🔥 "I am deeply concerned about what we're teaching our children... imagine sitting class wondering if your parents will be there when you get home... NASHVILLE HAS A CHOICE... OPPOSE THIS FACILITY..." Locals opposed a planned ICE call center by the airport. (h/t @tirrcvotes.bsky.social )
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Retelling a story of deportation to Haiti with details corrected. On Aug 14, Canadian officials turned back a Haitian family (pursuant to "safe third country" agreement with US). ICE deported the family to Haiti on Aug 27. Canada must stop this-US IS NOT A SAFE COUNTRY FOR PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 21h ago“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
Microsoft—a defendant—called THEIR OWN ACTIONS the “largest theft of labor in human history" & said that winning would be “a complete mockery of the idea of fair use”…whole OpenAI said publishers face an “existential threat” because their product is “largely substitutive, period.” That’s one graf!
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · yesterdayEye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
Politico@politico.com · yesterdayDemocratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
As someone who went through it, I promise you, it was an occupation. Looked and felt like we were being overtaken. I’m still triggered as are SO many of us. I am changed from it, it was absolute terror.
NEW REPORT: Haitian-Americans' detention in four Ohio jails SOARED since TPS ended. Haitian women now make up 39% of the female ICE population at these jails, up from 2%. Read our new report. ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2026/9/...
Abortion, Every Day spoke to a woman whose state refused to let her cross state lines for an abortion. Don’t tell me Republicans will never criminalize travel—they already do. Pieces like this make me so proud to work with @kylietcheung.bsky.social
She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave
Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them
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This piece is too good, and too infuriating, to pick a quote from it. Go read it.
404 Media@404media.co · 22h ago"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
All the AI companies should be sued into oblivion for copyright and intellectual property theft
New research from Proton finds 87% of top Canadian companies depend on US tech companies. For governments, it’s even worse: 100% of federal, provincial, and territorial governments rely on US companies for email. As Canada turns away from the US, major institutions need to cut that reliance.
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d ago“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
BREAKING: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants Canada to become the bloc’s first associate member. She told Prime Minister Mark Carney she wants to deepen their economic and security ties as Canada faces mounting trade tensions with Trump
American consumers who have paid higher prices as a result of Trump’s illegal tariffs are also paying for interest payments for tariff refunds, more than $100 million of which went to Chinese companies.
Foreign Companies Have Netted Millions in Tariff Refunds. Taxpayers Foot Part of the Bill
International companies are getting tariff refunds — with added, taxpayer-funded interest. People...
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NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
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EPA no longer tracking pollution but will track....checks notes..."America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 4d agoThe EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
So they're gonna kill your kids.
Zahra Hirji@zhirji.bsky.social · 5d agoScoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“AI may not be able to do your job, for instance, but the threat of it can be used as a disciplinary mechanism to hold down wages: which is exactly what has happened…” 1/
Ali Rıza Taşkale@alirizataskale.bsky.social · 5d agoSuperb piece by Richard Seymour on AI “criti-hype”: how warnings of extinction can reinforce the industry’s own mythology of technological power. The real dangers lie not in a god-machine but in labour discipline, ecological damage, and concentrated corporate power. www.patreon.com/richardseymo...
