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Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is one of the most inspirational photos i have ever seen www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Japan Has No Space for Solar Farms Apart From Old Golf Courses
The perfectly manicured fairways at Minohara Country Club wind through the forested hills of Gunma Prefecture about two hours from downtown Tokyo. In a few years, they’ll disappear under row-upon-row ...
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Paul George Lombard Jr. @herroyalredness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Highlights from the Giants vs Titans today
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026
JCO is defending furries fyi
Joyce Carol Oates O @Joyce CarolOates
trying to think how an illegal immigrant- radical Islamic person in a bunny suit could be a threat to national security.
Coach Tommy Tuberville * ml @SenTuber... • 1d
Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots.
Lord help us.
11:14 AM • 9/27/26 • 5.1K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
person in a bunny suit is a "threat to workers paycheck." how, exactly?
fa Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender-6h They are a threat to workers paycheck. Not your though rich lady. So you dont care.
3:54 PM • 9/27/26 • 3.3K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
Mr. Mask, you are confused. the only creatures in bunny suits threatening field workers would be actual bunnies. to charge actual bunnies with wearing "bunny suits" is redundant.
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LOL. You all think field workers and meat plant workers and hotel maids are OVERPAID in America and we should bring in 50 million migrants to lower their wages. Shame on you.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 27/09/2026
This beautiful young para dancer took the floor at the 2026 Para Dance Sport World Cup in Košice, Slovakia. Dance Princess. 💗🥹 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Dr Hell-Mart @hockeyeeyore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It would be kind of funny if OpenAI agents hacked the Justice Department and released the Epstein Files.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tommy Tuberville, we found the furries, they’re at Mar-a-Lago.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICE officer Christian Castro has been charged with shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in January and with lying about the circumstances to investigators, and faces federal and state charges stemming from the alleged assault. More: More: substack.com/profile/2357...
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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Christian Castro has been charged with shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in January and with lying about the circumstances to investigators. Cast...
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Rob Bluebird @bobbradysd1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Family of Tierra Walker—Who Died After Being Denied Abortion Care—Sues Texas AG Ken Paxton - officials imposed a merciless blanket prohibition on abortion that intimidates doctors into inaction: lawsuit. “Too many pregnant Texans have died preventable deaths www.commondreams.org/news/abortio...
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Family of Tierra Walker—Who Died After Being Denied Abortion Care—Sues Texas AG Ken Paxton | Common Dreams
The family of Tierra Walker filed a lawsuit against Texas officials and doctors over her "preventable death" linked to the state's abortion ban—the first case of its kind.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every damn day, local news is full of women's dead bodies. The country just does not care.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GO @katiephang.bsky.social! Huge slam of Blanche by Judge Sullivan today — TODD faces contempt if he does not turn over UNREDACTED, handwritten FBI interview notes re: allegations of Trump's physical & sexual abuse of 13-yr-old girl for review in chambers by 9/24... ⚖️ order: t2m.co/jQxzcy66
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Memorandum & Opinion – #43 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER addressing the parties' responses to the Court's June 25, 2026 Preliminary Injunction Order. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 9/16/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 09/16/2026)
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Help us protect press freedoms by donating to our ongoing legal battle against Energy Transfer (Dakota Access Pipeline owners).
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Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on Unicorn Riot DAPL SubpoenaUnicorn Riot’s long legal battle in Minnesota to protect newsgathering materials from attorneys working for Energy Transfer reached yet anoth...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/09/2026
the frame of Health Fascism moves away from individual MAHA behaviors and towards how our health care and social welfare systems, such as they are/aren't, were fertile ground for a far right power grab. @deathpanel.bsky.social has been exploring this for a long time. the full panel chuds clipped:
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Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series)
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Rudy Giuliani’s administration told New Yorkers the air after 9/11 was safe to breathe—while an internal City Hall memo was already filing those exact statements under legal liability. The newly unsealed documents reveal an unforgivable betrayal: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/they-wrote...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Bari Weiss has time and time again proven that she is the bad faith shill that many accused her of being when she took over @cbsnews.com See BS News has fallen and should be disregarded as serious news. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...
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Bari Weiss ‘Personally Directed’ Controversial Headline in Abdul El-Sayed Article to Mention 9/11: Report
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly "personally directed" 9/11 to be included in a headline for a controversial article about Abdul El-Sayed.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨 ICYMI: This is one of the most offensive and egregious things I’ve ever covered (and that’s saying a lot seeing how it’s Florida):
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Francis X @fxmct.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Alarms blare as DHS slips election denier who defended 'QAnon Shaman' onto its payroll - NewsBreak
An election-denying conspiracy theorist who apparently drafted a federal threat to withhold funding from states was quietly hired by the Department of Home
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In a "collaboration" (which we left), someone used an LLM to make a "summary" on topics for the project (without our consent) in which published research ideas from @olivia.science & me understandably popped up, but were credited to men, while our names showed up nowhere in the "summary". 🧵
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A case that got a lot of attention a decade ago was Marissa Alexander, who fired a warning shot at her violently abusive former partner and went to prison for it. The right to stand your ground law in Florida apparently didn't apply to Black women.
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Marissa Alexander, Fla. woman jailed for firing a "warning shot," now free
Marissa Alexander says she is going to focus on helping victims of domestic violence navigate the criminal justice system
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Asking your AI chat bot to “please roast” your perceived adversary is the most Loser Shit in the entire recorded history of humanity
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Global North countries created the climate crisis But Global South countries will pay the biggest price That is why climate change is too neutral a term that deflects responsibility Climate justice is the central issue! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/t...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today locals in Asheville, NC rallied against the G20 financial summit taking place in the small Appalachian town this weekend. While US Sec. of the Treasury Scott Bessent meets with central bank governors and other financiers, residents lined the streets and spoke out vimeo.com/1222372992?s...
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Amid G20 Summit Boasting Recovery After Hurricane Helene, Locals Speak Out
This is "Amid G20 Summit Boasting Recovery After Hurricane Helene, Locals Speak Out" by Unicorn Riot on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 26/08/2026
Take all of the murder tweets that attribute boat strikes to Gen. Donovan (since February), and the death toll of those now exceeds 100. To be exact: 101 dead in attacks ordered by Gen. Donovan, and 227 dead since September 2, 2025.
U.S. Southern Command
@Southcom
"Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere continues executing precise, lethal operations against the cartels. We will hunt, disrupt, and defeat these narco-terrorist networks. SOUTHCOM is resolved to neutralizing cartel terror and violence throughout the region and into the U.S. homeland," - #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan

On August 25, under Gen. Donovan’s direction, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. 
@DeptofWar
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We stand with @replamonica.bsky.social in the face of an outrageous and overt prosecution of a political opponent by the Trump administration for conducting congressional oversight. This is appalling.
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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More about how Dolly was a great friend to the LGBTQ+ community.
advocate.com
8 Times Dolly Parton Cemented Her Status as an LGBTQ+ Icon
<p>The queer community has plenty of reasons to love her.</p>
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: DHS legal opinion justifying ICE entering homes without a judicial warrant is nothing more than an email written by ICE Deputy Principal Legal Advisor Adam Loiacono, and DHS refuses to release it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Refuses to Release Email Justifying Warrantless Entry by ICE
I sued to obtain the General Counsel Memo justifying ICE entering homes without judicial warrants. Turns out it’s not a memo at all - it’s an email - and they’ve wrongly redacted it.
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Purple fairy Sprite @spritepurplefairy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
As it should be..the regime are spying to get info to hurt us more..intent to cause us harm and to steal etc..otherwise why all the surveillance..potential juror resisters..remember to take into account the constant state of threat and imminent fear we have..if ever we are b4 the juries! 🧚‍♀️🤟💯🌊🐸
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 25/08/2026
I LOVE THIS IDEA
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The New York Times wrote a whole piece about my pink. 🩷 Here's the thing — it was never a strategy. It's just me. Bright, unapologetic, impossible to ignore. Kinda like the fight for working families. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/s...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW: Charges were dropped against white supremacist Ed "Jake" Lang who remains jailed awaiting extradition to Texas. Lang was jailed on probable cause riot charge for holding a hate rally in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday. The protester dressed as Spider-Man, however, is currently facing charges.
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Hennepin County Drops Charges Against Jake Lang, Citing Communication with Police - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis, MN — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty will not press felony riot charges against white supremacist provocateur Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang for his latest hate rally in Minneapolis, cit...
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A female prisoner was executed in Iran today. The death penalty is an inhumane and criminal punishment. Every human being has the right to defense and the right to life. Every crime has a punishment. The death penalty is a crime, not a punishment.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have lived east and west and while the west coast mountains will kill you through indifference to humanity, they are brash young mountains. The Appalachians are the home of things whose names humanity has never known, and they resent us as newcomers and take us down into the dark when they can.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/08/2026
Trump’s “catering cart” is the new covfefe. 😭 He will not shake this escape… (reenactment)
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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🤬🤬🤬 #KeepPublicLandsInPublicHands
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Close the camps. Free the working-class families locked inside whose only crime was having a color skin Stephen Miller doesn't like.
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Danielle ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Greg Abbott: “Somebody better do something about these data centers I invited in with great fanfare!” No thanks, Greg. We’ll clean up your mess with Gina Hinojosa st the helm @ginafortexas.bsky.social
Gina Hinojosa ©
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Someone knows it's an election year.
Governor Abbott Breaks Ground On
New Facebook Data Center
July 7, 2015 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
BICTORY
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Gov. Greg Abbott called for a prohibition on data center construction in rural parts of the state, a major change of course for the Republican who previously touted Texas as "the epicenter of Al development."
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The future of AI shouldn't be decided behind closed doors. It should include the voices of the communities that will live with its impact. So what's the deal with these data centers and how could it affect your neighborhood? Read more: bit.ly/4wj3C2g #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/03/2026
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843
From Note G, p. 722

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exag-
gerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Ana-
lytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is
frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be
already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort
of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case,
when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those
that were really tenable.

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originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to
order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no
power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its
province is to assist us in making available what we are al-
ready acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect pri-
marily and chiefly of course, through its executive
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1 snce on science itself in ano or, in so
distributing and combining the truths and the formula of
analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly |
amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine,
the relations and the nature of many subjects in that sci-
ence are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more pro- |
foundly investigated. This is a decidedly indirect, and a
somewhat speculative, consequence of such an invention. |
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in |
devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to |
record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are |
likely to be induced, which should again react on the more |
theoretical phase of the subject. There are in all exten- |
sions of human power, or additions to human knowledge, |
various collateral influences, beside the main and primary |
object attained. |
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
69 gas turbines. Millions of gallons of Memphis water. Polluted air. And Justin Pearson says Elon Musk is violating clean-air rules while Trump’s DOJ fights to let him keep going. Billionaires get government muscle. Memphis gets the pollution. How is THAT acceptable? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New Yorkers Tell the legislature and Governor Autistic people have rights and must be treated with dignity Everyone deserves respect resist.bot/petitions/PM...
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Pass the Autistic Rights & Dignity Package
Pass the Autistic Rights & Dignity Package. We demand immediate passage of the Autistic Rights & Dignity Package—S28A/A1006B (end subminimum wage)…
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent remained aboard what was believed to be Air Force One, the decoy flight. While tRump’s lard ass was being carted around in the back of a catering truck. #ProudBlue #DecoyFlight #CateringTruck #GTS www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Members of Trump's cabinet remained on decoy plane, after Trump's quiet exit
Trump boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit for security reasons involving Iran.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In case you missed it: Strong Towns North Plains asked the City Council to be the first Oregon city to ban data centers. If a small town of 3500 can do that, so can your communities. #strongtowns www.strongtowns.org #smartgrowth www.oregonsmartgrowth.org #voices4Victory #dv1 #usDemocracy
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
“HateAid claims that Meta's smart glasses breach German privacy laws: specifically, the Telecommunications, Digital Services and Data Protection Act. It argues that selling the devices is a criminal offense because of their covert recording capabilities.”
engadget.com
German nonprofit files criminal complaint over Meta smart glasses privacy - Engadget
Worrying about Google Glassholes almost feels quaint in comparison.
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