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Nerd and writer+. Antifascist, antiracist, and whatnot. Neurodivergent up the wazoo. Long-term interests include journalism, techcomm, design, neurology, comedy, poli-sci, film/tv, music, comix, food. He/him/his. ⚣ 🐈‍⬛ 🚫sexbots 🚫grifters 🚫DMs

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Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges A wrongful death suit against Google alleges that the tech giant's AI urged a Florida man to arm himself and steal a robot body for it.
05.03.2026 02:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump administration 'hoping to essentially do away with the rule of law and democracy in the US'
04.03.2026 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US Commanders Want to Make War With Iran as ‘Bloody’ as Possible to Bring About Biblical End Times, Officers Report | Common Dreams One noncommissioned officer said he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was "anointed by Jesus" and that war with Iran was "all part of God’s divine plan" to bring about armageddon.
04.03.2026 03:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep A neurologist makes an emotional visit to understand “resignation syndrome.”
02.03.2026 22:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Idaho considers an 'apocalyptic' choice for disabled people and families Difficult budget decisions in a number of states are threatening vital programs for disabled people at home and caregivers in the workforce.
02.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Trump Threatens ‘Friendly’ Takeover of American Neighbor President Donald Trump has long viewed the island nation as a disaster.
27.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas
27.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Researchers studied who’s spreading the most conspiracy theories in Canada. Here’s what they found Canadians are becoming more exposed to conspiracy theory content in their social media feeds, but only a certain number of accounts are responsible for promoting the vast majority of it, a new study s...
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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
26.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win It's a stunning twist.

Superman, strange visitor from another planet, will now start his day by assaulting migrants.

26.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.
26.02.2026 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Like Clockwork, the Front-Runner for the Democratic Nomination Just Dropped a Memoir. I Read It. We’re Doomed. If nothing else, the book is good for a game of politician-memoir bingo.
26.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Court holds that U.S. Postal Service can’t be sued over intentionally misdelivered mail A divided Supreme Court sided with the federal government on Tuesday in U.S. Postal Service v. Konan, a dispute over mishandled mail. Writing for a 5-4 majority, Justice Clarence Thomas […]
26.02.2026 04:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tennessee bill proposal would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion House Bill 570 allows for death penalty to be imposed on women who have abortions, as well as charging women ‘involved in the homicide of her own unborn child’
25.02.2026 03:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HIPAA promised to keep your medical data secret. AI threatens to reveal it Experts are calling for updates to HIPAA after AI was used to identify patients within anonymized health data.
25.02.2026 03:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ICE Brings the War Home Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado. They took the people away in handcuffs, according to a witness, and left the cars idling at...
25.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Report Indicates Trump-Linked Epstein Records Kept Out of DOJ Database Files featuring Trump’s name have been removed from or kept out of the database from the very beginning, NPR reports.
25.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.
23.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Ridiculous': Pentagon Doesn't Even Know What to Do With Extra $500 Billion Trump Wants to Spend | Common Dreams "Not another cent for private defense contractors and forever wars," wrote Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
23.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Pre-State of the Union Polling Numbers Among the Worst He’s Ever Had Trump receives negative marks on the economy, foreign policy matters, his handling of immigration, and more.
23.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With New Policy, DHS Sets Its Sights on Incarcerating Up to 100,000 Refugees “This is probably one of the most unprecedented memos — introduced to impose trauma on refugees,” an organizer said.
23.02.2026 23:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queer and Trans Activists Have Been at the Heart of Anti-ICE Work in Minneapolis LGBTQ communities played a central role in coordinating mutual aid, ICE watch shifts, and the general strike.
23.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Nazi party had a Republican problem: A response to Tom Nichols | Joohn Choe Get more from Joohn Choe on Patreon
23.02.2026 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Prairieland 19 Case Is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how ea...
20.02.2026 03:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.
19.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
19.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To Stay in Her Home, She Let In an A.I. Robot
18.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The Onion CEO reveals why making fun of MAGA works
YouTube video by On with Kara Swisher The Onion CEO reveals why making fun of MAGA works
17.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NSPM-7.
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