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Protective Hen❌👑

@protectivehen.bsky.social
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Former newsperson. Power to the people.

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Protective Hen❌👑 @protectivehen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't let them get away with treating human-created software systems as if they are autonomous like people. OpenAI should be prosecuted when its software crimes. States should lead the prosecution because Trump is too corrupt to allow it federally.
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Protective Hen❌👑 @protectivehen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Guess what? California now gets a lot of its gasoline from Russia - via India. Because Saudi & Gulf oil can't get there. Californians are now supporting Putin. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
usatoday.com
Russian oil fuels California as prices climb
California is importing fuel made from Russian crude oil just as the Iran war tightens global crude oil supplies.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Very rare to see someone like this with principles
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I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to
say.
Free Palestine.
But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I've ever been on.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.
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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 15/09/2026
Elon is now over $3.7 million to swamp the Texas Senate race with disgusting, bigoted ads.
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Built as a response to 9/11, America's security apparatus has become a rabid beast. www.salon.com/2026/09/13/a...
salon.com
America built a surveillance state out of fear and never left it
Built as a response to 9/11, America's security apparatus has become a rabid beast
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As a "businessman," Umar Kremlëv's major business lines including abducting children in Ukraine and bringing them to Russia, which the ICC declared a war crime.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Zeke Hausfather: Here is the latest combined forecast across all 14 models, compared to past strong El Nino events. It shows just how extreme and unprecedented this event is forecast to be:
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Most Americans can expect to pay significantly more each month for health insurance next year, whether they get it through work, the Affordable Care Act or Medicare. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
Your health insurance bills are about to go up
The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
America just recorded its hottest summer ever, beating the Dust Bowl record from 1936. Despite that, the U.S. still doesn't classify extreme heat as a natural disaster. Extreme heat is deadly, and communities need real relief.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
france24.com
Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms
A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today marks 50 days until the election and 10 days until ballots drop. Your task today is to make sure you and your friends and family are registered to vote. abdulforsenate.com/vote
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says"
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 15/09/2026
A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places we don’t look or expect. An environmental historian explains how soybeans took over our diet:
theconversation.com
How soybeans took over the American diet – without anyone noticing
A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 15/09/2026
CNN tonight reports McConnell’s words on screen telling reporters he’s dodged their questions “for two years… two decades.” He’s been there four decades. Manu Raju also said his speech was “slower” even from before, but he or Tapper make no mention of why there was no audio/video of him.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If there was ever a case for justified civil asset forfeiture it is Trump and his extended family.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” — Um What? PSA: The moment you obeyed that command you stopped being “reporters” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Protective Hen❌👑 @protectivehen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...
newrepublic.com
What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals
The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything.
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Protective Hen❌👑 @protectivehen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Buy a copy as we join to bring down the weird trillionaire fascist class! Thanks to @gilduran.com for doing what the MSM has failed to do! www.thenerdreich.com
thenerdreich.com
The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism
Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness
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Protective Hen❌👑 @protectivehen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Release Aung San Suu Kyi! This frail, elderly former leader of Burma has been hidden in imprisonment by the brutal Myanmar dictatorship for 5 years. @amnesty.org @hrw.org youtu.be/R01SwitYU9g
youtu.be
Aung San Suu Kyi's son speaks out as mother seen alive in rare photographs
YouTube video by The Independent
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Good overview of the Far Right actors involved in last month’s pogroms in Belfast. Neo-Nazis, a convicted murderer, a Far Right agitator with potential connections to British intelligence etc None of this is a secret. They’re comfortable enough being out in the open in 2026.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Republican budget reconciliation instructions are simple: - $12B bailout for farmers hurt by Trump's tariffs - $60B Iran war funding (DoD) - $13B Iran war funding (Intel👀) - $12B for voter suppression + Text exempting them from requirements to pay for it docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/...
docs.house.gov
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Whoa. on Williams's opinion Blanche basically says doesn't have to follow. I have studied 11th cir precedent and i believe I'm right and she is wrong So saying he and Department can ignore federal court. (Exactly opposite of what they did w/ Jack Smith) Someone needs to jump on this.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Can someone explain? Todd Blanche said (working by description) he could not meet with the Epstein victims bc they have lawyers. But he met with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and her lawyers? Is he ONLY allowed to meet with criminals? I mean, granted, he IS Trump's personal attorney, so...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
While NYT does not treat Whiskey Pete's order for gender affirming care with the same hostility with which they treat trans rights, they do point out that this could blow up his effort to oust trans service members. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
Mr. Hegseth’s order could have implications for the order that he and President Trump issued last year banning transgender troops from serving in the military. The ban, which is being challenged in federal courts, is partially rooted in the Pentagon’s insistence that transgender troops might not be able to access hormone therapy in a war zone.

“The Armed Forces must adhere to high mental and physical health standards to ensure our military can deploy, fight, and win, including in austere conditions and without the benefit of routine medical treatment or special provisions,” the Trump administration’s January 2025 ban states.

The Pentagon has not said why providing hormone therapy would be a problem for transgender troops, but not the rest of the force, though the executive order instituting the ban said that “radical gender ideology” was harmful to troop cohesion.

“Mr. Hegseth’s recommendation that male service members take testosterone makes crystal clear that the policy banning transgender troops for taking the same medication is pure bias,” said Shannon Minter, the legal director for the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. “This is a blatant double standard and underscores the irrationality of the ban.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The govt is intervening in Trump's lawsuit against BBC to help him defeat discovery. In doing so they say, "well, everything is available." Except it isn't, of course. DOJ started deleting stuff that was publicly available. And now they want to say that maybe public collections are not authentic.
Table 1: Examples of Government Releases of January 6 Records
Agency Link
FBI https://vault.fbi.gov/united-states-capitol-violence-and-related-events-ofjanuary-6-2021
DOJ https://www.justice.gov/oip/available-documents-oip#recent (multiple
links available under 2020 and 2021 tabs)
DHS https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/fps_jan_6_released_
records.pdf
NPS https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/foia-frd.htm
Moreover, third parties have also made documents produced by the Federal Government in
response to FOIA requests available in the public domain. See, e.g., Just Security, January 6
Clearinghouse, https://perma.cc/ZPE3-F7MA (“Government Documents” tab).2 Finally, the
inspectors general of multiple agencies, including DHS and DoW, issued reports about their
agencies’ responses to January 6. Dep’t of War Off. of the Inspector General, “Review Of
The DoD’s Role, Responsibilities, And Actions To Prepare for And Respond To The Protest
2 Not all information provided through third-party websites are authentic government
documents, and the Federal Government reserves the right to contest the authenticity of
documents purportedly released by the Federal Government and posted on the Internet.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
"Paxton recently bought 3 condos at a luxury resort in Utah worth a total of $1.6m and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife & has been photographed vacationing with Paxton lives there"
nytimes.com
Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio (Gift Article)
The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is one of those stories that I sometimes think about writing about, but then wonder, what's the point? It's so patently absurd. The market mover profits from selling access to his own market-moving statements. Presidential statements, as a product. Just stunningly inappropriate.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
this clip that CNN obtained of Georgia Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins' son in law, who has participated in Collins' campaign and reportedly lives on Collins' property, using Nazi talking points to suggest the Holocaust actually wasn't that bad is just bonkers
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So…a pardon and a promotion probably?
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When AI can instantly mimic creative work, "it's hard to imagine many current markets for creative human expression surviving," write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale. Their answer: give creators a "learnright" and make AI companies pay to train.
techpolicy.press
Copyright Law Wasn’t Built for the AI Era. We Need ‘Learnright.'
In a market-based framework, companies would pay for the creative content used to train their AI systems, write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale.
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Protective Hen❌👑 @protectivehen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you've forgotten, @theonion.com bought InfoWars and it is now live on YouTube! RIP Alex Jones!! @realinfowars.bsky.social
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Surely these people need more testosterone.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 17/07/2026
A Must Read and Truly Horrifying Story
talkingpointsmemo.com
A Must Read and Truly Horrifying Story
The AP has just posted a detailed investigation into the background of...
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