Freckled Face Ninja
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I read. I occasionally write. I want your chocolate. Extremely tired
Politico reporting Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, hospitalized with a stroke www.politico.com/news/2026/11...
Sen. Chris Murphy hospitalized for stroke
“The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” his top aide said.
politico.com
Far Right leader Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil with the aid of the US, Milei’s Argentina and a former agent for Israel’s Mossad, CNN Brasil reports. Just in case you want any more evidence on how the Far Right network fits together. Dubbed Operation Alba, it was planned before the election.
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Absolutely disgusting. For more than 280 days a year, Trump’s illegal Arch is supposed to cast a shadow on more than 75,000 graves of fallen heroes. Even the eternal flame would be cloaked in darkness. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Trump’s arch would cast shadow on Arlington graves, including Kennedy’s
The monument would darken the nation’s premier military burial ground early in the morning on more than 280 days a year, a Post analysis finds.
washingtonpost.com
and just for good measure, the broader context of who's being forced out of work, *and right now*, matters fortune.com/2025/11/22/t...
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
The Intercept: Unmitigated Spread /How Trump Destroyed South Africa’s Effort to Slow HIV Transmission by Steven W. Thrasher and Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com @thrasherxy.bsky.social @afeefness.bsky.social bit.ly/4z3MW0g
How Trump Destroyed South Africa’s Effort to Slow HIV Transmission
In South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, efforts to contain the virus have been upended.
bit.ly
But despite how Section 9 of the 1996 SA Constituion protects LGBT ppl (the first constitution to do so), as one trans woman put it, “We have rights for trans women only on paper.” So much trans care was backed by CDC & PEPFAR money that it’s effectively ended theintercept.com/2026/10/31/t...
The trouble began just hours after Trump took the oath of office, when he signed two executive orders: 14169, targeting foreign aid, and 14168, targeting trans people. (14168 has been embraced by US Dems & foreign govts as part of a global moral panic abt trans ppl) theintercept.com/2026/10/31/t...
“UNMITIGATED SPREAD: How Trump Destroyed South Africa’s Effort Slow HIV Transmission” - Part 2: “If you go on Grindr” illustrations by me, based on photos by me & reporting by @afeefness.bsky.social & me published by @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/10/31/t...
“Why is trust on the media so low” I mean, we don’t REALLY have to keep asking this as if there isn’t an answer
Seriously, don’t click on the link. Don’t give them outrage engagement. Just notice the URL, the obvious tendentiousness of the post, and file it away in case you see something else from the same source that might appear substantive or interesting so you understand the game they’re playing on you.
Every. Time.
Politico Owner Asked Execs to Pray for Trump's Reelection: Report
Mathias Döpfner has long been accused of infusing the publications in Axel Springer’s docket with right-wing politics
rollingstone.com
Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW COLUMN: All Democrats want to do if they gain power in the midterms is pull the US out of the Iran war. Are they risking being on the wrong side of history? www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Freckled Face Ninja @freckledfaceninja.bsky.social · 2y ago
So read the story if you care about human rights. Or about sheriffs. Or even about the Texas politics and what Tuesday could change.
And the dispute over these events is coming into a very heated political climate. Commissioner Alisa Simmons has made jail deaths a central plank of her platform as she runs for county executive ('county judge') against the GOP incumbent an ally of the sheriff. That's a key race on Tuesday.
NEW: Texas law requires an investigation when someone dies in jail custody. Sheriff's deputies pressed the thumbprint of a man who was brain dead on a release form to then claim he was no longer in custody. They said—this means you don't need an investigation. Make time for this new reporting.
In Texas, Jailers Rush to Release Dying People to Evade Scrutiny - Bolts
Deputies in Tarrant County put the thumbprint of a man who was brain dead on his release form, highlighting how jails scramble to keep deaths from being investigated. His family, organizers, and a loc...
boltsmag.org
“The private sector realizes that water is a scarce resource. And the private sector wants to capitalize. Water infrastructure should be owned by the community, not the property of a private company that is making a profit.”
How Texas Could End Up Paying Billions to an Israeli Company for Water
IDE Technologies hopes to revolutionize—and privatize—the state’s supply of water.
texasobserver.org
404 Media's @josephcox.bsky.social spoke to 8 current employees, got Slack chats, meeting audio, and an AI manifesto written by its CTO. “The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media.
Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
404media.co
One employee told 404 Media, “Whatever persona Andy [Yen] has out of Proton, he’s a straight up bully inside. He routinely breaks his little facade in Slack and calls people losers and stupid, often for stuff he’s paying them for.”
Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
404media.co
“The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media. Yen, a former CERN particle physicist, projects a measured approach in public, but internally he acts more like what one employee described as a “petulant child.”
Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
404media.co
SCOOP: Proton CEO Andy Yen to his staff: “Stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.” 404 Media saw these internal messages, in which he also said it was "loser thinking" to an employee who urged the company to at least take a few days to test newly written code before going live.
Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
404media.co
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for $17 billion in a big consolidation of the grocery delivery business.
As someone that once litigated similar issues against government administration being bizarrely cruel to harmless people, I again cannot fathom what being such an evil dipshit against foreigners and treating Visa policy as some kind of fucking Biblical commandment to be adhered at all costs does.
Dónal Hassett@donalh.bsky.social · 6d agoHard not to think at least some of the bureaucratic cruelty surrounding these cases, which the courts have exposed and condemned, is part of Jim O'Callaghan's hardman act to solidify his profile as a future leader of Fianna Fáil. This should be disqualifying. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Modern colonialism: Europe extracted $70m from us and we GAINED NOTHING - I want to remind you countries reject even doctors invited to conferences & other leaders. We must end the current global Visa system.
Africans lost nearly $70M to denied visas applications to Europe in 2024 | CNN
Non-refundable fees from failed Europe visa applications are costing African countries millions of dollars, with applicants complaining of a baffling system of approvals.
cnn.com
NEW: Court records in the prosecution of 15 Minnesota residents reveal a sweeping spying operation against left-wing activists that involves ~120 HSI agents, putting it in the realm of notorious anti-left campaigns like COINTELPRO of the Cold War era. @awinston.bsky.social reports:
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
wired.com
