aidualc

aidualc

@aidualc.bsky.social

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1/ I was reading an investigative piece about Viktor Orban's party scrambling before Hungary's 2026 elections. Buried in it was something that stopped me cold. His team was panicking because social media companies had changed how they operate in the EU. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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February 26, 2026 It appears the State of the Union was the marker for the White House to launch directly into campaign mode.

Buried in the chaos: the big ugly bill passed solely by Rs at Trump’s demand accelerates the crisis for Medicare and SS. Per CBOs updated projections, Medicare could be insolvent by 2040—10 yrs sooner—and SS by 2031. All this to give tax cuts to billionaires and leaving the rest of us struggling.

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Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
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How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

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US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’ Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland.

Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M.

America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech.

This is what integrity looks like.

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This indicates the FBI wanted to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on this woman’s account. She refused to cooperate. When Trump came up an FBI interview, her lawyer demurred, citing her “fear of retaliation”

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It’s likely Acosta

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Good question

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Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: ‘I’m going to have to shoot this kid.’ Dispatch records and a police report obtained by OPB describe the previously unreported incident last fall.

In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.

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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

Through her eyes: "I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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this is a really powerful piece.

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Storms reveal rare 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach Storms which recently ravaged Britain's coastline have revealed 2,000-year-old footprints on an Angus beach - one of only a handful of locations in the UK where markings of this kind have ever been di...

Radiocarbon dating shows these prints date to the late Iron Age — moments in the lives of people who walked this landscape two millennia ago, a few centuries before the first reference to the Picts. #Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen!
More to follow!
www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25127/?...

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Done this with my phone

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Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said any refunds from tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court would amount to “ultimate corporate welfare,” suggesting he sees no benefit flowing to American consumers.

“If there is a payout, it’s just going to be the ultimate corporate welfare,” Bessent said on Fox News Friday hours after the high court’s ruling — which left unanswered the question of what happens with money already collected.

Refunds for corporations, but not you.

finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent...

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A federal panel made up entirely of Trump appointees just greenlit his massive ballroom, reportedly larger than the White House itself.

The panel received 2,000 public comments on the East Wing renovation. 99% were negative.

They approved it anyway. Unanimously.

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Hmm..I checked into his career. Wiki: started out as intern in Arnold’s admin b4 he dropped out of college. Next, the McCain campaign in 2008. He then worked on campaigns of 3 no-names in Ca Nv Az & Tx. 4 year gap between the last one listed & Trump in 2016. He is 43. I agree about the suspect HD

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The New York Times smeared AOC for saying “um”

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Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication f...

No medical intervention is risk-free. It’s senseless to fear a routine immunization while preventable diseases can result in invasive procedures, IV antibiotics, permanent brain damage. We need to be willing to ask hard questions about medical neglect of a child
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Cc: John Roberts

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both parties are not the same

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What in the cotton-picking dystopia are we doing now?

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Trump claims to 'fix' housing? Meanwhile, families face climbing prices & can only afford a literal shed on wheels! He blames everyone but the profiteers he protects. #TrumpAffordabilityChaos

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Babies having babies. Wasn’t she 16 or 17 when Tyler was born?

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Yep, he’s already caught one neglect or abuse charge for the exact same situation. He’s on probation for the credit card fraud so he violated probation. Thank goodness a decent person found the baby

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FACT CHECK:

Of the ~$170B+ in Ukraine assistance approved since 2022, an estimated 55–65% was spent in the U.S. — replacing older weapons, boosting domestic production, and funding U.S. defense contracts.

Roughly 20–25% went as direct budget support to Ukraine.

It was not just cash sent overseas.

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The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg.

But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. 

Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

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Oh dear is right. For others: search for what she said about the recent snowstorm in nyc

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