In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly. In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

UK health officials urge extra precautions, including wearing a mask if you have symptoms, as 4 winter viruses spread: RSV, Flu, COVID and Norovirus. Source: archive.md/z6uDK

I said it before and will say it again: poetry will break us, poetry will heal us and apparently now it will also… crack LLMs? Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism”

Xenophobia is a tool of billionaires to enrich themselves off the public purse and off you.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

tl;dr: "The WHO declared the global health emergency over, but it has repeatedly stressed that the pandemic itself is not over. The virus remains a persistent and dangerous public health issue that the world must continue to manage."

Chicago museum leaders — likening the moment to active shooter drills — practice what to do if ICE shows up

total @kmachiz.bsky.social victory in councilor koyama lane's newsletter today

Hey @propublica.org what's up with this? I give money to you monthly but do not want to support a site that rips off independent reporters instead of crediting them. Noem stories by @myrandapolisci.bsky.social include substack.com/home/post/p-... substack.com/home/post/p-...

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Remember when Biden dropped the COVID isolation guidelines down to just 5 days, not because of any actual medical science, but because the Delta CEO asked him to? Our lives have always been meaningless to establishment Dems compared to the profits of the donor class.

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

The very first #TeslaTakedown weekend of action was nearly nine months ago, on Feb. 15. Now we're calling for a mass mobilization on Nov. 15 to stand up to extreme greed and say #NoTrillionaires! Host an event in your community! 👇🧵 #teslatakedown actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Today is the 60th(!) anniversary of the first public report on the dangers of fossil fuel pollution. What happened? A whole lot of fossil fuel bullsh*t and corruption in service of a whole lot of nothing. All while pollution and warming escalated far beyond what scientist predicted in 1965.

Shoot me now. More garbage to junk up our views, maybe our atmosphere, all for...slop. If it's egregious to build them on Earth, it's even worse to consider this. Responsible AI engineer challenge: subtly undermine your baby so this never happens.

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

At the very bottom of the US Army’s “Shutdown Guidance” for troops in Bavaria, there was a “Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags” including various local food banks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/army-tells-s...

Global COVID cases rose by over 19,000 last month, though true infections are far higher “Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there,” says Maria Van Kerkhove archive.li/0D68G

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

And if the app contradicts what's on your birth certificate or passport, your documents are wrong, according to CBP....

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Love reading the city’s draft Economic Opportunities Analysis where they are like “weeee more Warehouses, these are great jobs!” Nothing like high surveillance, anti-union workplaces with high levels of truck traffic in already overburdened communities to stimulate the economy.

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Project 2025 calls for the removal of kids from poor single parent households to be placed with “proper” parents. With SNAP being cut, the judgement on low income families is only increasing. Meanwhile 1,790 kids went missing from Georgia foster care. Many of them were likely sex trafficked

Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year. We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.

SORE THROAT - "A Bow To Capital" [UNHINDERED BY TALENT, Meantime Records, UK, 1988. PEACE PUNK//FOLK PUNK.] Just a heads up, like 95% of this band's other output is caveman grindpunk. (This song, though is FFO: early Chumbawa https://redd.it/86qfmz https://youtu.be/MbkIbHb7rDE

Offering free food to SNAP recipients losing their “supplemental nutrition assistance”

“They were careless people . . . they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.

📝 Sign below to support Professor Tom Alter of Texas State who was fired for speech he made in his capacity as a private citizen! ⬇️

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has intensified the bipartisan New McCarthyism, compelling willing bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers. Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter in September for the “crime” of speaking at a socialist conference.

It’s bad. Even some local PDs are having a go at it (Baltimore). bsky.app/profile/iwil...

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

PARENTS or people who know parents.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

I really need people to understand that a government this antagonistic to its own citizens that has manufactured crisis after crisis is not a government that intends to honor democratic removal. Because they know what would have to happen for the nation to heal. It’s gonna get bad.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Portland *is* a war zone in that we are under sustained assault from an unaccountable federal paramilitary force working in concert with right wing extremists

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just paused the three-judge panel’s order on our first TRO until Tuesday so they can complete their en banc vote. This means for now, both our TROs preventing National Guard deployment remain in effect.

Very encouraging to see CIDRAP's central role in this. They have been active in contradicting the anti-PPE and other COVID-related misinformation that has sometimes emanated from "establishment" public health sources, which provides a level of confidence that medical power games will be kept out.

“The goal of the health system is to increase GDP” No. The goal of the health system is to help people. There’s many ways to flourish without engaging in the workforce. This is eugenicist rhetoric. Don’t work? Disabled? You’re not flourishing. You’re not helping the bottom line.

As SNAP benefits are foreseen to be cut on 10/31, we are frustrated and disappointed that the basic human right for everyone to access food resources is being threatened. Find food resources in Oregon through this link or through the link in our bio: bit.ly/OR-food-reso...

A group of organized people could select 2 of these corporations and launch a BDS inspired campaign against them. Lift them up as examples and use this as a way to make the broader case to the public about Oligarchic rule...