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Five journalists reportedly got arrested by LAPD tonight. Please review Mel's thread ⤵️

Really telling how quickly transphobia became the single, all-encompassing prescription for all of the Democratic coalition’s ills in the minds of the white guy midwit pundit class.

Here's a thing: if you think that companies that have commercial LLM chatbot products are not using their products to astroturf internet discourse about AI being good or bad in ways that (1) make critiques seem dumb and (2) make debate seem pointless and annoying.... you're dreaming

as many folks have noted, they are not going to allow trans people to use the bathroom associated with their birth sex either (especially trans men) - they don't want to see them, they don't want them to exist

that's always where it ends, no matter how they try to dress it up

Any FBI agent asked to spend any time at all on the Texas quorum break had better be able to articulate the specific statute enumerating the specific federal crime they’re investigating.

And any reporter giving any credibility to alleged FBI efforts had better be asking the same.

Being transgender is not misconduct. These servicemembers have a reliance argument (contract law) that should succeed in court. Otherwise what’s to prevent any admin from just finding arbitrary reason to dismiss military people right before they retire??

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

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The problem isn't that transphobic parents are being ignored, it's that they're *lying about basic facts.* This is the dynamic on nearly every issue of public interest, from guns to climate change to economics.

"The bigots are lying again" is a fucking great message for democrats and it's true.

"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States
according to their respective numbers, counting **the whole number of persons** in each State"

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VA Just Terminated Most Federal Union Contracts, National Nurses United Included The VA has terminated union contracts for over 360,000 healthcare workers, including nurses—raising urgent concerns about staffing, patient safety, and veteran care nationwide.

NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs just terminated union contracts including AFL-CIO (AFGE), NAGE, NFFE, SEIU, and nursing unions NNOC and NNU. nurse.org/news/va-term...

Suing Trump Isn't Enough: Blue State AGs Must Enforce State Laws Protecting Trans People Private entities overcomplying with Trump executive orders and targeting transgender people must not be given free passes to do so by blue states.

7 Aug 25 -- Erin Reed makes sensible suggestion that blue states suing Trump over anti-care policies isn't enough: they must also sue their hospitals that are voluntarily closing their gender clinics and enforce state laws that protect trans kids. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

New level of dystopia achieved: A state Supreme Court has announced a death sentence ruling via an AI spokesman

Omg the Oval Office door 😂 sorry, I can’t 😆

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I’ve been saying this for years now.

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Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

"A vaccine that mimics natural immunity"
[bangs head on desk]

Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now! The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14. The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs. Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore. Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime. If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Heckuva time for Trump to declare that 14-year-olds are now adults.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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The Democracy-Building Toolbox — And Why We Need It Here Now Tools we used to export. Now we need to use them to save ourselves.

In the early 2000s, I worked in countries where democracy was fragile, new, or still just an idea.

We didn’t talk about “election years” or “get out the vote.”

We talked about survival

Strategy.
Coalition
Courage

We didn’t always win. But we learned what worked

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What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? To start with, it’s not a hoax.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
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The GOP has truly become the party of pedophelia.

MAGA/GOP is sick.

Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity His military-education reforms seem designed to ensure fighting men can’t think and thinking men can’t fight.

Pete Hegseth "seems determined to bar academics or anyone who faintly resembles one from contact with the armed forces," Eliot A. Cohen writes:

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$500 billion valuation? Private secondary stock sale? Sure sounds like a very real company with a future and not a suicide round used to juice as much possible remaining value from this company before it explodes when it can't convert to a for profit. Alternatively they keep raising capital forever

I hope there isn't a second author tangled up in the Unbound/Boundless saga who had 8000+ books go missing. The more I pull on the thread of my underreported book sales, the angrier I am.

A tiny thread: