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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

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Welp. Jay Jones just snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

This Week's Onion Magazine:

If you had any doubts remaining about the right wing capture of the media, just look at how they're covering Charlie Kirk's death.

It’s what he would have wanted

Historian here that is the Soviet Lada in this tweet! The big ugly GOP bill is really taking America backwards and making America bankrupt!

Drop your 10/10 game. No context needed.

Okay, this year is fired. I'm tired of this season of 2020.

Tom Lehrer was a musical genius, especially considering the era he was making his songs in.

I guess he's poisoning pigeons in the afterlife now. 😢

"Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most."

Rock on to eternity Ozzy.

This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.

I really want Latvia to qualify.

And so the kingdom of America sank into ruin, the line of Presidents failed, the tree of liberty withered and the rule of Washington was given over to lesser men.

- Apologies to Tolkien

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Did 'Fox and Friends' Call Fred Rogers an 'Evil, Evil Man'? The segment prompted numerous rebuttals condemning the "maliciousness of the attack" on the legacy of the children's TV host.

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I'll go for a real Longshot and say Denmark 🇩🇰

I believe the prevailing thought is by the time that comes all the factories will be fully automated and run by AI so the process will just be liquidated as wasteful mouths.

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A short essay about board games and tariffs I got from the company in one of their latest updates. It's bad news.
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a computer and the word and written on it ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a computer and the word and written on it

What about this one?

He's there to push Medicare Advantage plans, ideally forcing them to be the default.

Two shady men wearing suits and sunglasses, holding cigarettes.

"Nice economy you got there... be a shame if something happened to it..."

Not huge. Inevitable.

I wonder how many people in the Administration would fail the Voight-Kampf test.

Unsurprisingly Virginia Tech bent the knee.