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Clio2

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Observer of #polycrisis; excursions into history, nature, oddments. Degrees: philosophy, history of science. Former teacher, writer, editor, spokesperson, contract researcher, journalist. Occasional fictioneer. NB. No LLMs/other AI need apply. :-)

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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 5h
Hidden lede: "Trump also proposed requiring smaller airports to use private security, a move ‌that ⁠would cut the TSA payroll by more than 4,500 jobs in a first step toward privatizing the agency." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 15h
“The companies building the most powerful AI systems are warning us that the technology is advancing faster than our safeguards. The president’s response? To rename it and tell the companies developing it to regulate themselves." - Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/09/tues...
STATEMENT OF U.S. SEN. MARK R. WARNER

~ On President Trump’s executive order to rebrand ‘artificial intelligence’ ~

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement:

“The companies building the most powerful AI systems are warning us that the technology is advancing faster than our safeguards. The president’s response? To rename it and tell the companies developing it to regulate themselves. But changing what we call artificial intelligence does nothing to address the very real risks that come with increasingly powerful AI systems.

“I believe deeply in the promise of AI and in America’s ability to lead the world in this technology. But leadership also means making sure these systems are safe, secure, and remain under human control. That is why I’ve introduced legislation to require rigorous testing and evaluation of the most advanced AI systems, strengthen cybersecurity and incident reporting, and establish clear rules of the road before the most powerful models are deployed.

“There is bipartisan interest in Congress in getting this right. The technology is moving incredibly fast, and the risks are no longer theoretical. The question is whether Washington is going to act before something goes seriously wrong — or wait until afterward to ask why we didn’t.”
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 11h
Video: On Senate Floor, Sen. Mark Warner Calls for Data Center Guardrails, Urgent Need to Pass AI Security Legislation bluevirginia.us/2026/09/vide...
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Video: On Senate Floor, Sen. Mark Warner Calls for Data Center Guardrails, Urgent Need to Pass AI Security Legislation - Blue Virginia
Earlier today on the US Senate floor, Sen. Mark Warner” called on Congress to enact meaningful protections for communities facing the rapid expansion of data centers, arguing that legislation must inc...
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 7h
Sept. 30, 1418 S.R. At night Black Riders beseige both the inn at Bree & the Crickhollow house, but miss their prey. The hobbits, their mounts stolen, leave Bree with Strider as guide & one starveling pack pony. They detour north of the Road. Gandalf rides to Crickhollow and on to Bree. #LOTR
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 8h
McD's to franchisees: "it is particularly important for all Users of the Tool to understand and comply fully with ​anti-trust and competition laws" This as the corp rolls out tools to coordinate dynamic pricing between all restaurants in a region using corporate AI. www.reuters.com/business/ins...
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Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 10h
"A record number of employees are leaving ICE, even as the agency hires thousands of workers to expand enforcement operations. Ignacio Calderon, a USA TODAY data reporter, breaks down what federal workforce records reveal about the surge in departures,"
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A record number of ICE employees are leaving. Why? | The Excerpt
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 10h
"More than 100 research grants collectively worth over $250 million have been canceled. Although Congress appropriated $345 million for 2026, much of it has gone unspent, with only $15 million going to grants so far." Gee, where's that money going then? It must be getting spent somewhere...
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10h
"...President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation." Truth spoken to power. Incarnate. W/o fear or favor.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 20h
Today before Senate.
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Ray @raymolson22.bsky.social · 22h
We are not being governed. We are being looted.
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10h
Which was either AI that he saw, or a claim he complegely invented. Republicans have absolute zero for voters at this point except blatant lies and concocted moral panic.
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 11h
Disgraceful Trump dismantling labor statistics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 18h
I am appalled at the people willingly running children through this process.
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 18h
What it deserves is a resignation just saying
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 18h
Apparently the GOP has been vaccinated against courage
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 17h
How dare this unarmed man maliciously stop ICE bullets with his back. How dare.
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 15h
The trick is getting dystopia to abstain from me
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 20h
Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17h
From Josh Helfgott: ICE detained a Los Angeles car washer and father of four for six months. His kids ended up in therapy, his family lost its income, and he is still fighting to stay in the country. José Padilla, 41, was detained by ICE on January 27 while he
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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LeftonMain @leftonmainst.bsky.social · 15h
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Judge Lets Lawsuit Proceed After Police Target Miami Beach Resident Who Criticized Pro-Israel Mayor | Common Dreams
​"Ordering a police visit to an individual’s home to discuss the individual’s speech can constitute a restriction on speech that would support a viewpoint discrimination claim," wrote a federal judge.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 15h
Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places How does this result in less harm? Isn't that supposed to be the metric the court uses in the interim? Who would be harmed by not sending them to random places? newrepublic.com/post/215995/...
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Supreme Court Says Trump Can Keep Deporting People to Random Places
Donald Trump can temporarily resume his third-country deportations, at least until the high court hears arguments on the case in December.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 18h
1/ Montana just flipped switch to start kicking ppl off benefits. Starting Oct 1, the state can deny or cut Medicaid for about 70,000 adults who can't prove 80 hours a month of work, school, or volunteering. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now real. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 18h
One by one the news and analysis sources are going away. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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Ralph Snyder @ralphsnyder.bsky.social · 16h
When the urgent pushes out the important
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 21h
Israel Of couse, Trump didn't care either when MBS had U.S.-based WaPo journalist Jamal Khashoggi brutally murdered. www.rawstory.com/israel-26779...
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Trump admin silent as American teen jailed and beaten without charge by US ally: report
The Trump administration remained silent when pressed this week on the arrest and alleged abuse of an American teenager by the Israeli government, Zeteo exclusively reported on Tuesday.According to Ze...
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Gwendolyn Corvid @gwendolyn-corvid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They've got trans people on the ropes, now they're coming for the LGB people. thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 22h
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excellent by VA Del. @hollyseiboldva.bsky.social (D-Fairfax)! The fact is, "lawns" are an enviro disaster on multiple levels (massive water consumption, fertilizers/pesticides, lawn mowers, harm to biodiversity, etc. etc.) & should be replaced by native plants ASAP bluevirginia.us/2026/09/mond...
"Today I participated in the filming of One Nation Under Sod, a documentary exploring why we’ve become so attached to the traditional American lawn and what can happen when we rethink our yards as spaces for conservation.
It connects directly to legislation I’m bringing forward in 2027 to help remove barriers to conservation landscaping and give homeowners more freedom to make environmentally friendly choices in their own yards.
Those choices matter. Native and conservation landscaping can help reduce stormwater runoff and pollution, protect clean water, and support pollinators and wildlife.
I’m proud to work alongside advocates from Nature Forward, Wild Ones Nova Chapter, and the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance who have been leading this effort.
Thank you filmmaker Aaron Schillinger for shining a light on this movement.
One Nation Under Sod is expected to be released in fall 2027. 🌱" - Del. Holly Seibold (D-Fairfax)
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 22h
It was also 110% illegal
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 22h
Ha ha Liar, liar pants on fire nose as long as a telephone wire
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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So we're going to sell weapons to China, who will ship them to Iran, who will use them to kill Americans. It's the circle of life
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"As many people have instantaneous access to free porn as to clear water. Why aren’t we more curious about the growing role of pornography in our lives?” "[T]he industry’s owners [are] now tech nerds & bankers, with no particular interest in pornography itself." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses
As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the inter...
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ICEStapo www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans have literally NOTHING LEFT to run on but trans panic. "Democrats want to trans your kids" "Sex change surgeries on minors" "Men in women's sports" Don't grant ANY cred. Don't give it leverage. Running for office? See below. Others are out there who can answer the lies. Let them.
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mirroring and thereby reinforcing
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration has formally rescinded Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students nationwide.
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ka-POW this is how you do it
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Trump's 90-day tariff-free import plan [for Argentine beef] targets lean beef trimmings meant to be mixed into standard commercial ground beef supplies" So, if it's bad it will contaminate the nat'l ground beef supply and there will be no tracing it back? Sure, what could go wrong?
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"In one paragraph, Sauer laid out an immoral, uncaring argument — as ambitious as it is appalling — that would have implications for all considerations of transgender medical care and, with it, the existence of transgender people within the law" www.lawdork.com/p/doj-scotus...
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sept. 29, 1418 S.R. Frodo stabs the wight; Bombadil to the rescue! Armed from the wight's hoard, the hobbits ride to Bree. Merry's almost taken by a Black Rider. Frodo carelessly uses the Ring, meets Strider & gets a tardy letter from Gandalf. Gandalf reaches Hobbiton & talks w/ Sam's dad. #LOTR
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm praying that Americans with the attention span of a fruit fly can remember this.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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