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Gross.
These clowns use gov money to push dumb tech, steal intellectual and creative property and privacy, destroy neighborhoods with giant pollution-spewing generators at data centers, inflate and manipulate the market and they get time of the year-
Time is a rag.
-should have been Mamdani

12.12.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWhat I saw in that room is one of the most troubling scenes I’ve ever seen in my time in public service,” said @jahimes.bsky.social of the House Intel Committee. β€œYou have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion with a destroyed vessel who were killed by the United States.

04.12.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of β€œpsychosis.”

Researchers are struggling to understand the widespread β€œAI psychosis” problem, making the chatbot boom one of the largest, highest-stakes, and most poorly designed social experiments ever, @matteowong.bsky.social writes.

04.12.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

AI data centers are sucking up all our energy resources and polluting our neighborhoods. AI hurts workers, destroys and steals creativity, cons students out of critical thinking and makes our economy fragile.
We need regulation now!

04.12.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

03.12.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11524    πŸ” 6378    πŸ’¬ 470    πŸ“Œ 342

These data centers are stealing our power and polluting our neighborhoods. Stop your city & state from letting them in!

26.11.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone β€” period.

25.11.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 18322    πŸ” 7794    πŸ’¬ 445    πŸ“Œ 364
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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

20.11.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2179    πŸ” 863    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 38
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Owen M, thanks for coming to our Biddeford town hall. We found your wallet. Send us a DM.

Please share so Owen sees this.

20.11.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
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The House of Representatives has now unanimously (!) voted to claw back the vile and corrupt self-dealing provision that Susan Collins successfully snuck into the government funding bill, reportedly at Majority Leader Thune's request.

An indefensible, politically-damaging self-own. #MEpolitics

20.11.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, the latest sign of tensions over the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement push.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

16.11.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like Altman has problems interacting with human beings and may need some help.
AI is just getting scarier and scarier.
That's why there are so many Frankenstein remakes, collectively we are scared and pissed about reckless megalomaniac tech bros.
AI is a hoax-fix, turn off the data centers

12.11.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I still can't believe people use this without being paid.
I will continue to seek out phones without AI or opting-out options.
I'm not touching AI until grownups are in charge of regulation, the humans they steal intellectual information get paid, and it will still probably creep me out.

12.11.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need to figure out how to collectively assist support of grocery, warehouse, and delivery & other "essential workers" because a General Strike may be our last best stand. We know from 2020, that they are the pressure points.

10.11.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
An article headline from Bangor Daily News: Susan Collins casts decisive vote to defeat legislation limiting Trump's ability to attack Venezuela

An article headline from Bangor Daily News: Susan Collins casts decisive vote to defeat legislation limiting Trump's ability to attack Venezuela

Susan Collins sent me and my friends to die in Iraq twenty years ago.

She learned nothing from it.

08.11.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 271    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 8
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β€œ.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).”

- Vital Knowledge

09.11.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 636    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 11
Markwayne Mullin & =
@SenMullin
X.com
Working through the weekend with President Donald J. Trump.
It's always an honor to be in the Oval Officeβ€” I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted.

Markwayne Mullin & = @SenMullin X.com Working through the weekend with President Donald J. Trump. It's always an honor to be in the Oval Officeβ€” I never take this opportunity to serve Oklahoma for granted.

Sir, Trump is at Mar-a-Lago since yesterday.

09.11.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3043    πŸ” 740    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 50

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.

How times change.

05.11.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3869    πŸ” 1425    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 41
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If your government thinks the Pope β€œdoesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

05.11.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 14579    πŸ” 4536    πŸ’¬ 506    πŸ“Œ 259

Creepy, privacy concerning, unwanted, useless

05.11.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey,
Don't forget to vote!

04.11.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I liked Biden ok and voted for him and Harris, but he evolved late about marriage equality and women's choice and said lots of dumb things and was less than reasonable with regard to Anita Hill-people are human and can do important work and also do things they are not proud of.

02.11.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe, but right now I want to make sure I support a candidate who actually supports working people.
I have several months before the primary to find out the motivations (good or ill) of those senior staffers.

02.11.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm paying attention and using the years I have spent working with people to decide whether I trust that he has largely been a thoughtful person who is committed to serving is community and country.
The internet inspires even good people to say dumb things and it wasn't a tattoo I knew either.

02.11.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

From/living in Maine, Platner supports LGBTQ+ /full civil rights, unions, gov support systems, and is coming to towns to talk to people from every party. He is doing the work and we are paying attention.
We haven't had a candidate in Maine like this in my near 50 years here-and I am voting for him.

02.11.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nation's largest fleet of police Cybertrucks to patrol Las Vegas The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November.

The nation’s largest police fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks is set to begin patrolling the streets of Las Vegas in November thanks to a donation from a U.S. tech billionaire, raising concerns about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.

02.11.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 737    πŸ” 299    πŸ’¬ 203    πŸ“Œ 205
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House Speaker Mike Johnson signed bill cutting $186B from SNAP in July 2025 Users shared this true claim amid uncertainty regarding whether Americans would receive federal food benefits during the 2025 government shutdown.

It's no coincidence, they targeted SNAP months ago.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

01.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 922    πŸ” 440    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 20
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ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children ICE is traumatizing children as young as 14 – trying to strip them of their rights while they're without attorneys or family to help them. Take action against these horrific abuses now.

ICE has been targeting young kids for months, separating families and instilling fear.

Tell Congress to pass legislation ensuring no child is arrested without a warrant and coerced to give up their rights by immigration agents.

01.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 654    πŸ” 302    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 30
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CHARGES DROPPED! Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme Newly released video raises new questions about the arrest of a progressive Tennessee man for posting a Trump meme in a Facebook group

CHARGES DROPPED! Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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