer assigned to protect them. US national media have decided this is not reportable news. www.wate.com/news/maryvil...
Maryville Police officer critically injured during security motorcade for JD Vance ‘making small progress’
he Maryville Police Department has released additional information and the name of the officer who was critically injured while providing a dignitary protection detail escort for Vice President JD …
www.wate.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
“Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that bad faith is not ignorance but refusal, the conscious act of pretending not to know what one knows, a form of spiritual cowardice disguised as moral surety. The absurdity is the point, it liberates him from the burden of coherence…”
open.substack.com/pub/theratio...
The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind
The quiet relief of no longer having to think.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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dougparr.bsky.social
1/3 🧵🧵

Details are emerging of intimidation tactics used by USA delegation to derail climate action on shipping at the International Maritime Organisation

“It’s like dealing with the Mob” said one veteran of the talks

www.ft.com/content/4e0a...
US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal
Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy
www.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
onomichi.bsky.social
Can't be said often enough
tomewing.bsky.social Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · Nov 2
The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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corybooker.com
Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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caseydrottar.bsky.social
Just watch Will Smith celebrate the Dodgers forcing a Game 7 amid the stunned looks from literally everyone else around him
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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sesmith.lol
Well this is quite a revealing look at Google and Amazon's relationship with Israel.
Inside Israel’s deal with Google and Amazon
To secure Project Nimbus, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and tip Israel off if a foreign court demands its data.
www.972mag.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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danmynrd.bsky.social
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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mugrimm.bsky.social
Gonna stop responding to people trying to make vibe explanations to me about the 00s and just posting 80s-00s era controversies today.

Starting with: Fox news used to love photoshopping jewish journalists into der sturmer like creations:
Journalist Jacques Steinberg edited to look like an antisemitic cartoon.
October 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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lisarostlund.bsky.social
We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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birdrespecter.bsky.social
Insane how the Italian version of the Benadryl hat man makes more sense than the average democrat at this point
October 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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tomlevenson.bsky.social
It seems that Google is blocking AI summaries when people search for "Trump" and "Dementia."

No one should spread the word on Trump's obvious and perhaps accelerating mental decline to flood Google's algorithm, right?

www.theverge.com/news/789152/...
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
www.theverge.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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repstansbury.bsky.social
🚨 NEW Epstein File Drop 🚨 Just received by Epstein Estate ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ReleasetheFiles
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional
September 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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rasputinbladgett.bsky.social
I was able to read it here but others have said it's paywalled so not sure if it'll work for you

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...
Maga is fundamentally a populist white racism. The slogan "Make America Great Again" is more accurately described as "Make White America Greater." The fact that the tariff policy insisted on a 50% tariff only on steel and aluminum stems from the concentration of these groups in the Rust Belt. The massive crackdown on illegal immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solutions joint venture plant in Georgia must be understood in this context. The scenes of our workers being chained and escorted away were reminiscent of the dragging of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Department of Homeland Security boasted of "the largest single-site raid in history," and Immigration and Customs Enforcement even brazenly released footage of the raid, which was highly violating human rights, as if to boast of their "achievement." Far-right whites may have secretly rejoiced. Even politicians like the Georgia governor and local lawmakers, who had been active in attracting factories, have shifted their stance and sympathized with their grievances. This is likely because it's difficult to ignore the anti-immigrant sentiment of native Americans. Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society. The recent visa issue, which could have been resolved diplomatically with advance notice from an ally, is difficult to explain beyond political maneuvering. The fact that they mobilized helicopters and armored vehicles for show, as if they had been caught, is difficult to explain.
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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jonathanslater.bsky.social
Love this
September 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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drpauldorfman.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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artsofdenial.bsky.social
Some actual analysis rather than political posturing
www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence
www.garbageday.email
September 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM