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The Pioneer Press is refusing to agree to common sense guardrails around the use of AI. Our democracy depends on a free press by the (literal) people and for the people. Please sign on to this petition telling the Pioneer Press: No AI Slop in Our News. act.aflcio.org/letters/tell...

Never let them tell you how to protest or that you shouldn’t protest. Never let them confuse protests and parades

The people of Toronto have shown up big to protect their bike lanes from removal. Will Americans stand with them? buff.ly/9lfplyZ

In August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay,” Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore in a phone call from the detention facility. “Just like kidnapping.”

“When New York legislators approved the state budget earlier this year, they folded in legislation to protect immigrant communities from President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown.” 🔗

#neurodivergent #nightowl #introvert

Well, I'll damned. 🤔

Life is hard; here’s a pick-me-up:

NEW: Musician, carpenter and labor organizer Emmett Doyle spoke to Unicorn Riot about being one of the 15 Minnesotans who were federally charged with conspiracy over their organizing earlier this year against ICE’s deadly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, has something to say to us today: “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."

It occurred to me last yesterday that perhaps i shouldn't be looking for adhd friendly jobs (some of them ive already worked/an working) but rather autistic friendly jobs. Anybody got any ideas what those would be?

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

shoutout to Senator Jack Reed (@reed.senate.gov) who was briefed on this a week ago but hasn't bothered to tell us plebes!

1953 - Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High The Moon Including the introduction which shows what an amazingly futuristic thing this was in the 50s, hell it sounds like a lost future even now, why didn't more people do this? (Record is 1951 as anyone will know from the most recent mix, but vid is 53)

New: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:

Can the school board prove that these devastating cuts are worth something?

Tbh it feels as good seeing signs for the socialists running everywhere for everything up in your neighbors' windows & on their lawns as it feels bad thinking about all the cowards who got us here who demand we beg them for more Feels better, seeing it, actually, than it feels bad needing to see it

The vast majority of Democratic voters believe Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza. According to a new poll, 57% of them believe the officials who enabled it in both the Trump and Biden administrations should face prosecution.

NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3M Gallon Spill After the largest oil & gas spill in WI history, Enbridge's defiance of legalities raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations. Article at our site.

“Highest temperature ever recorded… several months before its peak”

“I do hope you’ve been enjoying those steaks and that they’ve been prepared to your satisfaction—but now comes the delightful surprise.” — Emile Bernier

Nearly 150 Allina hospital doctors walk off the job in historic 4-day strike in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/14/n...

As rent and other living expenses rise, Minnesotans are facing affordability challenges. But you don’t have to work through these problems alone. On Sept. 24, join us at Mixed Blood Theatre to hear insights from housing advocates and what resources are available. sahanjournal.com/inside-sahan...

Journalist Arrested While Documenting Legally Contested Enbridge Line 5 Construction

Creative? Unconventional? Gimmicky? Just icky? 🤷‍♀️ Yes, we are actually making climate awareness sexy (and funny, and edgy, and fun) and reaching different audiences with the help of the most famous and BIGGEST 😉 OnlyFans stars on the planet.

Also stop using our tax money to kill kids. Somehow that seems to be the hardest one to swallow. Prayers for Palestine, for Sudan, for Congo.

Clue is a fantastic movie, hilarious all the way through! Glad my grandma rented it for me and my brother when we were young (my parents would not approve) may they both RIP. Also his pennywise freaks me out to this day

Paint and plastic sticks will never be enough to enable children, seniors, or anyone of any age who is concerned with their safety to ride a bike for transportation. This bike lane design is car infrastructure and nothing more. Intentional, solid, separated design is what it takes and nothing less.