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Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

Really happy with the Portland city councilors who voted to ban AI price fixing, pass the detention fee ordinance, and start the pricess for a human rights screen on city investments.

There’s a lot of noise and bullshit out there, but these folks are governing with their values.

note: i would actually understand if a Councilor was not familiar with Caterpillar's dark history and present operations!

(although there was some testimony on this very subject today)

this Councilor, in particular, however is absolutely aware because he worked on this at the County level.

insane to call into work from vacation to a) attack ethical investments and b) to defend, of all corporations, CATERPILLAR.

staggering.

Establishment? I don’t even remember who this person is.

Another highlight was @councilormorillo.bsky.social noting that nearly all of the mainstream media celebration about the Mayor meeting his shelter bed goal glosses over that the actual promise was to end unsheltered homelessness, which obviously didn’t happen.

In actuality, Ted Wheeler’s city administrator Michael Jordan and Mayor Wilson have clearly overstepped their charter powers.

(Habitual line steppers).

The Councilors — ie Novick, EPG—who balk at using Council oversight powers enabled this.

Insight: Sudanese force holding survivors of Darfur siege for ransom, witnesses say The Sudanese paramilitary force that besieged then overran a city in Darfur in late October is systematically holding trapped residents for ransom, killing or beating those whose families cannot pay, witnesses, aid workers and researchers say.

Insight: Sudanese force holding survivors of Darfur siege for ransom, witnesses say reut.rs/3Kahyd5

From wfp While you were streaming this year, Spotify played I.C.E. recruitment ads on their platform UNWRAPPED

for those who do still use Spotify (or get free access from someone unwilling to cancel), maybe at least refrain from providing free advertisements for the AI- ICE advertising platform!

No one needs to see your wrapped.

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French journalists file lawsuit against Israel for blocking access to Gaza, West Bank Two French journalist unions last week filed a complaint with the Paris anti-terror prosecutor’s office, accusing Israel of “obstructing the freedom to inform” in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Ba...

French journalists file lawsuit against Israel for blocking access to Gaza, West Bank flip.it/CaTfLI

I will be proposing an amendment to the City's Investment Policy resolution at Council tomorrow to create a pathway to an Ethical Investment Policy over the coming months.

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thank you for this. i do think it was valuable!

and also deleted a bunch of the posts days later for reasons of anxiety 😅

Ilhan Omar: "He's always been a racist, bigot, xenophobic, & Islamophobic. We know that he called African nations 'shit holes' during his first administration ... most of us are citizens. We love that Minnesota has welcomed us ... we are going to be here regardless of what the president has to say."

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She was!!!

Donate to Help us get an asylum seeker released from ICE detention, organized by CLEAR Clinic Our client Lorena (pseudonym) is a single-parent asylum-seeker w… CLEAR Clinic needs your support for Help us get an asylum seeker released from ICE detention

Oh my god we are almost there, please keep going Bluesky! Btw Phil Knight et al. could snap their fingers and fund every single GFM & they don't & that sucks but they also will never know what it feels like to love a lot of strangers for giving $5 or $7 or $20 & getting it done gofund.me/3e980d9d3

Tennessee, vote for this lady. Imagine a world with even a single consequence for fascism.

Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.

I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.

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literally me forty minutes later: 'oh no, i should have said 'atrocity crimes' as part of my campaign to educate people about the full spectrum of international crimes!'

omg. perfection.

it's wild how i will get anxiety about a typo in a post while there are people out there just posting entire war crimes.

Donate to Help us get an asylum seeker released from ICE detention, organized by CLEAR Clinic Our client Lorena (pseudonym) is a single-parent asylum-seeker w… CLEAR Clinic needs your support for Help us get an asylum seeker released from ICE detention

A mom in Portland has been separated from her child since June bc ICE kidnapped her. The only thing standing between her & her baby right now is a $7,500 bond. There's 5k to go. PLEASE let's do this. Many hands make light work. This is literally the reason for the gd mfing season gofund.me/3e980d9d3

5 - the Syrian people overthrew a tyrant and Israel saw it as such a threat they bombed around the country & invaded it. They have disappeared people from s. Syria

International reaction is basically to shrug.

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4 - the Israeli military can threaten entire blocks of town to leave their town or get blasted from the air.

that's dystopian enough. but, again, it is happening during an ostensible ceasfire.

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An Automated Occupation in South Lebanon Israeli drones are taking on a variety of tasks, including killing people, searching bags, and guiding spies working on Israel’s behalf.

2 - drones that search your bags or ask if you are drinking nescafe

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Requiring people to pay to travel domestically because they don’t have a particular type of identity document that is difficult to get (particularly for married women with name changes) feels really ominous.

On the one hand, Mayor Wilson didn't meet his goal of ending unsheltered homelessness by Dec. 1...

but on the other he did approve an unpopular Land Use Compatibility Statement for Zenith Energy.

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

we are admitting no refugees except the oppressed Sudetenland Germans