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Atticus West
@atticuswest.bsky.social
Attorney and Counselor at Law. Litigator. B.A. Philosophy. Phish. Padres. Me like words. Occasionally wry. My posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qr2uvymrekywvidqb3c5unmv/feed/aaaezkmwjnhk6
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk https://theonion.com/report-you-to-be-fired-for-reading-this-headline-about-charlie-kirk/
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.
I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers
ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
This is the sort of thing that would get you labeled a conspiratorial nut if you had tried to warn about it.
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
I still have trouble remembering whether I was one of the Secret Service agents who ran to protect President Kennedy’s motorcade at Dealey Plaza or whether I wouldn’t be born for 13 more years after his assassination
they’re talking about deploying robot dogs in my city to scare away the homeless and I can’t stop thinking about how proud Jesus would be
That tonight was the Casey Mize I thought the Padres traded for at the deadline.
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
Imagine an American president lying about 9/11. Actually, you don’t have to.
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
When I said things couldn’t get dumber it wasn’t meant to be a dare
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Here’s Trump posting the results of the German election in which the neo-Nazi AfD did well. It’s important to understand that the U.S. Republican Party is part of a global fascist movement dedicated to persecuting minorities and stealing our freedom.
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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This is the same argument Imelda Marcos made about her shoe collection.
Trump: “I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the USA, not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do!”
Well, I'd like to see Abdul El-Sayed wiggle his way out of this!
NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro... The EU rejected this beef due to safety standards, but it’s being imported to the U.S. duty-free anyway. Why are we lowering standards on what we eat? If it isn't safe enough for the EU, it shouldn't be on our plates!
Brazil And Argentina Will Send Tariff-Free Beef To U.S.—Despite Quality Concerns
Brazilian beef was recently rejected from the EU for failing to meet quality standards and 30,000 pounds of Argentinian meat was recalled in Texas and Florida this summer.
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ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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