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Lillian Medville

@lillianmmm.bsky.social
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Covid aware, perfectly adequate human, she/her I’m here to lurk, learn, repost, and then go offline to dance in my kitchen.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 8h
I was born into a 25 cent oyster world and by god I want to die in one again
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 11h
What’s old is new again. The GOP has always protected its most degenerate members from accountability, "until everything collapses." @pamspaulding.bsky.social comes out of retirement to connect Dennis Hastert and Jim Bakker to modern MAGA. www.altrightdelete.news/p/gop-moral-...
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GOP Moral Hypocrisy Never Dies
The deaths of Dennis Hastert and Jim Bakker reveal a right-wing pattern: shield the morally degenerate until it all collapses.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
I'm not arguing with this point--death threats are extremely common!--and absolutely, politicians should deal with it, but I keep thinking about the fact that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered and nobody blinked an eye.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19h
I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Who are you going to believe, the preeminent expert on surveillance pricing or George W. Bush’s communications director during the Iraq War who now works for Walmart?
gizmodo.com
Walmart Denies Plans for Surveillance Pricing Despite Holding Patents for Surveillance Pricing
Who you gonna believe?
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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 16h
One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 20h
People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10h
Virginia Woolf by Nikoleta Sekulovic
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h
Someone asked me to sign one of these petitions at the grocery store. The description they gave to me of what the measure did and the description on the sheet were misleadingly different.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h
Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”
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Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.
A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h
IT IS ALWAYS THEM. ALWAYS.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h
You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h
It's deeply irresponsible to treat anything Trump says as credible. He's flailing and desperate to save face, and he knows he can lie because the corporate media will dutifully parrot his words and spread his propaganda. There's a good chance Zelenskyy has no idea what the hell he's talking about.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/10/2026
Another HBCU student athlete has been snatched up by ICE. hbcugameday.com/2026/10/08/h...
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HBCU basketball player with Chinese nationality detained by ICE
An HBCU basketball player faces detention by ICE as concerns grow for international student-athletes navigating immigration issues.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19h
The thing about the circular financing of AI is that isn’t happening in isolation. The investigations of Mark Walter, Steve Ballmer, Manchester City, & many less prominent humbugs are all revealing whirlpools of capital: self-dealing, fraud, book-cooking, etc. The bezzle is rising.
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EXCLUSIVE: Lennar’s Big New Customer Is Its Own Spinoff, Millrose
Millrose, a company Lennar spun out, has bought an estimated $200 million of Lennar homes in about a month.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Headline makes it sound like the DCCC spent all their money on hookers and blow and now rent is due but the real reason is Trump and the Republicans are so toxic the DCCC thinks it can compete in districts Trump won by 13-20 points.
Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024:

— Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6)
— Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9)
— South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13)
— New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21h
An outrageous story on its own. Even more outrageous when you find out the same county has charged three children with falsely reporting sexual abuse since her case. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18h
This opening by Bob Smietana is perfection! A must read!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h
This is what competitive authoritarianism looks like - we still have elections, but under conditions that are not equal and not fair.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
Do my eyes deceive me, or does this article that mentions the assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was not an elected official, not mention that Rep. Ilhan Omar was physically attacked less than 10 months ago?!?!?!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h
“A tool that is marketed and designed for facial recognition or to track weapons, and being repurposed to track who is entering and paying at parking lots, seems like a bad fit.”
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AI surveillance towers in this Toronto parking lot have residents feeling uneasy
Avante Security, the Toronto-based company behind the metres-tall contraptions, says “residents should be thankful that organizations want to help keep neighbourhoods safe.”
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 21h
I beg people to remember that NYPD openly threatened the lives of Mayor deBlasio's children.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21h
another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.
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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 22h
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h
I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 19h
“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20h
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Colorado's Elections Chief Took on Trump. She Needed Extra Security As She Gave Birth
Colorado’s secretary of state can say with certainty: “The MAGA threat environment follows us through every step of life.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 19h
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h
After a company owned by the billionaire Moroun family erected a concrete plant in their quiet neighborhood, Detroit residents said they began battling air pollution so thick they could “taste the dust.” They say local and state officials have been little help.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...
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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture
Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 20h
1) it’s great the times painstakingly attempted to document how much this had grown 2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21h
Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 11/10/2026
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“The gift of a $400 million aircraft from Qatar’s royal family stands apart because it involves a transgression the framers identified by name and for which they prescribed impeachment as the remedy: violation of the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause.”
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The Case for Impeachment: In a sea of graft, the gift of a $400 million aircraft stands apart | Opinion
The founders were crystal clear that accepting gifts from foreign governments was constitutionally prohibited and should lead to impeachment.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hey so Israel killed Israeli civilians on Oct 7th. Why is no one but @zeteo.com talking about this?
An article titled "Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the Hannibal Dirwctive during Oct 7 chaos"
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/10/2026
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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