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Very cool that several people who used to yell at me in DMs for being too mean to Facebook are now running some sort of extralegal posse informally deputized by the actual United States Army.

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Role model

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This is what the Marines do now? Disappear people like Angus Johnson? #NoKingsDay #NoKingsInAmerica

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Protests big: defector.com/protests-big

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my goodness george soros spent a fortune on paid protesters today

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Courthouse Square, Bloomington, Indiana #nokings

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The results seem to strengthen the case that these systems rely on elaborate pattern-matching rather than the kind of systematic reasoning their marketing might suggest.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Sorry if original post wasn’t entirely clear: ICE had an accountability policy for handling warrantless arrests and now they do not.

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Somehow the smallest news of the day, but the largest evangelical denomination, the Southern Baptists, have officially voted to begin pursuing the repeal of federally legalized gay marriage the same way they successfully repealed federally legalized abortion.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on. They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America. This is authoritarianism.

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

The lack of total outrage at the indictment of Congresswoman McIvey is truly frightening. Hakeem Jeffries ought to be causing high holy hell over this. She is indicted because she is Black. Half of the GOP caucus engaged in sedition and Garland felt arresting a member of congress went too far.

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lol this is freakin perfect Share among your gym bros

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A lot of folks at the Indiana State Library were laid off this week. Their budget was slashed to bits and yet I know people who still seem shocked it happened. They just thought it would all be fine. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/11/5... 📚 #PubLibs

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Thousands of New Yorkers march in lower Manhattan calling for ICE out of New York. Starting at Foley Square and organized by PSL, the masses have flooded the streets and are moving west. This demo is permitted but even if it wasn’t, it would be far too large for NYPD to contain.

submitted 6 days ago • 124 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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Flickr users are getting a free value add from flickr.org They've carefully crafted lifeboats that fit not only your photos, but the community generated social metadata associated with the images as well!

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as a trans person, I fucking hate that while Trümp is sending marines into my state to suppress dissent over his literal black-bagging ppl without due process, we still have to contend with cis ppl's handwringing over sports & the NYTimes umpteenth "just asking questions about trans youth" bullshit

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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. -Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

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I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

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Another attack on higher education and low-income families: Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which may limit low-income students’ college access. Some students will be forced to drop out, closing yet another avenue to escape the cycle of poverty. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/08/w...

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My god. "Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release." www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Not holding my breath but if anything should lead Padilla and Schiff to stop treating their work in the Senate like business as usual, it should be armed soldiers menacing their constituents without provocation.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The energy I bring to bluesky

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The blockbuster horror film "Sinners" features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, impactful scene. For some Choctaw, it is the first time they've heard their language and seen their culture accurately portrayed on screen.

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Apologies for the radical pinko commie talk, but I too think everyone in the world deserves health care.

submitted 10 days ago • 112 comments

post-WWII "The military processed them out of the service, with a special blue discharge H. A blue ticket made the discharged soldier ineligible for a pension and benefits like the G.I. Bill and made finding civilian employment that much more difficult. A blue ticket outed these guys"

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not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 10 days ago • 337 comments

Wow ... das ist verrückt 😵‍💫

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

More awful news for IU in the national press www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

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JFC. When are "democrats" going to learn that without labor they are truly fucked forever. Unions and pro-labor policies demonstrably improve people's lives, which I'm pretty sure is a key feature of "abundance."

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from a UNC Trustee: “It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one.” so telling that he doesn’t see faculty as professionals entitled to the promotion structures outlined in our job contracts. we’re kids demanding treats.

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"A national network that pledges to coordinate, mobilize, and support one another when any single institution comes under attack..." www.standtogetherhighered.org

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"Has become" ALL ON ITS OWN APPARENTLY

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Logged on to IG for the first time in months only to see LLM-generated bible vignettes reimagined by a dad cosplaying a hipster. Oof.

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More Rusty, please!

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Incredible blog here. This is a gift link: defector.com/what-world-d...

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"Jonathan Joss dies at 59" Jonathan Joss was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime that was an escalation of abuse and harassment that had been reported to the police multiple times already. Media outlets failing to centre this reality are enabling the social forces that caused it.

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“People are scared they're going to lose their kids. You don’t have to legislate it if you scare people so much that they self-police.” A sobering report from Human Rights Watch on the impact of bans on gender-affirming care at the center of a pending SCOTUS decision

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Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.

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We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions

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“Vibe debt”

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Yup, legendary. I've listened enough to know that there will always be something irritating in a WTF episode and that something else will still be compelling days later. * Tony Gilroy, Andor season one premier, ep 1371 www.wtfpod.com/podcast/epis.... And Maron is a consistent sober reference, ngl

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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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