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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ministers are turning on foreign spy-tech giant, Palantir, but our personal healthcare data is still held by them!
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow
Photo of a small group of mostly men wearing black, with masks and balaclavas, surrounded by a Police Scotland cordon in the bottom of the photo, in the foreground. In the background, a very large colourful crowd of people with saltires, trade union banners, and hand-made signs in support of migrants and against racism have turned up to gather to show solidarity, and the far right guys were hoping to thwart that. They didn't.
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Lorraine @samkathrynolivia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Change.org Save Stargate petition c.org/DGKzFwDf2Q #SaveStargate #Stargate
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Save Stargate with Martin Gero!
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago
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Lorraine @samkathrynolivia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This outcome was created in the moment that Gordon Brown got caught saying someone had bigoted views, the media went nuts, and Labour didn’t have the courage to stand by that position.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"If the UK accepted imports from the US of such products, our food supply would be significantly less safe." Important message for #FoodSafety and #PublicHealth www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Chlorinated chicken with a side of safety warnings | Letters
Letters: Erik Millstone and Tim Lang look at the evidence. Plus a letter from a woman who had campylobacter while pregnant
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Anti-rights movements won't stop with trans people. The Alliance Defending Freedom campaign against abortion rights, gay marriage, and anti-discrimination laws. Now they are openly backing a case against Parkrun for including trans participants. www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...
They helped overturn roe v wade, now they're suing parkrun.

An evangelical anti-abortion group has broken cover in the UK to back 'gender critical' lawfare.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My workshops for self-funders on Specification By Example in May are filling up nicely, but so far entirely with devs. Product managers, testers, UX designers and other non-programming software folks are very welcome. I'm hoping for cross-discipline groups. I even made a spiffy ad and everything.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 15/04/2026
A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...
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ChatBots are Diagnosing Diseases that Don’t Exist Based on Blog Posts
Transcript: Many years ago, a friend of mine suggested an experiment: make up a conspiracy theory that was just plausible enough, and then track how far it spreads. It was fun to talk about, and he…
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This has got to be some kind of defamation or something. You can’t just steal people’s IP and then pretend they’re saying something they never said.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“Instead of producing what looks like a generic critique from a nameless LLM,” Wired reported last week, Expert Review “lists a number of real academics and authors available to weigh in on your text. To be clear: Those people have nothing to do with this process.”🤬
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Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive
The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
Expert Review
All suggestions
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Shannon Mattern
Professor of Anthropology and expert in infrastructures and maintenance cultures; author of Maintenance and Care
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Steven Jackson
Associate Professor of Information Science, key theorist on maintenance and 'broken world thinking'
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Nathan Ensmenger
Historian of computing, expert on legacy software and the sociology of programming; author of The Computer Boys Take Over
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Marie Hicks
Historian of technology, expert on gendered labor and institutional persistence in computing; author of Programmed Inequality
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Helen Sword
Professor and expert in academic writing, author of Stylish Academic Writing
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Joseph M. Williams
Writing scholar and co-author of Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/03/2026
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Today's ruling on the EHRC's interim guidance is a disappointing, confusing and mixed picture. A trans woman who is a customer in a café can use the women's toilets, but if she works there she might not be able to. Once again everyday life is being made a legal labyrinth for trans people.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Online leftists miss the point when they treat trans, women’s, BIPOC, and disabled struggles as secondary to the “workers’ revolution.” Dismantling racial supremacy and patriarchy is the revolution. If you overthrow capitalism without uprooting those foundations, it just comes back with a new names.
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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
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NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Robert Peston, "Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" Zack Polanski, "Firmly very much in favour" "Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" "Whether its economically, socially, culturally"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/02/2026
Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? @juliametraux.bsky.social said it best: "Evil men like Epstein are, in the simplest form, obsessed with eugenics because they believe that their ill-gotten gains are the product of some innate superiority."
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Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
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Lorraine @samkathrynolivia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
You can’t choose to act like anti-immigration rhetoric has legitimacy for 2 decades, even creating policy based on it’s lies, then wash your hands of the result
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
And meanwhile my PhD advisor, who continued to have a relationship with Epstein through all of this, told me he couldn’t do anything about the racism and I should stop trying to get the guy who did it to me in trouble
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Thinking about the time I was at a quantum gravity meeting and the man across from me was talking to me and a man next to him turned and said in all seriousness “don’t talk to her, she’s difficult” and it was because I had reacted ”badly” to racism. Meanwhile their heroes were hanging with Epstein.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/02/2026
This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.
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Laura Lexx @lauralexx.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?
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The SNP @snp.org · 07/02/2026
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 05/02/2026
Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
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Epstein Files Reveal How Pathetic Richard Dawkins & Other Men Are
Transcript: Well, it happened again. I’m mentioned in the Epstein files. Again. You probably saw my first video on this topic and you came away thinking that I’ve spent the past decade being as awe…
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.
Full text at https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/05/zack-polanski-writes-to-wes-streeting-urging-him-to-cancel-palantir-nhs-contract/
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I was sued about six weeks later.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
news articles about trans people based on keyword, left is cnn, right is fox. fox has  10x as many
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I would say this findings shows women are more AI literate than men, because the majority of non-magical beings have no innate ability to "judge truthfulness"
Skills levels vary considerably across demographics, with women less likely than men to feel confident using Al at work (16% vs 26%), [tootnote 7 and uptake of Al training differing by sector. For instance, among those who have heard of Al, 34% of men feel confident in their ability to judge the truthfulness of Al outputs compared to 21% of women, and women are less
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"There is no line Trump will not cross. There is only self-interest." This is what I keep saying--it's no use trying to 'understand' him. There's no there, there. Other people are simply not real to him. Anyway, another great Q&A with @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
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A Nation on Thin Ice
Your questions answered on Greenland, ICE, Canada, Minnesota, Epstein, more.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Did you see this? They know what they’re doing when the problem is now “Hysteria”. 💀 bsky.app/profile/tani...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Mirror-imaging. They could never imagine putting themselves on the line for another person or their community (remember JD Vance's theory of love, that it extends only to your family and no one else?) and they know any "resistance" on their end would be purely transactional - so they assume the same
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 22/01/2026
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Lorraine @samkathrynolivia.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The best action the UK can take right now is to rejoin the EU. It should be done for so many reasons, but right now, solidarity is the biggest statement that needs to be made
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
UK Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI
Grok is being used to digitally remove women's clothing - something victims describe as
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer
This may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speech, says journalist and content creator Sophia Smith Galer
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time. Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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