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Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

We live in an autocratic oligarchic hellhole.

The Pentagon is basically saying that if Anthropic doesn't drop its demands over restricting the use of AI in autonomous drone targeting and surveillance of Americans, it will essentially destroy the company.

'I kayaked Greenland’s ‘pristine’ waters. What I found was terrifying' One scientist is on a mission to reveal the far-reaching spread of microplastics after kayaking around a remote glacier in Greenland.

Meet the Inuit scientist kayaking around Greenland to highlight just how far microplastics travel | Euronews share.google/GNnf03K0Fa5p...

It really is that easy...

This is absolutely shameful.

#history

Ohhhh... 🤢🤢🤢

This thread’s not short, but every post is worth your time

#history🧵

This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.

Coz who wants a clean environment anyway, right?

The fuckery never ends. 🤬

Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.

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*waves back* 🤗

Alright let's try to use this thing more. Getting so tired of screaming into the void in other places 😞

A pitbull with a big head stand in the foreground behind them is three containers of bright, orange, poppies and a container with sunflowers in it. Behind that is a street in crosswalk with cars in it.

A screenshot of an Instagram story that includes a photo of three masked men and green military gear arresting a person who is on the ground. Below that is a photo of a black explorer and it’s license echoparklatu 22m See translation > 9:05am - One person kidnapped from Sunset & Echo Park. STAY SAFE OR COME OUT! 9:05 a. m. - Una persona secuestrada en Sunset y Echo Park Ave. MANTÉNGANSE SEGUROS O SALGAN SI PUEDEN! 306682

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Emerging: Shelter-in-place order issued amid reports of gas line explosion near 5 Freeway in Castaic, California.

Worse - I put a bunch of warm socks in the stocking 😜

Small Christmas village made from wooden mini houses with lights trees and snow

I built a little Christmas village this year..
Now, I didn't make the little houses and trees, but I did paint them and built the backdrop and installed the lights on the trees...

Ahaha... My kid sent me a video a few days ago that got me

😂 want one for Christmas?

Brilliant. As someone who worked in customer service for a very long time, so many of these sound familiar 😅

Trump Administration Plans to Force Millions More Seniors and People With Disabilities to Travel to Social Security’s Overburdened Field Offices | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person service while cutting thousands of staff who provide that help. These...

In another "the cruelty is the point" move..

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If you, or someone you know, relies on social security services, take note 😓

a news article screenshot stating the following: As his approval rating sinks, Trump wants investigations into pollsters Instead of dealing with the failures that have led to his drop in support, the president is blaming pollsters and news organizations. By Steve Benen For those hoping to see the public rally behind Donald Trump as his presidency nears the 100-day benchmark, I have some bad news: Public opinion has turned sharply against the Republican incumbent.

I'm sure he does. After all, in a fascist state we always go for the messenger, never the message.

Well there's something I didn't need to read this morning 😳

Lol ... Strawberry migraine?

Right to free speech? Well of course. As long as you’re still here in the US, which of course is at our whim.

Right to free assembly? Sure, as long as you didn’t protest against our policies and become an “enemy combatant” in the process.

Etc.

This is bullshit—of course the US could apply diplomatic pressure to have him returned—but if it is allowed to stand, the executive branch has the power to disappear people permanently without any sort of due process.

That in turn will be the end of all other constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:

He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY!

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

I just read the protests Saturday was just shy of 1% of the population. It takes 3.5% to make a change.
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And just like that, we have Schrodinger's tariffs 🙄

(as for your starter pack, is that like a list at the old place?)