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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

USAID contractors have urged the Supreme Court to require Trump administration to pay $2 billion for services rendered, as ordered by a federal judge. Filing: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

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Greg Fromenteau - Art @gfro-art.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We had a ton of #snow lately so I think these will be appropriate for the weekend ❄️🌨️☃️

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Tennessee Republicans want to hit nonprofits — including faith groups — who help migrants and undocumented people with possible felonies. Incredible quote from the bill’s sponsor. tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/17/b...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

DOGE is not a govt efficiency project. Firing 1 in 4 fed employees would cut govt spending by 1%. DOGE is a political control project. Firing and terrorizing public employees is a means to weakening state regulation & strengthening a personalist presidency donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

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DOGE Mismanagement Principles

Musk et al. don't know or care about the damage they are doing

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/02/2025

TheHill [Feb 12] -- For the 3rd year, Kansas’s Dem. Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill banning care for minors. One of the most evangelical Rep states in the nation, Kansas also defied conventional wisdom in 2022 when voters rejected an amendment outlawing abortion. [HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]

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Amir Selmanović @amirselmanovic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

They come up with lines such as "we have three branches of government, not a fourth one named Elon Musk." Weak, ineffective stuff. They need to use the words coup, lawlessness, chaos, economic calamity, and brand the entire party, not just Trump and Elon.

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The Listening Post @ajlisteningpost.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“An unelected citizen and a bunch of kids who are not old enough to rent a car are now taking over the US government.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on Elon Musk and DOGE’s role in the Trump administration. Watch our full report ⤵️ youtu.be/jt32cgpIYDw

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Gummy👒 @happyyu.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/02/2025

President Trump campaigned on lowering costs. But he’s letting billionaire Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. If they succeed, CEOs on Wall Street will once again be free to cheat you out of your savings.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk is calling for the impeachment of the federal judge who issued a ruling early Saturday morning, directing the Treasury Department to restrict access to its payment systems to ‘civil servants with a need for access to perform their job duties.’

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin says he will open an inquiry following a criminal “referral” of certain individuals by Elon Musk. “If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable,” Martin writes.

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Del. Joshua Cole @jcole4va.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Yesterday republicans tried to block a budget amendment I carried to help renters get into homes. Their motion failed…

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

My weekly curated list of must-read articles, some organizing resources, and my thoughts on Musk's administrative coup.

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Must-Reads and Yes, It's a Coup

Why would a billionaire raid the National Treasury? To get richer.

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Maxine Eichner @maxineeichner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

238 law professors from across the country have signed on to a Statement of Urgency about the peril of the constitutional crisis that is now upon us. Complete list of signers below. Please read and repost!! Thank you!

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 08/02/2025

Fascists always seek to remake arts and culture because these are the spaces that incubate freedom of expression, liberation of identity and openness of mind.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/02/2025

San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, joined by three other cities and counties across the country, are suing the Trump administration over its threats to punish jurisdictions that have sanctuary immigration policies, calling the moves unconstitutional. via @kqednews.kqed.org

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San Francisco Leads Lawsuit Against Trump’s Threats to Punish Sanctuary Cities | KQED

San Francisco and Santa Clara counties are joined by three other cities and counties in accusing the Trump administration of illegally coercing them to carry out federal responsibilities.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"The first military flights to deport migrants [to] Guantanamo Bay were slated to take off Tuesday" as Trump is pushing to use the Alien Enemies Act, used to carry out Japanese Internment during WWII. If we allow the State to expand its repressive apparatus, it will be used against all of us.

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First military deportation flights from US take off for Guantanamo

The first military flights to deport migrants from the United States to Naval Base Guantanamo Bay were slated to take off Tuesday.

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∞ Monkeys @somanymonkeys.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

It seems DOGE is costing taxpayers at least $7 million a week. That's a lot of money for a court injunction making machine. rollcall.com/2025/02/04/w...

But what was once thought of as an outside advisory board is now very much inside the federal government and drawing an official salary, so to speak. Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover the agency’s expenses, while the administration tries to freeze big chunks of government funding as part of DOGE’s mandate to root out programs deemed wasteful or out of step with the president’s priorities.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/02/2025

Wrote up just how *actually evil* the demands from the Trump admin to NCMEC are and how they will *absolutely* lead to children dying. From the cultists who insisted they wanted to "save the children" to literally killing them deserves to be called out: www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/m...

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MAGA’s Sickening Hypocrisy: From ‘Save The Children’ To ‘Defund The Org That Actually Saves Children’

After years of screaming “save the children” while baselessly accusing others of exploiting kids, the Trump administration is now trying to destroy the actual infrastructure that saves …

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

With the waves of criminalizing legislation, EOs, and copaganda emanating from all directions, we're re-starting up our monthly criminalization roundups, written by our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social. Here is our first one, focused on the criminalization of migrants: bit.ly/IC-TMIC1

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Must be said again and again, the police are defunding us. Our schools our parks our trains, literally everything.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 07/02/2025

So it turns out when you DON'T go woke, you go broke. Trump's New DEI? Dying Economy and Inflation. It's only two weeks in and Trump is Making America Broke Again! www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Look, if someone should be forcing their way into places, it's someone from the senate where there is a brute force republican majority, not the house where a couple Republicans getting the flu gives you a floor majority. Send Chuck

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“The unelected Musk recently announced plans for a new payments platform run jointly by Visa and X. Now he’s moved his power grab to the CFPB, a clear attempt to attack union workers and defang the only agency that checks the greed of payment providers and auto lenders like Tesla." - CFPB union 🔥

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This cover is probably more effective resistance against Trump than Chuck Schumers entire tenure

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Start asking Trump at pressers how he intends to implement Elons agenda

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 07/02/2025

Yesterday, I along with @repespaillat.bsky.social, Senator Blumenthal and other Dems co-led the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act to protect families and kids in schools, churches, and hospitals from ICE raids. Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com and I broke it down. youtu.be/QovrOPj_k_U?...

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STOPPING ICE Raids at Schools, Churches & Hospitals! | Rep. Crockett & Rachel Maddow Breakdown

YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/02/2025

More from a local reporter who shows that what Homan called a “leak” and claimed somehow was media putting ICE at risk… was just reporters reporting what guys in clearly marked ICE vests were doing in their community

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Life is too short to not draw that weird shit that your heart desires

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“At St. John’s we believe everyone has a fundamental human right to health care,” said St. John’s chief executive Jim Mangia. “You can disagree w/quote-on-quote gender ideology and how ppl may choose to live their lives, but that doesn’t give you the right to strip away their access to health care.”

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Still a better Spinosaurus than those in a certain forthcoming movie.

Humorous drawing in brown pencil of a Spinosaurus, a very large dinosaur with a crocodile-like snout and a large sail-like structure on its back, perched on a tree branch.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...

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Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.

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khaake.bsky.social @khaake.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Nebraska says Stop the Coup! #50501

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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thinking about how Democrats could retake the House this year if they win three special elections in FL and NY...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 06/02/2025

Dover, Delaware!

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 06/02/2025

A/P [con't.] The E/O depends on Dept of Ed. investigating schools charged with allowing women/girls in female sports altho Trump has advocated dismantling it. In signing the E/O, he offered as 1 example of men in women's sports Algerian boxer Imane Khalif, a cis female. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬

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Trump takes action to ban transgender women from women’s sports | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump took executive action Wednesday to deliver on a political issue central to his 2024 campaign: banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/02/2025

Santa Fe, New Mexico!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

* Demonstrators hold signs that read "Workers over billionaires" during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump and the actions he has taken in the first weeks of his presidency, outside of the Department of Labor in Washington. @reuters.com

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