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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1m

The one thing left that can truly unite America: hating Andrew Cuomo

SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 8m

Sliwa to Cuomo: You’re gonna stand up to Trump? You Andrew Cuomo? You lost your own primary and you’re still here because you don’t know the meaning of the word “no”

Mamdani: I agree with Curtis.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7m

LMFAO

SH😮CK-tor Benway @docbenway.bsky.social · 8m

Sliwa to Cuomo: You’re gonna stand up to Trump? You Andrew Cuomo? You lost your own primary and you’re still here because you don’t know the meaning of the word “no”

Mamdani: I agree with Curtis.

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 13m

Is he still mad about Yulia Tymoshenko that’s last decade’s drama ffs

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GuardianofWisdom @guardianofwisdom.bsky.social · 27m

Idk if I should think less of Logan Paul for having Andrew Cuomo on his podcast or think less of Andrew Cuomo for going on Logan Pauls podcast.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

ICE becoming an Officially Republican Department should man that there's absolutely zero question as to its abolition

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3h

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

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The Amish Anglo-Catholic @amishcatholic.bsky.social · 1h

On this day in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown led his raid on Harpers Ferry. He represents the very best of what this Republic stands for, and, like the many Union soldiers who fought and died after him, should never be forgotten.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 1h

With Alt Text added, so this "must read" can actually be read by everyone

STATEMENT OF SIDNEY REID

This verdict shows that this administration and their peons are not able to invoke fear in all citizens. I am just one woman, one human, one citizen of DC disgusted by this reality that we are forced live in. I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man. He's a crazy person who's in charge of the most powerful nation. Knowing that I can stand in front of 12 of my fellow citizens and be found not guilty for standing up for basic human rights makes me feel like, despite the scary times we live in, we have hope for the future.

STATEMENT OF COUNSEL, TEZIRA ABE AND EUGENE OHM

We are pleased with the verdict but this is a trial that should never have happened. Twelve D.C. residents, numerous taxpayer-paid court staff and public defenders had to spend time and resources on trying a case that has no place in a free democracy.

This case is a warning from the Department of Justice that they will have the backs of ICE goons, even when three grand juries reject their baseless charging decisions. And though we're pleased with the result, Ms. Reid cannot get back the two nights she spent in jail because ICE wanted to teach her a lesson.

The Department of Justice can continue to take these cases to trial to suppress dissent and to try and intimidate the people. But in the end, as long as we have a jury system, our citizens will continue to rebuke the DOJ through speedy acquittals.

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 1h

This is both a politically motivated prosecution and a breach of security far worse than anything Hillary did

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2h

READ the John Bolton indictment storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

INDICTMENT
The Grand Jury for the District of Maryland charges that:
GENERAL ALLEGATIONS
At all times relevant to this Indictment, unless otherwise indicated:
Introduction
The defendant, JOHN ROBERT BOLTON, II ("BOLTON"), resided in
Montgomery County, Maryland, and, from the 1980s through 2019, served intermittently in a variety of senior U.S. Government positions, including as an Assistant Attorney General in the U.S.
Department of Justice, an Under Secretary of State in the U.S. Department of State, U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations, and, in his last position of public service, from April 2018 to September 2019, as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which was commonly known as the National Security Advisor.
2. The role of the National Security Advisor varied by presidential administration, but
generally the National Security Advisor assisted the President in managing the National Security
Council ("NSC). The National Security Act of 1947, as amended, established the NSC to advise

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone were ever to remake Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom one of the men of power would have to be an expy of this freak

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2h

The YouTube stunt king, also known by his government name Jimmy Donaldson, is toying with plans to open his own financial service, according to a trademark application.

He's the World's Biggest YouTube Star. Is His Next Move to Start a Bank?

bit.ly

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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area Virginian @gildassapiens.bsky.social · 2h

Also, Hillary was telling the truth. Whereas these smears by the White House are flatly untrue and completely delusional

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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👻 Ghoulolaj Kill Bill 🎃 @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 22h

At this point, I’m assuming the gold T surrounded by red stands for Trump and T*rn*g P**nt and is not the Tau Cross.

Bishop Barron tweeting and preaching in a video, as a flying bishop does.

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 2h

Even if they refused to sign Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting guidelines the NYT is still a collaborationist rag

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3h

like for real for real

Ultimately, a major reason why Trump might intervene in New York would be part of an ICE campaign to round up and deport undocumented immigrants. That’s been an argument, pretense he’s made in several places where the National Guard eventually comes. There are an estimated 400,000 undocumented immigrants in New York. And as you found as you ran this primary that was so successful, and you met with many Trump-supporting New Yorkers who turned around and supported you, is that their viewpoint on these issues is complicated. And many of them have serious objections to undocumented immigrants and many of them have serious objections to the level of undocumented immigration in a place like New York City. But I don’t hear from your campaign that you’re going to be participating in any Trump-led effort to detain, deport undocumented immigrants.

I’m not looking to assist Donald Trump in his attempt to fulfill his campaign promise to create the single largest deportation force in American history.

Even if you know that some of your — maybe perhaps many of your — supporters want illegal immigration to be treated differently than it has.

What I’ve heard from my supporters and what I’ve heard from New Yorkers, frankly, is a desire for dignity. And in looking at what ICE’s presence has been in New York City, what it has meant for our city, seeing at the very least an absence of that, and in fact an attack, not only on the question of dignity, but on the very fabric of the city. There are New Yorkers I know of who took down the numbers on every apartment on their floor. So that ICE wouldn’t know where anyone lived. I spoke to a Dominican barbershop owner in Harlem who told me that all of his barbers have legal status and they are terrified of coming to work. A general sense of the hollowing out of the immigrant hubs of this city. And no, I’m not going to help Donald Trump in doing so. I’m in fact going to fight Donald Trump when he looks to tear families apart. And I’m going to do so because I know what the stakes are when he detains a 6-year-old girl from Queens and deports her. I know that her principal is writing a letter to ICE, saying please don’t do this.

I mean here you’re saying the method can’t be separated from the goal and you’re rejecting the method——

I think also I reject the goal. It’s not just the manner in which this detention is happening. It’s the fact that the goal here is cruelty. The goal is to rip these families apart and the goal is to attack so much of what is the foundation of the city as an immigrant city.

Would you ever meet with President Trump in the hope that you could defang this person, this president, who may have ill will toward you, but frankly doesn’t really know you at all?

Absolutely, I will meet with President Trump. I think it’s incumbent upon any mayor of this city to meet with the president of the country. What I won’t do is work with President Trump at the expense of the city. That’s the critique that I’ve made of Andrew Cuomo and of Eric Adams, is that their conversations with Trump have more to do with themselves than to do it with the people of the city. It’s not that they’re talking to him, it’s that who are they talking to him about?

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 3h

Mamdani’s full-throated defense of the most vulnerable members of our society is something Democrats elsewhere would do well to emulate

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 3h

like for real for real

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

To repeat it: the reason why Young Republicans are talking about loving Hitler and FedSoc judges are destroying the jurisprudence is because *they've never in their lives seen someone suffer for promoting those polices*. Not Newt, not Rush Limbaugh, not Scalia or Thomas, no one!

Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

i mean it that we won't see a meaningful change in the GOP until folks like this spend the rest of their days in misery, and their kids reject them when they've reached the age. anything less and they'll think their gambits worth it!

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 3h

Truly, Monica had nothing on these guys

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

"sit down in a room and red team how people can abuse this feature" is something I maintain every tech company should be doing all the time about everything and my god I would run out of that room screaming for AI video generation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

I have plenty of issues with the text-based stuff but I think it does have some actual use cases

AI video generation is pretty much entirely a net negative, this is barely scraping the tip of the iceberg in terms of the damage this shit will do

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 5h

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too.
spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

AI-generated influencer scandals are here

Now anyone can play with the hyperrealistic likenesses of public figures.

spitfirenews.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Just going to keep pointing out that they're openly asserting that they think any criticism of the president is tantamount to "hating America" which is, itself, an insult to American values.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Barrasso on No Kings: "They have this big 'I Hate America' rally this Saturday in Washington where you have all these far-left activists groups coming to protest the president and the administration."

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 7h

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 11h

www.wired.com/story/owning...

How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod?

People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is. [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]

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Heather is a midnight writer @heatherartworks.bsky.social · 7h

The PC (piece of crap) I *have* to use for work is already cumbersome and stupid. Giving it a voice will not help any part of it. Forced ai is like forcing people to smoke cigarettes, and it will eventually backfire, just like the doctors who used to smoke eventually had to stop suggesting cigs did.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 7h

Options for your switch to Linux if you are a complete beginner:

1. Linux Mint Cinnamon

2. Fedora (I haven't tried, but have heard good things)

3. Bazzite

4. CachyOS (this one's where I live now)

For options 2-3, when given a choice of DE, choose KDE for the most windows-like experience.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 7h

Tech executives really and truly do not understand how people use technology.

“All the data that we see is when people use voice, they love it,” says Mehdi. Some of that data is the billions of minutes that people spend talking in Microsoft Teams meetings. “They’re talking through their computers today, and I think this change to ‘talk with and talk to’ will come to reality and we’ll see this thing really take off,” says Mehdi.

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