Phoneranger

Phoneranger

@phoneranger.bsky.social

Railroad mergers, AI transparency, E-bike delivery safety, free parking?, US-SWF and DCPA in 2029

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Seeing John Husted’s ass.

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Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

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“The harm in this matter is difficult to overstate,” Judge Francis Mathew wrote in his order. “To induce users to provide their personal information, Facebook made many false promises respecting the security and control of that data over the course of more than a decade.” www.wsj.com/tech/meta-or...

wsj.comMeta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion to New Mexico in Data-Privacy CaseA state jury found the social-media giant liable for misleading the state’s consumers.

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Our opponents—a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires—are already highly organized, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby state governments and the White House, form PACs like Leading the Future, gather voter data, and circulate candidate questionnaires before races begin.

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Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”

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Trump allies himself w/Kim Jong Un against South Korea: “Based on my very good relationship w/Kim Jong Un, I am not happy that the US has agreed to Joint Military Exercises…I recently asked the President of SK if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of Iran, & they said, ‘No thanks!’”

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Replying to @100yearsagonews.bsky.social

The Asheville pastor explained that he suffers an ailment that seized upon him while he was strolling in a neighborhood and required him to sit down—so he walked into the nearest house he saw, which coincidentally happened to be a house of prostitution. 2/2

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June 29, 1776: The Virginia Convention adopts a constitution that formally remakes the royal colony into a commonwealth. The largest of the 13 colonies acts to create a republican form of government as the members of the Continental Congress prepare to declare all the colonies independent. 1/7

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The quiet part out loud he said

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JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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“This a campaign with a chance to beat the machines, both artificial and political. We can be team humanity in both regards, letting voters actually pick their elected representatives instead of being told who to vote for by the establishment or by a bunch of Trump mega donors.” — @alexbores.nyc

thenation.comHow a New York Primary Wound Up at the Center of the AI StormAlex Bores is engulfed in a brutal (and super-expensive) battle over how technology will change work, life, and society.

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They don't know what to make of me because I’m fighting to make sure AI works for us, not against us. When I delivered the nation's strongest AI safety bill here in NY, I defied Trump and the AI oligarchs.

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U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION'S DEFENSE OF ITS BROAD AUTHORITY TO RECOVER ILLEGAL PROFITS THROUGH 'DISGORGEMENT'

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I’m honored to have Chi Ossé's endorsement. He’s a leader of a generation that understands that our future is at stake right now. The same billionaires spending millions to stop us in this race are trying to shape the future without any public accountability.

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” Who wrote this?

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April 26, 1926: Mae West makes her debut on the Broadway stage starring in "Sex." The 32-year-old vaudeville veteran both writes (under the pseudonym Jane Mast), produces and stars in the comedy play about a sex worker named Margie LaMont who is wooed by a British naval officer. 1/6

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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby has floated a possible combination with American Airlines, according to people familiar with the conversations, an audacious proposition that would face intense scrutiny even under the business-friendly Trump administration. bloom.bg/4sq6ZCt 📷: Bess Adler/Bloomberg

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ROG WRITES: Farewell to Andy Robertson, who will leave Liverpool at the end of the season. His fight, his heart, his flashing blade will be missed. As an Evertonian, there were countless moments his s***housing wound me up more than any other player...

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March 16, 1926: James "Pop" Johnson, 81, a Civil War and Spanish-American War veteran now working as a quartermaster clerk at Fort Mason in San Francisco, is believed to be the oldest soldier in the Army. He attributes his durability to smoking 12 cigars a day.

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The governor should make insurers in the state offer so-called pay-as-you-drive insurance, which would tag premiums to how many miles motorists actually travel, rather than the lump-sum status quo, which charges the same no matter how much you use your car.

buff.ly'Stupendous Potential': Pay-Per-Mile Auto Insurance Would Cut Costs And Traffic Violence - Streetsblog New York CityLowering car insurance costs doesn't have to eviscerate crash victims's rights.