The Weeping Somnambulist
@pigeon75.bsky.social
Appalachia raised 🌳 In the PNW more than 20 years now 🌋Degrees in history, law, & library science. I love to read 📚 lifelong learner 🎓fav reads are sci-fi 🪐& fantasy 🧚 I’m chronically ill but persevering ♿️
Records reveal how Homeland Security agents surveilled ICE protesters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Records reveal how Homeland Security agents surveilled ICE protesters
Spokane police documents show a DHS task force officer tracing protesters’ cars, identities, and whereabouts without alleging any wrongdoing.
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AIs are not being trained on factual information but the partisan views of their owners Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Meta will train its AI on far-right media outlet
This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.
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www.404media.co/luddite-even... "The new Luddites seek not to abandon technology entirely, but build new infrastructure that embraces proximity and in-person human relationships, instead of alienation and doom-scrolling" (I do see the irony in posting this on social media)
Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
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'The most effective way to defeat an idea is not to prove it wrong. It is to convince everyone the cost of believing it is too high" open.substack.com/pub/pellemar...
The World Runs on Belief, Not Truth
Truth does not threaten beliefs. It threatens everything those beliefs are protecting
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I hope that every murderer and rapist is foreven looking over their shoulder. This technology is amazing. "Justice is not delivered until the victim is known, until families have answers, and until communities understand the full truth of what happened." www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Cold case murder: Mass. officials ID decapitated teen girl killed by Eugene McCollom
Massachusetts investigators have identified the body of a teen girl whose body was found with her head, hands and feet removed in November 2000.
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I've seen the use of goats here in the Pacific Northwest but it looks like donkeys may be the better option www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Meet the ‘firefighting’ donkeys of Spain
Known as Doñana’s Firefighting Donkey Battalion, this unit is responsible for preventing wildfires in parts of Spain—all thanks to their seemingly bottomless appetites.
nationalgeographic.com
After this is over we should erect a statue dedicated to Sandwich Guy and Reflecting Pool Guy
an unhoused man was recently arrested for "felony camping" & it's telling imo that, once he was released from custody, he went right back to the park where he sleeps turns out when you put a homeless person in jail, they're *still homeless* when they leave jail! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Unhoused People Are Paying the Price For the Supreme Court’s Cruelty
The Grants Pass decision allowed more cities and states to impose criminal penalties for the offense of being poor in public.
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Elon Musk is responsible for killing 100,000s of people in Africa. Instead of taking responsibility for his actions, he refuses to acknowledge verifiable facts. He can deny he’s a mass murderer all he wants, but history will rank him amongst the worst human beings to ever walk the earth.
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
Why does Putin need negotiations to resume? In my view, to buy time and prepare for mobilization. Putin doesn’t want to talk - he’s preparing for a blitzkrieg⤵️ 📹: Lavrov dodged questions from correspondent Alex Raufoglu about ending the war in Ukraine
I don't know how to explain to Donald Trump's Pentagon why every service member killed in war should be counted.
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." ~ Howard Zinn
💢 Trump's Pentagon has scrubbed the names of four soldiers from the list of Iran war dead, and the reason why is unclear. According to The Daily Beast, "The Defense Casualty Analysis System, a Defense Department website that keeps track of those killed during www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
Four soldiers vanish from Hegseth's casualty list — and no one can agree on why: report
President Donald Trump's Pentagon has scrubbed the names of four soldiers from the list of Iran war dead, and the reason why is unclear.According to The Daily Beast, "The Defense Casualty Analysis Sys...
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
🚨 United States of America v. Adams
Learn more.
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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.
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
Oh look. Texas also made voter registration errors. They were caught and fixed, all without needing the SAVE act or a national voter roll database. CRAZY. www.kxxv.com/news/local-n...
Election errors found in Texas voter database ahead of November election
A campaign worker found errors in Texas's voter database. Here's what it means for McLennan County voters ahead of the November election.
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The GOP and the legacy media say Americans overwhelmingly support photo ID to vote. “Do you think that what the American people want is that their driver's licenses won’t work?” Marc Elias asks. We’re here to expose the truth. Get the facts delivered to your inbox: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Joseph Schwartz, owner of a nursing home empire, served just three months of his sentence before Trump pardoned him for a $39 million fraud scheme. Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against him haven’t collected a cent. (Published March)
A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
propublica.org
What is it with these guys and the sex crimes? Sure the Dems have some but abuse seems like endemic.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2w agoA Republican member of the West Virginia House has just been charged with enticing a 15-year-old minor through Roblox and Snapchat.
BREAKING: Jim Jordan has referred Jack Smith to the DOJ for a perjury investigation. They say he lied when he said the toll records he got didn't include text message content. Which is true. The text messages Smith got came from the Archives. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-c...
House committee urges DOJ to charge former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith
The GOP chair of the House Judiciary Committee encouraged the DOJ to look into criminally charging Jack Smith, alleging the former special counsel who brought charges against President Trump lied to C...
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#30million8/30 How can we be assured we will stand for our democracy when we cannot even assemble a mass protest? Are we pathetic and weak? 30 million marching on August 30th. I am not seeking likes. Repost. It requires all of us to participate. We are not weak and we are unafraid.