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Bigpapachunk

@bigpapachunk.bsky.social

He/Him NorCal SCVI Guy. Teacher. Musician. Anime Lesbians rule. Hololive is lit. @thelettergii is my life and I would kill and die for her.

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Kevin Foster@kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 2d ago

As more reports of human rights abuses come out of ICE detention, California’s Assembly Committee on Appropriations quietly killed a bill that could have improved oversight. Read more: lastweekinhell.substack.com/p/california...

California Assembly Quietly Kills Bill Allowing Inspections of Private ICE Detention Facilities

The move from the California Assembly Appropriations Committee occurred amid rising reports of inhumane conditions in ICE detention

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 7d ago

“It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.” Turns out the artillery shell factory that doesn't work doesn't work even worse than I reported last week

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

".. The robot arms would swing out of control, smashing into carefully calibrated equipment, and sometimes they would unexpectedly drop hunks of steel 5 feet down to the floor." @propublica.org $GD www.propublica.org/article/gene...

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. (Pub. Dec. 2025 w/ @theassemblync.bsky.social)

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

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☆「ＹＡＳＥ」IdolismJ ☆@idolismj.yase.world · last wk.

when I say "content creation is not a job" I am not trying to denigrate those who make money (or a living!) off of it, but that content creation is a trap to make you believe it's a financial path while they both move the carrot and rip the rug.

Mediagazer@mediagazer.com · last wk.

YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.

Federal funds can't be used to give test strips to drug users, raising overdose fears

Drug addiction groups are reeling after Trump officials said federal grants cannot be used to hand out test strips to drug users. The strips help users check street drugs for dangerous adulterants.

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ACLU@aclu.org · 2w ago

A new investigation reveals that at least 50 police officers from all over the U.S. have been caught abusing their access to Flock's automatic license plate reader database, including to stalk women. This is just one of the many reasons to get these creepy cameras off our streets.

ACLU of Wisconsin@acluofwi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wisconsin is making national news because so many police officers have been charged or convicted with using the Flock surveillance network to stalk people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w ago

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 2w ago

Underneath solar panels, plants grew much more and used less water, "Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."

hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 2w ago

*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 2w ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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