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Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk’s X – Europe live The raid is linked to a year-long investigation into alleged abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction by X

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VIVA LA FRANCE!

YouTube video by ExaggeratedElegy Season of The Crow: Sons of Anarchy, Series 5

Please join @kitgonzo.bsky.social, @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social and myself at chapel as we discuss Sons of Anarchy, series 5.

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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Welcome to hell.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Alex Jeffrey Pretti was our union brother, dedicated to helping those who served our nation as an AFGE member and ICU nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital. On Saturday, he was doing exactly that: helping others, including a woman who was pepper sprayed. Alex was legally carrying a concealed weapon - as was his Second Amendment right - before he was tackled, disarmed, and shot in the back by federal agents who swore an oath to protect their communities. This state-sponsored murder has no place in our society. The labor movement was founded on the very idea of standing together in solidarity with our brothers and sisters to fight for a better future for all workers, and that includes our First Amendment right to peacefully organize and protest. Alex Jeffrey Pretti embodied what it means to be a union member and an American, from his dedication to serving others as an ICU nurse to his commitment to standing up for his community in Minneapolis. The federal government must listen to its citizens and stop the violence and chaos in our cities. The thoughts and prayers of our entire union are with Alex, his family, his union brothers and sisters, and the people of Minneapolis. Mark McManus General President, United Association

Statement from United
Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) General
President Mark McManus

You’ll recall Dominic Cummings told that committee that Tory PRs could tell the BBC and ITV basically anything, no matter how plainly absurd it was, and their senior correspondents would read it out live on air as urgent breaking news

I stated weeks ago the autopsy would have final say. And, it appears it will. This is all a prosecutor needs. They don't even need any of the video that has been aired in the court of public opinion. We know who fired the shot. We know the fatal shot was from the side. ME should rule it Murder.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

It was inevitable.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

PUBLICATION NEWS! GODBOMB! RETURNS TO PRINT! | Kit Power Get more from Kit Power on Patreon

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With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

More Than A Tribute: How Black Sabbitch's "Unrest In The West" Reanimates The Spirit Of Sabbath - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website he live album that's more than a tribute. Our review of Black Sabbitch's "Unrest in the West" explores how this all-female powerhouse delivers a flawless, passionate homage to Ozzy-era Black Sabbath.

A tribute band so powerful it feels like a séance. Black Sabbitch's live album "Unrest in the West" doesn't mimic Sabbath, it resurrects the raw, dangerous heart of the Ozzy era. Essential listening for the void he left

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James BallO@jamesrball.com • 4m Sometimes politics isn't actually all that difficult. It's just the current generation of Westminster leaders have an amazing gift for making everything seem that way. • Cameron Clark @cameroncla... • 9m It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here

Well, let’s note that British politicians have developed an astonishing number of huge blind spots in the 21st century, and most of them involve very rich and well-connected Americans and their proxies committing absolutely egregious crimes, without bothering to hide it.

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

HAPPENING NOW: In federal court in MN, DOJ is struggling to articulate why a person following an ICE vehicle — so long as they are obeying traffic laws — can be stopped for "reasonable suspicion" of a crime.

Judge Menendez sharply questioning that contention.

House Speaker Mike Johnson apparently doesn’t understand how our justice system works. He said if Fed Chair Jerome Powell is innocent, “then he can prove that.” No, Mikey, he doesn’t need to prove he’s innocent. His accusers need to prove he’s guilty.

Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw' A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I feel like this is extremely relevant again

Not “this was not self-defense” but “this was murder”

Not “she didn’t run the ICE agent over” but “she was murdered while trying to drive away”

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Make it viral.

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app • 7h Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

This is correct, seen from afar: a big problem identified in the BLM period was regular, intensive police sweeps of poor and black areas to search and arrest people at random for whatever minor offences could be found, a thing the cops do not do in richer, whiter areas. This looks like expansion.

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan? | Rafael Behr The PM won’t call out Trump over Venezuela, and won’t commit to Europe. His refusal to choose leaves vital choices for Britain to be made by others, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

You wanted ruthless bastards who would uphold this system of American military dominance and stomp its critics to oblivion, lads. You spent years demanding it! Here it is: exactly what you ordered, more successful than you could possibly have imagined.

12/30/2025 Guest Review from Craig Brownlie: Joining us to help wrap up 2025, we have author friend Craig Brownlie with another one of his wonderful review write-ups. This one includes Millionaires Day by Kit Power, The City We Became by N.K. Je...

Part 1 talks about @kitgonzo.bsky.social, @nkjemisin.bsky.social, @toddkeisling.com, Tim Powers, and Mike Ennenbach - more to come! Thanks to @candacenola.bsky.social and the Uncomfortably Dark fam for hosting!
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Suzanne Moore This must be the year Britain finally kills off'trans ideology

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor knighted in King’s New Year Honours | News | University of Leicester

Services to losing multiple employment tribunals?

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(Also spellcheckers, grammar checkers, and voice to speech all predate LLMs. Don't be distracted by that chaff. And an *actual* disrupter in tech is about to make a fortune by offering an office suite of programs that are guaranteed LLM free)