NEW: On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data to ICE.
www.404media.co/thomson-reut...
I wrote about how the Hasan Piker drama serves as a proxy fight between centrists and the left, and how it exposes the real priorities of Democrats like Cory Booker.
I can’t stop thinking about this.
everything is terrible but at least dr abbot is back on the pitt
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I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.
Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.
This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.
How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
Theme song for Rapture Day:
Local folks—please support this fundraiser for the Arlington Free Clinic. The clinic is such a great resource for the community www.justgiving.com/page/novadsa...
The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."
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“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”
Dr Bill Foege
A rare bit of good news!
Protests get the attention, but D.C. residents have been engaging in smaller acts of resistance to Trump's federal surge. They're recording ICE agents and calling in thousands of sightings to a tip line, helping scared families get kids to school, and more. @51st.news: 51st.news/dc-residents...
on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic
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These data from @adambonica.bsky.social are shocking. Scam PACs and the deluge of fundraising texts are an absolute cancer on the Democratic Party, and it ought to excised with extreme prejudice.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/spam-pacs-...
As anyone who lives in DC knows, it's the residents in Wards 7 & 8, south and east of the Anacostia River, who suffer most from crime.
That's exactly where Trump's show-of-force is NOT deployed: ♦️They're parading (and harassing people) where they'll be seen. NOT fighting crime.
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