Moonloop
@moonloop.bsky.social
I used to be a ninja, but now I'm just a concerned Texan.
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Looks like complete dogshit thanks
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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December 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Looks like complete dogshit thanks
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“The political climate around Palestine has made it such that a lot of the Silicon Valley-based social media platforms don’t seem particularly willing to ensure that Palestinian content can stay up,” EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @TheIntercept.com.
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A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent.
YouTube offered conflicting explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
theintercept.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“The political climate around Palestine has made it such that a lot of the Silicon Valley-based social media platforms don’t seem particularly willing to ensure that Palestinian content can stay up,” EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @TheIntercept.com.
theintercept.com/2025/12/07/...
theintercept.com/2025/12/07/...
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And by the way... withholding a *quarter* of the travel budget? Come on. Withhold the entire thing! Withhold the entire Air Force One budget if Trump tries to dismantle CFPB or withhold funding. Use your power.
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
And by the way... withholding a *quarter* of the travel budget? Come on. Withhold the entire thing! Withhold the entire Air Force One budget if Trump tries to dismantle CFPB or withhold funding. Use your power.
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The point is that Dems made the shutdown about health care (which led nowhere) and not about actually ensuring appropriations are spent when signed into law. There were lots of mechanisms to make sure of that. They're using them in random cases. But funding is still being withheld.
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The point is that Dems made the shutdown about health care (which led nowhere) and not about actually ensuring appropriations are spent when signed into law. There were lots of mechanisms to make sure of that. They're using them in random cases. But funding is still being withheld.
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Very annoyed at this.
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos
Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.
www.politico.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Very annoyed at this.
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
Congress knows how to use the power of the purse to get what it wants, but refuses to do it to, like, make sure that grants get to Head Start.
Just a total warping of priorities, using the power only in these narrow contexts and never to help poor people
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I'm proud to be a board member of The Retrograde and I am deeply concerned about how UT Dallas is seeking to punish one of its editors for doing what any good editor does.
www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ut-d...
www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ut-d...
UT Dallas is Trying to Punish a Student Editor for Editing
UT Dallas has consistently been accused of free speech violations in recent years.
www.dallasobserver.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I'm proud to be a board member of The Retrograde and I am deeply concerned about how UT Dallas is seeking to punish one of its editors for doing what any good editor does.
www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ut-d...
www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ut-d...
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How Fascists Are Using Jews and Palestine to Advance Their White Supremacist Agenda
Fascists are using Israel's genocide to promote both anti-semitism and Islamophobia, pitting minority communities against each other, to march towards white supremacy.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-fascis...
Fascists are using Israel's genocide to promote both anti-semitism and Islamophobia, pitting minority communities against each other, to march towards white supremacy.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-fascis...
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
How Fascists Are Using Jews and Palestine to Advance Their White Supremacist Agenda
Fascists are using Israel's genocide to promote both anti-semitism and Islamophobia, pitting minority communities against each other, to march towards white supremacy.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-fascis...
Fascists are using Israel's genocide to promote both anti-semitism and Islamophobia, pitting minority communities against each other, to march towards white supremacy.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-fascis...
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My constituent Any Lopez Belloza was wrongfully deported in shackles to Honduras without proper due process.
Now, the Trump Administration is sending ICE agents to threaten her family for speaking out.
Now, the Trump Administration is sending ICE agents to threaten her family for speaking out.
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My constituent Any Lopez Belloza was wrongfully deported in shackles to Honduras without proper due process.
Now, the Trump Administration is sending ICE agents to threaten her family for speaking out.
Now, the Trump Administration is sending ICE agents to threaten her family for speaking out.
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A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
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Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger
Simply extraordinary stuff coming out this morning about the battle over what...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...
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So, MAGA hates Muslims and wants to kick us out but is fine with Saudi Arabia and Qatar buying up America and owning the Trump family?
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Can't wait for Bugs Bunny's new owners: Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian, Abu Dhabi and Qatari sovereign wealth funds.
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
So, MAGA hates Muslims and wants to kick us out but is fine with Saudi Arabia and Qatar buying up America and owning the Trump family?
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
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Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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of course bari’s promoting the guy who disrespected ta-nehisi coates on air because he told the truth about israel
Scoop: Tony Dokoupil will be the next anchor of the "CBS Evening News." Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4oMkPgS
December 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
of course bari’s promoting the guy who disrespected ta-nehisi coates on air because he told the truth about israel
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A *lot* of folks in our communities say they feel like the air is better. Some people reply saying that their feeling is psychosomatic, but I’m not sure that’s the case.
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"
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Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
A *lot* of folks in our communities say they feel like the air is better. Some people reply saying that their feeling is psychosomatic, but I’m not sure that’s the case.
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Trump said he’d release the September 2 video “no problem.” Now he denies ever saying it and blames reporters for “fake news.” Whenever Trump doesn’t like a question, he automatically attacks the press. Delegitimization of the free press is a key indicator we call out in our Assessment.
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Trump said he’d release the September 2 video “no problem.” Now he denies ever saying it and blames reporters for “fake news.” Whenever Trump doesn’t like a question, he automatically attacks the press. Delegitimization of the free press is a key indicator we call out in our Assessment.
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Trump was asked about the pipe-bomber arrest. He didn’t answer. He pivoted to call Jan 6 a “Democrat hoax,” despite 1,400+ defendants and mountains of video evidence. Trump endorsed a conspiracy theory the moment it was handed to him. A responsible leader would say, “Let’s wait for the facts.”
Q: Everyone knows that J6 was a Fed-surrection to set you and your supporters up. What's your gut instinct about the new pipe bomber suspect taken into custody?
TRUMP: I really appreciate that question. It's sort of a statement, and I appreciate it very much. The whole thing was a Democrat hoax.
TRUMP: I really appreciate that question. It's sort of a statement, and I appreciate it very much. The whole thing was a Democrat hoax.
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Trump was asked about the pipe-bomber arrest. He didn’t answer. He pivoted to call Jan 6 a “Democrat hoax,” despite 1,400+ defendants and mountains of video evidence. Trump endorsed a conspiracy theory the moment it was handed to him. A responsible leader would say, “Let’s wait for the facts.”
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This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal".
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
December 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This has largely been memory-holed but in Trump 1.0, he picked a big public trade fight with China. They retaliated by cutting off agriculture purchases, farmers got squeezed, Trump mailed them checks and had to go crawling back to Xi for a face-saving "deal".
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
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it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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I first explored this 18 months ago and it wasn't hype. You're being watched and the data is being used to raise your prices. AI is taking the guesswork out of pricing & extracting from customers.
prospect.org/economy/2024...
prospect.org/economy/2024...
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I first explored this 18 months ago and it wasn't hype. You're being watched and the data is being used to raise your prices. AI is taking the guesswork out of pricing & extracting from customers.
prospect.org/economy/2024...
prospect.org/economy/2024...
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We warn: “Trump is now describing millions of immigrants, refugees, and even naturalized citizens as ‘invaders.. non-compatible with Western Civilization.. candidates for ‘reverse migration... a blueprint for total authoritarian population control.”
www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We warn: “Trump is now describing millions of immigrants, refugees, and even naturalized citizens as ‘invaders.. non-compatible with Western Civilization.. candidates for ‘reverse migration... a blueprint for total authoritarian population control.”
www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
www.msn.com/en-in/news/w...
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The Trump Administration is threatening a wrongfully deported student’s family because she spoke out about her mistreatment.
Everyone in this country has a First Amendment right to criticize their government.
This should send a chill down your spine.
Everyone in this country has a First Amendment right to criticize their government.
This should send a chill down your spine.
Immigration Agents Target Family of Deported College Student
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Trump Administration is threatening a wrongfully deported student’s family because she spoke out about her mistreatment.
Everyone in this country has a First Amendment right to criticize their government.
This should send a chill down your spine.
Everyone in this country has a First Amendment right to criticize their government.
This should send a chill down your spine.
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LOL Jeffries announced an AI commission and put the most right-wing pro-business member of the caucus and the pro-Big Tech House member representing Silicon Valley on it
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
LOL Jeffries announced an AI commission and put the most right-wing pro-business member of the caucus and the pro-Big Tech House member representing Silicon Valley on it
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Great report by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social on how health care cuts lead to poor Americans delaying care, and could easily lead to them getting their children taken away because they delayed care.
prospect.org/2025/12/09/t...
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Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children - The American Prospect
GOP funding cuts mean that more children will grow up with the lifelong implications of untreated illnesses.
prospect.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Great report by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social on how health care cuts lead to poor Americans delaying care, and could easily lead to them getting their children taken away because they delayed care.
prospect.org/2025/12/09/t...
prospect.org/2025/12/09/t...