Ben Siemon@benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12h agoThis is why the CA AG can't cut a deal. He needs to kill it instead. It will devastate the entertainment industry, and all the related jobs that support it. Los Angeles isn't just entertainment jobs, but all the restaurants and hotels and other workers that support it. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Anti-trans activists are in uproar in North Carolina. Why? Because an elementary school has hired a trans teacher. Anti-trans activists and Republican elected officials are demanding gendered dress codes for school employees, and for the teacher to be fired. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Anti-Trans Activists In Uproar Over Trans Music Teacher In North Carolina, Propose Gender Dress Code For School Employees
Far-right activists have flooded a local school board in North Carolina for hiring a transgender teacher.
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Black people are not randomly hanging themselves from trees to commit suicide, they're being lynched. Just like Indigenous people in Canada were not walking in the middle of nowhere to freeze themselves to death, cops were taking them on "Starlight tours"
All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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I like that liberals still think society has been structured around science since the enlightenment when it's clearly done around capitalism. It's why we're cooking ourselves alive so five dudes can control all the wealth
Electrocuting students into submission. Schools in Omaha, Nebraska are now using the same gloves as ICE to subdue their students. Status Coup's @jtcestkowski.bsky.social breaks it all down.
I'm so sick of women being punished for defending themselves. This happens all the fucking time. We have Kyle Rittenhouse being celebrated, and this woman is being punished. Only certain men and the state can use violence if they "fear for their lives"
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 2d agoHappening now: A rally is underway in downtown Chicago in support of Keshia Golden, a local mother facing murder charges for fatally stabbing her abusive partner Calvin Sidney, reportedly to defend herself and her-then unborn child after Sidney slammed her head into a kitchen counter, in 2022.
On Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 4 p.m. ET, join ProPublica’s Mark Olalde and environment journalists @scribeguy.bsky.social, Tony Briscoe and @halleparker.bsky.social to discuss the unprecedented rollback of the Clean Air Act and what it means for public health in urban and rural communities nationwide.
Clean Air Act: Dismantling One of the Country’s Bedrock Environmental Laws
Join us for a discussion about the rollback of the Clean Air Act and what it means for public health in communities across America.
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Volunteering at the LGBT center I heard the term Throwaway for the first time.
“Madison [Rhodes] has been on our radar ever since she humiliated a total stranger at a Zara changing area and sent her fleeing the store in tears,” said White House communications director Steven Cheung
White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary
WASHINGTON—Touting her overall cruelty and particular delight at making others feel miserably self-conscious, the White House on Monday tapped a mean teenager from a Zara fitting room as its new press...
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Our little network is 5 years old today, and not so little as we are (to my surprise) nearing a billion episodes downloaded across all shows. To celebrate, we're releasing a new weekly series today, Natural Causes, hosted by (Dr.) James Stout! www.iheartmedia.com/press/iheart...
iHeartMedia Celebrates Fifth Anniversary of Cool Zone Media and Announces New Podcast "Natural Causes"
iHeartMedia is a leading global media and entertainment company specializing in radio, digital, mobile, social, live events and on-demand entertainment.
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“In a purely capitalistic free market system we’d have no social security, Medicare, Medicaid, public education, highways… it’s a mixture and evolution. We are transforming 🇺🇸 to take care of everyone.” - @chrisrabb.com responds to @govandybeshear.bsky.social
Joined Newsweek's the 1600 to talk about the speculative compute capacity buildout, how little the trillion-plus capex has got big tech so far, how 70% of AI revenues are from two companies, and Zuckerberg's lousy AI pitch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoYP...
AI Data Centers Are the Most Speculative Bubble in History w/ Ed Zitron | The 1600
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They threw out the net, and now they drawing it in.
Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 3d ago1/ Amy Goodman has covered massacres, oil wars, and death row for 30 years. Now the US State Department put her name in a 100 page report calling her a Cuban fellow traveler. When they start naming journalists, they are building a target list. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Bill Ackman's wife is a plagiarist and recipient of Epstein money.
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d agoIt gets worse from here: Neri Oxman actually instructed members of her lab to prepare a thank you gift to Jeff Epstein, and to lie about their funding source. He husband Ackman also backed disgraced sex offender Andrew Cuomo's sore loser challenge to Mamdani over manufactured antisemitism concerns:
In some good but bittersweet news, Seattle has allocated $300k to immediately assist with the dire needs of trans refugees. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
City Council approves $300K to aid trans community
The funds would go to local organizations supporting the trans community, which is struggling to keep up with a surge of new arrivals seeking refuge.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · last mo.An exceedingly rare article which not only centers trans voices, but lays out in stark terms that this is a refugee crisis spurred by the Trump regime's campaign of hate. www.adn.com/nation-world...
"These violent delights will have violent ends." Willy Shakes
They’ve already been using the shock gloves on children.
Alex Zucker@alexzucker.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Bellevue Police Department, in Nebraska, has been using electric-shock gloves for three and a half years. “Road patrol officers check out the gloves before their shifts, and all school resource officers have a pair assigned to them.” nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
More concern about me talking about what your corporation did than what your corporation was doing.
You’ve got to be kidding me
Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 4w agoGoogle's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0
Anti-trans Democrats deserve to lose every single race they run, and I'll say the same about Democrats who try to throw any other community to the wolves so that they might feast on the electoral marrow.
100% THIS. Damn near all of those bullshit ICE agents are the dumbest fucks you'd ever meet.
It doesn't matter if murder is profitable. That's what CEOs think, anyway.
Such critics fear that extreme cases like this one could become more common if the Trump administration succeeds in boosting the defense budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion.
The cost of the failed artillery project in Texas is tiny compared to the total U.S. defense budget. But critics say the fiasco is a symptom of a larger problem in Washington: Expensive defense failures lead only to more spending.
