Mindy Stern

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I often use the “we don’t separate puppies that young but you think human infants are unharmed by the separation?” Sometimes it’s effective lol

Jersey Craig @jerseycraig.bsky.social I'm trying to listen to the adoptees responding. But none of you are saying anything other than broad stroke statements. I know several adoptees whom are happy productive and thrilled with their adoption.

🥚 over the years i’ve seen countless variations on “i know people who are happy with being adopted” (tip: you have no idea how adoptees really feel because the stakes of honesty are so high, and we keep so much to ourselves). but calling someone “thrilled” with their adoption is honestly bonkers

Forward JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT. Support Us We Need To Start Befriending Neo Nazis Image by Getty Images Bethany Mandel August 24, 2017

Bethany Mandel Tweet: This is a day of clarity. Truly a turning point moment. When people tell you who they are, believe them. I'll certainly never forget it.

Damn that's crazy

The U.S. spends over $180 billion on cops and incarceration every year. The annual SNAP budget is $100 billion.

2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors" Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

National Guard members are speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy troops to Chicago. Thank you! 💚

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Trump fires board that oversees D.C. construction projects, as he plans major changes to White House President Trump fired all six sitting members of a board that oversees architecture in D.C., as he plans a slate of major building projects — including a massive White House ballroom.

Trump fires board that oversees D.C. construction projects, as he plans major changes to White House

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U.S. military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission: Reuters Lawmakers in Congress say they are being kept in the dark about key aspects of a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.

NDAs can’t be used to cover up illegal activities. If the person asking you to sign one is doing something illegal, you can break it & sue.

Lawyers & government folks chime in here, but hey are usually only used in business deals. Also, this shows just how horrible, incompetent, and evil they are.

MARGE: “Apparently I have to go into a SCIF to find out the Republican health care plan!”

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is jmetraux@motherjones.com and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

The time to organize with your neighbors and your community is right now.

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

U.S. immigration leadership is reportedly being revamped in the image of a Border Patrol chief who will be in federal court TOMORROW for allegedly violating a court order by personally throwing two tear gas canisters into a crowd without provocation.

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1. Reagan’s speech is real

2. It’s public domain

3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians

4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check

5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

Virginia’s GDP growth drops from 6.2% to 1.7%. Three new economic reports issue warnings about why and what comes next. The reports also suggest the state may be losing high-wage jobs but gaining lower-wage jobs.

" All three cite the same thing for this sour economic outlook — President Donald Trump’s policies, which have reduced federal employment and increased tariffs, both of which have hit Virginia uniquely hard..."
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Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

I think however you feel, this is smart politics

The fascists are forfeiting their claim to being the “true Americans” in real time, on multiple fronts

If anti-fascist coalitions do not step in and claim that mantle, they will lose a key opportunity to split the fascist coalition.

James purchased the home in Norfolk, Virginia, for her great-niece in 2020 for $137,000 and immediately allowed her and her children to begin living in the house rent-free. Prosecutors met with James' niece, who stated that she had never signed a lease, had never paid rent for the home, and that James had often sent her money to cover some of the expenses, the memo concluded, according to sources familiar with its contents. Here's a list of the individuals, including John Bolton, targeted so far by the Trump administration → While the indictment alleges that James made "thousand(s)" from rental income, sources tell ABC News that prosecutors found no record of James collecting rent from her niece beyond $1,350 that James reported on her 2020 tax return, which was said

"While the indictment alleges that James made "thousand(s)" from rental income, sources tell ABC News that prosecutors found no record of James collecting rent from her niece beyond $1,350 that James reported on her 2020 tax return..."

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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

N.C. counties that busted budgets after Helene still waiting for FEMA to pay them back A year after Hurricane Helene, FEMA hasn’t reimbursed millions of dollars spent on cleanup and recovery, upending local budgets and hindering reconstruction.

"Since Hurricane Helene devastated the community in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent nearly $50 million on cleanup and recovery — while getting reimbursed only $4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency..."

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