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And I would argue that this realization is best understood as a policy opportunity, a political window. We are willing to hear and understand things now that we weren't willing to before. Seize that.

I do think we’ve got a responsibility to really sit with the truth that some Trump administration things we’re horrified by were Obama administration things too, and we just didn’t listen.

There is no equivocation or nuance in Hegseth's statement and policy. He demanded, in his own words, "full, unrestricted access" to a private companies resources and proprietary models. When Anthropic refused, he designated the company as an enemy and enacted economic retribution against it.

Later in the same post, Hegseth stated: " I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic."

He didn't just order the cutting of ties between the Dept of Defense and Anthropic. He designated them a national security risk for refusing to submit to Hegseth's absolute authority and barred any other contracter from doing business with the company. This is fascism!

I feel this dude so hard.

"Summers will continue to hold the title of president emeritus, and said he expects to continue pursuing his academic interests." -- The Boston Globe

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

The ICE Contractor Down the Hall A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.

This article details places that are letting ICE use them to help do their operations.

I needed this wonderful bit of art today

We don’t need gender markers on birth certificates.

We don’t need gender markers on drivers’ licenses.

We don’t need gender markers on passports.

We need politicians who will make the bold moves to remove these relics.

in a literal total collapse of civilization everyone is fucked and the most practically skilled people don't become kings, they just live long enough to watch the people they love all starve so yeah if you think that's gonna happen just enjoying life in the city isn't a bad play

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.

And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.

They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.

What does this tell you?

You don’t hate this regime nearly enough.

Deuteronomy 27:18

[18] “‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

If these guys had even the tiniest shred of capability for self-reflection they’d realize they were used as props by people who are literally putting words in their mouths but alas

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

Bring back the newspaper/broadcast and the radio/television cross-ownership rules -- and expand on them by banning any corporation or individual from owning multiple major news organizations in the same market. i.e., you can't own both CBS and CNN, just as a theoretical example.

Sonia is running out of time to meet her #UrgentNeed with only $460 raised. Please help her #MutualAid #BlackCrowdFund 💸 💕 💸

Wow! Weird how this KEEPS HAPPENING with Jesse Singal!

It's almost like he has some kind of agenda or bias. Isn't it interesting that a perception or assumption of a pro-trans bias disqualifies you from writing about trans health, but an anti-trans bias doesn't?

If you're trans, your opinion on the issues that effect you and only you are biased and not worth considering, but if you're a liar who's been caught misrepresenting the subjects you're reporting on multiple times, they'll want you to write for the NYT.

if a bunch of trans people are telling you "I can't trust the democrats to have our back because of [long laundry list of examples of liberals expressing the desire to abandon trans rights as an issue]"

And you say "WELL I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT"

then maybe the answer=you're just fucking oblivious

New headshots are so good that I can't not use them but also uh.. They might give a slightly warped view of what I'm about?

XD

damn that just made my brain hurt XD

@highimpactsex.bsky.social Just read your 1000xRESIST essay, and... thanks. I know it wasn't written for me, but it helped me understand a bit more and to connect dots that I don't have the background for otherwise. I appreciate the opportunity to understand a bit better.

Mimidoshima 1000xRESIST is a game for a post-2019 Hong Kong protest generation of diaspora children that don't exist yet

i’ve been seeing too many people have difficulty sourcing my 1000xRESIST article ever since cohost collapsed and websites/podcasts are linking to the wayback archive page.

here’s the stable site version if you’d like to read and cite my work: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/o...

Judge Lamberth is not happy with DOJ or BOP.

“You don’t know anything. There’s nothing to ask you,” he told the DOJ lawyer.

Plaintiffs’ lawyer moved orally for a TRO up to and including temporary movement of the plaintiff in question, Grace Pinson, to a halfway house to protect her safety.

In the style of an industrial warning sign — WARNING Cognitohazard: Do not think about it

I kept needing this, so I finally made it.

I have a ton of mutuals with this person, who claims to be a civil rights lawyer. Maybe uhhhh don’t follow them idk just a thought.

And the reason for that, to be clear, is that Nazis have very intentionally co-opted it as such.

They literally name their terror orgs using it

Blackburn Coordinated With NES CEO for Special Treatment During Ice Storm Senator used office to coordinate personal restoration timeline with Teresa Broyles-Aplin for Brentwood residence

On the hypocrisy beat: U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who has a better than solid shot of being Tennessee's next governor, arranged for her power to be restored by personally talking to the NES CEO -- than publicly criticized CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin for NES's failures to restore power quickly.