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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1h

The young Republicans have been literal Nazis for at least a decade anyone anyone claiming that is not true has no understanding of what the Republican party is and what the Republican party has become
just because they used to do “we’re just joking”. doesn’t mean they were any different.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 16h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 39m

“Banter”

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 28m

They say “I love Hitler” is just a normal “boys will be boys” thing to say and then freak out when they’re called Nazis lol

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 39m

“Banter”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17h

This explains so much about *gestures broadly *

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1h

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Look, if you don't want to mask in public, that's your deal.
My point is don't call yourself a leftist & pretend to care about disability justice

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals clutching their pearls on this site when told that not masking to protect others in essential public spaces is ableist. Instead of getting angry, they should reflect on how they can do better

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 1d

1. We haven't come out the other end of Covid
2. I've never called for everyone masking every time they leave the house. I've called for more allies to mask in essential public spaces in solidarity with long COVID sufferers
3. Masks are *not* just for those who are sick

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h

new tonight for @zeteo.com, from @premthakker.bsky.social and me:

Trump’s Pentagon ordered staff and military personnel to watch or read in full Pete Hegseth’s speech to the generals last month. In the days since, senior officials have kept bothering staff, asking them…

zeteo.com/p/pentagon-h...

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 22h

FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 19h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 22h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

OpenAI: raising $1 trillion for data centers
Also OpenAI: projected $18 billion of revenue

Gosh I wonder if it’s a bubble

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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 15h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13h

Mark Carney shows contempt for all Canadians by excluding the press from foreign trips. He needs to apologize and make amends for this, and be shown he’s a democratic head of government not the chief executive of Canada Inc.

Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 15h

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

the more I read about the promises OpenAI has made, the more disgusted I am. They've promised to deploy 10GW of Broadcom chips *by the end of 2029*, a chip that has yet to tape out, in data centers yet to be planned or funded or the power acquired. We are in a black hole of ethics and good sense.

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Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 20h

To recap: A Roman Catholic national TV host just suggested that a Jewish journalist is antisemitic for daring to call out a right-wing hack…

Best of all, this is happening on the pro-Trump Fox News, effectively state TV, where just the other week, Gutfeld embraced the label “Nazi.”

Beyond parody.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 21h

Bari Weiss is an unqualified right-wing operative. She has no business running a newsroom—and CBS has already begun to degrade with such a hack in charge.

The billionaire takeover of media that gave rise to Weiss represents a serious threat to democracy.

Everyone at CBS should resign.

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 19h

Really curious how ignoring thousands of studies is "denying science" - feel free to share the science that says it's OK to keep getting this virus.

Or stay in your lane?

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 20h

Covid Forever deadenders are an ignorable little sect. In their own way, they deny science just as much as the right does.

Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 1d

I am not interested in living in a society of Universal Public Masking and neither are most people. This ask is not reasonable, and the invocation of solidarity in service of it is ridiculous.

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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻‍🎨 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 19h

Freaking bigots, every one. Never occurs to them that they’re supporting hurting real people, that trans folk are just the “it” group for human hatred right now. The propaganda worked on these bigots.

Michael Coyle @oplopanax.ca · 19h

Not even asking or addressing the question "why".

Why are there people asking to boycott the works of Rowling?

Could it be because she's explicitly said she takes every dollar as a vote of support for her position, and that she spends that money funding hate campaigns against trans people?

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 21h

The thing that gets me about actors responding like this whenever they’re asking about JKR is that they always say “we need to learn to agree to disagree ^_^” as if trans people are the ones leading the campaign, when we’re just trying to live our lives while JKR posts about trans hate 24/7

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