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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 3h

Altman molested his child sister for years and later used his massive wealth to try to silence her.

He is a rapist with zero morals or ethics even if it were his job to have them

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

Altman is weakening the already flimsy ethical guardrails on their unregulated bullshit machine to goose engagement

he lied, claimed it was really because they'd fixed ChatGPT's mental health issues, then when he gets pushback he's like "it's not my job to have morals and ethics"

Sam Altman says OpenAI isn't 'moral police of the world' after erotica ChatGPT post blows up

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said his company is "not the elected moral police of the world" after receiving backlash over his decision to allow erotica on ChatGPT.

www.cnbc.com

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 5h

Join me on my journey from "how am I a games guy who's intimidated to edit his own BIOS" to "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"

Seeing the numbers laid out like this really hit me: since I’m surrounded by very techy people, I figured my foot-dragging on upgrading was just me being an 18th century Shaker trapped in the body of a 21st century games journalist. But plenty of people besides me are still happily ("happily") using Windows 10–especially, as 404 points out, schools and other institutions that are now over a barrel if they own machines that aren’t compatible with Windows 11–making this forced change utterly arbitrary and needlessly severe. 404 and others have pointed out the immense amount of e-waste this all stands to create; putting this on schools and government institutions at a time when both are under attack seems like it stands to do nothing but further degrade essential services. And that’s to say nothing of all the individuals who might find themselves feeling squeezed to buy a new computer at a time when money is tighter than ever.

There’s no reason for any of this to be happening the way it is beyond forced obsolescence and for Microsoft to flaunt its useless AI products and pump its bottom line. New OSes happen, but this whole rollout doesn’t need to be going the way it’s going. I’ll admit to finding something grimly comforting in seeing what I thought was just my own inadequacy at computers despite working with them as having at least some systemic roots I can rail at instead of feeling bad about myself. There’s even something inspiring, if not a bit exhausting, in learning there are always new things I can get motivated to fight back against. I'm full of piss and vinegar! I'm alive!

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 1h

its so funny watching these people freak out. Nobody’s fooled. Nobody’s buying. Fuck off.

petra de asis @petradeasis.bsky.social · 2h

I fully support younger people getting involved but age shouldn't be the main criteria for deciding who's most qualified.

What I am noticing is a pattern of ageism & that American culture appears to have less respect for the wisdom & judgment of elders compared to other cultures.

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 1h

she’s a once great democrat. that’s too fucking old.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

Maine Governor Janet Mills is a great Democrat, but she will be this age at the end of her first term if elected to the senate next year.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3h

Senator Mitch McConnell just suffered a fall in Washington.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3h

This essay on the myth of endlessly recurring antisemitism, the roots of zionism, and right-wing propaganda's refusal of history and complex explanations for political phenomena is one of the best essays I've read all year.

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 5h

This essay is provocative, searching, and well-researched, and is born out of conversations @saulelbein.bsky.social and I have been having for years

The Myths of Antisemitism

Is "Jew Hatred" really so eternal?

heat-death.ghost.io

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Justin O’Brien, ICE melter @justinobrien.bsky.social · 3h

If Democrats don’t promise to abolish this agency then they are unelectable.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 23h

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 3h

Ok. I am not an expert but a general telling the press he feeds plans into an unsecured commercial AI and then the press publishing it seems like a major threat to operational security. Thus making it a risk to American lives.

New York Post @nypost.com · 4h

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

Maj. Gen. William "Hank" Taylor told reporters that he's been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

nypost.com

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 2h

I hope they never recover

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Liberal pro-Israel politics in the United States and the Anglosphere writ large relies upon an idealized version of a state which does not exist, a political elite which does not act the way the West pretends it does, and a civil society which is far more conservative than the West likes to imagine.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 23h

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 2h

proud fool

Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 2h

not long now

Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 3h

Octogenarian Mitch McConnell falls over when being asked about ICE

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 2h

turured

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 7h

i don’t even know what to say, fuck these fucking people, man.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6h

California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January.

The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.

Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin

Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

www.politico.com

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 Hundreds, possibly thousands, of GPs are refusing Trans+ adults their healthcare

We always said the Trans+ Healthcare scandal would get worse

"Given the complexity and unique medical considerations involved in hormone therapy [we're no longer authorising your prescription]" - GP

'I used to pay £200 for trans healthcare - now I pay nearly £2,000'

'I just feel like my GP can, at any given time, ruin my life.'

metro.co.uk

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Ferengi Liaison to Project Cybersyn @sovietcola.bsky.social · 6h

This is the kind of violence Linehan and Rowling support and want to continue

Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 8h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

share.google

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 9h

To read the trajectory of this alleged abuse in her own words is even more harrowing than the court statements and transcripts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 13h

lmao

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sorry. what a fucking asshole.

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 15h

awful fucking feeling

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 17h

Dr Assal Rad—

"This story is getting barely any media coverage, which is why Israel returned the bodies with signs of torture.

"Didn’t even try to cover it up because they knew they didn’t have to."

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Collaterly @collaterly.bsky.social · 16h

oh yes

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