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Tara
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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If your kid is on the spectrum, or if you're transgender, or speak Spanish, or just grow a beard, they hate you because you dare to be 'different'

Inside the war on this basic human right -- to not conform -- that is central to Trump's fascist project

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
From autism to beards, the Trump regime wages war on ‘the different’ | Will Bunch
The Trump's regime's disturbing views on everything from autism to transgender people has a scary 'master race' vibe.
www.inquirer.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Let them eat Hamburger Helper.
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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"if you never build those muscles".
Same goes for art. You've got to learn the fundamentals, experience life, and draw draw draw.

A creative writing teacher writes about AI and the impact on her students.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
July 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The U.S. Army swore in four Big Tech executives as Lieutenant Colonels:
- Palantir’s CTO
- Meta’s CTO
- OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer
- OpenAI’s former Chief Research Officer

All of these people are surely connected to fascist Peter Thiel, as Zuckerberg (Meta) and Altman (OpenAI) are his protégés.
US Army swore in tech executives as lieutenant colonels
The Silicon Valley executives will serve as senior advisers as part of the U.S. Army Reserve, according to a news release.
www.snopes.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Between them, Brian Wilson and Sly Stone account for a hefty percentage of the greatest American songs of the greatest decade in popular music history.

This week is a bit much on all counts
June 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I’m on the Senate floor right now urging my colleagues to vote no on the GENIUS Act.

There is no excuse for Congress to pass a crypto bill that will turbocharge Trump’s corruption and undermine national security, consumer protection, and our financial stability.
Senator Warren remarks on GENIUS Act
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
www.publicnotice.co
April 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
April 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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This is one of the closest Nazi parallels the Trump White House has yet announced. I know because I actually saw a recreation of the original 1937 Nazi “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) exhibit at the Smithsonian in 1991. They assembled 200 of the original 650 works. It was a sight to behold.
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The simultaneous crash of the stock market and the bond market is super ominous. But also a totally foreseeable consequence of this insane tariff policy.

So is it incompetence or part of a plan to crash the economy? An increasingly important question.
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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In case you missed it, the Trump White House issued a proclamation saying trans care is child abuse

Noteworthy sentence: “We affirm that every perpetrator who inflicts violence on our children will be punished to the fullest extent of the law”

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 2025
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation America's children are the foundation of our families, the heirs of our freedom, and the
www.whitehouse.gov
April 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The mood in the USA
March 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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What about women street photographers like Judy Linn, as well as Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus, Vivian Maier, and others? Do they enjoy being incognito wherever they go, or are they registering the degree of their invisibility?
Judy Linn Casts a Solitary Eye on the World
Linn’s camera doesn’t register her absence, but rather registers her solitariness from the world in which she is immersed.
hyperallergic.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is why DOGE seeks to weld AI into federal gov systems, making it difficult & costly to dislodge: ensuring a reliable revenue stream for AI bros, so their failed "innovation"--which the free market has rejected--will pay off.

Not how capitalism works: how corporatism (a form of fascism) works.
Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
prospect.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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They have been doing it for years, but it should alarm everyone that Republicans are rolling back child labor laws at the same time they are defunding public schools…
March 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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SPED parents are (1) acutely aware of their children's rights and the gov't role securing them, (2) fiercely protective, but (3) deceptively polite when they're dealing with local officials.

But if *national* leaders mess with their kids? The gloves will come off and they will destroy them.
The contempt they have for disabled children is rooted in a mistaken belief that there aren't too many of them.

Estimates show that between 1-in-8 and 1-in-5 students in America have some kind of learning disability.

There are an awful lot of SPED families out here, and we will *fight* this shit.
Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education.

Greg: Because we're against it.
March 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM