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This isn’t quite the end game but it’s the final seconds of the final quarter of the final game in a best in series playoff of The Game.
Damon Beres@damonberes.com · last wk.I wrote about the new "Apple Upgrade" program, which plans to entice people into *leasing* new devices—perhaps devices they can't truly afford—leading them to stay on a perpetual cycle of monthly payments and upgrades, filtering their most personal data through property that isn't truly theirs. 🎁:
This is white male privilege speaking. I do encourage those with privilege to take this tack, but women experience men reflexively disagreeing with them when they open their mouths. Sometimes refusing to engage with a bad faith actor is the way to deprive them of legitimacy
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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Very random question but I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I'm trying to cite this document about the Lucas Plan and am having a hard time funding a date for publication. Anyone know? Thank you!
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The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...
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Honestly, trust your gut on this one. It’s a mess of contradicting, self aggrandizing liberal tropes with the same core nostalgic conservative nationalism. It is kind of scary that with all the fascism and patriarchal politics going on right now, so few people are seeing this show’s themes clearly.
It's intentional! Everything Krasnov does is in service of the oligarchs. Isolate US from allies✅ Deplete weapons stockpiles✅ Destroy farming and food production✅ Degrade education✅ Run up deficits with crony tax cuts✅ Pork spending to pig pals✅ Deregulate crony monopolies✅ Shit on rule of law✅
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
It’s easy to rewrite history when you destroy all the original records.
I'm wondering how "rogue" this AI was. Sounds like a way to shed corporate liability and to continue using AI danger as marketing. www.reuters.com/business/ope...
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says
The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs.
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Fun fact (not) : after the 2018 Toronto attack, where a lookist (incel) militant killed 11 and injured 15, Ross Douthat penned an opinion piece where he leaned into incel propaganda and advocated for a 'fairer' distribution of women's bodies among men.
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last wk.' "Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," Bilton said. ' So those are words that have happened. www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...
CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."
"Power is the ability to shape the world to your advantage. This should not be confused with constantly declaring how powerful you are" From Edward Luce, @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Trump’s waning sway over the world
The habitual trolling that serves him at home is sapping his potency on the global stage
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I hope you’ll check out Substack about what autocrats do when they have to cope with failure and subscribe below: lucid.substack.com
Lucid | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Substack
A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world. Click to read Lucid, by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...
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Identifying historical patterns, including how autocrats behave when their power is threatened, can help us to understand what may happen in the future. We should all be prepared so we can expect the unexpected and do something productive if and when that moment comes.
Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.
The guy that they want you to be terrified of (Mamdani) is making sure kids in NYC are fed all summer and people have access to cheaper groceries, all while they take food away from kids getting SNAP. Just sayin, feeding kids should make you the good guy.
Journalist Katie Phang has asked the court to fine Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche $1,000 per day until he turns over all the files.
Could More Epstein Files Be Released Soon? Redacted Docs Will Be Reviewed By Judge This Week
Journalist Katie Phang has asked the court to fine Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche $1,000 per day until he turns over all the files.
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In which the President of the United States continues to tax American consumers and businesses…just because he feels like it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.KILMEADE: Are you worried the tariffs you put forward over the last couple days will hurt the economy? TRUMP: No, because it's bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars
Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
House Democrats sent a letter to Taylor Farms asking for copies of all its correspondence with the Trump admin regarding the cyclosporiasis outbreak
Democrats Investigate Lettuce Company For Trying To 'Influence' FDA In Cyclosporiasis Outbreak
The oversight committee’s top Democrat said it appeared the company may have tried to influence the FDA in its investigation.
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They all know he's insane. But they feel they have to pretend he's not.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "It's amazing what tariffs will do for General Motors, and what the election has done ... the rest of the world doesn't love me, but that's ok"
Has a single reporter asked Trump publicly and directly why, if he's so convinced there's rampant voter fraud, he just gutted the agency that secures elections and fired the people whose jobs were to keep our elections safe? Seems like a pretty clear and obvious question.
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.
As someone who has studied strongmen throughout history, I can’t stress enough that we should not see authoritarians as infallible.
I often think about how this cartoon went from satire to reality in America. People really got bored with having a well functioning government.
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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