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"Stephen Miller owns a large portfolio that includes as much as $250,000 worth of Palantir stock. That means the official directly behind the mass deportation effort is profiting from the very company being boosted by those efforts." @cheetah.bsky.social on who's making money from the deportations.

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Whenever someone says "Disney didn't advertise Elio!", I feel like I have entered an alternate dimension, because I've gotten several pre-roll ads for "Elio" on YouTube and have seen the poster on multiple buses and bus stops.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

Oooooh i dont think ive seen a cloak with shoulders like this before and it fucking slaps

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Outdoor Afro tells me they received 300 applications overnight following this post! People are learning how to swim

submitted 1 hour ago • 27 comments

the idea that artists are making above min wage on large is inherently stupid but also there's an element where it's like. why shouldn't that be okay?? like if we actually were making living wages or even more than that?? why would that be bad?? other people in other careers make more than min wage

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I'm not going to reskeet the skeet that made me feel the need to say this but: NYC is a very Jewish city - public schools are closed for Yom Kippur. It's also a very Muslim city - public schools are closed for Ramadan. It's also one of the most Catholic cities in the nation.

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I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

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I notice that when it comes to Juneteenth, Black History Month, etc. I get recommended for things. But when it comes to being queer or disabled. I often don't get recommended. It feels like because I'm Black that I'm not considered queer or disabled enough. And it sucks a lot.

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This thread is astounding. Career scientists - experts in the field - presented extremely robust, objective evidence, to the new vaccine advisory council that RFK Jr. made. They were met with weird lies and biases like “people weren’t really hospitalized for COVID” & “kids don’t actually get sick.”

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“I don’t know if eating tacos can stop ICE. I know that spending money at Latino-owned restaurants keeps families afloat. I know that showing up for your community matters. And I know that fear thrives in silence, in emptiness, in absence.” ~ @erickgalindo.bsky.social lataco.com/10000-tacos-...

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Are you an #IndependentBookstore? Do you sell Romance fiction? Do you want to let readers know? Do you want to join in a celebration of Romance fiction, its authors, & readers on August 9? Then make sure you sign up as a participating store for this year's #BookstoreRomanceDay.

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Hybrid work schedules also extend the range of tolerable commutes

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Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht. If he can afford to do that, he can afford a wealth tax and to pay Amazon workers a living wage. Hello?

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And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

submitted 3 hours ago • 144 comments

It's both, really. I keep telling this story, but I remember having a conversation with Bloodworth from EZA at a Distant Worlds concert (that Square Enix invited us to!) where neither of us had received code for Valkyrie Elysium, despite requesting it.

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honestly this is a masterwork of a statement. like the degree to which it throws Cuomo under the bus by implying that they were all just paying protection money because YOU KNOW HOW THAT GUY IS RIGHT? DON'T WE ALL HATE HIM OVER HERE ON THE WINNING SIDE I WAS TOTALLY ALWAYS ON?

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Yes, Square Enix puts out a ton of turn-based games. But the problem, as it has been, is that the company releases too much. I invite anyone to take a look at their late 2022/early 2023 release calendar and tell me how many of the games they even remember they released?

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Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!

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To this day people still insist that NEO TWEWY wasn't harmed by the game's lack of marketing, and I genuinely don't know how to engage in a conversation with folks who feel that way.

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It turns out that "halal cart for $8" is licensing reform for street vendors, which is long overdue

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There's a short list of prescient folks, including Doctorow and @espinsegall.bsky.social, who I really wish wouldn't get proven right time and again.

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Everyone is focusing on Bove’s “f*** you” comment but not enough attention being given to the other bombshell in the WB, which is the premeditated violation of the Mass. district court injunction and subsequent cover up, the same injunction which SCOTUS stayed on Monday 1/

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NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

submitted 6 hours ago • 43 comments

Just a reminder that Fiorello LaGuardia, NYC’s most famous reformer ran on a Dem socialist platform more than once. (Also, we share a birthday which is not relevant but pleases me.)

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I am hearing from a small group of MOSAIC scholars that grants are starting to be reinstated. These grants truly should have never been terminated in the first place and this recent change is a testament to the power of standing up.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

submitted 10 hours ago • 238 comments

You should know that the SKG movement is not even asking for something hard or impossible. tbh almost every single "online only" game has an offline mode for development & testing, it's literally already there. it just needs to be prettied up at the end of service. it's ridiculous to be against SKG

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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

submitted 9 hours ago • 2248 comments

One can only hope

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Why a lot of Native American deaths are not counted American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States live nearly four years less than official statistics would have you believe. 1/7

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Contending with the overlapping ways in which I not only feel unsafe but actually am unsafe, has very likely contributed to recurring burnout. There are very few places to talk about this in ways I feel accurately perceived.

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The idea of AI "personalizing" learning is very tired and often means "prescribed" learning. Here's a snappy critique of how it treats the learner as "a passive recipient of algorithmically curated experiences" as a counter to Khan's sales pitch www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

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Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

submitted 16 hours ago • 76 comments

everything written here is cool and good and i do not know how anyone could think otherwise

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

YES. This exactly. Supercharging the embeigement of all cultural output.

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The take that rich people will flee NYC because of a leftist mayor is so fucking funny. Because when 40+ multi-generational New Yorkers like me lament what NYC used to be, we long for when working class people could afford to live there. Artists, punks, and weirdos coming together. Not tech bros!

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One weird thing about conservatives is they truly, honestly believe everyone secretly agrees with them on everything but just won’t say it because of reasons

submitted 13 hours ago • 28 comments

This is extremely dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

yeh like. i successfully negotiated with disney to keep the rights for my dis and star wars covers despite their insistence on work for hire arrangements and now i can sell prints and they can't use my shit in marvel snap or an ai or whatever. Copyright is literally just a negotiation tool

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Self-deportation isn’t a thing. ICE forced this Hawaiʻi resident to leave the country. He’s lived in the US for nearly 50 years, served in the military, received a Purple Heart for being shot in combat, but is being forced to leave for a drug offense.

submitted 15 hours ago • 190 comments

What we're doing in the uni sector is shutting off routes for kids with Bs and Cs to do key (and prestigious) subjects, and closing down the ability of young people to go to the local uni just when it becomes ruinous expensive to go way. Will have incalculable consequences for social mobility.

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

In 2021, ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

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I saw a teeny monarch caterpillar on my little milkweed garden and it made me so happy. Yes, little caterpillar, I’ve let my little patch of dirt in front of my house turn entirely to milkweed just for you. ❤️

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It's bad that the measure failed, even among a majority of Democrats. But this is I think more than a third of House Dems going for it, and that is significant.

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