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Mary Walsh, a name almost no one outside journalism knows, is one of the most significant and righteous truthfighters out there! Her departure is a five alarm fire.

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang".

Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.

argumate on tumblr: "love the genre of discourse that's like "the world used to be [thing it never was] but now society is [I'm over thirty]"" inphront replies wit a tweet by onoki (@both_scales): "Young people are too young nowadays. Back in the good old days, young people were my age."

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

Mohsen Mahdawi gestures as he is escorted by immigration authorities in handcuffs during his arrest in Colchester, Vermont, on April 14, 2025. Photo by Christopher Helali via Reuters

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

We had a major storm last night and my solar panel almost blew away and it's now coming apart. We desperately need a new one. Any little bit would help

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say Former opposition leader’s death while in Arctic jail at age of 47 result of mixture of diseases, according to Moscow The Foreign Office has blamed the Russian state for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was the result of poisoning from a dart containing frog toxin. The frog poison – called epibatidine – is said to have been used when Navalny, 47, died suddenly on 16 February 2024. Continue reading...

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say

I am so conflicted here. I am both a person who CANNOT have TikTok or Instagram on his phone because of the scrolling dopamine hit (or whatever we want to call it) BUT also vehemently disagrees with the way that social media addiction is framed.

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(And also all members of executive committees of palaeontological conventions that *don’t* ban all palaeontologists who are in the Epstein files)

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"

I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.

It's not actually about the kids.

It’s such a damn shame— Yakuza is one of my favorite game franchises and it hurts deeply (as a trans fan) to see shit like this happening

Get the remaster while you can and play it instead.

And then don't give RGG more money.

A big drop in Bitcoin price also means a noticeably lower electricity consumption - 2026 could end up the first year in a long, long time where Bitcoin's power greed was lower than the previous year.

Still prob consuming way more than AI computation globally, I'd bet

ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

This makes the Jan 23, 2026 action the largest strike in Minnesota History, and depending on which number you use, 3rd in American History after the massive national strikes of 1919, or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I note with extreme interest that mainstream media didn't report these facts.

“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

With DEI and now with utter silence in the present, Americans now know that this company will not only NOT speak out against injustice towards them but will actively participate in it.

And they will buy their kids a Goku backpack next time.

How The Sears Catalog Was Revolutionary In The Jim Crow Era Retail giant Sears has filed for bankruptcy. Historian Louis Hyman of Cornell reflects with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on the impact the Sears catalog had for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.

Individual creators have stepped up. Because good people are good people. But the public remembers when a BRAND or COMPANY stands up for what's right. Even when that stance is completely self-serving on the company's part. www.npr.org/2018/10/16/6...

Okay, now to get into it. The lack of an official response from Disney, when so much was centered around that sweet little boy and his SPIDER-MAN BACKPACK has me pissed off.

This is why you're losing. Just letting you know.

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue Trump Admin for Murder This is the first federal lawsuit over President Trump’s alleged “drug boat” strikes.

🔴This is the first federal lawsuit over President Trump’s alleged “drug boat” strikes. trib.al/vEnoipZ

While the most important thing is that he's back home, I'm really glad Liam got his hat and backpack back.

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

Everything I think about these caps would put me on a watch list. But folks, can we stop pretending anyone is overreacting to the danger?

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

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