There are a lotttt of people here for a frigid late notice protest. CPD bike cops hanging out across the street for now.

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza. It's 25 degrees outside. Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!" Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

#ResistanceUnited A Tale of Two Companies or Why Low Wages and Cutthroat Practices Are Policy Choices www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

LOL! Same. When I go out, at least I'll be comfortable.

ACAB, but some less so than others. At least in Canada they are trained, educated, and accountable.

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Same. I was really enjoying the app and brushing up on my French until this happened recently. The only way to fight AI (other than legislating it out of existence and good luck with that) is to not use and to *tell* the companies why you're not using their products.

Also, when reporters start talking about the chatbots this way, it is imperative to remind them they are basically asking a toaster for comment. They should be a lot more embarrassed about this than they currently are. “Grok told CNN…” no it didn’t. You typed stuff into an unreliable calculator.

It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

The treatment works best when started within 48 hours of symptom onset. Therefore, the CDC says treatment should not be withheld due to a negative test result if a person’s symptoms are consistent with the flu, especially if they are in a high risk group. www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/sto...

East Coast Gen Xers who remember Operation Just Cause in Panama logging on here and being like

1. Maduro is not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination. 2. But capturing him through an extra-legal action that violates international law undermines any US credibility with Russia in Ukraine and China with Taiwan. 3. We have a terrible history with topping leaders without a post-war plan.

"An agenda of safety, affordability, and abundance" could be the slogan in 2026 for all Democrats. And then governing "expansively and audaciously." That's the recipe.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Please consider leaving X. Your presence there may well be why others are still there in the cesspool promoting child porn and antivaxxers. #BoycottX

Not that I necessarily trust government websites anymore, but according to the CDC: "...since 2010, except for the 2020-2021 flu season, flu-related deaths in the United States ranged from a low of 6,300 to 52,000." The flu can kill you. Get your shots, wash your hands, and wear a mask in public.

🚨 some important information to share 🚨 Please listen This is for millions of us Who VOTE by mail. USPS changing post mark dates You Must VOTE early

Friend who's still on Twitter sent me this. Apparently Grok is going rogue.

Looking to turn a quick profit, private equity firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake. trib.al/O1okU7t

The best way to beat AI slop? Systemic change, regulatory overhaul. The next best way? Rebelling against it in our everyday lives. That means sustained, active engagement with non-slop—real people, challenging art, new ideas—in the real world and online.

The U.S. faces a 64,000 nurse shortage by 2030. New rules restrict loans for nurses pursuing advanced degrees to teach. Limiting faculty loans makes the shortage worse. This policy harms patient care quality.

The research linking alcohol to breast cancer is deadly solid: Alcohol, regardless of whether it’s in Everclear or a vintage Bordeaux, is carcinogenic.

Mary Sidney (1561–1621), also known as Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a prominent English noblewoman, poet, and patron of the arts during the Renaissance. #GirlPower #RadicalWomen

Reference to Rhodesia, fashwave aesthetic… whoever is designing DHS propaganda is a white supremacist and their target audience is white supremacists.

I loved how he couldn't stop smiling as he was sworn in. This makes me happy and gives me hope.

This is like Kamala Harris's crockpot all over again. Who cares? How much do the custom-tailored suits worn by billionaires cost? Do they ever report on that? (Also, "edgy" designer. Is that supposed to be scary?)

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

Hey folks from NYC, now that Mamdani's sworn in, please keep us posted on the downfall of your once great city or whatever. Are the bridges and tunnels clogged due to the mass exodus of billionaires this morning? I was promised chaos. Don't disappoint.

Mamdani took over the @NYCMayor account on Twitter but old Eric Adams tweets are still active. That means Mamdani's name and face shows up for old tweets he didn't send. You're probably going to see a lot of screenshots like this where Mamdani appears to praise Netanyahu, but they aren't by Mamdani

"Our digital lives are now gated in a way that makes it harder or more expensive for us to reach the information we’re looking for... The internet no longer feels like a single, heterogeneous place. Instead, we spend our time bouncing between decaying platforms." Via @sarahcrgr.bsky.social:

#ResistanceUnited The Fed has been quietly injecting billions of dollars into major banks, roughly every third business day since Halloween. On Dec. 10, the New York Fed lifted the limit on overnight cash infusions. This doesn't sound good. www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/n...

A Halifax councillor is urging the public to call police if construction crews show up next week on a part of the city’s harbourfront known as #DartmouthCove #NovaScotia Local developer doesn’t have permission to begin infilling work--it has been prohibited www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

The modern world can learn from traditional heating in China’s ‘ice city’.

And at least one of those talk show hosts has lost his incredibly popular show because of it.

New U.S. border rule just dropped! Canadians now get photographed EVERY time they enter and exit the U.S. land, air, sea. ✔️ Includes children ✔️ Photos stored for life ✔️ No opt-out Driving over for the day? You’re still getting scanned. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AtXc_G3WGQgG...

They're willing to destroy the world to create AI, something that will never live a human (or animal) experience. They're taking water, electricity and resources from real people to create an "ideal" being, a figment that will do nothing but eventually destroy the world. If we don't do it first.

I must link this on the subject of pie: chicagoreader.com/food/the-rea...

I have no idea there were four anti-flu drugs.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

A new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube's feed may consist of AI slop | Discussion

With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Dec. 22, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. https://wapo.st/3YPTQGo

Well this is depressing.

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I love this for a Canadian TV show, that was taken from a book written in Nova Scotia #Canada Heated Rivalry’ Episode 5 Just Tied Breaking Bad’s Perfect 10 IMDB Score www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1992: The “Archives of Terror” are discovered in a police station outside Asunción, Paraguay. The documents describe the fates of thousands who had been kidnapped, tortured and killed under the regime of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner from 1954 to 1989. /1

Better Watch Out for Those Hidden Tariff Charges‼️ #Pinks wlwt.com/article/gran...

If the piece on CECOT was seen in Canada but not here, that should tell you we have already lost freedom of the press and are in a fascist nation already.

Sadly, I think that we can expect that more people will disappear forever. Private bounty hunters.

From 2018….