Thank you @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social for introducing “My Body Knows Its Limits” today on The Slowdown. “One of the things I’m wary about when it comes to ‘AI’ specifically, is [a] . . . lack of embodiment. What is a brain without a body?” @slowdownshow.org www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...
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The Paramount-Skydance merger is corruption in plain sight. These corporations paid $36 million to Trump in bribes. Then they had CBS cancel Stephen Colbert’s show for criticizing Trump. The Trump regime is a criminal enterprise, and billionaires are buying into it. Boycott Paramount & Skydance.
FCC approves Paramount's $8 billion deal with Skydance, capping months of turmoil
The stamp of approval from the Federal Communications Commission comes after months of turmoil revolving around President Donald Trump’s legal battle with “60 Minutes,” the crown jewel of Paramount-ow...
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“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like
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So many emptying or dying towns across so many countries determined to keep out migrants. It was great to see one mayor at least try something different and succeed, even if his country turned on him. Maybe someday Lucano's leadership in Riace will be recognized. www.bbc.com/news/in-pict...
Riace: The Italian village abandoned by locals, adopted by migrants
Once heading for the status of ghost town, Riace is now growing as migrants have moved into abandoned homes.
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Just to be clear: the President has mobilized the Marines on American soil because people are protesting masked, secret police kidnapping people with no due process and shipping them to foreign death camps. It’s not a misunderstanding or an oversight. That is all it is. There is no other side.
There are now more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than in Iraq & Syria. There are 4,800 activated Guard and Marine personnel in LA, compared to the 2,500 troops in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria.--ABC News
ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a crowd of protesters peacefully demonstrating in Downtown L.A to protest ongoing ICE raid operations, Trump’s federalization of the National Guard, and the mobilization of 700+ Marines to the area 📍Los Angeles, CA
BREAKING: Massive Anti ICE crowd in Chicago marches to demand an end to mass deportations and show solidarity with LA “Nobody is illegal — all power to the people!”
BREAKING: We're asking a court to stop the Trump administration's fast-track deportation policy. ICE should not be able to arrest people at their immigration appointments and deport them without any due process.
Protestor shot in the head by the LAPD today and they wouldn't call an ambulance. Notice how few protestors there are.
Stephen Miller ordered ICE to ramp up arrests—focusing not on violent criminals, but anyone they could grab. Home Depot raids, protests, and military escalation followed. This isn’t law and order. It’s chaos by design. Dangerous, deliberate, and disgraceful. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Order Likely Sparked Immigration Arrests And Protests
Orders to federal agents to increase the arrests of people without criminal convictions likely sparked immigration arrests and protests.
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This might be the most batshit insane one I've seen yet. LAPD point-blank shoots a woman trying to walk home, no one else around.
LAPD Officer Shoots Lone Unarmed Woman Trying to Get Home
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In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy - https://www.972mag.com/west-bank-unemployment-permits-israel/
In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy
After October 7, Israel revoked the work permits of more than 150,000 Palestinians. On top of spiraling settler attacks, my village faces financial ruin.
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Amazing strategy to silence all public health communications riiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhtt when we might have some bird flu to talk about
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2y agoNew: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
"Basically, the early, default configuration of a human foetus is female. If we were to assign a sex at conception as per Trump's executive order, all of them would be female."
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2y agohey gals mashable.com/article/trum...
We know all this already, but there’s a thread on X with what perports to be this letter from an X employee ( presumably now no longer employed there)…. I have no way to verify this. It’s just bracing if it’s authentic—even if we know we know this.
Roads in the west bank blocked, Palestinians from Jerusalem receiving text messages telling them to go back to Jerusalem, mass arrests, and almost 900 checkpoints set up across the territory. Whats going to happen to the west bank?
Four years ago, officers of the law stood their ground to protect Members of Congress and staff as violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol. These brave officers were beaten, crushed, bear sprayed, maced, and left to defend democracy with their bare hands.
I never want to hear that the GOP is the party of law & order again… ever.
Where are our Democrats? Where are the Congressmen and Senators who should stand up and be heard right now about everything from the Musk's Nazi salute to Trump's ongoing attack on reproductive rights? That he just took down reproductive rights.com? Where are the voices? The leaders?
Brilliant move by those who withheld vote or voted Trump on behalf of Gaza,or to“punish”the genocidal policies of the US which are only going to get so much worse. Plus u get the bonus of all the EO’s!! Drilling! Huge hike on drug prices!Dismantling of lgbtq rights!etc www.ft.com/content/d4ff...
Donald Trump signals strong pro-Israel stance by lifting West Bank sanctions
US president withdraws measures against extremist Jewish settlers even as dozens attack Palestinian village
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