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Indiana lawmakers are once again trying to weaken child labor laws: Bill sponsored by business owner would enable employers to hide child labor violations Coordinated, industry-backed campaigns to weaken child labor protections continue to target state legislatures in 2026. Yesterday, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements...

The Indiana House and Senate have both passed a bill to completely eliminate requirements for businesses to document the employment of child workers.

If this bill becomes law it would enable employers to hide child labor violations, according to @epi.org.

This certainly gives me the impression that 357 members of congress are in fact implicated in sexual misconduct and harassment. Why else would they be covering it up?

don't forget to pick up some bath salts

Jeffrey Epstein’s most powerful ally was silence | Gretchen Carlson and Julie Roginsky When abuse occurs, the first instinct is too often containment. We know this pattern because we have seen it ourselves

Prolific NonDisclosure Agreements are a threat to a civil society.

ICE surge meant thousands of extra calls, canceled time off, lots of OT for MPD officers The Minneapolis Police Department will update city council members Tuesday on how the federal government’s surge into Minnesota affected public safety.

Police fielded 50,000 calls during the surge, canceled over 1,000 days off and extended 500 shifts. The department says that more than $5 million was spent on policing between Jan. 7 and Feb. 1.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Neera Tanden’s missteps and the disability justice information space. A reputation that was never that great.

Active drag is putting it mildly. Hopefully between this and the Larry Summers misstep and the rest of it, people will stop thinking she's someone who ought to be in a white house staff and whatnot. Unfortunately none of her other missteps...

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It's not that I had fond feelings about Neera Tanden before but I think her retweeting Nick Fuentes is pretty good evidence that twitter is a gamma radiation field for your brain

The AP has been vociferously hawking slop for years aidirtylist.info/entities/ass...

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

Dina Powell McCormick tapped to lead Meta as president Dina Powell McCormick will be the new president of Meta, the parent company of Facebook. “I’m excited to share that Dina Powell McCormick is...

AI Strike Team celebrated as a win what most would view as corruption: Senator Mccormick's wife appointed president of Meta.

votekristiburke.com chip in: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/votekristiburke We are no longer asking for a better future. We are DEMANDING it.

More candidates like this please.

"We are no longer asking for a better future. We are DEMANDING it."

bots...
but I constantly see people trying to claim that bluesky has no bots 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I guess the person they were replying blocked them already and it looks like it's a bot that goes around interacting with bots.

I hope people could stop with the "bluesky has no bots" bs. Sick of hearing that.

why is this in my notifications???

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

It’s starting to feel like Trump will eventually cut and run, leaving all these countries with abandoned bases and an escalating regional war, which is just as fall of the Roman Empire as it gets.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • March 2, 2026, 11:56 PM The United States Munitions Stockpiles have, at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better - As was stated to me today, we have virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought “forever," and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!). At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be. Much additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries. Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time, and our Country's money, GIVING everything to P.T. Barnum (Zelenskyy!) of Ukraine - Hundreds of Billions of Dollars worth - And, while he gave so much of the super high end away (FREE!), he didn't bother to replace it. Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term, and continue to do so. The United States is stocked, and ready to WIN, BIG!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Ignoring the Constitution, public sentiment, and the warnings of his own advisors, Trump made the choice to plunge an entire region into war, send young Americans to their deaths, and sacrifice the lives of Iranian civilians.

That’s the behavior of a tyrant.

AI marketing itself is antihuman on multiple levels.

The people who can’t understand pronouns are gendering breakfast foods

It reduces people with mental health conditions as somehow just whiners who need someone to tell them what to do & decides a chatbot is an imperfect but possible substitute boss or something. It perpetuates dangerous mental health stigma about morally rooted cause when the brain is a physical organ.

A LLM magic 8 ball can't do anything about mental healthcare because mental healthcare is healthcare. And the egregious assertion that mental healthcare is just something "those mentally ill people" can treat with a chatbot is highly ableist and abusive.

This is like saying for uninsured Americans we need to find ways to make crystal balls most helpful for patients who really need cancer treatment but can't afford it so they just have a crystal ball.

It reduces people with mental health conditions as somehow just whiners who need someone to tell them what to do & decides a chatbot is an imperfect but possible substitute boss or something. It perpetuates dangerous mental health stigma about morally rooted cause when the brain is a physical organ.

A LLM magic 8 ball can't do anything about mental healthcare because mental healthcare is healthcare. And the egregious assertion that mental healthcare is just something "those mentally ill people" can treat with a chatbot is highly ableist and abusive.

This is like saying for uninsured Americans we need to find ways to make crystal balls most helpful for patients who really need cancer treatment but can't afford it so they just have a crystal ball.

Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.

'Least worst option': Carbon County community faces data center challenges Penn Forest Twp. held a hearing to discuss an amendment to its zoning ordinance that would allow for data center development in the municipality.

Data center developer lawyers go to town meetings and say bend over or we're going to force you anyway.

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Who are they saying is maga???