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I crochet, rescue kittens, and read a ton of books.

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US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill The Republican-led U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a 10-year federal moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence from President Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill.

US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill reut.rs/4lwP1eu

01.07.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 10

🚨URGENTβ€”Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

18.04.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4009    πŸ” 2130    πŸ’¬ 103    πŸ“Œ 137
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Israeli missiles strike Gaza hospital, patients evacuated Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a main Gaza hospital on Sunday, destroying the emergency and reception department and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike which Israel said was against Hamas fighters exploiting the facility.

Two Israeli missiles hit a building inside a major Gaza hospital, destroying the emergency and reception departments and damaging other structures reut.rs/4lva5TE

13.04.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 17
Binding Chaos: Autogenocide: A genocide that a population is coerced to perform on itself. Graphic shows a cross-legged unhappy man suffering "Daily fear, anxiety, and desperation" as arrows point to him showing causality from a number of coercive forces: Lack of medical care; toxic pollution; plenty of guns and street drugs; sectarian hatred (person holding up a sign that says "Me only"); poverty, houselessness; no elder care, no disability aid; no baby formula or abortions; climate change; toxic food and pharmaceuticals

Binding Chaos: Autogenocide: A genocide that a population is coerced to perform on itself. Graphic shows a cross-legged unhappy man suffering "Daily fear, anxiety, and desperation" as arrows point to him showing causality from a number of coercive forces: Lack of medical care; toxic pollution; plenty of guns and street drugs; sectarian hatred (person holding up a sign that says "Me only"); poverty, houselessness; no elder care, no disability aid; no baby formula or abortions; climate change; toxic food and pharmaceuticals

New post today by @heathermarsh.bsky.social: "Why #autogenocide?": georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/04/12/w...

"for people who are wondering why I used the term autogenocide in the #BindingChaos series and as part of the #3E movement"

Now I've a permalink to show editors when I use her neologism!

13.04.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Dewey's April 2025 Readathon starts at 8am EST on Saturday, April 26th, and ends at 8am EST on Sunday, April 27th. #deweysApril2025 #deweysreadathon #readathon

13.04.2025 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#deweysApril2025 #deweysreadathon #readathon The moment has come... the co-moderator sign-up thread is posted on Goodreads. We have 2 weeks to crystallize our TBRs and adjust our sleep schedules as needed before we dive into 24 hours of reading and bookish company. What is on your TBR so far?

13.04.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This seems like a bad idea

05.04.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 7469    πŸ” 2092    πŸ’¬ 429    πŸ“Œ 102
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Appeals Court Orders Thousands of Voters to Verify Information in Contested N.C. Election The ruling was a win for the Republican who narrowly lost a State Supreme Court race in November. The case has tested the boundaries of post-election litigation.

Breaking News: Thousands of voters must verify their eligibility or have their ballots in the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court race thrown out, a court ruled, a win for the Republican candidate who narrowly lost the election in November and challenged the result.

04.04.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 44
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Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy' Read more here.

NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.

Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle β€œa fight for the very soul of democracy.”

From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

04.04.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1370    πŸ” 478    πŸ’¬ 70    πŸ“Œ 41

Gross.

04.04.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 512    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 3

Andry did the right thing:
- Never committed a crime.
- Fled his home when persecuted for being LGBTQ & refusing to give in to an authoritarian regime.
- Sought asylum through a legal pathway.
- Found us to represent him in court.

So, why did the Trump admin forcibly remove him?

He had tattoos.

01.04.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 387    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

Here's the evidence ICE submitted in his case: a "gang worksheet" filled out by local cops in 2019 saying:

1) he had on Chicago Bulls gear
2) a confidential information said he was part of an MS-13 clique in a state he'd never lived in.

ICE agreed they had nothing else. Read the full context here:

01.04.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3075    πŸ” 1100    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 106

For a while there I was wondering if Newsom could make a decent candidate for President, with his charisma handling the fires, but with stuff like this, I'm not sure he's presidential material. Better than Trump, but that's a low bar.

29.03.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the USβ€”despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients.

By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.

Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.

28.03.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2277    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 29

CDC leadership has not been included in decisions that affect the agency's future. Termination emails will go directly from HHS to CDC staff. The tone from Center directors today: β€œsorry we don't know anything. Please tell us if you're RIF'd. We'll do a headcount Monday of those still standing".

28.03.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 746    πŸ” 186    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 16

Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.

27.03.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3578    πŸ” 2071    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 79
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Desi Lydic watched Fox News for 57 hours straight to understand the Yemen group chat fiasco that's actually no big deal

26.03.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1480    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 15

Notably missing: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia. Kind of mindblowing to me given what the substance of this letter is: "government should not retaliate against law firms"

26.03.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5136    πŸ” 1320    πŸ’¬ 146    πŸ“Œ 84

At this rate we'll wean ourselves off of gas-powered cars just because we won't be able to afford to buy or repair cars.

27.03.2025 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It gets worse.

This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

26.03.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 35594    πŸ” 13228    πŸ’¬ 1574    πŸ“Œ 1043
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

26.03.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 56677    πŸ” 21444    πŸ’¬ 2008    πŸ“Œ 1372
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HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of protestors call for the release of #RumeysaOzturk in Somerville, MA. The Tufts grad student was abducted by #ICE last night after publishing an article that was critical of Israel and supportive of BDS. #AbolishICE #FreeRumeysaOzturk

27.03.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 352    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
Black and white photo of kick ass Italian Antifa ladies

Black and white photo of kick ass Italian Antifa ladies

Over 100,000 Italian women risked everything to fight Nazifascism, WW2 - Arming themselves, leading raids, running underground networks, and dying in battle

They were warriors. Strategists. Revolutionaries. They shattered every myth about women’s roles in war and rewrote what resistance looked like

26.03.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 10

One thing is to mess up your opsec the other thing is to fuck up your actual operation. It doesn’t matter if you do it with a knife or with an airstrike. Murder is murder. It’s time to start thinking of people as humans again instead of acronyms and statistics.

26.03.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1506    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 7

Not only did the Trump regime mess up their own opsec, they also committed a war crime. They targeted residential buildings in Yemen, missed their target, and killed civilians instead.

26.03.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3461    πŸ” 1346    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 69
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Rumeysa Ozturk a Tufts PhD student, was disappeared by plainclothes ICE terrorists outside her home - no charges, no warning, no accountability. Her only offense was supporting Palestine via Op-Ed. This is political erasure through state violence. USians, you are living under authoritarian rule! #3E

26.03.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5
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Turkey has large protests after Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested for corruption. Thousands of supporters took to the streets to demand his release in latest bout of anti-government demonstrations. They state that the charges are politically motivated. At least 1,400 protestors have been arrested.

26.03.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1167    πŸ” 297    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 20
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Florida considers bill to roll back child labor laws to fill jobs once held by undocumented migrants Florida lawmakers are considering major changes to state child labor laws to address a potential shortage of migrant workers due to GOP-led immigration crackdowns, which would allow teens to work l…

Their unhinged, sadistic immigration policies are collapsing entire industries by design.

DeSantis’ answer? Legalize child slave labor and shove your kids into the machines to replace exploited migrants.

Florida 🌴🦩 you need to SWARM your reps offices over this!

#3E #Endimpunity #Florida

26.03.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 108    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

This isn't just sociopathic. This is having such an astounding lack of empathy that you're not even aware that empathy exists. How the hell are we as people supposed to process this?

27.03.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 133    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 6

So here's the thing about these small grants. They actually do a lot to make sure we're not competing with, you know, slave labor. And promoting gender equity in the workplace means helping women get into decent jobs so they can support their families and not feel the need to migrate here!

26.03.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 395    πŸ” 146    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 10

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