Skullduggery
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If America had the majoritarian political institutions that the **rest of the democratic world has,** our political and policy landscape would look like Canada's.
American democracy is shitty and produces shitty outcomes.
American democracy is shitty and produces shitty outcomes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If America had the majoritarian political institutions that the **rest of the democratic world has,** our political and policy landscape would look like Canada's.
American democracy is shitty and produces shitty outcomes.
American democracy is shitty and produces shitty outcomes.
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thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
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I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote for @theintercept.com about how prosecuting transportation of these pamphlets is a danger to all writers, journalists, and Americans.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
Possession of words is not a crime, even with intent to distribute.
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abolishing the private #adoption industry and ending the legal practice of plenary adoption—the irreversible rewriting of a child’s legal identity and falsification of their natal kinship relations—does *not* mean abolishing long-term custodial care for a child who needs it. +
November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
abolishing the private #adoption industry and ending the legal practice of plenary adoption—the irreversible rewriting of a child’s legal identity and falsification of their natal kinship relations—does *not* mean abolishing long-term custodial care for a child who needs it. +
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I'm a voiceover actor, you've heard me on your TV, radio or the web over the 36 years of my career. My bread-and-butter work used to be narrating training films and corporate videos, used to be at least 1/3 of my income. MOST of that work is now AI. My agents are dying, fellow talent are struggling.
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I'm a voiceover actor, you've heard me on your TV, radio or the web over the 36 years of my career. My bread-and-butter work used to be narrating training films and corporate videos, used to be at least 1/3 of my income. MOST of that work is now AI. My agents are dying, fellow talent are struggling.
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why do we have "philip de franco" and no offense, love you man, hasan piker, doing THE NEWS, like eff this shit
China’s influencer crackdown bans unqualified voices from covering ‘sensitive topics’ — should the US follow?
These topics include medicine, finance, education and law.
finance.yahoo.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
why do we have "philip de franco" and no offense, love you man, hasan piker, doing THE NEWS, like eff this shit
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I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
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Meanwhile we are in a cultural ABYSS because of the speed with which folks have given up on DEI
and it’s so and they are basically reliving the 90’s
And may kill cinema
But hey yall got to see Black women struggling and trans folks pushed into hell
and it’s so and they are basically reliving the 90’s
And may kill cinema
But hey yall got to see Black women struggling and trans folks pushed into hell
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Meanwhile we are in a cultural ABYSS because of the speed with which folks have given up on DEI
and it’s so and they are basically reliving the 90’s
And may kill cinema
But hey yall got to see Black women struggling and trans folks pushed into hell
and it’s so and they are basically reliving the 90’s
And may kill cinema
But hey yall got to see Black women struggling and trans folks pushed into hell
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The entire Trump 2.0 project boils down to resegregation: in housing, in finance, in education, in the media, in the military, in immigration, in law enforcement, every aspect of the "seven mountains".
The top U.S. watchdog for consumers' finances on Wednesday proposed narrowing key civil-rights-era anti-discrimination requirements for the financial industry, advancing President Donald Trump's effort to curtail and eliminate policies he views as promoting racial favoritism.
US consumer finance watchdog proposes ending key anti-discrimination requirements
The top U.S. watchdog for consumers' finances on Wednesday proposed narrowing key civil-rights-era anti-discrimination requirements for the financial industry, advancing President Donald Trump's effort to curtail and eliminate policies he views as promoting racial favoritism.
reut.rs
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The entire Trump 2.0 project boils down to resegregation: in housing, in finance, in education, in the media, in the military, in immigration, in law enforcement, every aspect of the "seven mountains".
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I live in LA County and was discussing this with someone recently. They asked what happens to unhoused people who are “swept away.” My answer was that they die. Unhoused people are ki!!ed by government “clean up” projects. On average, 7 unhoused people die every day here…
Here's another piece about how Portland's methods, ie sweeps without bountiful supportive housing and services for people to be "swept" into, do not work, and kill people www.propublica.org/article/port...
Portland Said It Was Investing in Homeless People’s Safety. Deaths Have Quadrupled.
The city responded to an increase in homeless deaths by intensifying encampment sweeps and adding emergency shelter at the expense of permanent housing. Experts say this has perpetuated the problem.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I live in LA County and was discussing this with someone recently. They asked what happens to unhoused people who are “swept away.” My answer was that they die. Unhoused people are ki!!ed by government “clean up” projects. On average, 7 unhoused people die every day here…
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China has a huge LBGTQ population (obviously) and acceptance among the population (especially youth) has grown significantly over the past three decades since decriminalization, yet the government still drags its feet over legal recognition and protection.
Hopefully that changes in the future.
Hopefully that changes in the future.
SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
China has a huge LBGTQ population (obviously) and acceptance among the population (especially youth) has grown significantly over the past three decades since decriminalization, yet the government still drags its feet over legal recognition and protection.
Hopefully that changes in the future.
Hopefully that changes in the future.
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Courage is contagious, but all we keep getting from our leadership is cowardice and complacency. If this regime is as dangerous as they say, then why aren’t they trying to put out the fires?
There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Courage is contagious, but all we keep getting from our leadership is cowardice and complacency. If this regime is as dangerous as they say, then why aren’t they trying to put out the fires?
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People like Trump exist because people like Schumer exist
Much is made of Trump's ability to bounce back from setbacks and losses. That narrative really defines his entire public life. What's missing from that narrative is that no one with the ability to do so has been willing to deliver the final crushing blow when he's down.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
People like Trump exist because people like Schumer exist
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He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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They're calling it the most cringe apocalypse of all time
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
They're calling it the most cringe apocalypse of all time
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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This breaks some people’s brains.
In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.
In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.
We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.
In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.
We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This breaks some people’s brains.
In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.
In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.
We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.
In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.
We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
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I don’t see any incentive whatsoever for the GOP to ever reopen Congress frankly.
November 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I don’t see any incentive whatsoever for the GOP to ever reopen Congress frankly.
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“They are currently on a charm offensive in which they want to persuade the world that China is a responsible pillar of a multipolar order … Well, make clear that their diplomacy would be much more charming and their reputations would be burnished if they released Jimmy Lai and others like him”
November 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
“They are currently on a charm offensive in which they want to persuade the world that China is a responsible pillar of a multipolar order … Well, make clear that their diplomacy would be much more charming and their reputations would be burnished if they released Jimmy Lai and others like him”
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When Republicans were all weirdly saying 'Daddy's Home', what they meant was 'Daddy's home and he says you have to like me'
ICE used Olivia Rodrigo's song as a background of a video advocated for self-deportation for undocumented immigrants.
"Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda."
To which the admin threatened her and demanded she thank ICE.
www.themirror.com/entertainmen...
"Don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda."
To which the admin threatened her and demanded she thank ICE.
www.themirror.com/entertainmen...
Olivia Rodrigo warned by feds to be 'grateful' after star calls out ICE
Pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo once again made it known where she stands politically as she told the Department of Homeland Security off for using her music on a video
www.themirror.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
When Republicans were all weirdly saying 'Daddy's Home', what they meant was 'Daddy's home and he says you have to like me'
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Reactionary centrism. It’s a thing. We have the same problem in the UK. Wrote about it recently shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reactionary centrism. It’s a thing. We have the same problem in the UK. Wrote about it recently shado-mag.com/articles/opi...