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Very cool development that polluting industries are using AI generated comments to astroturf the appearance of grassroots opposition to environmental regulation

kboo also has some great local coverage!!

Obama made a deal w/ Iran to stop them from getting nukes, but Trump backed out of it bcuz he wanted to own Obama

For a year, Iran kept following the deal anyway, begging Trump to change his mind. Iran then began work on nukes again

Now Trump is threatening to attack Iran bcuz “diplomacy failed”

zoning is a useful tool, but also do upstream organizing to prevent construction companies and trades from working on these renovations. Use every tool of pressure and persuasion you possibly can.

We have to stop the concentration camps from being built.

And speaking of things that disappoint me, in the year 2026 with everything we know about the exploitative and environmental impacts of AI/ Data Centers that the convo in Salem is about how to encourage more.

I am not the one.

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

It is wild to me that a place as visibly stratified as Dubai feels 'safe' to anyone. Did she not see any of the migrant workers living in a dystopian parallel universe?

The safety-comfort dichotomy strikes again.

A place may keep a certain class of people in comfort but at a dangerous price.

Just had to unfollow an influencer who was talking about she loves how 'peaceful and safe' it is in the UAE.

Tell that to a migrant worker in Dubai, the Yemenis under occupation in Socotra, or those in Darfur experiencing-UAE funded genocide.

Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter I.D. Bill

i say let them do it. if i were a senate democrat i would relish the opportunity to let the country know that republicans don't think you should vote if you are a married woman www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...

"In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a 'depraved indifference' to human life and where such acts result in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill."

“They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad.”

Paulino Martin San Pedro was an Oregonian. He was a beloved community member. This administration murdered him.

His family has a gofundme here: www.gofundme.com/f/keep-pauli...

I'd bond with friends going home to Syria, Libya, Russia, and other dictator-led destinations as they shared similar reactions.

Much more than a symbol of narcissism, Trump's banners--first on Labor and now on Justice--should terrify us because of the examples he is emulating.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

Um…

www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

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Why Did Human Rights Watch Block the Right of Return Report? Podcast Episode · This Is Palestine · February 12 · 34m

this is a pretty damning indictment of human rights watch. i don't know how the org comes back from this.

proud of omar.

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Right now, there are thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons being held without charge. Now the Israeli government wants to administer capital punishment to those denied both their freedom and due process.

The Portland AG wouldn't meet with union members that were indiscriminately gassed.

Wowza.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

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Reese’s grandson accuses Hershey of degrading chocolate, making it ‘not edible.’ Is he right? H.B. Reese spent two years at Hershey before leaving to form his own company and inventing Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 1928. His grandson says Reese's is ruining that legacy by cutting corners.

Truly the hero we need.

H.B. Reese is waging a one-man war on Hershey’s for ruining his grandfather’s legacy (and his Peanut Butter Eggs) 🍫

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LABOR SAYS: ICE OUT / NO HUMAN BEING ILLEGAL FEB 20 | 12-1PM MEET AT MULT. CO. COURTHOUSE CORNER OF SW MADISON & SW 1ST) MARCH TO PORTLAND CITY HALL March on Vasquez & Wilson Our city has banned the use of tear gas. Our state has a long tradition of sanctuary. In this charged historical moment, these values must be more than words; they must be enforced. The Oregon labor movement will continue to organize to protect our neighbors.

🚨March on Vasquez & Wilson🚨

Demand the Mayor and DA enforce the law to protect Portlanders against fascist thuggery.

Labor says: ICE OUT!

🗓️ Feb. 20, 12 PM, MultCo Courthouse (SW Madison & 1st)

I guess this should say coerce *cis* women to perform femininity. They don’t want this of trans women ofc.

as someone with rather disproportionate chest size for my otherwise lanky frame, i basically always use minimizer bras in professional settings because of, well, these very exact creeps.

it does not matter that i am cis! these men just want tits out.

part of the anti-trans craze: these freaks literally want to coerce women to perform femininity.

‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins

‘Al-Aqsa is a detonator’: six-decade agreement on prayer at Jerusalem holy site collapses
Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

NYT finally comes through with a skeptical look at Trump’s basically nonexistent case for war against Iran. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.

They won't only be for brown and Black people.

The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.

The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

Lmaoooo