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Grateful to Jacksonville's NPR station, WJCT, for having me on this week to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Heard Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib speak last night. She was incredible, passionate, and spoke so much truth. She filled our hearts with hope. Grateful for the opportunity to stand in solidarity with our Muslim sisters and brothers in the PNW. We have to show up for each other.

Absolutely not

A federal agency quoting scripture over a photo of armored police isn’t “patriotism.” It’s a textbook violation of the separation of church and state. The government has no business wrapping law enforcement in religion.

She arrives at the house at sundown, seeking glory. She carries a map, and a talisman.

Missiles, drones, and bombs rained down across Ukraine last night, in one of the worst bombardments of the war. Mykolaiv has endured these attacks since day 1 of the invasion.

A rare acknowledgment by Trump of his eventual exit from the political arena:

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Former Trump spiritual advisor Morris enters plea deal in Hominy child sex abuse case Robert Morris, the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas and former spiritual advisor to President Trump, pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child on Oct. 2.

"Morris, former spiritual advisor to President Trump and the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas, pleaded guilty to charges in a child sex abuse scandal on Oct. 2.

He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."

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American taxpayers are paying people to post Bible verses on a US government account.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

Oct. 5, 1925: Women members of parliament from overseas pay homage to a statue of U.S. woman suffrage leaders at the Capitol, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting in Washington.

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...

Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.

... probably not the worst thing in the world if ICE decides to pick a fight with every local PD

even though most cops are likely very sympathetic to the admin the combination of "this is our turf" and "stop gassing me, fuckface" is a powerful one

Sen. Mark Kelly: "In Alaska, folks have received letters that their premiums are going up from $600 a month to $4,000 a month. That's unaffordable. And in my state of Arizona, 109,000 people are likely to lose their healthcare."

People are making different financial decisions because of the price of groceries.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

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this is *so* harrowing and remarkable. Appears to be at 63rd and Kostner.

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We are rushing to court to stop Trump & co. from using the shutdown to illegally fire gov workers!

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Reposting this because Dan McAdams really nails the truth about how 47 lives in present tense only, always trying to "win the moment."

In part, it's his dementia. But it's also his lifelong character disorder, well-documented in books like Lucky Loser.

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It’s a nation of The People. It’s not the nation of a man. Trump treats America like he owns it and that it exists for him alone.

We can't settle for Republicans’ promise of later negotiations. Because every time this Administration says something, they go back on their word.

If Republicans need Democratic votes, they need to keep health care premiums from skyrocketing for the American people.

Stephen Miller was not elected, he was appointed.

The people did not choose him.

He’s behind the bombings of Venezuelan boats which have killed multiple people.

Tonight he’s calling for an insurrection.

He’s defying a federal court judge & suggesting people take to the streets in Portland.

Tells you everything you need to know about who is fighting for you.

if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera

(and then prosecute them)

The regime keeps losing in court because what they’re doing is illegal

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

One of the things that sucks about this era is having to think about the racists all the time, because they’re so boring. They have like, three tools in their toolkit, so we get to say things like “oh look, they’re using the hammer again”

As Hegseth brags about blowing up yet another boat in international waters they claim was drug related and somehow justified, once Republican congressman @justinamash calls it a “violation of his oath” — and grok points out 0% of fentanyl Comes from Venezuela