@arthanyel.bsky.social
Social Justice Paladin
Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
01.07.2025 13:46 — 👍 6334 🔁 2199 💬 168 📌 95Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times
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Surprisingly absolutely no one, the main purpose of ICE worksite raids is to arrest the employees and deport them.
Claims that they are "rescuing" people from trafficking or cracking down on employers is just hot air; ICE does these raids to arrest large numbers of immigrants.
Pay attention. Watch this space. Property seizures will be next. To say this is Nazi Germany is NOT hyperbole.
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Trump wants to cut U.S. funding for war crimes investigations in Ukraine—just as international experts confirm Russia is torturing civilians. Who benefits? Vladimir Putin.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
A Florida fire marshal lab’s flawed gasoline findings have led numerous people to be wrongly accused of arson — including in a death penalty case.
30.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 56 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1
More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial disparities — in states with more permissive gun policies, according to a new study ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/guns-...
19.06.2025 01:30 — 👍 37 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 3
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
19.06.2025 01:32 — 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 11 📌 5Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten care at U.S. hospitals that depend on international medical residents.
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Top Senate Dems are demanding Trump outline "a clear, detailed plan" for dealing with Iran, saying the president has left Congress in the dark as he weighs direct US involvement in Israel’s campaign against Tehran.
19.06.2025 01:06 — 👍 268 🔁 65 💬 66 📌 12Senate looked at House Medicaid cuts and said hold our beer. Deeper cuts will kill more than 51,000(under House bill). Any R who votes for this should be turned out of office.
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President Donald Trump is the first president in 116 years who will not be invited to the NAACP's national convention, The Associated Press reported.
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#MAGA radicals, MAGA bros and conservative media are spreading now-debunked claims that leftist politics motivated the shooting spree in Minnesota. Family, friends and roommate stated ON THE RECORD killer was deep conservative and Trump supporter. WATCH: youtube.com/shorts/2ZvnX...
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BREAKING - Multiple people dead and over 125 wounded as an Iranian missile attack got through the iron dome with direct hit in Tel Aviv.
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Millions of protesters across the U.S. took to the streets in demonstrations against the Trump administration today, in stark counter-programming to the president's Washington, D.C., military parade planned to start this evening.
14.06.2025 21:11 — 👍 600 🔁 146 💬 15 📌 12Protesters filled plazas, streets and parks across the U.S. on Saturday, gathering at demonstrations to call for protecting American democracy from President Trump. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/4e3BIzD
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NEW: The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”
This is a developing story.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins approved a waiver to allow Arkansas to ban its SNAP recipients from using their benefits to purchase certain types of food on Tuesday. The new restrictions will take effect in July 2026. #arpx
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Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway: collecting data on every American, potentially to wield surveillance powers over us.
And the administration has been very quiet about these efforts.
https://trib.al/m4A2SFg
“What does he have on us?" one Trump administration official rhetorically asked.
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
11.06.2025 15:49 — 👍 11252 🔁 4070 💬 224 📌 447
12. In response to the prompt, “Po character from the animated film Kung Fu Panda, full body view, screencap” Midjourney accessed the data about Universal’s Copyrighted Works that is stored by the Image Service and then reproduced, publicly displayed, and made available for download an image output that copies Universal’s Po character from the Kung Fu Panda franchise, as shown in this screenshot.
permission, copied Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works to train and develop its Image Service. It also shows that Midjourney’s AI Image Service, through software programming and computer storage devices, embodies “copies” of those works, as that term is defined in Section 101 of the Copyright Act, in the AI software that powers the Image Service. On information and belief, and unbeknownst to Disney and Universal, Midjourney developed and trained its Image Service on copyrighted works, including Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works to help ensure that it is able to reproduce, publicly display, and distribute faithful, high-quality copies and derivative works of the works it trained on, including Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works. 115. Based on the facts and circumstantial evidence alleged in this Complaint and common knowledge about the process for creating a generative AI image service like Midjourney, Plaintiffs are informed and believe that Midjourney engaged in the following conduct to train its Image Service: a. First, Midjourney gathered the underlying works to be used to train the service. To do so, Midjourney downloaded from the internet, and other sources, content using tools variously described as bots, scrapers, streamrippers, video downloaders, and web crawlers. David Holz admitted that to collect the training data, Midjourney “pulls off all the data it can, all the text it can, all the images it can.”5 Mr. Holz elaborated saying that Midjourney, “grabs everything they can, they dump it in a huge file, and they kind of set it on fire to train some huge thing.” Admitting even more, in a September 2022 interview, Mr. Holz confirmed that Midjourney never sought any copyright content
holders’ consent to copy and exploit their works.6 The data gathered and copied by Midjourney to use in training its Image Service includes Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works. b. Second, to prepare the data for ingestion, Midjourney “cleaned” the copies of the underlying works that were collected in the previous step through a filtering process and reformatted (e.g., converted them to a common technical format) the copies that were not filtered out in the cleaning process to train its Image Service. This step necessarily included creating more copies of the materials obtained in the gathering phase, such as a new copy of each reformatted item (including Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works). c. Third, Midjourney then used the collected and cleaned data and Copyrighted Works to “train” its Image Service. Although the specifics of this training phase have not been disclosed by Midjourney, and will be the subject of discovery in this action, Midjourney’s ability to repeatedly access the data stored in its software system and reproduce, publicly display, and distribute further copies of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works for its subscribers demonstrates that Midjourney’s training of its generative AI model involved the fixation of copies of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works in a tangible medium from which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Midjourney’s process of training and making multiple copies of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works was done without Plaintiffs’ approval or authorization. 116. In other words, Midjourney used software, servers, and other technology to store and fix data associated with Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works in such a manner that those works are thereby embodied in the model, from which Midjourney is then able to generate, reproduce, publicly display, and distribute unlimited “copies” of Plaintiffs’ works as defined by the Copyright Act
There are 30 straight pages of Disney and Universal's copyrights juxtaposed with Midjourney outputs. Worse still, Disney and Universal have catalogued exactly how Midjourney trained their models, including a 2022 Forbes interview where they say they didn't ask for permission.
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If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.
Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
We're working to document reports of nearly 30 assaults and 4 detainments/arrests of journalists covering protests in and around LA since Friday. Multiple news vehicles have been vandalized and countless journalists caught in tear gas while reporting.
As we verify these reports, find them here:
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was formally indicted Tuesday for attempting to stop ICE agents trying to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during a congressional oversight visit. She calls the charges “purely political” and says she won’t be intimidated.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Lots going on, but this is big.
White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...
