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The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay | Live Radio | CBC Listen CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine is a lively, wide-ranging mix of topical long-form conversations, engaging ideas and more. Each week, host Piya Chattopadhyay takes time for deep exploration, but also ...

Man, some profound views on hope and change by writer/activist @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - and why what looks like collapse may also be the messy birth of something better.
"I often feel like a tortoise at a mayfly party..." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.

OpenAI: We'll do it

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BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...

We already have had all the strategic cooperation from Greenland we’ve ever needed or asked for. What we’re doing, with these mindless threats, is actually putting that at risk.

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

They Helped Women Fight Online Abuse. They Were Barred From the U.S.

Everyone should read.

10 hour study with me at Columbia showing lunch

Her in the library

DHS illegally arrested me please help Text against image of her knees

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Feel like I'm going crazy. Holocaust survivors spent decades telling everyone, "The fascists will come back. When they do, first you will see this, then they will do that, then this will happen," and so forth. And it's all proceeding exactly as foretold.

After they died, everyone just . . . forgot.

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees

In case you thought Anthropic was "one of the good ones":

time.com/7380854/excl...

me every single day

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

My guest, Aliya Rahman, stood up silently in the gallery during the president’s speech for a short period of time, part of which other guests were also standing. For that, she was forcibly removed, despite warning officers about her injured shoulders and ultimately charged with ‘Unlawful Conduct. 🧵

What you need to know about Texas ICE detention deaths Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.

Last year, the dangerous pattern of neglect and abuse at ICE detention facilities resulted in a record number of deaths.

This can't go on. Our members of Congress must act now.

This summary of Means' position on contraception is helpful. She says contraception is bad because women, like soil, must submit to specific cyclical processes to achieve our purpose - fertility.
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Fulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election A Trump-appointed federal judge has ordered the agent to testify at an upcoming hearing this week.

Did an FBI agent deliberately mislead a federal judge to secure the warrant that initiated the bureau’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election records from an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Thank you to those who let us know about this presentation by @swordsjew.bsky.social!! Our bios of Charles Francis Hall and Elisha Kent Kane are here, for those interested:
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I guarantee you in two years you're going to hear about Larry Summers working at some prestigious institution and if you say anything about it they will be like HASN'T HE BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH??????

Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike.

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.

I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.

I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

A Republican Congressman sexually harassed a staffer who then burned herself alive, and Jeffries thinks the Democrats have a decorum problem.

The one line to know here: "after spending extravagantly to try to defeat Mr. Mamdani at the ballot box last year, they [the city’s wealthy + well-connected power players] find themselves in the wilderness, unsure how to approach the administration of a democratic socialist who owes them nothing..."

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

This the 338 page special counsel report on classified documents found at Joe Biden’s home. Legally, there is no good reason to withhold the one about Trump. www.justice.gov/storage/repo...