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they dont have money to deliver the mail but will burn it on this. surveillance must be pretty important to someone.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while

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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026

Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.

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Report: Trump Used Grok to Help Talk Him Into Illegal Invasion of Venezuela

The president reportedly used the AI chatbot for hours when Elon Musk visited the White House last December.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

honestly dont get how this is the most top-down church there is, with this guy saying this, and yet every catholic church for 100 miles around anywhere will still flog their abortion signs and little baby crosses and never say peep about anything else. can he send an actual memo maybe?

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What I think people need to take from JD is that he and others see the future of the party as a viciously, overtly racist Christian nationalist party and they are laying the groundwork to be successful in that future while Democratic consultants are stuck in the 90s.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models.” they’ll fight ethical democratic regulation tooth and nail; but eager to consult the folks with supernatural convictions and a … let’s say dubious … record of morality.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. Your tax dollars paid for this ad.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

they’re all gonna laugh at you

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

reported to prison in ‘23 and supposedly serving eleven years but whatever 🤷

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

pious christians shocked at poor returns from the money changers in the temple.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

nine bad ones to three (maybe 2.5) good ones is gonna be sad. 😔

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol. sort of crystallizes everything wrong with him including the vague feeling that something’s just off.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

is Rahm’s 2026 ‘play’ having you feel mild surprise that he’s not dead because you kinda assumed that he was dead?

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

GOP: ‘people eating cats! more unwanted babies! eat ferments at a measles party! books are gay! chemtrails! they’re lying to you about ducks! climate getting colder! mah semen makes me feel all dirty inside!’ (party wins election) Dems: ‘people are starved for a moral and ethical story.’

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Harry Cleaver @harrycleaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Make more jobs"? More jobs = more exploitation, more alienation. Even the "progressives" remain firmly ensconced within capitalism. Workers have fought, instead, for less work & to spread existing work & jobs, so everyone could have an income, NOT so everyone would work.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a jury in New Mexico awards $219 billion in damages against Zuckerberg for practices that harm and exploit children, NYT runs a special PR makeover edition designed to present him as a humane wonderful person, not the monster that he is.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it’ll end up as a sports bar and then where can you go for hostile locals mocking your middle-class sensibilities with prurient folk songs, setting fire to you?

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

worth noting btw the subservient use of unattributed sourcing: it makes a lying, optimistic claim about iran sound more credible as a leak from anonymous ‘official’ vs direct PR from the executive. press just complies. but pretty sure this is against nytimes stated policy for e.g.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Odd how all of these companies warning that their products might kill us all also vigorously oppose any sort of regulations that might prevent it. No no, this is too powerful for your laws. We need to respond rationally by hurling money into this pit.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In case u thought our judicial system couldn’t get worse, Bari Weiss & Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale co-founded a “university,” which announced a “new initiative to build the future of legal education, with support from the Federalist Society” co-chaired by Catholic Right activist Leonard Leo. 1/

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There are giant gaps in what COULD exist vs what does, in SO many areas of our top universities these days. Education, journalism, sociology, law, etc - are badly ideologically captured and broken.
Excited for @uaustinorg to set higher standards for our civilization.
University of Austin (UATX) • •8h
Today, on Constitution Day, UATX is announcing a new initiative to build the future of legal education, with support from the Federalist Society....

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Steve in Manhattan @steve-in-manhattan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

my permanent question for him? How long was he fucking his research assistant before his wife found out?

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

forbetterscience.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this counts. points for ‘too far’ AND ‘not a real message’

david axelrod being the expected dirtbag

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

which dem will be the first dirtbag to go on network news and say ossoff ‘crossed a line’ or ‘we need to focus on Real Things’? did it already happen?

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this from upenn's student paper is worth reading as the term starts: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought."

thedp.com

Editorial | Penn has an AI problem

The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 

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404 Media @404media.co · 18/08/2026

“Flock protects property, not people or parks. People should be free to recreate in ways that are respectful to the ecosystem — but the surveillance is a disrespectful invasion of privacy,” a current NPS ranger told 404 Media.

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The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.

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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s a disgrace that White House reporters don’t back each other up when this happens. It’s an absolute disgrace.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

[exasperated] go ahead, throw away your arrest warrant!

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

trump wanted nothing to do with her. but it was impossible to keep her from sleeping in the club locker room. impossible!

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

‘this is bad but the other guy is quite old!’

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

‘how can we get people to stop talking about our tainted lettuce?’ new stuff here: www.taylorfarms.com/recall/

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

‘the aristocrats’

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.

Two comics panels of a burned-down futuristic house, with a recorded voice repeating "Today is August 5, 2026!" over and over.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

people with no principles have more principles than cornyn.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

podcaster with mfa skeptical about stereotypical twee liberals in his latest for the new yorker.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We need a better plan to kill the ticks. Since 2000, Lyme cases have more than doubled, and scientists have discovered eight new tick-borne diseases, by @sarahzhang.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/... via @theatlantic.com

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Kill the Ticks

America needs a bigger plan to control its tick problem.

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

-right flipper won’t work when he plays pinball -can find lost socks on halloween; oddly specific? fuckit. -avocado allergy but eats guacamole ALL THE TIME (spooky hives) -drains victims over successive nights if left in room with huge french doors to patio -divorced

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SkoobyRüe @skoobyrude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Max Miller PR guy: let’s get u lookin and sounding like a fraternity rapist from central casting. Moreno PR guy: post a list of stuff that makes your previous silence look insane and depraved.

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