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Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

YouTube video by HBO The Leftovers Season 2: Opening Credits (HBO)

Theme song for Rapture Day:

Support the Arlington Free Clinic! Help DSA NoVA Medicare For All raise money to support Arlington Free Clinic

Local folks—please support this fundraiser for the Arlington Free Clinic. The clinic is such a great resource for the community www.justgiving.com/page/novadsa...

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."

you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”

Dr Bill Foege

A rare bit of good news!

With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.

Protests get the attention, but D.C. residents have been engaging in smaller acts of resistance to Trump's federal surge. They're recording ICE agents and calling in thousands of sightings to a tip line, helping scared families get kids to school, and more. @51st.news: 51st.news/dc-residents...

Alexandria Immigrant Solidarity Rally · Indivisible On the September 1 nationwide day of protest, the goal of the rally is to bring Alexandrians together to stand in solidarity with all of our immigrant neighbors and denounce the recent ICE abductions ...

Alexandria friends--some action to take on Labor Day www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

Donate to Support Elosia's recovery, organized by Ana Cruz My dear sister, Eloisa Cruz, continues her brave battle against breast cancer, a journey filled wit… Ana Cruz needs your support for Support Elosia's recovery

Hey there! I wanted to share an important cause with you. Eloisa is fighting breast cancer, and any donation you can make will help ease her financial burden so she can focus on her recovery. Thank you!

Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors. One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice.

data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...

As anyone who lives in DC knows, it's the residents in Wards 7 & 8, south and east of the Anacostia River, who suffer most from crime.

That's exactly where Trump's show-of-force is NOT deployed: ♦️They're parading (and harassing people) where they'll be seen. NOT fighting crime.

An open hatchback trunk with two boxes of moving bags, five tents, and five small black bags with camping supplies

En route to this morning’s encampment eviction with tents, camping supplies, & moving/storage bags.

Help us order more supplies as evictions ramp up:
CA: $RemoraHouseDC
GB: givebutter.com/remorahouse

CMMP Fall25 Season Are you interested in being part of the upcoming new cycle for the Consistent Money-Moving Project? Our upcoming 13-week Fall25 season will distribute funds from September 1 through August 24, 2025; w...

CMMP is a project that collects pledges from contributors and then transfers a set weekly amount of $ to individual recipients in DC, many of whom are raising young kids, not securely housed, and/or recently incarcerated. It's easy to participate and makes a real impact. Sign up for the next cycle:

Fobazi’s article about vocational awe was one of the first things I read in my master’s program at UW, and it set the tone for the type of librarian I would become and in turn influence how I mentor the next generation of librarians. Please donate if you’re able. This field owes so much to her.

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The Politics of Humiliation The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

“When we force people to recognise their own domination, their own powerlessness, we humiliate them. The 'forced' part is essential: humiliation is necessarily non-consensual.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/#...

South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.

This is Washington at its worst.

We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Photo by Ethan Wong. Me at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching it anyway.

All thanks to people power and community support-- especially from you all on Bluesky!

Happy to announce I'll be teaching Race Media and International Affairs 101 online-- hosted by D.C.'s MLK Jr. Memorial Library!

This is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.