This Is Fascism

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Man Fired 180 Shots, Shattering 150 Windows, In CDC Attack Bullets pierced "blast-resistant" windows, and it could take weeks or even months to repair the damage, agency officials said.

The man who attacked the CDC fired more than 180 shots into the campus

Income We ask questions about the funds a person receives from various sources to create statistics about income, assistance, earnings, and poverty status.

This is part of the American Community Survey, conducted by the Census Bureau but different from the decennial census. More information on the income questions can be found here.

www.census.gov/acs/www/abou...

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

A Comment: "Imagine being an employee at a company that has NEVER turned a profit and showing up to work in these shirts." on a picture of WNBA players wearing shirts that say “PAY US WHAT YOU OWE US”

"Imagine being an employee at a company that has NEVER turned a profit and showing up to work in these shirts."

This caption, shared to 122K followers, is intended to mock the WNBA players wearing “PAY US WHAT YOU OWE US” tees.

This Is DOGE 2.0 Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Now seems the time to repost this big story we did a few years ago... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members: 1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual. 1 Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160 Filed 07/07/25 Page 2 of 4 The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned. Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

BREAKING: The United States of America

8/ Where does that leave us? We'll see. Nationwide injunctions were previously the easiest way to stop clearly bad/illegal/unconstitutional law & policy, but the majority still leaves other, much more complicated, options.

But for now, kids born in TX and MA could be facing very different futures.

While human law enforcement officers keep watch by the caskets, an Honor Guard of 12 golden retrievers are also taking shifts to make sure two dogs are standing guard over Gilbert at all times.

How to pay your respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman as they lie in state at the Minnesota Capitol Melissa and Mark Hortman, along with their golden retriever Gilbert, will lie in state at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul Friday from noon to 5 p.m.

Minnesotans will be able to pay their respects to Melissa and Mark Hortman, along with their golden retriever Gilbert, as they lie in state at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul Friday, June 27, from noon to 5 p.m.

Who was MN Rep. Melissa Hortman in the MN Legislature? READ about her consequential leadership in this THREAD by @taniel.bsky.social.

Take the time.

Out of an abundance of caution my Department of Public Safety is recommending that people do not attend any political rallies today in Minnesota until the suspect is apprehended.

Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, State Senator John Hoffman and State Representative Melissa Hortman, were shot in their own homes overnight.

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.

Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.

Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...)

That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse.

His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

When the Cuts Hit Home I am not an alarmist.

About cuts to National Weather Service & FEMA:
"Wake up, folks. The tornado is on your doorstep, and this time you’re not going to get a warning."

When the Cuts Hit Home
by Joyce White Vance
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Thousands of experts and leaders are fleeing Trump’s government The U.S. DOGE Service’s push for early retirement and deferred resignation is leading to a federal brain drain, longtime staffers fear.

Across the federal government, DOGE’s push for early retirement and voluntary separation is fueling an exodus of experienced, knowledgeable staffers unlike anything in living memory, according to longtime staffers.

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.

And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.

I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

The Wealthy In This Country Would Poison Us For The Sake Of Profit!!!

Over half of NOAA’s Regional Climate Centers’ websites go dark due to ‘lapse in federal funding’ As of Thursday, over half of the websites for NOAA’s Regional Climate Centers were unavailable in what the websites noted as a “lapse in federal funding from the Department of Commerce …

Due to a lapse in federal funding to NOAA from the DOC, contracts supporting several regional climate centers ended yesterday. This includes four of the six major regions, specifically the High Plains, Midwestern, Southeast, and Southern regions.

Climate data is crucial to our mission. (1/3)

There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact: What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.