VectorSpecter, Local Folk Legend

This is the best thing I’ve read on this whole mess, and not just because I agree with it

US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council.

The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.

The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.

Usagi putting on the foil! XD

Hunger doesn't seem to be an emergency for Alabama leaders | Alabama Reflector When Alabama leaders see an emergency, they act fast. Which makes their passivity as 726,000 Alabamians face hunger more striking.

My column this week. When Alabama lawmakers want to give money to corporations or punish transgender people, nothing can stop them.

When 726,000 Alabamians face hunger, the laws they are empowered to write suddenly become impossible barriers.

Editor Brian Lyman writes that Alabama leaders have been notably passive in helping 726,000 Alabamians avoid hunger, particularly when one remembers how quickly they move to give money to corporations and punish transgender people. https://ow.ly/nxjB50Xo2Qj

The Virtua Fighter amigos are getting our usual Monday meetups going tonight, and giving some thought to streaming and putting my commentary hat back on.

Now I just gotta see if it still fits. 😂

Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷

American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸

The corruption never ends

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”

If you see this, reskeet with a Sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai

So…yea or nay on the full Taco Baco Thanksgiving spread? 😂

Drop something ORANGE 🥲

I can't support this sentiment louy enough...

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.

The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.

This is great. Now we just need a hundred other Dem politicians to speak this bluntly.

Dance Yrself Clean by LCD sound system

Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07

Russian agents turned out to be Russian agents. The era of the most obvious discoveries continues.

AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦‍♀️

Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.

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Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI

Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion “high risk” scam ads a day. That’s on top of 22 billion organic scam attempts that Meta users are exposed to daily.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Google, Microsoft, and Meta Have Stopped Publishing Workforce Diversity Data Other big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia have continued their annual disclosures this year even as the Trump administration cracks down on DEI.

They're hiding the resegregation of the tech industry.

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Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”

The result was “institutionalized hunger.”

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The business end of a baseball bat? :D

The bar is always who you were yesterday. So long as you’re clearing that, you’re doing pretty dang good! :D

a man is standing in front of a game you sign ALT: a man is standing in front of a game you sign

With Tekken cosplay! :D

Come do VF things with us! Sarah’s basically the cool Hwoarang in the yearbook. :D

The most corrupt administration in American history.

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done