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@laurenwc.bsky.social

Californian. Public defender. Mom. Wife. #resist #handsoff

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Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo

07.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 13

I am also amused bc when I saw this video earlier, before the scoring, I said to The Husband 'this looks like some Benny Hill shit'

29.09.2025 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dana White shows vision, renderings of what UFC event at White House might look like Dana White showed renderings of his vision of what next summer's planned UFC event at the White House might look like.

πŸ™„ We literally just want safe and affordable health care.

26.09.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (πŸŽ₯: Elias Eliahu)

25.09.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 28211    πŸ” 14125    πŸ’¬ 5772    πŸ“Œ 4068
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β€œWe’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests β€” a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a β€œmini...

6/ This isn’t the first time ProPublica has reported on ICE under Trump 2.0 acting in unprecedented ways. In July, my colleagues @mckenziefunk.com and @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented ~50 incidents of officers shattering car windows to make arrests.
projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread πŸ‘‡

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2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital.

β€œOver [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

26.09.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3653    πŸ” 1110    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 44

Idiocracy.

No screenwriter could get a green light for this script

24.09.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The rest of the world agrees.

Don't forget the racism towards the Mayor of London, the massive disrespect towards the British Prime Minister (whose capital city is no longer under British law) and continuing enthusiastic support for genocide.

24.09.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
Why Corporate Media is Bending the Knee
YouTube video by Robert Reich Why Corporate Media is Bending the Knee

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives.

He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

22.09.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 26777    πŸ” 6501    πŸ’¬ 1023    πŸ“Œ 378

A lot of people are about to learn how to contact the companies the own their local network affiliates.

22.09.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happenβ€”whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

22.09.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 8558    πŸ” 2280    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 113
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Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in Texas in September 2024, according to people familiar with the matter and a government document...

Border czar Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024. Trump officials have shut down the bribery investigation.

22.09.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 203    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 47
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Done! #boycottdisney

21.09.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

18.09.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 60420    πŸ” 16918    πŸ’¬ 1922    πŸ“Œ 906
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Ok this was funny.

19.09.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3589    πŸ” 739    πŸ’¬ 162    πŸ“Œ 97

I said from the jump that Kimmel never said the shooter was MAGA. I heard it the way he meant it: that MAGA is desperately spinning a narrative that the shooter is anything but MAGA. It’s like when I say I don’t trust the source of the texts, people make all kind of assumptions about what I mean.

19.09.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3431    πŸ” 878    πŸ’¬ 160    πŸ“Œ 24
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Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over β€˜Gender Ideology’

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

19.09.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2578    πŸ” 844    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 177
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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

β€œFreedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

18.09.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3720    πŸ” 2116    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 229
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

18.09.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 36117    πŸ” 12775    πŸ’¬ 859    πŸ“Œ 648
SAG-AFTRA Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy
Kimmel Live!
SAG-AFTRA condemns suspension of Jimmy Kimmel
Live!
Our society depends on freedom of expression.
Suppression of free speech and retaliation for speaking out on significant issues of public concern run counter to the fundamental rights we all rely on.
Democracy thrives when diverse points of view are expressed.
The decision to suspend airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone's freedoms.
SAG-AFTRA stands with all media artists and defends their right to express their diverse points of view, and everyone's right to hear them.

SAG-AFTRA Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! SAG-AFTRA condemns suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Our society depends on freedom of expression. Suppression of free speech and retaliation for speaking out on significant issues of public concern run counter to the fundamental rights we all rely on. Democracy thrives when diverse points of view are expressed. The decision to suspend airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! is the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone's freedoms. SAG-AFTRA stands with all media artists and defends their right to express their diverse points of view, and everyone's right to hear them.

SAG-AFTRA Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

18.09.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 591    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 6
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORKβ€”Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. β€œShortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

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It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents.

But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

18.09.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 10105    πŸ” 3215    πŸ’¬ 611    πŸ“Œ 204

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

17.09.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24211    πŸ” 7216    πŸ’¬ 1104    πŸ“Œ 496
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Disney/ABC just caved & pulled Jimmy Kimmel for political reasons.
Nexstar β€” which owns The CW + 200+ local ABC, NBC, CBS & FOX stations β€” is part of the same machine.

πŸ’₯ Boycott Disney. Boycott Nexstar. Boycott their advertisers.

Hit them where it hurts: the $$$.

18.09.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2668    πŸ” 1384    πŸ’¬ 297    πŸ“Œ 99

This is state-sponsored media shit. Absolutely, shocking, insane dictator overreach

18.09.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 599    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 10

We’re nine months into a fascist takeover and Dem β€œleadership” still has nothing resembling a coordinated plan to counter Trump. Epic and unforgivable failure. Jeffries and Schumer need to step aside and make way for fighters!

18.09.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything we hold dear is at stake and the response of many is either capitulation, apathy, and/or willful blindness. I can’t control what those foolish people do. But I, for one, will not go willingly or quietly.

18.09.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

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