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Colleen Flaherty
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Communications Director based in Madison, Wisconsin
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Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
I need a Beekeeper 2 movie where he fights ICE the whole time
January 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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sadvil.bsky.social
protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed.

disgusting.
January 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
Wrote about how the Grok scandal upended our notion that platforms would do even the bare minimum to prevent attacks against their own user base www.platformer.news/grock-blocke...
France, Australia, and India have also all announced investigations into Grok. In truth, though, there is very little to investigate. Thousands of public posts tell the grim story. No one is disputing that xAI made available to its user base a tool that puts women and children into their underwear — or worse — against their will. No one is disputing that some of this content is illegal in many of the countries where xAI operates. And no one is disputing that Grok continues to generate this kind of material on demand. When deepfakes first emerged as an online harm, I took some comfort in the notion that they likely would not spread virally. Individuals might send them via messages, I thought, but platforms would intervene to remove violating posts — particularly posts targeting children. Never could I have imagined that someday the former Twitter would deploy tools that enable and amplify those harms, and would dismiss any attempts to rein the company in as “censorship.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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pavlovforgoths.com
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social on Renee Nicole Good: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
In the imagination of some on the right, Good quickly came to stand in for all the grating Resistance moms they'd like to see crushed. Fox News sneered that Good was a "self-proclaimed poet" - she's the winner of a prestigious poetry award - "with pronouns in her bio." The conservative radio host Erick Erickson described her as an "AWFUL," or "Affluent White Female Urban Liberal." It's entirely possible that had Good lived, the Trump administration might have tried to prosecute her. That's essentially what happened to Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen in Chicago, in October. Martinez was in her car trying to warn people about ICE when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle. Federal officials claimed she "rammed" a car driven by the agent Charles Exum, while her lawyers say he sideswiped her. Exum then got out of his car and shot her five times. Martinez survived, only for the Justice Department to charge her with assaulting a federal officer. Her lawyers soon discovered that Exum had been boasting about the shooting in text messages. In one, he wrote, "I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys." In another, he said, "Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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pfessenbecker.bsky.social
Ken‘s out here remaking the entire environment —
kenjennings.bsky.social Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 16d
If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.
January 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is asking for your help to spread some love this Valentine’s Day.
Wisconsin Dept. of Veterans Affairs collecting cards for Valentines Day
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs is asking for your help to spread some love this Valentine’s Day.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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kendragaylord.bsky.social
I have been a lifelong stamp enthusiast and USPS lover. Last month I made a 30 minute video on the history of the postal service in the United States to try and figure out why it’s in such danger now. Here is what I learned 1/17
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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magdi.bsky.social
Not only were there elections this week, the WI election was an essential *first* step in securing future elections. And, that election was won despite the richest man in the world using his wealth & power to influence the outcome. Democracy still matters. Those that say otherwise should be blocked.
April 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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pfessenbecker.bsky.social
The addendum to Marie Kondo I kinda want to write: property loss and property theft are not actually that big of a deal. Most stuff we have is not that important and is replaceable, and getting too obsessed with control over stuff encourages a fantasy of the permanence and immortality of things.
March 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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pfessenbecker.bsky.social
My cousin wrote a song about onions
Onion Zone
Welcome to the Onion Zone
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September 17, 2023 at 11:55 PM