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Sentences for vehicular manslaughter or homicide by vehicle are way shorter than for selling a schedule 1 drug.

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Silicon Valley is a factory generating a million guys a year braying "the problem with every public good is that I'm not making money off it, and this app fixes that" and people still wonder why capitalism must be destroyed

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Reading Berest’s The Postcard right now & the horror of the methodical process in France of isolating, dehumanizing, arresting, & deporting Jews & punishing anyone who resists resonates with everything going on right now.

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Dear Sunday talk show anchors, Ask every Republican guest if they believe that Biden was executed and replaced by a robot in 2020 and why they believe Trump is still mentally fit after posting this— and don’t let them off the hook by saying it was a joke, or they didn’t see it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 71 comments

Freedom of {squelching} speech

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Rowling has totally jumped the shark. It’s as if she wants to be hated by the audience she earned.

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mayoral candidate @bradlander.bsky.social speaking out against solitary confinement in New York City:

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AI isn’t fundamentally reshaping society, and it’s deeply frustrating to see even its opponents parroting this phrase. If the MAHA fake-citation scandal shows us anything it’s that “AI” is a rhetorical device an alibi allowing a powerful minority to remake society w impunity for their own benefit.

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Boston’s gonna fuck these things up. And I notice Philly isn’t even on the list. Cowards.

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"ICE officers tossed two flash bangs to back the crowd off. Black remnants of the bangs remained visible on the pavement outside the restaurant."

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

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2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry. 2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry. 2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry. 2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.

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“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...

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Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

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1. Great ruling out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit has ruled that there is no "first amendment" religious right to discriminate against transgender customers. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Elon Musk wakes up, bleary and disoriented. "Grimes, I just had the weirdest dream..." he mutters as he rolls over to her. "Tell me all about it, Space Daddy," replies Stephen Miller's wife in bed beside him. "Yeah, tell her," comes Stephen's bitter voice from a chair in the semi-darkness.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Convinced Musk is so far gone at this point that if he did sober up, he'd have no recollection of the last 3 years and be shocked to discover that he owns Twitter

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Why can't they make AI fold the fitted sheet? That's real task humanity needs artifical intelligence on. Not plagiarizing to spit out garble.

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The government’s own data, which was obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of journalists from Venezuela, showed that officials knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Even before latest thing I've been telling people for months Joni Ernst is way more vulnerable next year than people think. Dems should be investing a lot right now laying the ground work in the state.

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 3 days ago • 431 comments

Hahahaha, conservative white failsons failing, who could have foreseen?

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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Folks Trump has no authority to fire the National Portrait Gallery director and no one need report it as if he does

submitted 2 days ago • 128 comments

I remember each one of you stupid liberal fucks that told me dems confirming this guy was strategy are you awake yet

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Jayzus, my friend who started tweeting the 2.5 particulates in Beijing must either be laughing or weeping.

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Again people don’t want to admit this is a tool the west has been using for decades to kill people from countries whose governments don’t comply. This didn’t start w him and it won’t end w him

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Still the most mind-blowing fact about the New York City subway is that more people take it on a daily basis than fly domestically in the United States. www.faa.gov/air_traffic/...

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My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

Abolish ICE.

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All part of a general trend to valorize people & processes that evade accountability for the powerful who are increasing accountability for the weak. Which is closely allied to trends towards a new techno-serfdom, where a few own everything & the rest rent.

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In 2023, four of the seven US-based Nobel laureates were immigrants. That’s a wonderful thing for Americans. It has nothing to do with saying that Americans aren’t good at stuff. It means that America is a place where the best Americans and best immigrants work together to do great things.

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In a nutshell, this is what all the plagiarism machine companies are saying: “AI will fix everything, but first it has to ruin everything. Why? Just trust us.” Thanks, @amorrow.bsky.social for being so succinct.

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Hard not to be cynical about the way rumors of Elon Musk's heavy drug, that have been in wide circulation for years, are suddenly printable in the New York Times at a moment when it's most convenient for Trump.

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watching social media talk about gender socialization is like watching first graders explain to each other how rockets fly and people are just running on vibes

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If I want apples and you want oranges a compromise is "let's pool our resources and buy both so our needs are met" If I want apples and you want to shoot me in the head, the compromise can't be "I get an apple but you get one free shot at me"

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"why dont you just compromise and meet in the middle with the bigots?" people ask this question as if trans people are leading the action here. we aren't. at all. the bigots wont stop until we're dead or gone so we can't stop until we're liberated enough they can't kill or hide us so easily.

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but doing ketamine, shrooms, and ecstacy on a daily basis while wielding immense political power and a security clearance is bad on multiple levels, and saying so doesn't stigmatize reasonable uses of these drugs or get Musk off the hook for his behavior.

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Aside from everything else that's wrong with Trump and with this specific fantasy, it's amazing to me how often Trump's bluster takes the form of "I, a second-term president of the United States, was bamboozled and hoodwinked yet again."

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