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peter-hamner.bsky.social
@peter-hamner.bsky.social
Birder and nature photographer
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office.
How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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the modern information environment
May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Forget about the legal case.

A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him.

Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States
April 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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It's not just measles.

Cases of whooping cough have skyrocketed more than 1,500% since 2021, as vaccination rates have dipped.

In the past 6 months, two babies in Louisiana have died.

Such critical reporting @deldeib.bsky.social + @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/whoo...
April 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off.

We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos
My detained client was scheduled for a bond hearing this AM in a MA immigration court. He wasn't brought in, and he and his case have disappeared.

I then received this notice of activity on a nonexistent docket in which his name was changed to "N/A"

It's all happening a lot faster than I expected
April 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business.

Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
April 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
April 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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"Congrats to the GREAT Leapin' Lando Calrissian of the tremendous Cloud City! Made correct choice in picking EMPIRE (us) over the Radical Leftist REBELLION! (We arrived right before they did!) Now Cloud CITY can Prosper! Lord Vader and Boba Fett did GREAT! Maybe next time, Han and Leia! SAD!"
March 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Cape May Warbler bringing the juice last spring. #birds #nikon #birding #birdwatching #photography
March 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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March 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Happy Spring Equinox! Here’s a portrait of one of our first spring migrants, the Louisiana Waterthrush. Image snapped last spring. #birds #birding #birdphotography
March 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources say
President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.
www.reuters.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The Trump administration is already shutting the government down in part, albeit illegally and unconstitutionally. Until they start following the existing appropriations laws there is no good reason to give them votes for new ones, which would only serve to whitewash their unconstitutional actions
The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics.

Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession.

I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.
March 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Democrats all of 2024: “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. Maybe even a fascist.”

Democrats all of 2025: “Donald Trump is a fascist there to democracy that we will resist *with decorum* 🤌🤌🤌”

Shameful.
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Mar 6
SCOOP: House Democratic leadership is "very unhappy" with those who went beyond traditional protest tactics, such as outfit coordination and refusal to clap during Trump's speech to Congress.
Scoop: House Democratic leaders privately confront Trump speech disruptors
Roughly a dozen Democrats were called into what one source described as a "come to Jesus" meeting.
www.axios.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Trying to explain this story as if one is speaking to a small child. Members of congress, whose job it is to set federal spending, now get to call Elon, who is for some reason controlling federal spending, to plead for changes to federal spending????? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk promises better communication between Republican lawmakers, DOGE
Trump adviser Elon Musk stepped up his congressional outreach Wednesday, taking questions from Republican lawmakers, some of whom are facing anger over DOGE.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM