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I don't disagree with John but there's another layer too which is people like him should never get near power and yet they get near it often.

There's something wrong with the system that allows people like Miller to do anything more significant than bookkeeping.

People who live in magical fantasy land about sex and nudity *still* moan and report they see content that gives them the vapors.

And *real* people and institutions are locked out from visibility because this stupid robot thinks literally anything is “explicit sex.”

How do we proceed from here?

Whether you like/follow VM, it’s very simple to see that the Bluesky sex prevention apparatus is wildly miscalibrated and cannot serve its purpose in this way.

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Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery

“‘I’m not going to ride on a magic carpet!’ he hissed. ‘I’m afraid of grounds!’

‘You mean heights,’ said Conina. ‘And stop being silly.’

‘I know what I mean! It’s the grounds that kill you.’”

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.

3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."

Thread.

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.

Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump's administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind…”

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At minimum, Hegseth, Miller, and Rubio need to be prosecuted. There are a lot more people who should be, but that’s the minimum you need to kill the idea of elite impunity in government.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Judge's footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns A federal judge called out an immigration enforcement agent for using artificial intelligence to write the narrative of a use-of-force report as just a small part of a scathing opinion that rebutted f...

Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”

Most parents aren’t trans. When we have babies we don’t consider we may have a trans child. When we find out we do, most admit to a moment or period of ‘What? Why? When? Help! Then we get on with caring for our child.

But our affirmative care is being challenged.

Here a mum shares her thoughts.

If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media

CRIMINALMENTE

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is right. I largely do progressive drafting, however I've gone back over and over through my drafts for actual years. A good author really cares about what they publish.

And this looks like a fun book! I can't wait to buy and read it. ✨

If he loves monogamy so much why is he single?

Where's Dominic Toretto in our time of need

Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.

Email says We are prepared to receive boxes tomorrow, as NY agents are travelling to WFO in the morning, and vill arrive to Winchester where they will start photographing and we will start scanning and processing the physical files. Once I see the volume, I'|l have a better estimate of processing times, although 1 suggest we do a rolling delivery to further demonstrate the FBIls commitment to delivery and transparency.

🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files

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My mom was a *very recently homeless* 29 year old travelling singer-songwriter, and my dad was a 31 year old handyman, and they could afford a three-bedroom in a nice neighborhood in a college town.

Trump’s “big beautiful bill” could cost SF $400 million “These changes at the state and federal level represent a real threat to San Francisco,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said.

I'm going to bet that the billionaires & centimillionaires living in this city got tax cuts of at least this much and we should do our utmost to tax them locally & statewide until we reclaim every penny. Then we should get more

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Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.

Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime

We’re in the upside down.

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Oldest living survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 111 years old By Omar Jimenez

Viola Fletcher survived the Tulsa Race Massacre, bore witness to one of our nation’s darkest days, and spent a century demanding justice. Her voice refused silence. Her legacy refuses erasure. Rest in power, Mother Fletcher. We will not forget.