Elizabeth

Elizabeth

@bizzerg.bsky.social

lifetime learner - nuance - empathy - compassion

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In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, 24-hour surveillance is not merely a tool for gathering data; it is the framework used by the Party to enforce absolute psychological subjugation and eliminate individual identity. The goal isn't to stop crime, but to end the capacity for independent thought.

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Give me your corrupt, your thuggish, your enemies of democracy yearning to escape the law....

John Hudson@johnphudson.bsky.social

New: "The State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsanaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States," per a senior State Department official

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

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While 32 babies were named Jalen in NYC between March and early October this year, a die-hard Knicks couple who were expecting a child of their own said hold our beer. Their newborn son's name is Knickson Fyve. | JJ Post www.espn.com/nba/story/_/... #BlackskyNews #KnicksInFive #AllNet #NBA

espn.comNew York couple names son Knickson Fyve after Knicks title chantVance and Yvonne Bradford's newborn son is named for the popular chant that filled the streets of New York after the Knicks' first title in over 50 years.

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Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

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The company that got me to finally dislike Giannis got to another one. “Woke” isn’t ruining sports, gambling is.

Baseball GIFs@baseballgifs.bsky.social

Ronald Acuña Jr. partners with Kalshi, becoming first MLB player to promote prediction market

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Trump's thoughtless invasion of Iran was meant to project American military power—instead, it has retrenched it, with American forces retreating from dozens of bases around the world and giving our adversaries a roadmap of how to resist US power.

nytimes.comFrom Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into RetreatA war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

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LET BOOKS BE WRITTEN! Book bans harm readers, authors, and the institutions we hold dear. How can you ensure books are written? Arm yourself with the data, and take action! Protect the freedom to read! #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe

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It’s Banned Books Week. Did you know that since its publication in 1953, Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451 is one of the most challenged and censored titles in the U.S.? As Bradbury’s biographer, I filed a FOIA request and, yep, there’s a 40-page FBI file on Bradbury. #BannedBooksWeek #RayBradbury

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AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.

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File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”

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“unilaterally change the world without having to constantly convince people… tech is an incredible alternative to politics…” JD Vance & Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel making it clear tech oligarchs hate democracy👇🏽 When they tell you what they’re doing, believe them

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Ed Sheeran's Philly concert is over but big questions remain What was the role of Eagles' owner Jeff Lurie in the cancellation of Macklemore? How can there be censorship in a stadium owned by the city where American freedom was founded? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...

inquirer.comEagles’ silence on their role in the Macklemore mess has become deafening | Will BunchWhat’s worse about the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran debacle in Philly? The Eagles’ role, or the team’s refusal to explain it?

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KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.

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The War on Terror began 25 years ago today, when Congress passed the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force. Only one member of Congress had the courage and foresight to oppose this blank check for forever wars: Barbara Lee.

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At a 9/11 anniversary memorial ceremony at Ground Zero, Terry Strada, national chairperson of 9/11 Families United, calls out the US government for covering up Saudi Arabia's role in the 2001 WTC attack. Asks Trump and Vance for help. The speech caught Vance off guard.

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Have you considered the fact that investors are the strongest soliders for the ideology presented below?

Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social

Lebanon’s on fire, the pipeline the Saudis have been using to circumvent the Strait of Hormuz is burning, the Houthis have taken over big swaths of the coast and can shut down the Bab el-Mandeb Strait pretty much at will and oil’s trading at $100/barrel 🤷

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"Trump threatened on Friday to halt a broad swath of U.S. trade unless the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates, issuing a series of sweeping ultimatums that could prove costly to the economy." This is why the Fed needs independence, as do other agencies that the Supreme Court stripped it from.

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The number of people in the Guard/Reserve that have reached out to me have grown quickly after this article was published. Our strategic reserve is going to have a major retention problem and is being burned down. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/special-re...

adamkinzinger.comSpecial Report: Anonymous Q&A With Deployed SoldierI talk with a member of our armed forces about the challenges of this current deployment and the need for direction in our present military efforts.

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I think we should convince them the nukes are falling and then Cask of Amontillado their asses

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

This is where the 1% will go to restart civilization after a nuclear attack. But it for me thinking: what if the uber wealthy built these bunkers for more people — and not for nuclear attacks but for the climate crisis that will get us all — instead of trying to leave the planet?

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“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art