Accidental Decaf

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Works in non-profit Comms, NYC resident. Has been known to shout "Capitalism is obscene!" at parties once or twice.

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So much time and energy was wasted on “free speech absolutism” when it was always a feint to make racism socially acceptable again.

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This is such an upsetting story. Americans got a glimpse of basic work life balance and now it’s being ripped away to make sure the landlords who own office buildings don’t feel sad www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Working from home allowed him to be a more engaged dad. Now it’s overwww.google.com The mayor of Philadelphia ordered all city employees back to the office full-time this summer. Now some workers are wondering whether their jobs are worth the flexibility they're giving up.

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The EPA ordered the Air Force to clean up PFAS-polluted drinking water to Tucson, AZ. The AF has refused, citing the SCOTUS Chevron decision that curtailed the EPA’s rule-making authority. Now they’re at an impasse because the fed government can’t sue itself and Chevron doesn’t curtail enforcement.

US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron rulingwww.theguardian.com EPA says Tucson’s drinking water is contaminated but air force claims agency lacks authority to order cleanup

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This is so fucked. You can’t just let deep pocketed fascists win like this. It just encourages more of the same. “While the WFA denied that GARM’s work had run afoul of the law, it said that the nonprofit did not have the financial resources to continue operating while it fights X in court.”

Advertising Coalition Shuts Down After X, Owned by Elon Musk, Sueswww.nytimes.com The Global Alliance for Responsible Media will dissolve after Mr. Musk accused the group of orchestrating a boycott.

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A few years ago, amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations in comics, I wrote about patronage networks, sexual abuse, and the wreckage that Big Names leave behind and that companies gloss over. It's not about Neil Gaiman, who I didn't know about at the time. But it also...kind of is.

Inside the Comic Book Industry’s Sexual Misconduct Crisis—and the Ugly, Exploitative History That Got It Herewww.thedailybeast.com The storm of allegations against writers including Warren Ellis and Jason Latour is not a sign that the comics industry is broken. It’s a sign it’s running precisely as designed.

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This is one of the most effective ways to work on climate change: elect a better public service commission to regulate your utilities. (if you can, get your commission to be credentialed (and either appointed or elected) rather than just elected) then, yell at your commission at hearings!

Live in Arizona? The commissioners are elected, 3/5 seats are up. Get out the vote.

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In case you've never seen a bitcoin mine. Each of those buildings is packed with fan-cooled processors, generating purely digital wealth at the expense of the Texas electrical grid and all the residents and wildlife in earshot. I hope the civil lawsuits are legendary and financially devastating.

A public health crisis ensued when a Bitcoin mine moved into a small Texas town. In today's episode, we visit Granbury, where the mine's cooling fans are so loud they rattle windows, and residents have migraines and hearing loss. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284

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You know how people are worried about foreign investors buying up US farmland? There's a company that helps them do that! It's like Uber for buying US farmland. And who's one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale? J.D. Vance. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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It's an anti-democratic disgrace that the NYC Mayor's office does not have a way for you to call on the phone to voice your critique of the Mayor's actions or policies. They just shunt you to 311, which is not designed for that. It was like that under de Blasio, too. Trash.

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Officials have encountered many abuses on Oklahoma marijuana farms: bosses who threaten, beat and sexually assault workers, steal their wages, confiscate their IDs, restrict their movements, and force them to work in dangerous and squalid conditions. www.propublica.org/article/mari...

Jiaai Zeng Died Weeks After Starting Work at an Oklahoma Marijuana Farm. His Family Wants Answers.www.propublica.org Thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers suffer abuse and exploitation in a U.S. marijuana underworld dominated by Chinese mafias. A human rights advocate says: “They have not escaped the darkness of C...

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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It's not weird, doomerism is the single most effective disinfo campaign against the youth and the non-youth left, because that's attacking their greatest strengths, their hope and idealism

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If you're going to call a Senator who is not your Senator, call the Senate Majority Leader's office. Schumer's phone number is (202) 224-6542

Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

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I've volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years. And one thing that's always helped when things look bleak is the knowledge that there is ALWAYS something practical you can do to help make things better -- whether through electoral politics or other kinds of service. For example...

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I just called both Schumer and Gillibrand and told them both that Hochul's refusal to obey rule of law and implement congestion pricing is a constitutional crisis that discredits the whole Democratic party. You should call too. Schumer: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand: 202-224-4451

I called Senator Schumer and told him exactly this, in nearly these words. The fight is not just about congestion pricing. It's about the importance of democracy itself, and whether Democrats value democratic rule of law. ☎️ (202) 224-6542 ☎️ (212) 486-4430 @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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If you want to contact your politicians about mask ban bills, here's a template. Necessary change points like titles & name of addressees are highlighted yellow, but feel free to adjust as needed. If bills are already introduced in your area, consider including their exact legislative ID if you can.

Mask Ban Bill Letter or Call Templatedocs.google.com

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My favorite pic from 1969. If you've ever been to free admission day at museum, thank the Art Workers' Collective.

When I was 25 and despairing a mentor mailed a photocopied version of this photo along with a letter to me. I think about this photo regularly. Photo at Kent State, May 4, 1970

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Google has tried for years to push their Nest product into poor people’s homes through public service commissions and with paid advertisements masquerading as white papers. Now it’s going to monetize everyone’s faces and you might never know your own face has been sent in and uploaded for it.

The name I have for people who do this is “former friends.” “…Google Nest and SimpliSafe are using face scan technology that allows users to create a face contact list for friends and family, using pictures you already have. That data then gets used in video doorbells and home cameras.”

Google Nest Wants Your Friends' Faces: Should You Give In?www.cnet.com Google's Nest cams can recognize familiar faces, from a dogwalker to a troubling stalker. Here's what to do with this AI can of worms.

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proposal that we start calling the days when kids, the elderly, and anyone with asthma or other health conditions can’t go outside a Kathy Hochul Day

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This weird idea that "I will have a lot of children and they will all be conservative just like me" makes me wonder if these people have ever ... met other humans?

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Mask bans are strategies of oppression. The bans will first harm disabled, queer, and BIPOC communities. But it’ll cost the rest of you your health and freedom eventually. Disability justice is for everyone; we either die young or live long enough to become disabled. Resist the bans. Wear an n95.

I was nervous to write this bc I know all the outlets I called out have a lot more resources than me; however, I’m simply tired of watching journalists bill themselves as leftists while they silently watch us die. Enough. t.co/5Y4qsQ6B4p

Silence from prominent left outlets continues as mask bans spreadt.co Eugenics has been successfully mainstreamed by libertarian think tanks, yet many popular left-wing journalists look on indifferently.

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unfuckingbelievable. Hochul is proposing banning masks on subway trains, which are often poorly ventilated and jammed full of people. This is sheer fucking insanity.

#ImpeachHochul

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UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.

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Me in December when SCOTUS took the abortion pill case:

The Supreme Court took another abortion case, but the real threat is the media narrative. SCOTUS will likely swat the sham lawsuit away on standing grounds, earning it headlines about “protecting abortion.” But it won’t change the fact that a GOP president could still enact a national ban in 2025

Abortion Access Will, Once Again, Be Decided by the Supreme Courtjezebel.com Experts think SCOTUS will rule against a challenge to mifepristone—which could trick voters into believing they “protected abortion” in a crucial election year.

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absolutely this. republicans thrive on decline! republican policies bring economic decline which brings outmigration of young people and professionals, which strengthens the republican hold on government which brings even more conservative policies which brings greater decline, etc.

People are like "why would these supposedly pro business Republicans be cutting funding for public universities that are huge economic growth engines" and like look at how the richest states vote and how the poorest states vote. If you were a Republican would you want your state to become wealthier?

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NEW: After Netanyahu's government was caught ordering a malign influence operation against US voters last week, WIRED began questioning US lawmakers about it. We've been stonewalled at every turn. The White House even denied having heard of it.

US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaignwww.wired.com Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has joined US intelligence officials in ignoring repeated inquiries about Israel’s “malign” efforts to covertly influence US voters.

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starting to wonder if congestion pricing was paused because the NYPD cops who commute from long island threatened a revolt and eric adams was like kathy, we can't have that

I'm still marveling at the political calculation from Albany Democrats that we shouldn't toll the small number of suburban drivers into the city so, to make up the $1 billion a year in funding that would have taken in, we'll tax everyone who works in Manhattan. [chef's kiss emoji]