Soraya Nadia McDonald

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Superbly written and argued, as always, by @adamserwer.bsky.social

Biden Must Resignwww.theatlantic.com If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.

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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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Tom Swanson

I bet you draw your pentagrams with dish detergent, don't you? Smh. Amateur

I hope it goes bankrupt

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors to its newly launched Reader app. The company said the app takes articles, PDF, ePub, newsletters, e-books or any other text on your phone and turns it into voice-overs.

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesscnn.it Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...

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i'm stuck on the "bloodless if the left allows it to be" phrasing like "we won't kill you if you just let us do what we want" is what terrorists say

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

not even denying the Proud Boy brownshirt element anymore, just issuing more commands

well at least neoliberals are consistent in never reading the fucking room correctly

Galaxy brain moves afoot “In recent days, some company leaders and Democratic political operatives have called the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, according to someone with knowledge of the calls, to gauge his interest in replacing Mr. Biden”

Big Donors Turn on Biden. Quietly.www.nytimes.com Some of the president’s past supporters want a new candidate, but they are leery of going public.

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"journalism isn't profitable" until you remove the fail upward brunchlords consistently soaking up outsized compensation despite making endless, terrible choices

The Real Story of the Crisis at The Washington Postwww.theatlantic.com How the world’s greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch

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Luckily, when we hear the excuse "we were just following orders" there's nothing horrific that comes to mind.

Seems crazy! But just logical. If a President cannot commit a crime in the course of an official act, like giving an order to the military, how can you prosecute the person who follows the order? There’s a whole code of military conduct about “illegal orders.” All orders are legal now.

"Just roll over and we won't bump stock you."

The president of the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank behind the Project 2025 plans for a second Trump administration, said the country was “in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’www.nytimes.com Kevin Roberts, president of the group that has coordinated the Project 2025 policy plan, said it could be “bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...

Abortion Fund Leaders Have A Stark Warning For Allwww.huffpost.com After the overturn of Roe v. Wade, donations flowed to abortion funds, but over time the money has dried up -- endangering care for people across the country.

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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 www.404media.co/google-ai-po...

Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bugwww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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Anyway here’s a read about a civil rights attorney risking her freedom to tackle racist policing.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.www.washingtonpost.com How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

"When Daniels was asked if she feared Trump returning to the White House, she envisioned him trying to make an example of her. She suggested his followers may be “more bold” in the future because they could perhaps obtain a presidential pardon from him for any illegal acts."

"her animals have been injured..." I get the sense a lot of violence has been committed by Trump supporters over the past year that just hasn't been reported on yet for fear of inspiring more.

Stormy Daniels Reveals Just How Scary Things Have Gotten For Her Since Trump Convictionwww.huffpost.com “People don’t care,” said Daniels, who explained how chilling threats from Trump supporters have become “so much more graphic and detailed and brazen.”

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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task

John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life

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it's gita time

Definitely heard this in Sean Paul's voice

oh you sweet summer children everyone knows the earth is a rhombus

round earther

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Category error watch. People keep assuming legal proceduralism will apply in an authoritarian state.

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Shiv Ramdas

Payqalled alas, it was for an anthology, but if youre feeling up to it ans want to read some really cool stories besides this one too direct.mit.edu/books/book/5...

Company Man | Communications BreakdownSF Stories about the Future of Connection | Books Gateway | MIT Pressdirect.mit.edu

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I wrote a story literally about this!

Brb declaring myself a corporation so I can have some rights

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I think what reveals how unaware of this they are is that they don’t realize that their lives actually hang in the balance here. They will be the first targeted. And they just seem to be completely unaware of this.

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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.

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And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

Self care! Madness

It was one of the first things my mother noticed when we moved to the US and she started raising money for March of Dimes and UNICEF

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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All this AI shit is just plagiarism software. It's code centipede. The shitiest ouroboros imaginable.

Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app techcrunch.com/2024/...

Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com The Make Design feature is available within Figma's software and will generate UI (user interface) layouts and components from text prompts.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki

The contempt this country has for children, especially poor children, is foundational too

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Reconstruction 2: This Time It’s Personal

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universal basic electricity minimum for every human on the planet before AI gets another milliwatt.

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public services

Millions in Nigeria have little to no electricity. It's straining businesses and public servicesapnews.com The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. Schools like Excellent Moral in Ibadan, near Lagos, operate in darkness due to zero grid access, depriving students of essential tools like computers.