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ERTBen

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Figuring out where we go from here. Seeking community and new ways to engage people in progressive ideas. Weather, wildfire, wilderness and front-yard gardening. Midwest-born Californian. Exvangelical.

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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 2h

Kaplan cont’d: “Congress did not authorize the DHS Secretary to fix immigration-related terms or conditions on the disbursement of TSGP funds. To the contrary, Congress prohibited DHS from imposing such terms by requiring the selection of grant recipients to be ‘based solely on risk’”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 15h

"Illegally" is just nine more letters, Reuters.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 19h

He has been the main source of them, so far.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 19h

This is the kind of solidarity we need across all professions under attack by this lawless administration.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 21h

You can't progressive discipline a member of congress. They are only accountable to their voters and their fellow House members.

The staffer absolutely should be fired.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 21h

Why would the leftists want to topple the government, when conventional wisdom indicates that a far-right government is the most likely to replace it?

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit she’s terrible.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 1d

Let's see if they charge her for getting their uniforms bloody like they did in Ferguson.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

[Fascism, ICE, Brownshirts-At-Work]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/

Masked men pointing weapons at unarmed bystanders

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

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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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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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 1d

Proper rating is 13/12.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Mashable: ChatGPT now saves chat history even if you've opted out of sharing training data

https://mashable.com/article/openai-chatgpt-saves-chat-history-opted-out-sharing-training-data

ChatGPT now saves chat history even if you've opted out of sharing training data

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Free and Plus users no longer have to opt into sharing their training data with the model to access their chat history.

mashable.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

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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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

These decisions will demoralize the exact people they desperately need to be engaged and enthusiastic voters next year. They saw how effective having lots of young candidates was in 2008.

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ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

I remember the last time a 77 year old pledged to only run for one term.

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

ERTBen @ertben.bsky.social · 2d

He’ll negotiate with them only after they fully capitulate to his demands? Interesting strategy.