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Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social you suck so fucking much @democrats.org do not fucking run this idiot for president. He will fumble it
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚-𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐳 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦.🚨 Edgar is yet another 28 year old victim of ICE along with Wilber Rafael Garces Perez who was shot on Sunday. Here's a thread of #ICELawlessness, actions you can take to push back & some good news as well.
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On Saturday @jpinckney.bsky.social saw a man in his Austin neighborhood being kidnapped by ICE. Every day since then he's passed by the car, still sitting there, a horrifying lonely symbol of what is being done. www.welcometohellworld.com/his-car-is-s...
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I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
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If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs, for crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. The "panic" is bullshit from start to finish.
All reasonably emotionally mature adults should ask themselves when they have ever made a good decision of which they are proud while panicked.
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It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
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Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:
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Replying to @bricsinfo.bsky.social
Confirmed. ground.news/article/stra...
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The public deserves to know how AI is driving decisions about seniors’ healthcare. EFF is releasing records obtained through our FOIA lawsuit to gain transparency into an experimental AI program that could jeopardize Medicare beneficiaries' access to care. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
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Joan Sebastian Guerrero is the name of the victim of the fatal ICE shooting this morning in Biddeford, Maine. say it, spread it, make it as known as the other names of lives taken by ICE
no problem. when they release his info, i want to be part of the effort to make sure everyone knows his name by tomorrow.
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Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal
Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.
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Man: people on bluesky don't engage in roiling debates Bluesky: lol u r so fucking dumb Man: *turns off comments*
when this critique is made, it often feels like it's about politics, like the answer is to just let the Nazis on here, but that misses why X, despite it all, is still a more fun place. it's because the "no fucks given" style there means *more* willingness to engage in roiling, exciting conversation.
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I guess everyone can believe what was always obvious this whole time now. Despite the president any many others lying by suggesting they had bombed themselves. With the kind of missile that we use and that they do not have. For some reason. www.welcometohellworld.com/what-do-thes...
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"While it’s bad enough that we cause so much suffering what’s worse is that then on top of that and also like cops we need to be big fucking pissing babies about it whenever anyone tries to call us out on our bullshit. Barbarians and martyrs at once... Crying and hitting you..."
Expecting us – with good reason based on history – to all thank them for their service. Fuck your service and fuck you. Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But killing like this? It is the least human thing you can do.
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Fuckin get em. Ive had Crohn's since I was 14, and was on these exact meds. Every insurance company I've ever been on has tried all these dirty tricks, and I'm glad someone caught them.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
there is no drawdown, and there is no compromise. ice out everywhere.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Want to help support people in Minnesota right now? Check out standwithminnesota.com
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Replying to @ceej.online
the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us
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"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE." See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!
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The findings, based on internal ICE material obtained by 404 Media, public records, and testimony from an ICE official, shows what kind of technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...