George Keith
@georgikeith.bsky.social
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(opinions are my own!) & Irish traditional fiddle player, Boston(ish) MA
(opinions are my own!) & Irish traditional fiddle player, Boston(ish) MA
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All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
January 22, 2026 at 3:41 AM
All I have ever heard about every news story from Bill Clinton to drag shows is “it’s awful, parents have to explain this to their children, why can’t we just let kids be kids?”
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
Now an entire classroom is going to go home to parents trying to explain why their five year friend was taken by the govt
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We learned today that in just over a week, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot 'Grok' generated and shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women - all without their consent. This is abhorrent. We need the legislature to take action this session to bring AI accountability to New Mexico.
January 22, 2026 at 8:16 PM
We learned today that in just over a week, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot 'Grok' generated and shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women - all without their consent. This is abhorrent. We need the legislature to take action this session to bring AI accountability to New Mexico.
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The constitutional remedy for a government that conspired in secret to systematically violate the Fourth Amendment is impeachment of all officials involved, removal, disqualification, and criminal prosecution.
At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale.
It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment.
Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment.
Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
s3.documentcloud.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 AM
The constitutional remedy for a government that conspired in secret to systematically violate the Fourth Amendment is impeachment of all officials involved, removal, disqualification, and criminal prosecution.
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One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
One court decision, two different headlines.
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?
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🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 AM
🧵ICE's tactics for arresting and holding observers and protestors is ever-shifting, and I'm hearing lots of different stories. Right now, my perspective is that these are your best practices:
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This is what you do when you’re running death camps
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
This is what you do when you’re running death camps
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“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
"... why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, ..."
Um, actually there ARE written documents:
nordics.info/show/artikel...
Um, actually there ARE written documents:
nordics.info/show/artikel...
USA's declaration on Danish sovereignty of Greenland, 1916
On 4th August 1916, the American government issued a declaration to the Danish government that it would not raise objections if Denmark extended its interests in Greenland to include the entire island...
nordics.info
January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"... why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, ..."
Um, actually there ARE written documents:
nordics.info/show/artikel...
Um, actually there ARE written documents:
nordics.info/show/artikel...
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There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"
Rep. Byron Donalds: "These agitators -- who by the way are paid, folks. America, they are paid to do this kind of mess."
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
There's no better way to observe MLK Day than to go on the news and insist that the civil rights protesters objecting to police brutality are actually "paid agitators"
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
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compare bsky.app/profile/acyn...
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
compare bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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One way to tell if you’re “The Baddies” is if you’re the guy in helmet and body armor firing tear gas at high school students AT THEIR OWN SCHOOL.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
man the video of border patrol facing off with angry students in Minneapolis on Reddit is depressing
www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...
www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...
An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuff...
www.reddit.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM
One way to tell if you’re “The Baddies” is if you’re the guy in helmet and body armor firing tear gas at high school students AT THEIR OWN SCHOOL.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
CBP and ICE are a terrible mix of aggro and poorly trained, supercharged by feeling totally unaccountable.
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Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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Has a court ruled on whether, under Section 230, a web site’s AI generating content based on a user prompt is treated as the web site’s speech? Seems to me it should be, just as if the site operator published speech answering someone’s question.
BWEPRA
BWEPRA
I am not a Section 230 expert but being that Twitter is creating and publishing these photos I wonder if they actually have any civil legal protection? @kenwhite.bsky.social ? @akivamcohen.bsky.social ?
What X is allowing Grok to do is unlawful or regulatory-illegal in multiple jurisdictions, creates clear DSA violations, and continues despite regulator scrutiny. The images do not need to be pornographic, non-consensual sexualised or intimate depictions are enough.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Has a court ruled on whether, under Section 230, a web site’s AI generating content based on a user prompt is treated as the web site’s speech? Seems to me it should be, just as if the site operator published speech answering someone’s question.
BWEPRA
BWEPRA
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So as someone who's a professional creator, and has always been a creator of art in many mediums ...
I've encountered a lot of people in life
A LOT OF PEOPLE
who want to do art, who think they have good ideas for art, but don't want to do the work
Now...
I've encountered a lot of people in life
A LOT OF PEOPLE
who want to do art, who think they have good ideas for art, but don't want to do the work
Now...
If a machine can fart out a 400-page novel based on any stray shower thought, why would even the “author” want to read it?
But they don’t get it. Or maybe they do but are in deep denial
But they don’t get it. Or maybe they do but are in deep denial
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
So as someone who's a professional creator, and has always been a creator of art in many mediums ...
I've encountered a lot of people in life
A LOT OF PEOPLE
who want to do art, who think they have good ideas for art, but don't want to do the work
Now...
I've encountered a lot of people in life
A LOT OF PEOPLE
who want to do art, who think they have good ideas for art, but don't want to do the work
Now...
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Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
BREAKING: At 7am ET, in response to the emergency overnight filing, Judge Xinis issued a TRO barring the Trump administration from re-detaining Abrego Garcia.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191...
Memorandum and Order – #114 in Abrego Garcia v. Noem (D. Maryland, 8:25-cv-02780) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM ORDER granting 112 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order; Respondents are enjoined from re-detaining Petitioner in ICE custody until this Court can receive further briefing from the partie...
www.courtlistener.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs
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hot dog guy meme but also, who's giving the "third world click farm" its clicks champ? bsky.app/profile/hann...
Chris Rufo literally was a core figure in boosting a lie that Haitian immigrants in an Ohio town ate pets. He offered a bounty for “information” after the lie was repeatedly debunked.
Spare us the navel-gazing nonsense.
Spare us the navel-gazing nonsense.
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
hot dog guy meme but also, who's giving the "third world click farm" its clicks champ? bsky.app/profile/hann...
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There's a considerable literature on having patients shop by price. Unsurprisingly patients just end up not getting care.
These people don't give a shit about evidence. Or patients.
These people don't give a shit about evidence. Or patients.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
There's a considerable literature on having patients shop by price. Unsurprisingly patients just end up not getting care.
These people don't give a shit about evidence. Or patients.
These people don't give a shit about evidence. Or patients.
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EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.