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A Government Of Influencers, By Influencers, For Influencers The perverse race to find—or gin up—viral footage in Minnesota and other ICE hotspots.

In Minneapolis, much of the fight over who the good guys and the bad guys are has played out among social media personalities. This is how our government decides things now.

The latest edition of False Flag from @willsommer.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4sUIcrC

i’m not seeing here in the constitution where it says every single day must be insane

I guess a republican senator can't even make an appalling joke about a horrific political murder spree anymore because of woke

Nancy Mace's Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her According to former staffers and a deposition, Nancy Mace has allegedly used her tech background to deploy bots across social media—and asked staffers to surreptitiously post on her behalf.

Scoop: Nancy Mace's fmr staff tell me they were assigned to create burner accounts to bolster their boss online.

“We were congressional staff, and there were actual things we could be doing to help the constituents," one said. 1/
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#booksky

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Worrying signs of incipient polarization: "Republicans and independents at least twice as likely as Democrats to believe or lean towards believing each false claim about measles... confidence in the safety of MMR vaccines is lower among Republican and Rep-leaning parents" www.kff.org/health-infor...

four panel black and white doodle comic with a person and their cat. panel 1, the cat yells, "I WANT!". panel 2 the person says "What do you want". panel 3, the cat stops and stares blankly. panel 4, the cat yells "I WANT" again

what do you want

Worried about not being able to retire? Bear in mind that AI will transform the economy in previously unconsidered ways, like killer robots who will hunt down and murder destitute retirees.

White House Says It’s ‘Moving Forward’ From Signal Leak: ‘This Case Has Been Closed’ Trump on Sunday called the ongoing media coverage a “witch hunt” and “old and boring.”

CASE CLOSED guys

put the declaration that there was nothing to investigate completely unchallenged in headlines, great job

Very upset over #Smithsonian news. I was a digital archivist volunteer for several years. Upsets me that an unreplacable treasure is going away thanks to this horrible administration.

One day, if we ever get out of this, it’s going to seem very conspicuous that in the years after Dobbs the media and elites were preoccupied with pronatalism, male loneliness, and prolonged digressions about feminists’ various evils and personal failures.

Federal judge pauses President Trump’s order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.

GigSlave Goes Public With $84 Billion Valuation.

The popular slave-hailing app made its Wall Street debut today with a highly anticipated IPO that could grow the slave sharing company's value by more than 80%.

Whistleblowers | Senate Democratic Leadership Senate Democratic Leadership

Senate Democrats have set up a new portal for federal employees who want to report wrongdoing, abuses of power and threats to public safety. www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Congratulations!!

#depressed Not doing well. Anyone else really struggling to keep things normal right now?

I'm a very mild person by nature, but lately I've been feeling a huge amount of pent up rage bubbling to the surface. Anyone else feeling it too? #pissedoff #lgbtqia #lgbt

Anyone else working on scraping their Meta accounts of years of back posts? I feel silly that I got in the habit of sharing. But what's done is done.

The media since 2015.

I Give Bluesky 6 Months Before It Implodes Bluesky isn’t the problem. It’s the tech industry’s unwillingness to learn from its own social media mistakes.

LOL. Bookmarking this. www.inc.com/joe-procopio...

Bernie Sanders look-alike competition held in Burlington White-haired hopefuls gathered in City Hall Park on Saturday for their chance to win a grand prize of $17, the senator’s proposed minimum wage.

The contest’s grand prize? A sandwich bag filled with $17, Sanders’ proposed federal minimum wage. via @vermontpublic.bsky.social

We Can't Want A Savior The left's savior complex has to go

We gotta stop wanting a savior

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The important thing about short skirts is that they pair well with long jackets and are useful for touring the facility and picking up slack

And you will never know because it's hidden like whoah!

it's a visual gag. the court drawing of Very Angry Giuliani pointing at a court drawing of the cat eating, like the meme

Sometimes, his ideas are very 'out there'. I'm wondering who asked for this to exist. Is there an actual need/want for an AI gaming space??