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AI chatbots for a nuke free future Free press forever Fourth estate First and fourth amendments
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Every single person who goes to the trouble of verifying a citation is basically Veronica Mars
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Minnesota Reformer
about 11 hours ago
Hennepin County sheriff conceals bodycam footage by calling officers āundercoverā
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Hennepin County sheriff conceals bodycam footage by calling officers āundercoverā ⢠Minnesota Reformer
Allanzo Johnson had just left a corner store in north Minneapolis when he noticed a black pickup truck pull out behind him. It trailed him for half a dozen blocks and then its police lights flicked on...
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/25/hennepin-county-sheriff-conceals-bodycam-footage-by-calling-officers-undercover/
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Kate Starbird
about 14 hours ago
Everybody needs to go hear Naomi Oreskes explain how Monsanto manipulated the science to obscure health concerns about Roundup ā including ghost-writing papers that became touchstones in their denialism.
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Mother Jones
about 11 hours ago
SCOTUS made one thing plain this week: It is an anti-immigrant court. There were hints beforeābig ones, to be honest. But in three rulings this week, the justices voted to green-light Trump administration policies against immigrants that both defy federal law and carry a massive humanitarian toll.
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The anti-immigrant Supreme Court
Three cases from this week alone show the GOP justices are eager to back Trump's nativist agenda.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/the-anti-immigrant-supreme-court/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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ITEP
2 days ago
āIf youāre not going to police this sort of tax avoidance, when are you going to do it?ā Our Senior Fellow Matthew Gardner explains why Coca-Cola's aggressive use of offshore tax havens has led to a tax penalty that could approach $20 billion.
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Coke Takes on IRS With $20 Billion at Stake
In a tax fight over foreign profits, the multinational giant and the U.S. head to court this week.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/coca-cola-irs-legal-fight-f1ec40e8
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Rebekah is Pro-Choice
about 10 hours ago
āThe number of abortions nationally has increased each year since the national right to abortion was overturned.ā The obstacles to pregnancy and raising children remain ENTIRELY UN-FUCKING-CHANGED. Try increasing access to living wages, healthcare, childcare, and housing instead of abortion bans.
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4 surprising things to know about abortion in America since Dobbs
A confusing patchwork of state laws began to take shape hours after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. Here's where things stand now on the abortion issue.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/nx-s1-5869560/abortion-dobbs-roe-rights-restrictions-anniversary-update
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Jake Grumbach
about 10 hours ago
āJust go back to the 90s? Why didnāt I think of that. Thank you so much for the great advice, crypto and AI funded Dem consultant firmā
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This has been pushed by oligarch controlled algos precisely because it is divisive and logic destroying.
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Courtney Milan
about 12 hours ago
Just to be 100% clear, when I say that you should not be talking to the police, I mean specifically that you should say, āIām invoking my fifth amendment right to remain silent.ā
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Hellowville
about 17 hours ago
āColonialism runs on denialā should be on a t-shirt. šÆ
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As a hater since 2001 I agree
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about 13 hours ago
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Wajahat Ali
about 15 hours ago
Anyone not running on reforming the Supreme Court cant be the leader of anything moving forward. It's an unhinged gang of extremists unrestrained by anything or anyone.
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Jorge A. Caballero, MD
about 2 years ago
The way that the Supreme Court drops opinions that change how we live our lives while a few of them pack for billionaire-funded summer vacations & how they don't take questions from the public or televise proceedingsā all that feels antithetical to the very essence of American democracy
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Adam Serwer
about 15 hours ago
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/antebellum-constitution/685354/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8O7POyvEWjkSdPNILHJSIv0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller
about 14 hours ago
A lot of this administration's decision making comes down to the fact that some of the worst dudes you know are still mad about that one time their mom wouldn't let them have mountain dew for breakfast. (the rest of it is eugenics, christofacism, and white supremacy)
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
about 15 hours ago
The Roberts Court is a cancer attacking from every angle - from our freedom to decide what happens to our bodies, to protections for people who've sought safety, to allowing corporations to steal our health & wealthy. Fitting they're now helping cancer spread.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...
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Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging Roundup Weedkiller Caused Cancer
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/supreme-court-weedkiller-roundup-bayer.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260625&instance_id=177768&nl=breaking-news®i_id=37269161&segment_id=222085&user_id=74776a5a6d6877836164e17a1523f636
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ACLU of Northern California
about 14 hours ago
The Supreme Court has ignored the clear evidence that the Trump administration's actions were arbitrary and racist. The decision threatens to strip legal status from 1.3 million people, greenlighting the largest de-documentation campaign in U.S. history. But the fight is not over.
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SCOTUS Gives Trump Administration Carte Blanche to Strip More Than a Million People of their Legal Status With No Oversight - ACLU of Northern California
Court greenlights Trump administration's termination of TPS for Syria and Haiti and eliminated most judicial review of TPS decision-making
https://www.aclunorcal.org/press-releases/scotus-gives-trump-administration-carte-blanche-to-strip-more-than-a-million-people-of-their-legal-status-with-no-oversight/
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ACLU
about 13 hours ago
More than a year after unlawfully detaining Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration is still trying to weaponize immigration law to make an example out of him and other scholars who spoke out in support of Palestinian rights. We won't stop fighting for the First Amendment.
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Court Documents Allege Misconduct in Mahmoud Khalilās Immigration Case
New evidence suggests Trump administration conspired against Mahmoud Khalil from the start.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/recent-court-documents-allege-misconduct-in-mahmoud-khalils-immigration-case?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_medium=soc&initms=awr-na-bsky-na-nat-na-freespeech-mahmoudkhalil-mahmoudkhalil&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=mahmoudkhalil&utm_content=awr-na-bsky-na-nat-na-freespeech-mahmoudkhalil-mahmoudkhalil&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=awr-na-bsky-na-nat-na-freespeech-mahmoudkhalil-mahmoudkhalil
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
about 14 hours ago
šØTHE KIDS ACT IS AN INTERNET SURVEILLANCE BILLšØ Congress is rushing the KIDS Act toward a vote. This blend of KOSA, the SCREEN Act, SAFE Bots, and other bills is a single package that is a threat to privacy and free expression for ALL internet users. š§µ(1/10)
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
2 days ago
Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.
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Ryan Estrada
2 days ago
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and
sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car.
Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
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the Mountain Goats
2 days ago
from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism
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Robert Reich
3 days ago
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
3 days ago
musk could foment pograms in n. ireland because a relative handful of unionists in unionist neighborhoods are ready, willing, and experienced at that, but the counter protests were more than 10x the size.
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UAW Archivist
3 days ago
Found this kitten hiding in the engine of my neighborās union-made Chevy pickup. If you have a need in your life for an adorable BFF, this cat could really use a good home. Please reach out if you are interested in adopting and live near-ish to southeast Michigan.
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Leah Litman
3 days ago
Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??
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Mother Jones
3 days ago
For years, some of Alaskaās most vulnerable children have faced harsh conditions for months at a time in locked psychiatric facilities. A new law aims to change that.
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A Mother Jones investigation helped spur a new Alaska law protecting vulnerable kids
HB 36 will require a review of foster kids' placements in psychiatric hospitals.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/alaska-foster-youth-reform-legislation-hb-36-mother-jones-investigation/
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Evan Greer
3 days ago
NEW: buried within the trove of hacked documents from Madison Square Garden, the folks
@404media.co
found the company was keeping files on activists that criticized their use of facial recognition. Including me. Here's
@fightforthefuture.org
's statement:
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...
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404 Media
3 days ago
The news shows that Madison Square Garden, operated by Jim Dolan, is not only deploying controversial facial recognition technology but keeping track of specific people who take issue with it.
@evystadium.bsky.social
has more. Story by
@josephcox.bsky.social
here:
www.404media.co/madison-squa...
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Brandy Zadrozny
3 days ago
Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case:
www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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mtsw
3 days ago
it's worth noting that twitter actually now does have this exact moderation policy, where elon musk's allies can say whatever they want to, and his enemies are capriciously banned for no reason.
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These scum are already planning their next crimes
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Patrick Claybon
3 days ago
Hey yall know these Chat GPT flyers all look the same right? Like i'm already going to throw whatever flyer you hand me in the trash but ill throw this one at you.
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victoria zellerāļø (RISEBALL, summer ā27)
3 days ago
every war in human history has been won with bugs-bunny-in-drag tactics. thats not a joke its just fact
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The Atlantic
3 days ago
Alex Reisner has found four giant data sets of songsātotaling more than 20 million tracksāavailable to companies training AI music-generation tools. Search for an artist or song in the data sets:
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The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
Explore the astonishing amount of music available to AI developers.
https://bit.ly/4eZ0jrt
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE
3 days ago
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
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Seth Cotlar
3 days ago
Itās great how this administration has hired people to create explicitly white nationalist propaganda for them, and then simply mentioning this fact in a classroom can get you fired.
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LunchCounterPunch
4 days ago
The question shouldnāt be, āIs the left patriotic enough?ā It should be, āIs the right ruining associations with American symbology via its fascist behavior?ā The answer to the latter is, of course, yes.
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Publika.ge
5 days ago
t has been 7 years since the brutal crackdown on the anti-Russian protest held in Tbilisi on June 20, 2019. Today's march was dedicated to commemorating that day. We would also like to remind you that protests are still being held in Tbilisi every day.
#GeorgiaProtests
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Carl Quintanilla
6 days ago
āThe US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at its lowest level since July 1983.ā - Bilello
#SPR
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Jonathan McDowell
5 days ago
Unannounced LAUNCH at about 1020 UTC Jun 19 by Electron from Mahia of the US Space Force mission VICTUS HAZE Puma, to a 347 x 461 km x 97.5 deg, 2241LTDN sun-sync orbit.
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Nick Kodama
5 days ago
Operation Septic Fury only reduces algae to 70% prewar levels
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Mother Jones
5 days ago
"Our entirely predictable Social Security 'crisis,' to put it bluntly, is a political choice made by a pay-to-play government that under President Donald Trump."
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There is no Social Security crisis
The Trump administration has priorities. Helping the little guy just isn't one of them.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/social-security-crisis-trustees-report-entitlements-congress-running-out-2032-benefit-cuts/
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Daniel Suitor
6 days ago
Abundantly clear that the administration used the Strategic Reserve to buoy the economy and public opinion at the cost of national security. Sure hope that doesn't bite us in the ass!!
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warrior cop
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Hmm letās see ⦠the right canāt succeed if people are informed, so weāre gonna let them decide how to inform people? Educated people donāt fall for scams. Fascism depends on them.
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taylr
9 days ago
learned from strib that dawanna witt's campaign manager is alex lewison, who was the deputy treasurer for rich stanek's campaign against dave hutchinson for hennepin county sheriff yet DFL delegates were told to endorse witt at convention to avoid a return to republican aka stanek era?
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Kai Ryssdal
7 days ago
1. The Secretary of Defense is an idiot. 2. Disease has killed more soldiers than any enemy ever did. Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html?smid=bs-share
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