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If, like this goddess, you’re still trying to wrap your celestial noggin around what the end game is for our tech overlords, this clip gets you one step toward understanding fascist tech. Is delegating kills to AI a bridge too far for ya? Me fucking too! It’s about 100 bridges too far!

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Elon Musk Made Your Life Worse The billionaire may be on the outs with Trump. But the damage, much of it cruel and at times life-ruining, will continue to unfold. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Glad to see Nicolle Wallace doing a big segment on the drug story, interviewing the reporter. There is no way the Trumpers should be able to evade this. Musk is a military contractor and a high level adviser to the president with access to a vast amount of information.

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Goodbye Redwood Forest -- The blue areas are what EO 14225 has marked for deforestation. These are old growth forests, protected by law.

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It would really be great if, when journalists are interviewing Stephen Miller, who goes off a tirade on courts curbing executive power, could ask, What article of the Constitituon grants the power to: 1. Control immigration 2. Regulate international commerce 3. Suspend habeas

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OK, so I think I have another observation about certain of the DOGE fuckups/flameouts. And it's in a new newsletter episode! People in tech love models. You can't do stuff without creating a model of the thing you want to affect, anyway. /cont newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...

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1/7 🧵 Russia doesn’t reinvent lies country by country. It recycles the same tactics, then customizes them to your pain. Race in the U.S. Colonialism in Africa. BRICS in Latin America. The goal isn’t persuasion. It’s disruption. Division. Control. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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Trump has picked 2022 law school grad Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate (such “physical prowess”) who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK. 1/

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The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)

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Brown: So why did Trump put these “crazy communist judges” on the bench. Miller: You heard you heard President Trump himself say that the federalist society and Leonard Leo has created a broken system for judicial vetting…

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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

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Here’s the often overlooked reason Trump’s attacks on Harvard and others he singles out by name — including specific law firms, charitable organizations, radio and TV networks, and individuals — are flatly unconstitutional: they violate Article I’s absolute ban on Bills of Attainder: f.io/RnNoLD5I

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"If crypto disappeared tomorrow, the average person going about their economic life wouldn’t even notice. But the crypto bros would notice, and so would the politicians whose pockets they so lavishly line." This is a must-read post from @jaredb-econ.bsky.social and @weakinstrument.bsky.social

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1/ Let’s talk about something u probably don’t see. Not because it’s hidden, but because it’s not built for you. Rumble,Truth Social, Gab. A whole disinfo ecosystem feeding millions a daily stream of lies, paranoia, & propaganda. And it’s effective. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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1/ They’re not just fighting culture wars. They’re targeting your kids. In classrooms. On YouTube. On TikTok. And they’re winning. Here’s how the right is systematically radicalizing the next generation, and why we better take it seriously. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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There is zero ZEROOO doubt in my mind that AI cults are going to be huge. I don't mean, like, "I LOVE AI SAM ALTMAN IS SENPAI" I mean like, "I have used AI to tap into the deep secrets of the ancient, forgotten texts that tell the future and it tells me that /you/ have been /chosen/...to follow me."

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Metropolis... Someone said one of my previous multiple exposures had a Metropolis feel. How about this one? Holga 120 PAN Ilford HP5 #filmphotography #ilfordphoto

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A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king. Hidden inside their Big Ugly Bill is a provision intended to block the courts from using contempt to enforce its orders. #Pinks #Voices4Victory www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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DOGE is not unstoppable. The courts stand in the breach.

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The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. The Voting Rights Act of 1985. The ABLE Act of 2014. All of the 2020 Covid legislation, namely CARES. The First Step Act of 2018.

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I know that many of your hate X, as do I, but I just posted a long threat over there about how TESCREALism is, at its heart, a pro-extinctionist ideology. Complete with video receipts of these people saying as much. Take a gander, if you can: x.com/xriskology/s...

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2/3 of the US population lives in a 100-mile “border enforcement zone”, where Customs & Border Protection has expanded powers that override basic constitutional rights. Washington DC,San Francisco, Chicago, New Orleans, Boston, the entire state of Florida. Check it out: #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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They knew Trump had a chance... They recruited Musk's "boys" knowing they can hack anything & sustitute a string of code to reject Dem Ballots during a certian part of the day in a few well chosen counties in 7 swing states. Self-executing code shuts itself off.Nice & neat.

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U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla is taking a stand against attacks on free and fair elections. As Republicans in Congress try to jam through anti-voter laws, Padilla sat down with me to discuss protecting “the integrity of our elections” and “proactive ideas” to strengthen our democracy.

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One side effect of the fact that the Supreme Court's conservatives have the votes to do what they want: Their opinions are getting lazier and stupider than ever before ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

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Trump: "Overmedicarelyization"

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Imagine you die. The next day your coworkers response isn't grief or concern for your family It's rage at you for having the NERVE to die when it's inconvenient for the company & who's going to do all your work? You're dead & a selfish prick for suffering & dying That's where we are now

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I keep getting asked if it’s legal to spend our campaign funds on food drives or our high school public service grants and the answer is YES. It is. Politicians and Democratic organizations need to use their coffers to help people NOW and fill in the gaps that Trump has created.

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This is a good idea and something a lot of Dems in all parts of the tent have done with abortion funds and disaster relief. Supporters don’t see it as often because of the deluge of spam, but good example of linking fundraising to policy to acts of service.

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This is the best description of what the Republican party is is doing. I have said it myself this is Nazi Germany tactics when a party decides who should live and who should die i.e. Covid vax and this bill- #ProudBlue #DemVoice1

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You can tell these bathroom bill people are lying about “protecting (cis)women” because the way the numbers work the vast majority of people who are going to be harassed and attacked will be cisgender women who don’t conform to some random dipshit’s idea of femininity

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Trump showed a video to President Ramaphosa of South Africa claiming thousands of crosses were burial sites of white farmers. "Contrary to Mr. Trump’s statements, the crosses are not gravesites for farmers and were not permanently placed along the road." They were for a funeral procession in 2020

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Inside Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: Judicial Silencing (Sec. 80121(h)). This might be the most authoritarian section in the entire 1,100+ page bill.

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Anybody who needs birth control, HRT medication for menopause, STD tests, cancer screening.

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All true

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i think that people are confusing "the LLM contains ground truths about the world" with "the LLM contains contingent truths about language which are a low-dimensional map of certain known ground truths about the world."

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1/8 Right-wing disinformation isn’t just chaos, it’s a machine. There’s a system behind it. Some invent the lie. Some flood ur feed with it. Others dress it up and make it sound respectable. This is narrative warfare. Let’s understand this pipeline. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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The Greenland obsession is Network State shit, that’s it, it’s not a big mystery, been out in the open for ages. From www.vcinfodocs.com/status-of-th...:

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"Network State," like "Seasteading," "Charter Cities," "Startup Cities," and other jurisdictional experiments in "Libertarian Exit" from democracy and the rule of law, bear a family resemblance to offshore finance hubs, military bases (Gitmo), refugee camps (think Manus or Nauru), Free Zones/SEZ

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1/8 What if I told u most of GOP’s worst legislation didn’t start in Congress, it started on Twitter? A lie is seeded by influencers, amplified by media, & written into law by GOP. This is a pipeline, not a coincidence. And it’s breaking democracy. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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Doctor here. I want my COVID booster.

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I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

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