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Letícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 9h

Coitada da Venezuela, entre um governo autoritário de esquerda e uma direita q vai vender o país pros EUA....
Petróleo demais é uma maldição mesmo

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado… ⬇️

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Lol welcome to the party pal www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...

It’s the Internet, Stupid

What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

www.persuasion.community

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aline @tdbem.bsky.social · 16h

"Paloma deu entrada no Hospital do Tricentenário com fortes dores, consequência da endometriose que já a acompanhava há algum tempo. Mas ela não foi acolhida pelo hospital, não foi atendida como deveria e sangrou até morrer. Desconfiavam que ela tinha abortado."
diariodeolinda.com.br/familia-denu...

Família denuncia morte de mulher por negligência do hospital Tricentenário

Familiares e amigos de Paloma Alves Moura, 46 anos, afirmam que ela morreu vítima de negligência médica e de violência de gênero após atendimento insuficiente no Hospital e Maternidade Tricentenário, ...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"The Trumpified right is at this point scarcely conservative. It is increasingly uninterested in virtue as it is actually practiced. And it is in no position to tell others what it means to be a man." Always good from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/the-rights-i...

The Right’s Ironic Fixation on Roman Virtues

The Trumpified right adores the manly and republican virtues of the Romans and the American Founders, but doesn’t live up to them.

www.thebulwark.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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🎃DelShark🦈 @curiah.city · 17h

#PortfolioDay

I'm Del, a character designer and illustrator with a focus on cartoon art. I work in digital and traditional media

I'm frequently available for commissioned work and other small gigs. ✌️

Ink and paint illustration of my character Zayne.

Ink and paint background with digitally drawn characters.

Digital illustration of my character Zed flying his taxi through space.

Digital illustration of two characters battling.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 16h

There's a weird extension of the idea of "power corrupts" into "because power corrupts, we should never wield power," by the very people who *might* have a chance of wielding power well and justly, in a fight against future tyrants who would absolutely wield power unjustly.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 8h

WATCH: A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked texts EXPOSE Young Republicans’ racist chat, Politico reports

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Khalas ya, habibi @coalacroata.bsky.social · 8h

Israel ainda tem 9 mil reféns palestinos.

O Apartheid e o genocídio precisam acabar. Do rio ao mar.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 8h

Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners were released on Monday in a prisoner exchange deal with Israel, however over 9,100 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails

Over 9,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli jails after Gaza prisoner swap

Many are held without charge, routinely facing torture and harsh conditions

www.middleeasteye.net

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 8h

Holy shit they can’t even condemn someone explicitly praising Hitler

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 9h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 14h

these people know how extreme they are

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 8h

I think most people miss that the source of Trump’s ability to create chaos and to execute his propaganda begins and ends with internet and gaming culture. The memes, videos, language all point to those extremely online

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Wife: Sam locking up the Libertarian vote because there's no age of consent with a chatbot

The Verge @theverge.com · 16h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 8h

Giving "Nyaight of the Living Cat" a try, an anime parody of zombie horror where getting affection from a cat turns you into a cat, and the world is increasingly filled with cats desperate for cuddles

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 7d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
linktr.ee/gildedrage

Gilded Rage | Linktree

A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

linktr.ee

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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