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CA/PNW, aka some of the last bastions of democracy. Changed the banner and avi on Jan. 20, 2025.๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿคฌ

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Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

24.11.2025 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14720    ๐Ÿ” 5831    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 677    ๐Ÿ“Œ 579

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

23.11.2025 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5519    ๐Ÿ” 1592    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51    ๐Ÿ“Œ 99

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

23.11.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10136    ๐Ÿ” 3588    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 136    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100

Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole โ€” Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year โ€” in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY

23.11.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4069    ๐Ÿ” 1497    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 89    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47
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WTF ๐Ÿคฌ
ICE in DC is setting up racially driven checkpoints and roadblocks. This is one on Canal Road. A large number of vehicles can be seen waiting to be towed after these agents disappeared their owners.

24.11.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2253    ๐Ÿ” 1651    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 249    ๐Ÿ“Œ 116
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Washington State Resident Believed To Be First To Die From Rare Bird Flu Strain State health officials said they'll monitor anyone who came in close contact with the person but โ€œthere is no evidence of transmission of this virus between people."

As the first US death from the new Bird Flu strain occurs, remember that the Trump Administration and RFK Jr has cancelled all research for a vaccine to prevent the disease as well as on measures to control it.
www.huffpost.com/entry/washin...

23.11.2025 06:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

EVIDENCE - Soooooo much evidence 
"THEY GOT NOTHING ON ME" - the felon

EVIDENCE - Soooooo much evidence "THEY GOT NOTHING ON ME" - the felon

#EPSTEIN

22.11.2025 19:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8070    ๐Ÿ” 2119    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 109    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

Hey, whatโ€™s not to hate? No healthcare, no food, overtaxed, no safety on our streets thanks to the government/ICEโ€ฆetc. In the meantime we are forced to watch billionaire pedophiles and murderers eating opulent dinners in the peopleโ€™s house with Prince Bone Saw. All the Broligarchs in attendance. ๐Ÿคฎ

21.11.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 421    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Robotaxis are driven by people remotely, right? Iโ€™m picturing a human in a robot costume in the actual vehicle. fElon would probably try to sell the car and the โ€œrobotโ€ as a fancy package deal and explain that somehow itโ€™s not human trafficking. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ

22.11.2025 03:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Given that his โ€œrobotโ€ demo was humans in costumes, that would be a hilarious full-circle for the cosplay robots to be the โ€œdriverlessโ€ part of the cars.

21.11.2025 23:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CMS Plans to Share Data with ICE Could Exacerbate Immigrant Familiesโ€™ Fears About Accessing Health Coverage and Care This policy change will likely exacerbate fears among immigrant families about health officials and providers sharing patient information with ICE, increasing their reluctance to access health coverag...

CMS just issued a notice that it will start sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with ICE for immigration enforcement, including data on immigration status, location, and phone numbers. @kff.org Quick Take discusses the impact this could have on immigrant families
www.kff.org/quick-take/c...

21.11.2025 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York โ€˜courtwatchโ€™ group that was observing public hearings

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were โ€œanarchist violent extremist actors.โ€

Your reminder that the government is watching and donโ€™t say anything in a big group chat you wouldnโ€™t say on TV.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

21.11.2025 12:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1970    ๐Ÿ” 927    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 80

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

20.11.2025 23:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8387    ๐Ÿ” 3549    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 174    ๐Ÿ“Œ 275
On September 26, 2025, video from an agentโ€™s BWC shows a line of agents standing at least thirty feet away from protesters outside the Broadview facility on Harvard Street. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:00; see also Doc. 172-11 at 8 (โ€œ[T]he crowd [ ] was approximately 30-40 feet away.โ€). Despite this distance, the agents start yelling โ€œmove back, move backโ€ to the protesters and then shoot pepper balls and tear gas at them without any apparent justification. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:21โ€“4:19. While the agent wrote in his use of force report that protesters were โ€œbecoming increasingly hostile,โ€ Doc. 172-11 at 7, the BWC video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:21โ€“4:19.

On September 26, 2025, video from an agentโ€™s BWC shows a line of agents standing at least thirty feet away from protesters outside the Broadview facility on Harvard Street. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:00; see also Doc. 172-11 at 8 (โ€œ[T]he crowd [ ] was approximately 30-40 feet away.โ€). Despite this distance, the agents start yelling โ€œmove back, move backโ€ to the protesters and then shoot pepper balls and tear gas at them without any apparent justification. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:21โ€“4:19. While the agent wrote in his use of force report that protesters were โ€œbecoming increasingly hostile,โ€ Doc. 172-11 at 7, the BWC video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force. Axon Body 4 Video 2025-09-26 1137 D01A3411W at 2:21โ€“4:19.

DHS claimed that on September 26, a DHS officer claimed that they were forced to deploy riot munitions because protestors were "becoming increasingly hostile."

In fact, "the [Body Worn Camera] video shows that the protesters were simply standing there when agents first deployed any force."

20.11.2025 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1096    ๐Ÿ” 201    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

All of a sudden heโ€™s โ€œnot amusedโ€? ๐Ÿ™„

21.11.2025 00:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A MAGA Attorney Hired Epsteinโ€™s Lawyer for His โ€˜Valuableโ€™ Experience A firm that represents Pete Hegseth and once represented Donald Trump now employs a co-executor of the disgraced financierโ€™s estate.

Before joining โ€œParlatore Law Group, Darren Indyke was Epsteinโ€™s personal attorney for nearly a quarter century and reportedly among his closest associates and advisers. Parlatoreโ€™s decision to hire Indyke appears to have escaped public notice.โ€ Indyke has been working for the firm since Oct 2022.

20.11.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

True, they can be very priceyโ€ฆglad you have leads!

20.11.2025 17:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You all know I've been after the Treasury Department's own Epstein file. It's a set of thousands of detailed bank records, a map of Epstein's financial network. Secretary Bessent is blocking its release โ€“ and he denies it's even something Treasury should be investigating.

20.11.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2360    ๐Ÿ” 675    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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Amen to this. ๐Ÿ™

20.11.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 322    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

There have to be consequences for how Bovinoโ€™s brutal raiders keep ginning up charges against innocent people that are quickly dropped as soon as the spotlight moves on.

20.11.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 430    ๐Ÿ” 158    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

A kidsโ€™ cooking or baking class?๐Ÿ™‚

20.11.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives โ€“ all the way to the top โ€“ enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

20.11.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23844    ๐Ÿ” 9038    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 878    ๐Ÿ“Œ 791

Seems like a them problem.

19.11.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

19.11.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22351    ๐Ÿ” 7832    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 884    ๐Ÿ“Œ 480
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Donald Trump says he wants interest rates to come down โ€“ but he is refusing to release the data the Fed needs to do that.

Seems like he wants to hide bad jobs data.

And working families will keep paying the price.

19.11.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1309    ๐Ÿ” 396    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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๐Ÿšจ Here we go again. Govt cover up.

Surveillance footage that could provide evidence of abusive, inhumane conditions at ICEโ€™s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago is somehow โ€œirretrievably destroyed.โ€

DHS has no explanation.

๐Ÿงพ 404 Media: is.gd/WWnaOn

โš–๏ธ Court records: is.gd/d4n98Y

19.11.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago Five important lessons of the first six months of Trumpโ€™s immigration raids โ€” and why CBPโ€™s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."

18.11.2025 23:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 626    ๐Ÿ” 225    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

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