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I know one airport I would never fly into and that is one named after Trump.

I would flat refuse. I would drive 24 hours through a hail/ice/rain/storm/hurricane/blizzard before I would ever fly into an airport named after Donald Trump…

Women politicians face tech-facilitated violence in Uganda’s 2026 elections Ideally, the law that is supposed to protect women online is the Computer Misuse Act 2011, but it has instead been used to attack feminist dissenters.

As Uganda grapples with its political future, it is clear that women in Uganda have a long way to go in breaking barriers that hinder political participation, and that tech-facilitated violence against women is another tactic that serves to silence women. 

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

My brother in christ you are the Mayor of New York City DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Keeping my fingers crossed!🤞🏼

Alysa Liu wins!

Oh my god watching Alysa Liu win women’s figure skating individual women’s gold was incredible!!!

Such an awesome person too. Way to go Alysa.

She looked like she was just straight up having fun on the ice. Such a joy to watch.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Happy Friday, Saoirse!! Hope you have a great weekend!

I become more and more convinced that the AI is just right wing class war and the lack of white collar worker organisation due having been flattered for years as geniuses and fed like farm geese has just led to a colossal lack of awareness of the class interests going on.

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.

My two cents: Cis editors should be assigning trans reporters to write about trans folks right now.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories.

Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.

I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Just in case you didn't believe we were detaining 7 year olds for 2 months in child concentration camps across the country.

Save the evidence everywhere for the trials.

Someone recently told me that I’m not a unifier. That I’m divisive.

I know that. I am not trying to unify anyone with MAGA. I speak out against MAGA. I stand against their policies and their cruelty. I do not want to be united with that minority of voters.

They do not align with my values.

Uhhh

🤣🤣🤣

Truth! Hope you are having a great day my friend!

Women and young girls bear the brunt of Mali’s worsening security crisis Since 2012, Mali has been in security turmoil with the emergence and expansion of several radical non-State armed groups. This situation disproportionately affects the civilian population, especially women and girls.

Various women’s community associations have created safe spaces, run awareness-raising campaigns, and support survivors. These initiatives are forms of resistance and resilience in the face of systemic violence.

What a beautiful sentiment, Kalifornia!! May all those blessings shower upon you as well!! All the best my friend!

The Epstein Cover-up Must End Trump knows more than he has ever let on

“In any normal timeline, Trump, along with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (who has facilitated the cover-up and coddled Maxwell), would be facing demands for impeachment.”

Voter Passport The SAVE Act

The SAVE Act was never about election integrity or keeping elections fair. It is about building a paywall around the ballot and hoping we’re too exhausted or too broke to participate.

The SAVE Act is meant to keep us home so they can steal an election.

jesspiper.substack.com/p/voter-pass...

StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.

Want to explore storytelling written from within different cultures, not filtered through outsiders, and strengthen GV Lingua’s global translation community at the same time?

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Dehumanizing Humans, Personifying Computers: Why Modern Fascism Wants You to be Lonely Welcome to fully-automated luxury fascism. Can I take your personhood?

"The purveyors of modern fascism are so scared of other people, and so full of hatred for humanity, that they’re even outsourcing the thing they like best—literally doing fascism—to computers." - read @andreagrimes.com 's latest below!

Aaaah *shit.* 😖