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Do you support due process for all persons, just like the Constitution requires? On Wednesday, April 30, join us for a rally and march at noon, beginning at the Federal Courthouse on Broadway in Albany.

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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.

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TIL that people have actually gotten “Xavier Roberts” tattooed on their own buttcheeks. 😲 #Lateral @lateralcast.com (This is a non-spoiler: I knew the answer immediately from the question, but I didn’t know the question was a fact.)

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URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

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The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

submitted 7 days ago • 136 comments

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

submitted 8 days ago • 820 comments

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

submitted 9 days ago • 147 comments

It seems we are now in Nazi America. From MSNBC.com: “[T]he ‘unconscionable’ position is now the official position of the administration, and #Trump is now daring the nation’s highest #court to do something about it.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Let the warning ride forth once more: Tyranny is at our door.

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Really hoping for an Eastern Conference full of upsets this year. I’d love to see, say, a Devils/Habs conference final. #NHLplayoffs #stanleycup

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BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining. That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.

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URGENT: House vote THIS WEEK on H.R. 22 (SAVE Act)! Stop voter suppression. Contact your reps: indivisible.org/campaign/tru... #VoteNoHR22 #VoterSuppression #IndivisibleADKSaratoga

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These are not detainments—they are kidnappings. These are not deportations—they are human trafficking. These are not detention centers—they are concentration camps. Language matters. This is fascism.

submitted 13 days ago • 186 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 15 days ago • 117 comments

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

submitted 18 days ago • 1520 comments

Does it say IDEAS???

submitted 18 days ago • 126 comments

Never fails

submitted 19 days ago • 761 comments

It’s a good day to remember that this asshole is the only modern president not to divest their business interests to avoid a conflict of interest while in office. Instead, he intentionally acts to enrich himself at every turn. #MarketManipulation

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 19 days ago • 874 comments

Is DOGE cutting the size of the federal government? No. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg...

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I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The entire press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

submitted 20 days ago • 94 comments

Reading about history today, and it’s incredible how many places all over the world were doing great … and then white people showed up. White people who thought they were obviously superior have done SO much damage to the world.

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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

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“Amid widespread confusion & accusations from M*sk suggesting ‘millions of dead people’ are receiving benefits," the #SocialSecurityAdministration "says it receives more than 3 million death notices every year. ... The SSA believes...the records on file are ‘highly accurate.’ " tinyurl.com/3xb6x3yf

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Big “Now watch this drive” energy:

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I didn't realize the "great" in MAGA referred to "great depression"

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

Absolutely miserable protesting weather today. I’m doing it anyway, but ugh. #cold #wet #raininmyeyes

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

yeah uh like every single local weatherman in the country relies on the nws to tell your grandma to go get in the root cellar so

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-...

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It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

submitted 25 days ago • 129 comments

Republicans went nuts and accused Biden of tyranny when he tried to cancel student debt. Right now, their guy just imposed the biggest tax rise on Americans in modern history by fiat, unilaterally, with no congressional or judicial approval.

submitted 25 days ago • 143 comments

It’s an engineered collapse of the economy so right-wing venture capitalists and techno fascists can swoop in and pick Americas bones and remake it in their image.

submitted 25 days ago • 27 comments

Out of the entire #NintendoDirect, the parts I was most excited about took up literally about eight seconds. 🫤 At least we got “2025”?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that this is not just about Musk. Multiple techno-fascist billionaires are attempting to dismantle our democracy to amass power and enrich themselves.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

FACT: You don't destroy the CDC unless you want people to die in large numbers.

submitted 26 days ago • 359 comments

anyways. hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. context & guidance in the thread below. it’s not hard; you can do it while you’re still angry about other things. 9 days left, as of this post!

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Eff yeah, Cory Booker.

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“I’m not at my best” — yeah, well, I don’t think anyone would be after 22 HOURS of standing and talking. And yet, Booker’s still making good arguments.

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If @booker.senate.gov can stand up for 17 hours (and counting), we can stand for each other. On April 5th, find your place to stand up: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s... @standupforscience.bsky.social

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I’m glad Schumer’s doing his job today. Still not sure I’d vote for him again, but hey.

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"They cut, cut, cut before they thought, thought, thought." - Cory Booker

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