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Rob from Maryland
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Birder, music lover. Inside the Beltway. He/him
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Entomologists have been saying this for a while, but new evidence published confirms: Joro spiders are not a major health risk. See original thread for link to research papers
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surveillance technology...is now being used to investigate protesters

facial recognition
iris-scanning
spyware
smartphone location and social media tracking system

license plate reader
without a warrant

#ICE
#MAGA
#Gestapo

reason.com/2025/10/23/i...
ICE is mounting a mass surveillance campaign on American citizens
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
reason.com
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Here's a list of the dozens of CEOs, real estate moguls, defense contractors, telecom companies, Big Tech companies, crypto guys and otherwise really rich people financing the construction of Trump's ballroom as he demolishes the White House www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
All The Donors Financing Trump’s Ballroom As He Demolishes The White House
Trump may have destroyed American history by razing the East Wing, but at least these corporations and rich people get to buy access to the president.
www.huffpost.com
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ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
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Friends don’t let friends use this privacy violating nightmare. Just say no! Not even once!
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
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“‘Horseglue’ is a screeching call for moral clarity,” I explained in a statement to media, including @pitchfork.com about the news industry’s complicity in genocide and authoritarianism. “It is important to focus on how integral the Messengers really are, and that some of them are the 1%, too.“
Watch Ekko Astral’s Video for New Song “Horseglue”
The Washington, D.C., punk band follows its 2024 debut with “a screeching call for moral clarity”
pitchfork.com
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🪶 It's Wednesday! Have yourself a fancy woodpecker!

This photo of a Golden-fronted Woodpecker peering into prickly pear flowers is by Peter E. Hart.
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View outside my window at work today.
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If this had happened during a Democratic presidency Fox News would be 24 hours of nonstop “AMERICA DESECRATED!” headlines.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
in 23 minutes!!
Again, Wednesday.

This time with radio!

Tonight on 103.3 fm WPRB from 5-8 pm ET.

listen.wprb.com
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New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency
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So true!
A haunted house but it's just a bunch of silent Empids
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.