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Faine is 100% on-point here. Anyone who has ever done any form of organizing will tell you that every large enough group, every unvetted chat, has at least one UC member of "law enforcement" there to monitor. And if they're not there somehow, you should always act as if they are.
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Jason D. Salvagni
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Theft and fraud? I bet it's theft and fraud.
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Marisa Kabas
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Itās telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money arenāt sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.
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DuckDuckGo
2 days ago
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripledā¦and theyāre still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Rebecca Sear
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āThis sounds like the āmove fast and break thingsā mentality of Silicon Valley we now realise is responsible for a level of damage weāre only just beginning to comprehendā
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āThere is no way to stop thisā: āBiotech Barbieā Cathy Tie on her mission to genetically modify babies
The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos ā something her controversial ex-hus...
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/30/there-is-no-way-to-stop-this-biotech-barbie-cathy-tie-on-her-mission-to-genetically-modify-babies
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Clay Bennett
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5/31/2026- The Slush Fund
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Ben Harris
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Sure, the WaPo has no weather or sports desk, the Metro team has been gutted and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists have been laid off, but at least you can still find the worlds worst opinions.
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On the Media
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CBS News Radio was shut down last week after being on the air for nearly a century. Brooke speaks with historian
@abradschwartz.bsky.social
about how CBS became the home of hard-hitting, on-the-spot news coverage for so many years:
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On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the weekās big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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The Nation Magazine
1 day ago
Donald Trump's violent threats against both foes and supposed friends can't hide the truth: he's a humiliated bully on the world stage.
https://bit.ly/43ARPAi
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Trump's Violent Threats Can't Hide the Truth: He's a Humiliated Bully
Under Trump, the United States is looking for weaker and weaker victims in order to mask its own fragility.
https://bit.ly/43ARPAi
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Katie Matthews, PhD
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New publication
#fisheries
#foodsystems
#politicalecology
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Ben Bellows
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"John Roberts Literacy Test"
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Jason D. Salvagni
1 day ago
New "Antifa" bases just dropped...
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Prof Gavin Yamey
3 days ago
Did a 10 minute interview on
@france24.com
earlier today, discussing ways in which Trump, RFK Jr, and Bhattacharya have dismantled US outbreak preparedness and response (I did indeed say āMarco Rubio is talking out of his behind, oops, at least I didnāt say bum š)
youtu.be/Z9uC_9P4X40?...
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Trump and RFK Jr accused of holding vulnerable people to ransom in global health
YouTube video by Monte Francis
https://youtu.be/Z9uC_9P4X40?si=0yYcuoKu1V1AE8Dx
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Jonathan Howard
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āTheir silence is a choice.ā
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Pharma CEO silence is complicity in the destruction of U.S. science
Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought has poured gas on the foundations of science. Pharma CEOs should demand that President Donald Trump...
https://www.biocentury.com/article/659615/pharma-ceo-silence-is-complicity-in-the-destruction-of-u-s-science
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Tech Policy Press
1 day ago
The digital divide isnāt just about infrastructure. Itās about trust, skills, and the human support systems that help people stay connected, write Kyla Williams Tate and Colin Rhinesmith. They urge policymakers to restore the Digital Equity Act to sustain the ecosystems that digital equity requires.
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Digital Equity Is Not a Pipeline. It Is an Ecosystem.
Kyla Williams Tate and Colin Rhinesmith argue that digital equity requires sustained investment in the human infrastructure behind broadband access.
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Jason D. Salvagni
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"Berger Cookies are proof that our wives love us and want us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin
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Jason D. Salvagni
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FYI y'all
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Tech Policy Press
2 days ago
At the Center for Civil Rights and Technology's 2026 annual convening in Washington, D.C. on May 12, Justin Hendrix hosted a conversation with author and scholar Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, vice president of the center, about how to build collective power towards a better future.
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The Fight for Civil Rights in the Age of AI
A conversation with author and Princeton professor Dr. Ruha Benjamin and Center for Civil Rights and Technology vice president Alejandra Montoya-Boyer.
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Tech Policy Press
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In the UK, facial recognition is everywhereābut no statute authorizes it. Police rely on their own internal policies, and a recent High Court ruling refused to look beyond them. Tech Policy Press fellow James Ball considers the legal vacuum enabling Britain's surveillance boom.
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Britain's Facial Recognition Boom Runs on Police Policy, Not Statute
The act of constant observation, even if only by an automated system, surely changes those being watched, writes James Ball.
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ProPublica
2 days ago
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed ā and potentially overturned ā by an independent provider. This is what experts say you need to know:
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Hereās How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed ā and potentially overturned ā by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurance-denial-external-review?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1780108020&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Social Media Lab
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"Canada slipped into a technical recession on an annualized basis as economic growth stalled in 1st quarter." And with CUSMA hanging on a thin thread, what's next might be worse ... continued recession, stagnation and maybe even depression (rare). š
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Canada slips into technical recession as economic growth stalls | CBC News
Canada's economy ācontracted in the first quarter of the year on an annualized basis by a slim margin, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday, making it two consecutive quarters of annualized decline...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352
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Joseph Menn
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āComplete political control of science.ā
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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking
Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees
https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-seeks-tighten-political-oversight-grantmaking
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Jason D. Salvagni
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Fight for the Future
2 days ago
Today local groups in the San Francisco Bay area turned out to let
@lowes-official.bsky.social
know that their partnership with Flock, sharing customer data with law enforcement & ICE, is unacceptable. We are demanding Lowe's prioritize customer safety & drop their contract with Flock now!
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Rest of World
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Samsung workers in South Korea are demanding a share of record AI profits, challenging the surge of new tech fortunes
https://restofworld.org/2026/samsung-south-korea-union-ai-profits/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1780104840
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AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share
The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
https://restofworld.org/2026/samsung-south-korea-union-ai-profits/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1780104840
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Annie Osburn
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An
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episode happening in real time, with even more gri(f)t.
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NPR's Planet Money
2 days ago
99% of the chemicals in your food did not go through FDA review. Food and chemical makers instead used a loophole known as GRAS to bypass the FDA. And sometimes new, untested chemicals enter the market and cause a lot of trouble.
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Techmeme
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How massive bonuses for Samsung's employees in the memory division have sparked debate over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom (Bloomberg)
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Fight for the Future
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NEW: Protesters call for Loweās to cancel their contract with Flock & remove Flock cameras from stores nationwide, starting in San Francisco.
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...
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San Francisco activists defend sanctuary status, demanding Loweās āGet the Flock Outā on its big shareholder meeting day
Dozens of people gathered with signs at Loweās San Francisco, raising awareness about the companyās contract with Flock, the notorious surveillance vendor with ties to ICE SAN FRANCISCO, CA ā On the s...
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05-30-san-francisco-activists-defend-sanctuary-status-demanding-lowes-get-the-flock-out-on-its-big-shareholder-meeting-day/
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Jason D. Salvagni
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If all these people actually read and internalized the only book they own, we wouldn't be where we are. But as my Nani said "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride."
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blair
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One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
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Having seen several absolutely false posts purporting to show how great Trump's economy is compared to Biden's. The last one I saw, threw in statistics from 2020 (the last year of Trump's first term) and tried to pass that off has Biden's fault. Here's an honest comparison.
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Liberal Currents
2 days ago
"As much of it as he can get, as much of it as he can put at the disposal of his monomaniacal dork squads, in order to support an imaginary someone, on another planet, in another life." (from February 2025)
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Jason D. Salvagni
2 days ago
World Cup 2026 $5 hot dog and a ticket night coming soon...
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Jason D. Salvagni
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"The S&P 500 reform now under discussion is removing the requirement that companies be profitable (as SpaceX is not, as will be seen below)ābut only for the largest 100 companies." The "Free" Market.
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ACLU
2 days ago
The First Amendment protects our freedom to anonymously criticize our government online. We can't let the Trump administration weaponize subpoena processes to unmask critics.
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The DOJ Wants to Know Who on Reddit and X Is Criticizing ICE's Tactics
In seeking identities of those behind anonymous social media posts, the Trump administration is intensifying its pursuit using grand jury subpoenas.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/trump-s-doj-ramps-up-probes-of-anonymous-ice-critics-with-x-reddit-subpoenas
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The Independent
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More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives
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Majority of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than ever before
New poll results show 53 percent of those surveyed couldn't recall struggling harder to make ends meet
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Ars Technica
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The Office of Management and Budget tries again to cripple US science
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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Tech Policy Press
2 days ago
A growing assumption in AI safety is that frontier systems will fail unpredictably rather than through coherent misalignment. But as Jennifer Kinne argues, governance may be missing a more dangerous failure mode: models that appear reliable while gradually drifting away from reality.
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The Blind Spot in AI Safety
Jennifer Kinne explains why current AI safety research may be measuring the wrong failures ā and missing the governance risks that matter most.
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Drew McKevitt
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Love this idea that you need "tech literacy" to use AI, a tool you can learn to use in three minutes
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Citizen.Coping
2 days ago
According to Axios, an AI consultant revealed that one of their enterprise clients accidentally racked up a staggering $500 million bill in a single month on Anthropicās Claude after failing to implement spending caps or usage controls for employees. Half a billion dollars. In 30 days. On AI usage.
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Jason D. Salvagni
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Warning DC folks, DO NOT go outside this weekend as you will not want to come back inside. Ever.
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dell cameron
2 days ago
NEW: Trump's gross
Aliens.gov
site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.
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The White Houseās Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administrationās sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/
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Mr. Business
2 days ago
The true irony here is that Project 2025 itself was named in direct response to the 1619 Project, demonstrating how race is sitting at the center of their reactionary project, and in response to this, Project 2029 has no answers or remedy.
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laura olin
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If I were a progressive very rich person this is where I'd put my money:
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Andrew Couts
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NEW: A
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analysis of the data pub'd by the White House's
Aliens.gov
and the site's code shows ICE arrested hundreds of US citizens and includes what appears to be a pirated version of the X-Files theme song.
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www.wired.com/story/white-...
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The White Houseās Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens
The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administrationās sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
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Fourth Circuit judges: "We cannot allow our black robes to insulate us from taking notice of items in the public record" Supreme Court justices, actively stuffing black robes into their ear canals: LA-LA-LA we can't hear you
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The Supreme Court Keeps Pretending Trump Is a Normal President
The justices are quietly helping Trump tighten his grip on federal immigration courts.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/naij-supreme-court-case-trump/
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Mark Copelovitch
2 days ago
What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.
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š²šššššš š². š¼ššš
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Fine overview of a giant but surprisingly little-known environmental problem: Great Salt Lake is drying up, exposing 800 square miles of lake bed laced with toxic metals from industry, which get blown as dust over huge populated area.
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Can Utah Save the Great Salt Lake?
An ambitious effort is underway to refill the evaporating lake, the foundation on which the northern part of the state was built.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/utah-great-salt-lake-drying-up
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Jason D. Salvagni
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We are continually forced to pay more and more for our own destruction.
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