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what does she think pediatricians do, restrain parents and hold down the kids??
she's asking for information and consent -- which already happens! -- as a canard to restrict vaccines
House MAGA Republicans buck Trump on tariffs but happily green light his plan to keep people from voting so they can stay in power. Never forget that this is a regime of the bullies, by the bribes, for the billionaires.
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
Pregnancy and childbirth are hazardous in ways society and health care have not been accounting for. www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/pregna...
As if I needed another reason to never want to use AI.
Despicable. Heartbreaking.
Gut. Wrenching.
Soul. Crushing.
Anyone want to see a fucking murderer
Despite the Trump administration's much vaunted *tone shift* Stephen Miller and his team are still out here comparing anti-ICE protesters to ISIS.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
After killing Renee Good, ICE fascists in Minneapolis have now arrested and detained 4 members of Oglala Sioux Tribe.
ICE HAS ARRESTED AND DETAINED INDIGENOUS AMERICANS.
These ICE fascists are not here to keep us safe, but to advance white supremacy. Defund and abolish ICE permanently.
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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As a copy editor, I note they manage to name-check Franklin with a cryptic invocation of the quote they don’t quite give us, in favor of airily labeling it as “famous“.
Alito found precedent in a 16th century British witch burner instead of the facts. Abortion was frequently practiced in North America from the 1600s on. In the British colonies abortions were legal if they were performed prior to quickening (16-20 weeks).
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10297561/
Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos.
You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.
depending on the local law and total spent that could be theft of a meaningful level charge
do we still have any laws
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Slate-blue fabric shopping bag with white text: logo, name, and 1934 founding date of a local funeral home.
Bonus from today’s panic attack at the food pantry (a.k.a. food bank): a darkly comic memento mori.
BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Trump’s emergency appeal to send National Guard troops into Illinois against the wishes of local officials
Apparent 6-3 ruling with Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
More precisely, of a ship? Distinguishing it from the earliest and perhaps still most common boats – which are open, and have no deck.
Thanks! Came here to say that.
Really? An awning would seem to be a covering.
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.
Activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby.
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
🤦🏿♂️For people outside the US to know how silly this is...
Everyone in the US, and I mean everyone, knows that a disproportionate number of US homes *are built by* undocumented workers from Mexico and El Salvador.🤡
This isn't "unskilled labor." These are skilled trades men and women. They are FAST.
The median age of a first-time home buyer is now 40 YEARS OLD.
That’s an absolute crisis.
And House Republicans just tanked our broadly bipartisan and Senate-passed bill to create more homes and lower costs for all.
The US State Department wants to deny visas to anyone engaged in online activity like combatting misinformation, fact checking or compliance.
They want state sanctioned media.
They want propaganda
Anyone who speaks the truth is at risk.
Keep speaking out. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is a great thread about Alberta and Albertans. There are so many great people here, (like everywhere) but when good people are quiet, the loudest think they speak for us. They don’t.
A few months ago I read that many datasets used to train these AI models are full of porn to ensure “women aren’t underrepresented in the dataset.” Once you know, you see it everywhere.
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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I'm watching The Real Inglorious Bastards. Listening to these sweet old men talk about how in WWII they absolutely kicked the shit out of the nazis.