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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
news.berkeley.edu
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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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
By a wide margin, Americans say "no" to funding Trump's war against Iran.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
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Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Yet another school board race in four days you should know about: A member of the school board in TULSA said immigrant children are threatening the safety of other children. She faces a Dem-backed challenger on Tuesday. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
E’Lana Ashley, a member of the Tulsa school board, has drawn scrutiny for an array of actions during her tenure—including suggesting that immigrant students endanger the safety of other children, leading a prayer during a high school graduation ceremony, and criticizing local public schools for being overly focused on promoting inclusion. 

She is facing a challenge from Tulsa City Councilor Connie Dodson, who has the backing of local Democrats while Ashley is drawing support from conservative groups.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
1. Yesterday, the NYT dropped a bombshell: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting and pushing him to launch a ground operation. Why would Trump listen? Follow the money.
popular.info
UPDATE: After sending billions to Kushner and Trump, Saudis lobby to escalate Iran War
“I’m not going to start a war,” President Trump pledged during his November 2024 victory speech.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Why is this happening? Current and former officials said ICE guidelines on the way officers should exercise discretion have changed. One example: a directive on how agents should interact with parents was revised this year and stripped of the word "humane." 6/
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Homer being attacked by bees saying OW OWWW THEY'RE DEFENDING THEMSELVES SOMEHOW
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/02/2026
A confidential document shows that Trump’s DOJ plans to analyze states’ voter files and then instruct the states to remove specific voters. But the federal government has neither the legal authority nor expertise to correctly add and remove voters from the rolls. bit.ly/46tX4nd
brennancenter.org
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data 
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 12/02/2026
In earnings calls earlier today, investors in GEO Group and CoreCivic criticized ICE. Their chief complaint? ICE's detained population, despite hitting record highs, still isn't large enough. @elizabeth.weill.bsky.social has more: theappeal.org/ice-geo-grou...
theappeal.org
Despite Increased Profits, Private Prison Companies Want to Cage Even More People
CoreCivic and GEO Group’s investors expressed frustration that ICE’s record immigration detention numbers aren’t high enough.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is what ICE looks like
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
MAGAZINER: Is it proper procedure to aim pepper spray into the window of a moving vehicle? SCOTT: We try to avoid that MAGAZINER: You try to avoid it
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
As the House prepares to fight over how much of DHS to shut down, I encourage you to pick your favorite factoid from this @vermontgmg.bsky.social report on CBP/ICE criminality and send it to your MoC. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
doomsdayscenario.co
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Utah is the third state in the past decade where Republicans have packed their supreme court. Arizona and Georgia Rs did it in 2016 to secure right-wing majorities. North Carolina Rs tried it in 2018 to prevent the Dem court from overturning their gerrymanders, but voters rejected their power grab
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Wonderful Secrets @xiratho.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's so surreal to view a website for a concentration camp.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
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Always #Winning @theonlyjdb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This article is superb, it lays out so many counters against doing this for most, if not any reason. 1. If you care about kids, you wouldn’t support this. 2. If you care about basic human dignity, you wouldn’t support this. 3. If you care solely about cost, you wouldn’t support this.
Many of the children detained at Dilley had been living in the United States for years, before they were apprehended and taken to Texas. I have encountered the stories of three high school students from Detroit. Kerly Sosa Rivero dreamed of going to college. Antony Peña Sosa, a violin player, excelled in an Advanced Placement art course. Santiago Zamora Perez, a star baseball player with excellent grades, hoped to play in college. Then there were the stories of a 7-year-old second grader from Winooski, Vt., taken apparently with his mother, and a set of siblings, ages 12 and 15, arrested on their way to school in Durango, Colo. One family that had been living in the United States for a decade was detained at Dilley; their children had just completed elementary school. One of my clients, the 6-year-old Maria Paola, a first grader living in New York City, showed up at her ICE check-in in her school uniform.
Child interaction with immigration authorities isn't supposed to look like this. More than 40 years ago, a 15-year-old girl named Jenny Lisette Flores became the lead plaintiff among a group of immigrant children who took the federal government to court, alleging that detention conditions for children were inhumane, degrading
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Rapists are having a field day:
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Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women
In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.
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Flip Switch 🍉🟥 @flipswitch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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It's important to note that most
 global unrest in the past 5 years has
 been caused by three 70-something
 white boomer losers desperate to
 stay out of prison.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Another ruling just yesterday in Minnesota: A federal judge calls it "particularly craven" that ICE transfered "a nursing refugee mother" out of state. Ta Eh Doh Lah was admitted as a refugee from Myanmar in 2024, has no criminal history and a 5-month-old. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Dave M. 🇨🇦⚜️ @davemaru.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
He won’t be bright and cheerful after that much trauma. Fuckin’ ICE just robbed the world of this smile
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Family Clinging to Child Evades ICE.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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CB @christopherburns.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My mind goes back to that 2018 Douglas Rushkoff reporting about how the billionaire preppers were starting to ask questions like “should I attach lethal shock collars to my security detail” and “should I murder the pilots after they drop me off at the compound”. They seem to be fine with it!
theguardian.com
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This, right here 🎯💯. I’ve been trying to communicate this to people, as a native 🇨🇦, for a year now. Again, the fact that this wasn’t immediately seen as a presidency-ending, beyond-the-pale thing for all 535 Congresspeople, the media, & the public is deeply ugly & shameful for us as a country.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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Garry Vengeance @disciplinedrage.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
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