Defense for Children International-Palestine announced that it has ceased operations. “After 35 years of defending Palestinian children’s rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations,” they said.

The Rafi Niya synagogue in Palestine Square, central Tehran, was destroyed by a US-Israeli missile attack, prompting protests in Iran

Remember how you felt about people defending their neighbors in Chicago, Minneapolis, and other cities around the US? Extend that empathy a bit further, to people Trump is calling animals. It may hurt to stop and think about how much you have in common with those people. That's okay. Let it.

Last summer, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly removed online materials about American racism and canceled a workshop on the “fragility of democracy,” according to a recently released Politico report.

I WAS WAITING FOR SOME DATA TO GET PROCESSED SO I DID THE WORK: Against POTUS: 1. Rep Shri Thanedar (D-MI); May 14, 2025 (H.Res.353) 2. Rep Al Green (D-TX); May 15, 2025 (H.Res.415) 3. Rep Al Green (D-TX; June 2025 (H.Res.537) 4. Rep Al Green (D-TX); December 10, 2025 (H.Res.939) (continues)

NEW: Members of Congress must 1) Remind military personnel of their duty to disobey orders to "end Iranian civilization," a war crime; 2) Promise to defend them from legal and political retaliation; 3) Promise to turn criminals over to the ICC. www.peoplesline.org/p/what-congr...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Target recently updated its terms and conditions to make it clear that customers — not the company — would be responsible for the failures and hallucinations of its upcoming AI shopping assistant. #BlackskyNews futurism.com/artificial-i...

Mind you bluesky was shading X on X about adding AI tools 5 months ago

To put it another way, in the whole history of the US we’ve had three presidents who were born in the summer of 1946, and only one who was born after that.

this is how "allies" talk about trans people when they think we aren't looking. calling us thugs (a racially coded word long used as a dogwhistle against Black people who "misbehaved," now for trans people, and acting like cis liberals never engage in mass dogpile/harassment campaigns

This is more than what it would cost per year to house every homeless person in the US via a Housing First model

this is fascinating to me on a personal level because of all the libs wishing death upon me today for voting third party in 2024

i was off by a week

Can't help but think one would be dogpiled less for breathlessly observing that Bluesky's quieter than at the height of presidential-election season if one didn't use that observation as a pretext to blame leftists (see JB's blueskeet two blueskeets down in quoted thread).

What happened to The Problem Is Social Media and It's The Phones?

The whole thread does a good job of calling out assorted proposed Trump budget cuts. Simultaneously, I couldn't help but notice that the headline funding rate in the chart was already on a downward trend through the Biden administration.

Delightfully old example of the posting-to-TV pipeline.

[John McCain voice] Eh-heh-heh!

Our account @bellesaco, with a community of 700k followers and 10+ years of content dedicated to women’s sexual health, was permanently deleted by Instagram this past weekend. Four days after Meta lost a $375M child safety lawsuit. Our violation? Using the word “clitoris.”

Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

Writing this from Cameroon, where I just days at a cancer screening campaign. What I found sent me back to my own childhood and to a question global health refuses to ask. New piece on breast ironing, early-onset cancer, &who gets left out of the guidelines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/the-girls-...

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Another parallel between ICE in their airport era and COVID-19: the last few days' photos of long queues in airports had me flashing back to the airport crowds of 6 years ago. www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/u...

New Mexico jury finds Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law, imposes U.S. $375 million penalty apnews.com/article/meta...

Hahahaha what

The gender friendship gap turns out to be driven almost entirely by white men's uniquely low levels of friendship closeness. And among white men, higher socioeconomic class predicted even lower closeness. The most privileged group has the least close friendships. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Shout-out to Emma, 31, for slipping "fluoride" in there, that's a bit of a deep cut.

AI companies do not have the right to destroy our lives. We have the power! We can make them stop. It's time to pause AI.

I tend to guess that seemingly spontaneous spikes in activity on a post aren't due to a group chat noticing the post (often seems gratuitously conspiratorial?), and now I wonder whether that's just a bias I have because I _don't_ use DMs or hang out in group chats with other online people.

Stancil's claim that the "experts are in fact split on" whether the Gaza genocide's a genocide got me wondering about another topic where people used to allege No Expert Consensus: anthropogenic global warming. So I modded a convenient Wikipedia chart about surveys of Earth/climate scientists.

Multiple game studios have recently closed because their titles couldn't compete with established live-service games like Fortnite. Meanwhile, you can also literally work on Fortnite and get laid off and Tim Sweeney remains a billionaire. Something has to change. The time is now. uvw-cwa.org

This is Fetterman's 46th yea vote for a Trump nominee this session. This is Heinrich's 21st. The top 5 Dems voting yea for Trump nominees are now: 1) Jeanne Shaheen (NH): 53 2) Maggie Hassan (NH): 47 3) John Fetterman (PA): 46 4) Tim Kaine (VA): 39 5) Mark Kelly (AZ): 36

Don't worry, Will Stancil, I think I can ask the following question without using the g-word that troubles you so. Do the atrocities inflicted on Gaza, in your view, meet the definition comprising Article II of Resolution 260 (III) adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 1948?

CMU's Dan Silverman's preliminary data on antisemitic attitudes by self-rated ideology were going around a few days ago. This subsidiary analysis was especially interesting but relatively overlooked: higher extreme-liberal antisemitism emerged precisely when the latest US-Israeli war on Iran began.

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A demonstration that AI and HD deepfakes may change some things less than one expected. Text is and was much easier to fake, and many of us don't do basic checks on potentially fake text, and this is a very old problem with which we've mostly been able to live.

Der Neo-Nazi Tommy Robinson schreibt jetzt für die gleiche Zeitung für die Nicholas Potter vor nicht allzu langer Zeit geschrieben hat. Zufall ist das keiner.

Me waiting for the second order effects of higher oil prices x.com/SamRo/status...

I see Reality Winner deleted her antisemitic "Thank you Christians for the war on behalf of your pedophile Jewish friends." blueskeet of a few hours ago, along with the one alleging Israel did 9/11. And is back to reposting e.g. stuff incredulous about Trump's "Pearl Harbor" crack about Japan.

5 minutes on OpenSecrets. Can we think of anything AIPAC's done differently in recent years that might've drawn more attention? Anything at all? www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

Meanwhile on Twitter, the Vice Chair of the Center for New Liberalism is calling on Donald Trump to extrajudicially murder a left activist who is visiting Cuba

The billionaire who was just given $314 million to build and an ICE mega-jail was accused of making death threats against workers and their families. Stephan Crétier runs GardaWorld Federal Services, which was awarded a massive contract to manage a detention warehouse in Arizona. /1

“Robot dog guarding the data center” is the cherry on top of your dystopian sundae.

MI5 have been forced to apologise after one of their agents horrifically physically and sexually abused her - and they lied to cover it up

Floodlight is using thermal drone imagery to investigate gas turbines powering Elon Musk’s AI operations in Mississippi. To our knowledge, this is the first time a newsroom has applied this method to an AI-linked power plant. Here's what we found:

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻