RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Mr. Tyler Crook@mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 4h agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Mr. Tyler Crook@mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 4h ago
The Pentagon is purging all trans people in the military. They're going after those who didn't even transition by searching through medical records to find any evidence someone had gender dysphoria. They're purging those who detransitioned to save their jobs. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main...
Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network
Military officials are using medical and personnel data to uncover troops with current or past gender dysphoria as the Pentagon moves ahead with separations.
federalnewsnetwork.com
The number of newsletters by people who are otherwise not terrible that stay on substack and help them pay Nazis is astonishing.
Scott Fitzgerald Gray@scottfgray.bsky.social · 7h agoThe number of people still seemingly unaware that Substack has a Nazi problem means it’s apparently worth mentioning yet again that Substack has a fucking Nazi problem.
This, I know it’s not discussed often but police retaliate against families, spouses, siblings, all the time. Also weird people presume they can judge how other people react to tragedy.
Reverend Jesus "H" Christ@reverendjesus.com · yesterdayI rather suspect their options were "pretend to forgive the murderous cop" vs "get harassed by the remaining cops until they move to another state"
Tens of thousands of 9/11 survivors and responders were promised care through the World Trade Center Health Program, a federally funded lifeline meant to treat the medical consequences of that day. Thanks to DOGE, its research has slowed and, in some cases, completely stopped.
More People Have Died From 9/11 Than on 9/11 - Reveal
A Long Island doctor once treated 9/11 responders who were dying. Now she’s a reporter and trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.
revealnews.org
Two posts back to back: 1. Even before Israel was globally understood to be a genocidal ultra-fascist ethno-supremacist country, it was enforcing that rain water is Israel's property, prohibit8ny Palestinians from building ways of collecting potable water. www.snopes.com/news/2023/11...
Palestinians Forbidden from Collecting Rainwater Because It's Deemed 'Israeli Property'?
Israeli authorities have heavily controlled water access in Palestinian territories for decades.
snopes.com
Echoing the suspicion that municipalities seem unusually willing to decouple from Flock, with suspiciously little pushback, because it's just too enticing a honeypot for the cops they hand the keys to and they're losing too many to the inevitable stalker-ass misconduct.
WOWK 13 News@wowk13news.bsky.social · 2d agoFlock camera usage by Columbus police has been temporarily suspended after an officer reportedly used the system to search a license plate 272 times. https://www.wowktv.com/ohio-3/columbus-pausing-flock-program-over-alleged-misuse/
actually seems really bad that hegseth is de facto resegregating the military through purges and the remaining officer corps are increasingly complicit in that project
"Solitary confinement steals bites from the mind, heart, and soul every day." "Eventually these stolen bites equal a whole piece of you gone." "This confinement dismantles you and then reconstructs you, making you a product of this environment." #NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Solitary #Torture
A Certain Darkness
In my forty years of life, I have spent sixteen of them in solitary confinement.
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"More than 50 of our students were missing." "This was not because they did not want to come to school." "They were absent because the dirt path connecting their homes to their school had been sealed off by Israeli settlers." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Education #Apartheid #Military
Despite global outrage, Israel is still blockading our children's education
It's been three weeks since settlers fenced off my students' path to school, trying to show that Umm Al-Khair has no future. We refuse to let them win.
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Remember, whenever a politician or pundit talks about making “necessary sacrifices” or “tough choices” to achieve some other goal - they actually want both things, independently. R’s wanted to starve kids, so they voted for it.
Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
I keep banging the “USAID was good and we must confront the obscene wave of death MAGA’s destruction of it unleashed” drum because I *desperately* want Democrats and the Left to prioritize rebuilding global aid. We should rebuild it better, but we can’t just let Musk’s global massacre continue.
Damn, dude. You're telling me that when you join a fascist movement you run the risk of having the state apparatus turned against you in a factional dispute? This is the first I'm hearing of this.
Awesome, our taxes just bought the pedophile Nazi death squads a bunch of torture gloves.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w agoICE approved the shock gloves for the shock troops.
“The majority of Americans are open to living car-free even after decades of car-centric planning, a new survey finds…A stunning 18% of car-owning U.S. residents indicated that they were ‘strongly interested’ in living car-free, and another 40% said that they were ‘open’ to it.” @usa.streetsblog.org
Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
usa.streetsblog.org
I really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:
Baxter Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall for Two Lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection Due to Potential Presence of Particulate Matter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUG. 25, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling two lots of 0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection due to the potential presence of parti...
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I, an autistic baddie with a migraine disorder, just found out that MIGRAINES are now being understood as a SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER?! Give its association with social/emotional/sensory disorders, research has begun suggesting things like additional migraine screenings for folks with autism etc
I don’t think most Americans know, and I did not until 2025, the absolutely critical nature of potash in farming. Canada is by far the largest supplier. It is the “rare earths” of farming. Imagine suddenly not having access to copper when making electronics.
Glenn Fleishman@glennf.com · 2w agoCanada could destroy American farming if they put a 50% export tax on potash.
Breaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.
In Ohio, Haitians Feel Shaken by Ankle Monitors and Increased ICE Presence
The devices, which will make it easier for authorities to locate immigrants in Springfield if large-scale deportations begin, have intensified a sense of dread.
nytimes.com
"it’s not only the fact of cost, it’s the cost stability. It’s the economy stability." "even if I’m a climate guy, the driver for the transition is no longer climate. It’s the economy."
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3w agoToday on Volts: in 2008, physics professor Ramón Méndez Galain was made energy minister of Uruguay. Over the next 7 years, he led the country to a 98% carbon-free electricity system. With his nonprofit, Ivy, he's now attempting to export the model to other countries in the global South. We discuss.
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
nature.com
Jeffrey Epstein ran a child rape factory. Many, many academics participated in Epstein's world — knowingly profiting from his child rape enterprise. The British press — in fact, no press — has hounded any of them the way they prosecuted Jason Arday.
amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoEXCLUSIVE: 404 Media 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. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
YOU CAN GET NARCAN FOR FREE. EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY IT. it doesn’t matter if it collects dust in a cabinet or sits in your glovebox forever. IT’S ALWAYS BETTER TO HAVE IT AND NOT NEED IT THAN NEED IT AND NOT HAVE IT.
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Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
Today's daily reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.
It had been a day or so since the last should-be-a-career-ending scandal (U.S. Forest Service) erupted. So, I guess we were due.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW, from the NYT: "The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fund-raising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in Trump’s hush-money trial in New York."