Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.

Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.

Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.

Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.

Just a heads-up that the Senate is scheduled to take up this foul “compromise” bill at 11am today, and you absolutely need to CALL your Senators NOW, before session begins, and demand no compromise over healthcare with a regime that is willfully starving people.

Senate switchboard is 202.224.3121

Last month, another furry convention, BLFC in Reno, banned tactical gear & other modern police/military costumes before the con. This came amid a mass shooting at their host venue this summer

MFF has not addressed this issue, in a statement or their Code of Conduct (5/5)
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

ICE agents are typically masked & wear tactical gear while conducting raids & abducting people, all while largely refusing to identify themselves. This has led to criminals impersonating as ICE to conduct heinous crimes, which even the FBI has had to warn about (4/5)
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Furries, we need to talk about something very important. With Midwest FurFest just a month away, we need to address the elephant in the room

For the past few months, ICE, Border Patrol, & other federal agents have been storming throughout the Chicago area, where MFF is located (1/5)

Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the 'working man' Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.

The old guys have Black Lung.

The *young* guys have silicosis, which is far, far worse.

They got it from blasting rock high in silica as they tried to scrape out the very last bits of coal we don't even need.

MAKE SURE NONE OF THESE FUCKS HOLDS OFFICE EVER AGAIN

IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.

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We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...

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the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Angry Goose meme. first frame: goose asking, "what did we get from the shutdown, senators? second frame: goose chasing angrily, "what the duck did we get??"

"What radicalized you?"
Me: Cowards.

Angry honking. 🦢

This just in: Shitty right-wing lawyer calls me a "right wing authoritarian" because I criticized Ari Cohn, a man who wants to end anti-bullying policies that protect trans children in schools.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

if dems cave I hope people camp outside their houses and make them fucking miserable. no sleep, no peace, no pride, no moment of rest to enjoy whatever payout you get from complying with fascists. burning bags of dog shit. drums. airhorns. worse things I can't legally say. get fucked and rot.

Two Panel Comic Panel 1: Person is pointing to a beautiful sunlit landscape with rivers and forests and saying “Yo Elon, check out this beautiful life of infinite possibilities your immense wealth gives you access to” Panel 2: Elon Musk is on all fours in a darkened room, naked and covered in a dubious brown substance. He is surrounded by trash and smashing his phone with a hammer. He screams “The people on this fucking website won’t call me the meme maestro”

Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities

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Heads up for folx playing Arc Raiders: Embark has openly stated (in an interview with GamesRadar+), that the game uses the same AI voice tech as The Finals, and the CEO has talked about using AI to generate 3D models from YouTube rips.

If you're anti-AI you should not be playing Arc Raiders!

“FIRE once did a good thing so you can’t criticize them when they support right wing anti-woke bullshit.”

Fuck yourself. That’s now how morality works. Being an LGBTQ ally sometimes does not cancel out harming LGBTQ people in other cases. A right and a wrong do not cancel out.

So uh... I REALLY don't wanna be a bearer of bad news. But this shit is why disabled folks can't just move out of the US too. Other countries deny us citizenship for a lot of reasons just like this.

Really fucking sucks!

I can't get over the internet tough guy 'I'll happily kill in defense of the LGBTQ community, but not you specifically'

Like first, lol lmao yeah sure buddy

secondly, nobody's asking you to kill for queer people. Just not advocate for letting them be legally discriminated against

Lmao, another lawyer now getting really mad at me and insisting that ackshually, telling a child to stop calling a classmate a hurtful name is “compelled speech”

Remarkable that every boss talks about how amazing AI is, all the way up until that AI's outputs hit people whose jobs don't depend on agreeing, at which point they inevitably have to conceal that they are using AI.

The shitty Coke ad studio. Games that use AI generated assets. Support chatbots.

AI generated content disclosure via Arc Raider's Steam page: The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

Everybody should just pirate everything. Download all the ROMs you can, play old games that Nintendo wants to charge you $60 for the privilege of playing again, anybody who has a problem with this has incurable cop-brain and you shouldn't listen to anything they say

The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.