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In a world of Jeff Bezoses, be a Marty Baron.

#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

The washington post. Democracy dies in darkness. Bezos turned off the lights.

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Jen’s response to winter is to wear big boots and keep on stomping.

sidewalk chalk drawing of a small furry animal wearing a coat and snow-spattered shoes stomping her way out of a tunnel in a snowbank

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See, this — •this• — is what ICE+CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.

It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:

- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it

…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

@hacks4pancakes Would it be possible to update the alt-text so that it matches the text of the letter? The version I'm reading looks like the OCR missed a little: a capital I was mis-transcribed as the number 1, and the senator's signature was also mis-transcribed.

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NEWS: Dataset 9 of #Epstein Files contains a Signed Oath under Penalty of Perjury asserting Trump threatened an #Epstein victim, stating she could "dissapear like another 12-year-old female," and threatened to kill her whole family. This was from #Epstein court docs in 2016.

#epsteinFiles #usa #news #eu #Europe #uk #EuropeanUnion

Trump Threatens Girl Survivor

14. I personally witnessed Defendant Trump telling the Plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to disappear like the 12-year-old female and that he was capable of having her whole family killed.

15. After leaving the employment of Mr. Epstein in the year 2000, I was personally threatened by Mr. Epstein that I would be killed and my family killed as well if I ever disclosed any of the physical and sexual abuse of minor females that I had personally witnessed by Mr. Epstein or any of his guests.

16. I am coming forward to swear to the truthfulness of the physical and sexual abuse that I personally witnessed of minor females at the hands of Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein, including the Plaintiff, during the time of my employment from the years of 1990-2000 for Mr. Epstein. I swear to these facts under penalty of perjury even though I fully understand that the life of myself and my family is now in grave danger.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED: June 18, 2016

Tiffany Doe, a pseudonym

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⚠️ Call for Fedi Help ⚠️

I know someone near Tidewater Virginia who is in desperate need of friends and support right now. If you live near there, or know someone safe who does, and you want to help save a life, please reach out. If not, you can still help by sharing this.

Thank you. I means a *lot* to me ❤️‍🩹

#FediHelp #MutualAid #SocialSupport #PleaseBoost

@mekkaokereke @JosephLeedy I missed the point where she said she looked them up in the school files. 2x playback on youtube.

But my concern remains: you don't need access to confidential info to fink someone out. Saying that I didn't think it was illegal doesn't mean I think it's right.

And THAT'S what disturbs me: how easy it is to turn someone over to the US's face-masked, pepper-spraying, warrant-omitting band of public executioners.

I'm delighted to find out that this particular person may have broken the law in her enthusiastic persecution of someone with skin darker than neighborhood averages.

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I very much hope this is true

A letter to a newspaper which reads "Sir, your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge's robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: "We meet at last, Mr Bond""

@mekkaokereke @JosephLeedy I'm more concerned because I think she DIDN'T violate any laws.

1) child who doesn't look like neighbors exists;

2) child has parents who live at a given address (or, child lives at given address);

3) tell someone else items 1&2

I grew up in the days of phone books, when it was normal to go from a name to an address and phone number.

Sure, adding in the info on the parents' country of origin was icing (ahem) on the cake, but wasn't needed for the report to be just as deadly if this had been a real site and not a honeypot for racist a-holes.

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Doing my best to recognize the good when I experience it:

1- the delightful feeling of motorbiking on a sunny day, wind in my hair, passing a body of water, the breeze cools all around us.

2- appreciating the people here who are calling out bullshit and lifting up those that are struggling. If ever there was a week I want to quit fedi, it's this week. Please be kind.

3- meditating with Buddha at my favorite temple I hear the sound of someone imitating the birds calling around us. I peek to see a young father, restless baby in his arms. He is calming her by simply holding her, walking gently, listening to the environment and responding with his own calls, teaching his daughter the language of birds, birds calling to let us know it's safe here, no predators around.

#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings #gratitude #blog #BlessedConsciousLife

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/116010818027590029

seriously this "tie an llm to a public interface and let it do things for you on your computer with your credentials" trend has me literally, in real life, with my actual-ass voice, screaming.

especially since the dipshit who perpetrated this fucking mess says he never bothered reading the code itself

and the fucking thing's over half a million lines

just

completely unauditable and completely a fucking ddos against any ability to comprehend the workflow whatsoever.

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@darkuncle speaking as someone who just took a Safety Science course...

If you fire people for making mistakes you will teach everyone to hide their mistakes. 😬

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Putting data centers in space doesn't really make sense unless you think it puts them beyond the reach of the law.

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Librarian Cat reminds you to get a good night's sleep.

Daisy the Kitten rests her head on Vernor Vinge's best sci-fi novel. The rest of her is hidden in the shadows of the bookshelf.

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Here in Minnesota, if the groundhog is brown then we get 6 more weeks of ICE

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Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90
Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination).

Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law.

Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly
scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously
does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs
will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to
take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section
IV.B.2.b.
Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not
cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains
unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959
lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our
economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into
the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn
the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of
them.
For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under
5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

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Hey everyone! Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today! But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold. I just resorted our list to put those on the top. Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

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As we guessed, it seems that despite Google saying they were not making recordings of people's voices and mining them for advertisers, they were doing exactly that.

If it was a colleague caught wiretapping the workplace, we'd have them sacked and never speak to nor trust them again. In the case of Google, it's even more personal.

No Google service is free. We are the terrain they extract from. We always pay.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-settlement-68-million/

#bigtech

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Say, "Hi!" to Rocky the rock rabbit!
Ochotona princeps (American pika).

Pika are so cool. And they like it cool. Sadly, climate change is causing them to climb ever higher up their mountains, & in some areas, the mountains are no longer high enough. Pika don't hibernate. They live in their little caves under talus & scree, munch on the haystacks they built over the summer, beneath tons of snow. And they make the cutest call, "Eeeep!"

#Wildlife #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Photography #Darktable

A color photo of a small furry mouse like animal with round Mickey Mouse ears and very long whiskers. The pika is looking out from a small cave like opening under a pile of angular rocks.

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:pidge: It's my birthday, gimme boosts :pidge:

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