BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
petite violette
@petiteviolette.bsky.social
artist, language learning nerd, ex-academic linguist, handicrafts, bookworm, translator, manga enthusiast get off substack and migrate to ghost. i will help you for free, i'm a computer person. on mastodon too: https://kolektiva.social/@unrelatedwaffle
Last RT: I cannot help but connect the dots between "balanced literacy" and our current shitshow. Dr Jared Cooney Horvath says if you grew up in the 90s, that was the sweet spot of education, and man do I feel it
Something I think those of us who grew up in 90s or earlier are going to have to internalize — and will always struggle to remember — is that US voters no longer accept the fiction that politics is a contest between liberal and conservative ideas, rather than faction-based culture war by other means
man the way some childfree people talk to parents is some bullshit
a little unnerving when the local diner with mainly senior clientele is playing hits from your adolescence. did i time skip
I need the #ResearchEd #Education folks to rip this curriculum apart with me UGHGHGHGHGH amplify.com/pdf/uploads/...
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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
once again i'm asking the anglophone romance readers to get into japanese light novels with me i'm so lonely over here and #7thTimeLoop just updated
@lindaholmes.bsky.social I just reread www.npr.org/2011/04/18/1... for maybe the 50th time, and it's always perfect to me. Thank you for writing something that genuinely changed my life, and that I keep going back to over the years.
The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything
We take a moment to reflect on being "well-read," and on the fact that the smartest thing you can do as a consumer of culture is admit that you'll never know everything.
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"I feel a necessity for this story to be told, for those things to enter the public space. But at the same time, I don't want anybody to know about this.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Fx...
Writer Neige Sinno: Telling the Untellable Story
“Entering a country of shadows.” We met French writer Neige Sinno, who, in her autobiographical novel Sad Tiger, tells the story of being abused as a child. ”I'm telling the story of my life. It’s…
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…i really need my "fascist bullshit"/"generative AI and authoritarianism" paper to finish going through reviews and get published, soon, please
Violet Blue®@violetblue.bsky.social · last wk.For those unfamiliar, Newsmax is a far-right extremist, election-denying, pro-racist, pro-Trump, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-queer, and anti-democracy state propaganda platform. Newsmax content will now "support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.
President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.
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stop fucking filming strangers and posting it on the internet, and stop watching or commenting on videos that do so. better yet, delete tiktok. NO OXYGEN
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.so fucking tired of how socially acceptable it is, even encouraged, to film random people for no good reason at all other than clout and post it online. I cover surveillance all day every day and this shift sometimes scares me the most watch more/subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Sb...
65,765 people were in ICE detention as of July 11, in ICE's first data since April. Arrests hit a record 1,474 a day, and the largest group in custody has no criminal history at all. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
If Trump and the DOJ will prosecute me for standing up to them, they'll do it to anyone. This isn’t just about me, this is about whether dissent is legal in this country. We must hold them accountable– this isn’t normal. openfile.news/p/they-are-s...
‘They Are Skilled at Chaos and Cruelty’
Congresswoman LaMonica McIver opens up about the Trump DOJ’s criminal case against her and the latest killings by ICE officers
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Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
Rep. Green Announces Impeachment Filing is Imminent for Extrajudicial Executions & Ethnic Cleansing.
i just will never ever forgive the millions of cruel and racist americans who made this happen. ever. they are dead to me. if i find out someone voted for this shit, they don't get a word from me. fuck them forever. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Kids Are on Their Own.
Podcast Episode · Reveal · July 25 · 51m
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I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
CNN@cnn.com · 7mo agoThe world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
This feels weird to say but race scientists are not sending their best
i feel like this should be a bigger story. a private company can track the location of any phone in the world, and they sold that product to authoritarian governments. bonus, ofc at least 1 individual creep used it for stalking a woman be barely knew. www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
Surveillance Secrets
Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread
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it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...