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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴

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Intermittent Scribbler. Fruitless Cosmopolitan. Transbian-About-Town. A distraction from the issues Americans care about. U.Mich. '23 (Classical Lang. & Lit.). UDM Law '26 🏳️‍⚧️⚢ Engaged to @opheliabelladonna.bsky.social

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · Jun 27

1. Regain control of Congress.
2. Impeach Trump and Vance.
3. Impeach Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett.
4. Nullify Trump's official acts and appointments by statute/EO wherever possible.
5. Reparations for victims and families.
6. Nuremberg II.
7. Call a Constitutional Convention.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 15h

Sounds like an open and shut First Amendment violation.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 6h

"Your personalized, sycophantic, 24/7 Rule 34 generator" is going to help a lot of guys turn themselves into drooling monsters and hurt a lot more people than them.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

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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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 8h

Ezra Pound may have been a fascist poet, but you have to admit he made the quatrains run on time.

(Yes, this is my one Ezra Pound joke and yes, I roll it out whenever he’s mentioned.)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Ezra Pound was often a very good poet: the US literary establishment's outrage that he was punished for being a treasonous Nazi fuck was a product of both antisemitism and class solidarity. He should have been left in that cage.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h

This is literally how the Roman Republic fell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 7h

an american citizen, mother of three, who was playing the clarinet in a peaceful protest outside the city has been nabbed by ICE, held in a jail across state lines, without bail nor any specific charges.

i mean, yikes?

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 3h

Not the point, but the Github mascot always looks to me like a Lovecraftian version of Cheburashka...

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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 23h

Industrious Scrembles!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4h

you: chatgpt, please tell me how to play magic
chatgpt: I’m sorry, as a large language model I can only play token decks

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 4h

They can sense your weakness...

Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 4h

Nara Park was pretty high on my list of favorite places we went in Japan. The deer are pushy little buttheads, but SO cute...

Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 23h

So we’ve made it to Nara Park - what Deer?

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @quincunctial.bsky.social · 11h

das Herrenvolk ain’t herrin’ y’all

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 4h

But Dr. Phil, I *am* Pagliacci...

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 11h

The Opera demographic codes really resist-lib wine mom to me, but so much of what we are living through comes from the Oprah-verse.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

yeah man, i am saying specifically that optics which jibe with the values of the population whose opinion is being targeted are useful

Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 13h

there is plenty of propaganda made with black bloc tactics and direct action. I don’t get your point? Or are you conflating liberal optics to be the only form of effective propaganda?

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 5h

“i was sent into exile with nothing but my independent wealth, the property i own, my network of powerful & influential friends, & i pulled myself up by the bootstraps by doing nothing at all in my wilderness to end up the editor of one of america’s six remaining magazines. gumption. i have it.”

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shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 2d

The right has no compunctions about using violence but they also feel no need to construct a mechanical theory of how their violence will produce political change. Their killings are more like ritual magic than anything else. The highest goal is just to produce a satisfying spectacle.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10h

ICE is doing a wonderful job of teaching cops not to stick their necks out for the regime when things inevitably get hairy.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10h

it is genuinely good that ICE is regularly tear gassing Chicago-area PDs

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13h

At 105th chaos erupted when ICE agents allegedly crashed into an SUV. A crowd formed and objects were thrown. Pepper balls were shot into the crowd. Police arrived to try to have dialogue with the crowd when witnesses stated they began throwing rocks at ICE. ICE then deployed tear gas.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see.

It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations to the idiot media execs, who were sure they could pay a ransom to make Trump be nice to them and it would have no long-term effects whatsoever

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We'll take a couple questions from the news. I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George Slopodopolous, who is nice enough to pay me $16 million ... he had to pay $16 million to me."

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Madeline Sophia Luther 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇳🇴 @vinminen.bsky.social · 5h

He was born in Jeonju, his family having been there since 1895. I think the issue was permitting dual citizenship.