Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
Elon Musk is donating $10 million to a Republican primary candidate in Kentucky.
That’s more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see — much less donate.
Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
Lady Liberty, shot in the head, slumps out of a red Honda SUV like that driven by Renee Good. Yellow warning tape is strung up with "ICE Kills Her" on it.
Justice for Renee Good.
#FuckICE
White house tweet featuring trump with a crown and "long live the king" caption
This aged like fine milk. #NoKings
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.
They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.
Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
Another awesome #InclusiveTech entry from @owlchemylabs.com
#VR #XR #accessibility #inclusion
Excited to be rolling straight from #AWE2025 to the #AccessibleFuturesConference held by the Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Looking forward to figuring out how to apply #InclusiveTech to real #accessibility challenges!
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Great read about a good faith effort to remove bias from AI that failed. Perfect finish:
“We are being seduced by technological solutions for the wrong problems...Why doesn’t the municipality build an algorithm that searches for people who do not apply for social assistance but are entitled to it?”
Headshot of Dylan Fox, Director of Operations at XR Access. A white man with short, curly, dark brown hair and a close beard. Background shows AWE's logo as a spotlight on a city sky.
Excited to be speaking at #AWE2025 for XRAccess! I'll be moderating "Stronger Together: Accessibility & Diversity in a Post-DEIA XR Landscape," where we'll defend why #DEIA makes us more creative, perceptive, and efficient.
#InclusiveTech #XR #a11y
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For anyone interested in #XR #accessibility, come to our XR Access Symposium on June 26-27! We have some great presentations from academics, disabled artists, and more lined up. Join us in NYC or online: xraccess.org/symposium
#XRAccess2025 #a11y #InclusiveTech
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if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
Two weeks to go until the AA Summer Showcase 2025.
Press, email laurakbuzzofficial@gmail.com if you'd like to recieve the showcase video, demos, and interview ops in advance, to get a head start on Summer Games Fest coverage.
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
66,000 tons of food are rotting away in USAID warehouses thanks to Trump and DOGE.
That's enough food to feed more than a million people in the world's poorest countries for three months — including over 480,000 kids.
In what world is starving children "efficient"?
The Social Security Administration (per DOGE) instituted anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone.
Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018%
But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%.
"Efficiency."
If they can get arrested, you can call your representatives! #CivilRights #Disability #a11y
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I've been researching allegations regarding the founder and leadership of AbleGamers. From alleged abuse and harassment, financial mismanagement, and failure of leadership to protect employees, sources recount a hostile environment. Read my latest @ign.com story here: www.ign.com/articles/for...
There are many wonderful game accessibility nonprofits doing life changing work, from SpecialEffect to Makers Making Change, from NothingWithoutUs to Everyone Can, from CapGame to Warfighter Engaged to GameToo to the Let's Play Games Project.
Don't let the current news distract from that.
This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
On Friday, ICE unlawfully deported an American child with cancer.
The four-year-old was sent out of the country without medication, according to reports.
This is the second time the Trump regime has deported a U.S. citizen child with cancer.
The cruelty is staggering.
When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.
Nothing says "we respect the rule of law" like arresting a judge in her own courthouse. #Fascism
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
“Pro-life”
