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Discord turns to facial recognition in child safety crackdown The rollout, beginning in early March, will make teen-appropriate settings the default for all users, with adults needing to verify their age to loosen protections. The move follows similar actions by rivals facing intense scrutiny over child safety.

Discord turns to facial recognition in child safety crackdown

YouTube video by Liberal Currents 2025's Word of the Year

thank you to @savithry.bsky.social and daniel from @becauselanguage.com for joining trent and me in our discussion of possible word of the year candidates for 2025!

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you don’t say!!!!

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@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social, @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and me discuss AI as a political project here, and get into that particular question of terror-production, too

It’s true! @liberalcurrents.com and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I can attest to this!

Half the Answer #63: SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights...

"They were like, OK, so Donnie, we're going to let you fire basically anyone you want except the Fed. Don't mess with the Fed. And like a 5 year old child being told not to touch the stove, Trump was like, well, obviously I'm going to mess with the Fed." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

i don’t need generative AI to write a song, all i have to do is write a little bit of a song and then harass all my friends who are better at music than me about what i should do

078: Who the Hell is Steven Crowder? feat. Byron McKoy | Posting Through It Get more from Posting Through It on Patreon

We're releasing another installment in our "Who the Hell?" series on Monday. Join us as we retrace the life and career of Steven Crowder, from the time he did a yogurt tubes commercial to modern scandals that demolished his reputation.

Feat @thancrowder.bsky.social

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Half the Answer #63: SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights...

On @halftheanswer.bsky.social, @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social were very excited to have @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on to talk about how the judiciary has fared under the second Trump term, and why www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

The Opposition Report #10 The occupation of Minneapolis, imperialism, MAHA, and more.

This week in Liberal Currents:
We began with the tenth issue of The Opposition Report and the second written by @chancephillips.bsky.social. An excellent overview of January's events, available to our paid subscribers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-oppositi...

No Kings Day is a perfect example. On October 18, over forty thousand people march through Portland, then hundreds of those protesters gather at the ICE facility. Despite the classic Pacific Northwest rain, there are DJs, food, and rare joy after weeks of tension. Then everything shifts. ICE claims civilians threw tear gas canisters at them. What follows is a brutal, extended assault: tear gas, flashbangs, rubber bullets, pepper-balls. Kids in costumes. Elders. Disabled community members. People run blindly into traffic. Cars are tear-gassed. I fear panicked drivers will plow into the crowd. Like before, civilians step in. Now I am more prepared. Mask tightened, I direct people toward higher ground and fresh air. They sob, shouting, “Why are they doing this?” They do not know this has been happening for months to their community. I am hit in the head by projectiles, pepper-balled in the legs despite standing two lanes away on a public sidewalk. Fires spark where munitions land. Civilians put them out as ICE retreats, dragging detained protesters with them into the building. An emergency call goes out: the camp has used all of their resources and is out of water and supplies. Within minutes, the community mobilizes. Cars arrive loaded with water, first aid, and decontamination kits. ICE and local police never send medics. They never check on the injured. Later, in court, local police testify that the tear gas ICE agents claimed was thrown at them was actually launched by their own people on the ground. Whether it was a mistake or deception, we think that tear gas canister was used to justify the violence that followed.

If you did not read Audrey Lee's dispatch from the Portland ICE facility protests yet, I highly recommend it www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...

very normal news updates

Half the Answer #63: SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights...

"John Roberts thought he could do both. Like, he could be the institutionalist while day-to-day, he could chip away at people's rights and implement his vision for the law." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, government with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness -- all are the spoils of oligarchy.

Isn't it wild? It is an image I just can get over, members of our society's underclass shackled on a luxury jet. I've talked about it on @halftheanswer.bsky.social and It Could Happen Here, and that Zeteo piece, etc.

WANTED: An Opposition Party The Democrats ain't it. A dying media won't be it. Can the people make one?

Thanks to everyone on here who contributed to this newsletter! theracket.news/p/wanted-an-...

Very stoked that @chrisgeidner.bsky.social came on to talk with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social

Incorrect I am not in the files actually lol none of my homies are in the files

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do’ll make him feel rich.”

Half the Answer #63: SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights...

Half the Answer #63: Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights? What are judges and lawmakers doing to defend those rights?

More from @awkwardlyaudrey.bsky.social here with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I via @halftheanswer.bsky.social

YouTube video by Liberal Currents ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism

And of course @gbrockell.bsky.social was on just last week to go into ICE Air and so much other nefariousness well you’ll just have to watch/listen to see for yourself now won’t you?

YouTube video by Liberal Currents SCOTUS, the Originalism Trap, and the Civil Rights Act

@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social came on an discussed this very topic and her book not so long ago! youtu.be/aHt1JVMWObg?...

Love a good crossover with two friends of @halftheanswer.bsky.social!

beloved guest audrey lee!

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Graph showing the number of ICE detainees has increased every fiscal year since 2020

Statista graph showing deaths in ICE custody. Max is 2004 at 32, then an unsteady lowering over time. Up to teens in the late 2010s and a massive spike to 30 in 2025. Minimum is 3 deaths in 2022.

Semaphor chart showing deportations by year. Between around 400-600K from 2014-2020 then huge spike to over a million in 2021, 2022, 2023. 2024 back down to 800K

i don’t want to go back to how things were before the armed freaks started publicly and aggressively throwing people in vans and assaulting the public. i want something better than what we had

after tear gassing small children and babies in their strollers, feds are still mocking the protesters who occupy the ICE facility in portland oregon, including grinning at @halftheanswer.bsky.social guest audrey lee and jeering “you’re gonna need that helmet”

they’re so happy with themselves

Straight barbarism that this is even a possible circumstance in the US

now let’s get all the kids out of detention. the adults too

We had such a brilliant chat w @gbrockell.bsky.social and look forward to another with this brilliant @motherjones.com work out and available for all to read! In our discussion we did get into ICE flights, billionaire private jets and what it means to be a journalist and a human person too lol

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