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Queer Chumash woman living on her Nation’s land in SoCal. Indigenous, scientist, educator, advocate, liaison, crone, storyteller, artist, satirist, theosophist, moral particularist, La Marquise de Là, a warning to others, and searching for redemption.
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I saw this headline & didn’t blink b/c we’ve crossed the Rubicon of absurdity. We live in an era where satire & policy are indistinguishable. The horror isn't the mistake of believing this headline, it’s in the plausibility. The Onion didn’t write a clever joke. They wrote a future headline. #Resist

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AlphaEvolve is pressing against the membrane of AGI. It’s alarmingly close to something we might call proto-AGI. If DeepMind added a cognitive scaffolding around it then they’d have a machine that can think better than we can about how to think better than we do. Exciting! 🧪 #Science #STEM #AI #AGI

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If they were insulated, privately funded, & openly discriminatory as a matter of doctrine, fighting them may feel like forcing a 🟡 into a 🟦. B/c they swim in public waters while trying to build private moats, they can’t pretend it’s about sacred values. It’s about power, image & structural leverage.

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It's a world tour of elite self-dealing wrapped in palace linens & shielded by private jets paid by the world’s most unaccountable wealth. In truth, it's The American Grifter’s Roadshow, sponsored by authoritarian opulence & glazed in oil money. Not diplomacy, but influence-peddling in a gold suit.

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Simulation Hypothesis Meets Grumpy Realism If this were a sim: ❌ The resolution is weirdly high for rocks, but very low for customer service empathy. ❌ No patch notes. No admin contact. ❌ Terrible RNG: why do some people get 3 yachts and others get 3 autoimmune diseases? Or... we're playtesters.

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Propaganda laced in nationalist sugar: “Bring jobs back! America First! Protect our own!” Then SB owners, who rely on China for base materials because no other pipeline exists, realize it's only the tech oligarchs & legacy corps who offshored everything & hedged supply chains being protected.

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It’s not even about cost-cutting. It’s about ideological purification: clearing out career scientists, public health defenders, & experts who won't bend the knee/kiss the ring. A state-sanctioned intellectual purge, w/ life & death consequences disproportionately hitting the elderly, poor, & sick 🤢

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Firing Shira Perlmutter & Dr. Hayden, 2 of the most credentialed, principled guardians of American intellectual infrastructure, because they refused to let Elon Musk rummage through the national IP vault like it’s a clearance bin? That’s not just unethical. That’s a State-sponsored epistemic coup.

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Cinco de Mayo is a microcosm of what happens cuando una victoria anti-imperialista gets reduced to imperialist marketing. A holiday born from resistencia y soberanía, hollowed out y rebrandeado as cerveza promos, tequila shots, y fiestas sin contexto. ¡Que lo goces... pero sepas lo que gozas! ;)

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How does one "enlarge" a building that is build from wall-to-rock's edge, and sits on a boulder that doesn't grow by executive order? Up? Does he plan on enlarging it UP? What's he going to do? Stroke it with his double-fisted "Trump Dance" and hope it gets excited? Buffoon.

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This is just another rerun of the same script: populist economic theatre, dressed up in xenophobia and sold as patriotism. But this time, it targets the very industry that turned Reagan into a president and gave Trump The Apprentice. The irony writes itself. :P

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This feels like LARPing a Dan Brown novel while on bath salts. Trump AI-popes himself post-Francis, Graham suggests the conclave "keep an open mind," & the Church replies: "Do not mock us." Theocratic cosplay isn't clever, it’s desecration-as-marketing.

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The fall of Rome was a series of desperate efforts to consolidate power by invoking divine right, even while moral erosion, and factional rot spread like mold. When a populist demagogue backed by militant traditionalists starts eyeing religious power for control, you’re watching an empire's death.

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They are being positioned not just as journalists, but as avatars of everything MAGA claims to fear, despise, and demonize: Blackness, queerness, intellectualism, urbanity, credibility, joy. They're living proof that the future isn't straight, white, or apologetic. Journalists. Avatars. Targets.

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In House Oversight, she could quietly bleed the Trump Admin with subpoenas and hearings. Death by a thousand receipts. She can wield actual tools, not just rhetoric. Trump thrives in the theater of rallies, but Oversight isn’t a stage he owns. It’s a venue for facts. And that’s what weakens him.

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This is unmitigated AI tech. An Ouroboros devouring its own innovation in an endless loop of “catch the cheater who cheated the cheat-catcher who caught the cheater.” It’s a Darwinian arms race in a house of mirrors, where the only real winners are VC firms hawking vaporware with matching logos.

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RFK Jr.'s plan for a national “disease registry” to track autistic Americans is medically baseless & ethically catastrophic. It’s eugenics masquerading as science - treating neurodivergence like contagion. This echoes Nazi-era tactics of eugenic governance through surveillance and dehumanization.

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DHS never made commercials - until now. And their debut? A racist threat featuring Noem & ICE arrests for the world to see. These ads are not just dehumanizing & disgraceful - they’re state-sanctioned weaponized intimidation masquerading as policy communication aimed squarely at Latinx communities.

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I don’t support the Church, but Pope Francis was a rare Pope of the people: humble, compassionate, trying to make a brutal institution kinder. He wasn’t enough, but he was something. That still matters. He’ll be missed. I fear what comes next - especially with the Right gaining ground globally.

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More companies must prove standing up for what’s right is possible. When the powerful attack equity, history watches who caves. These firms didn’t. DEI isn’t a liability. It’s how societies endure. And if the future scares you, maybe it’s because it finally includes everyone.

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The entire Abrahamic theological tradition treats suffering like currency to be traded for holiness. This form of Imitatio Christi is a physical expression of a theological idea that penitential suffering brings you closer to the divine. The Sacred should not need your pain. It should ease it.

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Alcohol doesn't change a person's core values/personality. It's a disinhibitor. Straight men don't become gay after a six-pack, and a bottle of Jack doesn’t cause good people to start spewing hatred. If the slur is in the chamber, sobriety may keep the gun from firing, but the ammo was always there.

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What’s happening here isn’t bureaucratic confusion. Trump is using ambiguity & escalation to exert dominance, with DEI & antisemitism as the pretext. Authoritarian textbook 101: Gaslight timeline Punish pushback Frame dissent as overreaction Re-center power Harvard's response is clear: #Resist

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Trump: “You don’t exist.” Sarah McBride: “That's weird, because I just made you reverse federal policy in under a week, girl.” This is how you exist so hard that an entire administration has to walk back its vendetta just to stop bleeding publicly. Read him for FILTH, Queen. #WigSnatched

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