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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Kash fired the guy he thinks outed him for taking another private jet flight to see his girlfriend sing.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h

Our federal government is attacking the states its GOP leaders do not like. Because of the politics they do not like.

Any other framing by the media is feckless, quisling dishonesty.

T. L. @poemless.bsky.social · 10h

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

This might be the one that breaks me. Every federal agency reduced to banana-republic personal fiefdoms where criminal Trump allies loot the public and fire vastly more qualified people for daring to do their jobs. It’s unthinkable. It’s obscene.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform, said three people familiar with the situation.

Steven Palmer, a 27-year veteran of the FBI, became the third head of the critical incident response group—which includes FBI pilots—to be fired or removed in Patel’s short regime, adding to a year filled with retributive terminations.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3h

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back.

The genocide is ongoing

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 3h

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report

Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report

<article data-history-node-id="430958" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-razes-entire-neighbourhoods-east-khan-younis-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel razes entire neighbourhoods east of Khan Younis: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><article data-scroll-anchor="true" data-testid="conversation-turn-110" data-turn="assistant" data-turn-id="request-6901b48e-cf20-832a-9f2e-41bb2cc7fcbc-38" dir="auto" tabindex="-1"> <p data-end="277" data-start="76">Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing large swathes of land east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, destroying what little remains of homes and infrastructure after months of relentless bombardment.</p> <p data-end="447" data-start="279">Al Jazeera's correspondent on the ground reported that the army is conducting extensive demolition operations in the area, flattening residential blocks and farmland.</p> </article> </div> </div> </article>

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3h

I hate him more than hate all the other assholes in power. He is an unprecedentedly dangerous threat to public health.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3h

First RFK Jr. wanted to take fluoride out of water and has had some success in Republican jurisdictions that think scientific evidence is for chumps.

But that wasn’t enough harm for him, so now he’s restricting kids’ access to fluoride supplements.

FDA restricts use of kids' fluoride supplements citing emerging health risks

The Food and Drug Administration is restricting the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

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The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 7h

if you went back to these 20th century planners and told them their policies have produced a city that's only affordable to high income homeowners they wouldn't respond "oh no, we've distorted market outcomes through overregulation!" they'd understand that their zoning policy was working as expected

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 7h

in the 70s we get the "population strategy", which argues that lax zoning is producing a city with too many "minorities and renters", justifying further downzonings www.portland.gov/bps/planning...

The impacts on these trends, which are typical of major
American cities, are beginning to be felt in Portland. Increasingly the city is becoming a community of extremes, popu lated by the young and the old, the lower income and unemployed, minorities and renters. While these trends may not be peculiar to Portland, what may be different here is the opportunity to arrest them before the damage becomes permanent and irreversible.
There is a sense among the citizens and elected leaders of the city that Portland's heritage of livability is too valuable to
be lost. There is a sense that a coherent, coordinated, purposeful strategy may be able to preserve and protect the city and keep it America's most livable city in the future. And there is the
sense that if it can't happen in Portland -- if these trends cannot be abated -- that it may not be able to be done in any urban center in the country.

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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about the state of the housing market as a "market failure" but if you are a skeptical of well functioning markets, as many of us are, here's an alternative: the housing market is working as designed, and we should design it to work differently

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

It's low-hanging fruit lib posting but it's a hell of a thing to juxtapose the President and his supporters' priorities here

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

I’m just going to say it…

It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 5h

this is so so insane the ILLINOIS STATE POLICE are lining up LIKE THIS against clergy and people dressed as the Kool-Aid man.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Another warning.

Reverend Black: "We are not breaking any law."

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Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 5h

That this is how he responds to Cuomo turning up the racism and Islamophobia dials to 11 says so much about Zohran. I hope he wins by 25

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 5h

I can't think of anything to say

A girl holding a sign reading SET MY DAD FREE

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 6h

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 7h

"wife mad at you? d.e.i." is gonna be kicking around in my head for a minute

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Outside Chicago—

State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.

A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.

Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

everything else aside, “i got the issue i cover completely wrong for several years straight, anyway let’s all move on” is an incredible move.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 10h

Go fuck yourself

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Evelyn 💗 @evieevolving.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty sure Lombard TC has more daily boardings than any other MAX and bus node in city limits.

There’s also an abandoned high school on the lot next door. Just sayin’.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

To give some credit there is a growing chorus of dissent on this issue in Congress, lead by Van Hollen, Sara Jacobs, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar among others.

Van Hollen, Jacobs Reintroduce Bill to Prohibit U.S. Arms Sales to UAE Until They Cease Support of RSF in Sudan | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.-51),...

www.vanhollen.senate.gov

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1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇 @bradleybondy.com · 8h

Future regional rail station right here

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