Sonia Lai

Sonia Lai

@solai.bsky.social

She/her. SETI on the web.

226 followers114 following5.2K posts

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BREAKING: A federal court permanently blocked Governor DeSantis’ classroom censorship law, the "Stop WOKE Act," from taking effect. The law would've restricted students and educators in Florida from discussing things like race and gender in higher ed classrooms.

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😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC" Here's the blooper reel:

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SpaceX has joined the Nasdaq 100 today, nearly a month after its IPO. As I warned then, this Ponzi scheme will affect all of us — even if you don't own SpaceX stock.

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AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

I write reviews for a small website without any pay or any other compensation. I don’t think I’m making things worse for everyone else. I pay for all the things I go to and write up about out of my own pocket. Maybe I’m not a journalist, but how am I hurting everyone else by typing 6 hour reviews

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I write reviews for a small website without any pay or anything else other compensation just because. I don’t think I’m making things worse for everyone else. I pay for all the things I go to and write up about out of my own pocket. How is that hurting everyone else?!

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How dare you still refer Türkiye as Turkey after the country has asked the world to refer to them as the name it has called itself for centuries, #NBC! Stop calling it Turkey! You should change how you refer to Türkiye now when you cover news, especially after the showing in the World Cup!

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Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

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In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

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UPDATE: CNBC responds, says it only includes the disclosure of their financial relationship with Kalshi when it is "directly relevant to the story" These are examples of stories where CNBC determined it wasn't "relevant" to disclose that the company invests in Kalshi and gets paid for new customers

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. Since December, CNN and CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently. w/@atrupar.com

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Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

tomshardware.comBlackstone-owned QTS abandons planned world’s largest data center campus after years of lawsuits — 2,100-acre Virginia Digital Gateway project dies over a newspaper-notice technicalityProject faced several lawsuits despite initial approval

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The story here is not this stupid movie – which will never get made and never come out – but how the Tilly Norwood people keep getting these credulous articles placed in national news sources despite zero demonstration of any success or demand for this.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

The comedy-drama will star AI "actor" Tilly Norwood in a “hybrid production with traditional film and TV professionals — such as directors, writers and editors — working alongside AI specialists, with AI training and mentorship built into the production itself,” the company says.

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The tariffs were just another CON to manipulate the stock market and profit billions from insider trading and crypto corruption — $2.2 BILLION to be exact, and we paid the bill. Trump’s tariffs cost the average US household $1,500 per year.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

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My interview: “I came to this country as an infant and became a U.S. citizen,” Roswell Encina said. “So sitting there, on the Fourth of July, I couldn’t help but think about the promise of America and the work still required to protect it.” www.advocate.com/news/people/...

advocate.comMan in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded himRoswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

this dynamic described by jenny racicot is, as i understand it, very common among progressive women in maine. they’ve been put in an impossible position and feel like they’re tanking platner’s campaign when in reality he did that on his own by being a violent and reckless person.

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So if you were around when I first criticized Platner you might remember me and a few other female vets talking about this being a likely reveal. At the time one of his earliest defenders insisted it was our bias. No, it was our experience www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/g...

cnbc.comPlatner Senate campaign taking 'time to reflect' on path forward after sexual assault allegationPlatner and his campaign denied the accusations made by 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot in a POLITICO article published Monday.

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1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

I MISSED PAYING IN CASH 😭! THANK YOU, MSP, for still accepting cash along with credit cards! Also, LAX’s Delta terminal does NOT have enough food variety! What the heck, Delta? It’s all the same food there!