i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.

A total travesty.

That's insane. I mean everyone knows that's insane – right?

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Icymi last month: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into a national criminal database originally built for people convicted of sex offenses and violent crimes

Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.

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I’d love for this insane post to generate 1/3 the coverage that Biden’s debate debacle generated.

The "Detrumpify Yourself" app, also known as "Detrumpez Vous!", is a free, open-source application primarily used in France to identify products with hidden US ownership.

Europeans are boycotting American products and it’s working.

The Mudsill Theory and Karoline Leavitt Education and manual work aren't opposed, and Republicans ought to know it.

This notion, that there always has to be a large underclass of people who aren’t well educated and just do manual work for the rest of us, is called “Mudsill Theory.”
I bristled yet again at what the Party of Lincoln has become.

marypezzulo.substack.com/p/the-mudsil...

Stop the @bsky.app bashing. We’re all under a tremendous strain. We’re not perfect. I block when I need to, but ignore most foolishness.

Don’t become goaded into leaving a platform that’s doing almost all the right things.

To organize for 2026, we need to stay in communication w/each other.

Photograph of several people overlaying their hands in solidarity. I use this photo in the accompanying essay's section on "getting into community" as a great way to keep our spirits up, reenergize, and move forward—together!

My personal essay: "A Different Kind Uncertainty" speaking out on the grave implications of the destruction of US science (including for GIS users). Yea verily, these are far from normal times ....
dusk.geo.orst.edu/uncertainty....
#GISchat #geogchat #geosky ⚒️ 🌊 🌍 🌎 🌏

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

Part 2 - How We Navigate the Next 100 Days So what do we make of all of this?

It’s up! Take your time. But read it. And please subscribe to support the work.

Part 2 - How We Navigate the Next 100 Days
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None of the official ABC tweets or clips from the Trump interview tonight feature the most important clip of all: a demented Trump repeatedly and falsely claiming, and seeming bizarrely to believe, that Albrego Garcia literally had the letters and numbers MS13 on his knuckles.

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

Generative AI is melting our only planet.

Don’t use it.

ChatGPT wastes 10x the amount of water as Google.

And last year, Google was in talks to purchase 8 nuclear reactors in order to power their own AI.

This is not sustainable.

Stop using it today. It’s literal Earth Day.

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.

With Andor Season 2 dropping tomorrow, it's worth recalling that Season 1 contained the best bit of writing ever in Star Wars.

US’s biggest egg producer’s profits triple as prices soar The DoJ is investigating, with Cal-Maine’s profits nearly eight times as high as at the start of the bird flu outbreak

Are you sitting down?
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The US’s largest egg producer reported their profits have TRIPLED.

T-R-I-P-L-E-D

“…soaring profits as consumer prices hit record highs thanks to avian flu – and alleged price-fixing which is being investigated by the DOJ.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to US President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported from the U.S.

Let's see how many Constitutional Rights were violated here.
Amendments-
4th: Unreasonable Search & Seizure
5th: Right to Due Process
6th: Right to Counsel & Fair Trial
8th: Protection from Cruel/Unusual Punishment
14th: Equal Protection
#MomSky
fiftyfifty.one

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Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:

A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.

I would like to amend my prior statement.

Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

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Want to join the resistance but do not know where to start? Start here join our resistance in fighting for all humanity. Follow share and welcome to the resistance!
#MomSky
#MamásConPoder

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A Dipshit's Excuse for Intelligence The era of actual DEI hires.

"It’s an all-timer OPSEC failure, so inexplicably irresponsible and careless and dangerous, that for those of us who have been in these environments, it’s difficult to articulate the stratospheric degree of fuckup this happens to be."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...

Helpful reminder: Your friends are going through the hellscape just like you. They are not ignoring you. Some people tend to isolate themselves in times of stress or depression. Feel free to do a friend check in! #friends #social #mentalhealth

eight days. like to charge, repost to cast.