There must be a deescalation. Congress must reclaim our power, Block the Bombs, pass a War Powers Resolution, and hold Trump accountable. 2/2

United States and Israel's attack on Iran risks regional war and makes us all less safe.   Trump and Netanyahu are a dangerous unaccountable duo and their reckless strikes prove it. 1/2

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It won't work Donald

HEARTBREAKING! My little boy is going blind in Gaza. His eyes are fading away. I beg you on my knees, please help me save his sight before it’s too late. I can't bear to see him in darkness forever. Please, have mercy! SAVE HIS EYES! Verivied by @mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/5f2429cda

'In Gaza, my children sleep in fear and wake up hungry 💔 Our home is destroyed. No water 🚱 no electricity ⚡ no food. They shiver from the cold 🥶 My husband is a prisoner in the last days of the war, and I’m pregnant 🤰 near birth 👶 I need delivery costs. Please help 🙏 '

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Los Angeles Father Dies Under ICE Custody - gth Death This Year This is a developing story.

You know, it's funny. Earlier this week I had started to write a follow up to my "Fascism For First Time Founders" post that tried to explain to Silicon Valley how embracing fascists would destroy innovation... but now I need to spend the weekend rewriting the whole thing with a new Exhibit A.

ProPublica union members are “inching toward a potential strike, in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news business where how to deal with AI is the chief sticking point.”

🧵 There are several possibilities regarding the Trump regime and Open AI. Here are a few possibilities: 1) Open AI has the same restrictions as Anthropic and the regime has actually folded without admitting it. 2) Sam Altman has misrepresented what Open AI agreed to with Pete Hegseth....

This is Trump's former AI adviser

Time's up: no matter if you're a hobbyist or a researcher or you think you're the One Who Can Use It the Right Way Without Harm to Anyone or Anything,* you can oppose this fascist regime, or you can keep your OpenAI/ChatGPT/DALL-E, etc., accounts—but you can't do both. Decide. (*No such thing)

True story: you can go to the search function and type in the words "pay rent" and find dozens of people facing eviction posting each hour, for whom a small collection of strangers tossing $25 in the hat can mean the difference between a warm bed and the street, and reader, it feels so good to do.

People keep marveling that Epstein got away with it and positing elaborate conspiracy theories about how he skirted consequences. The truth is that he painted his victims as prostitutes who happened to be underage and his creepy old buddies agreed he was the victim.

Seems worth noting that ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies more than half the time in a recent study. The company that made that product just signed a deal with the "Department of War" and said trust us, it's all very safe and ethical.

Kennedy just appointed two new members of ACIP. here's what one of them said in 2021 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A goodbye note to co-workers from veteran CBS News producer Mary Walsh: "We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don't know how to do that." (via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social) #$PSKY #$WBD

JUST IN: Trump admin says tariff refund process will proceed but may take long time, opposes speeding up court process. DOJ doesn't say it plans to seek #SCOTUS rehearing, but suggests Congress may act although Trump said flatly last week he would not. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Black History in Carrboro & Chapel Hill: "Northside’s Black population has been heavily displaced by student rental properties, dropping by almost half from 1989 to 2010 before beginning to regrow in 2017..." indyweek.com/news/culture...

New Mexico isn’t waiting for the Trump DOJ to do justice for the victims/survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Courtesy of @repromero.bsky.social, the Epstein Truth Commission has launched & the AG has reopened criminal investigations. Rep. Romero joins me for the latest. youtu.be/Sae2rYhRvxs?...

“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!” - Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo www.propublica.org/article/dill...

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"The Court will not allow federal authorities to use a new and erroneous statutory interpretation to terrorize refugees who immigrated to this country under the promise that they would be welcomed and allowed to live in peace, far from the persecution they fled." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This is negligent homicide. We demand justice for Shah Alam and his family. He was nearly blind, and they left him five miles from his home, forced to try to walk home alone in the dark and the freezing cold.

This is unprecedented. A company owned by the President's family, is seeking approvals from a federal agency over which the President has total control — including to hire & fire the people granting approvals. The company, the deal, the entire process is corrupt to the core.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

Looking for a way to stand up for trans people today? Here's something you can do RIGHT NOW: Take ten minutes to get on the phone and help stop this violent, dangerous bill. The linked post has all the resources you need to make that call. Go go go

Remember that “Kamala’s for they and them, Trump is for you” ad? Yeah, It was never about pronouns with these fascists. It was only ever about erasure and extermination. Meanwhile Trump’s only in it for himself and the billionaires who bought his presidency. Join us at mikesacksforcongress.com

A federal judge on Friday said he would not allow President Donald Trump's administration to "terrorize" Minnesota's 5,600 refugees by arresting and detaining them under a new policy that "turns the refugees' American Dream into a dystopian nightmare."

"For nearly 30 years, he has been a kind of bouncer working the door of the Supreme Court for the white supremacists, rebuffing every attempt Black people have made to achieve equality, fairness, and justice." - 🔥 @elienyc.bsky.social dracarys Clarence Thomas.

If Anita Hill had been believed, the world would be in a better place right now.

This ICE deportation flight operated by Omni Air International is now landing in Sri Lanka. This is the plane that earlier this week sat on a tarmac for almost eight hours before returning to Louisiana. Unknown why but flight data shows it may have had a pressurization problem.

This ICE deportation flight is now landing in Nepal. The migrants onboard have been shackled for at least 31 hours.

Update: I'm working on legislation to ban corrupt and destabilizing prediction markets, where insiders who know the outcome (especially in government) can rig the game to favor certain bets.

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks’ estate over use of her ‘stolen’ cells for medicine

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

I cannot cosign this enough and wow look at that you can hire me tomorrow

“The Ohio EPA released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater directly into rivers and streams.”

The first page of the permit reads: “It has been determined that a lowering of water quality of various waters of the state...is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development in the state of Ohio.”

Trump about to announce he's creating The Supremest Court, which you can join as an associate justice by buying $11 million of his shitcoin and agreeing to adopt Eric.

First of all -- fuck you, Pete. None of this is happening in the faculty lounges of your fever dreams. Second, I've taught military personnel in our PhD programs and if you think slamming the door to Harvard and Princeton in their faces is "having their back" you're even dumber than you sound.

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...