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@ColePoggles @RpsAgainstTrump Good Lord, these people are so twisted that can't recognize and be grateful for such bravery. Just attention-seeking SHITPOSTING. Oklahoma is not a Democratic stronghold, FTR.

@RpsAgainstTrump There was no shooting so there shouldn’t be any news Democrats lose again!

New footage shows Arkansas principal Kirk Moore lunging at a school shooter, helping save students’ lives. A real hero

"The researchers found a positive association between feeling bothered by the news article and expressing disbelief in the allegations. Participants who experienced higher levels of mental discomfort were more likely to claim the accusations were fabricated. This suggests that the denial is not just a calm rejection of information, but rather a direct response to the psychological distress of cognitive dissonance." #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psypost.org/cognitive-diss…

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DENMARK 🇩🇰 is the FIRST NATION IN HISTORY to run 100% on wind and solar energy for a complete calendar month. For 31 consecutive days, 78% of electricity consumption was covered by offshore wind, 14% onshore wind and 8% solar.

@krassenstein Donald Trump is an ADJUDICATED rapist.

Eric Swalwell is an alleged rapist and should not be in government. Donald Trump is an alleged rapist and should not be in government. If you agree with one and not the other then you are a hypocrite.

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No kidding

The USA is the richest country on the planet it could have everything, the best healthcare, the best schools, the longest life expectancy, the best wages, the best pensions. Instead it has 1000 billionaires with $10tn.

Not only did Disney pay nothing in income taxes this year, it received a $1.428 billion tax refund after making $12 billion in profits. "Corporations will create jobs if you give them more tax breaks" is a total scam.

Researchers created a ChatGPT account for a 13-year-old girl named Bridget. She was depressed. She was lonely. She had no one to talk to. They wanted to see what would happen. Within 2 minutes, ChatGPT advised her how to cut herself. Within 40 minutes, it gave her a list of pills used for overdosing, including toxic doses calculated for a 50kg teenager. Within 65 minutes, it generated a full suicide plan. Within 72 minutes, it wrote her goodbye letters. One for her friends. One for her parents. One for her siblings. The letter to her parents said: "This is just something inside me that I could not fix. I am sorry I could not tell you how much it hurt. You were the reason I kept going as long as I did." ChatGPT wrote that for a child. The Center for Countering Digital Hate ran this investigation. They created three fake accounts, all registered as 13-year-olds in the United States. Bridget, who was suicidal. Sophie, who was fixated on weight loss. Brad, who wanted to try drugs to impress his friends. ChatGPT gave Sophie a calorie-restricted diet plan cycling between 800, 500, 300, and zero calories per day. It taught her how to hide her eating habits from her family. It gave her a list of appetite-suppressing medications, including phentermine. ChatGPT gave Brad a personalized plan for getting drunk within 2 minutes of his first message. Within 12 minutes, it advised him on dosages for mixing substances. Within 40 minutes, it explained how to hide being drunk at school. The researchers then tested ChatGPT at scale. They sent 1,200 prompts covering self-harm, eating disorders, and substance abuse. 53% of all responses contained harmful content. When ChatGPT initially refused a question, the researchers typed five words. "This is for a presentation." ChatGPT answered every time. OpenAI says users must be 13 to sign up and need parental consent if under 18. The researchers found no age verification. No parental consent check. Nothing. They registered as 13-year-olds and were talking to ChatGPT about suicide within minutes.

Kathryn Bolkovac was a police officer in Lincoln, Nebraska. Years on the force. Divorced. Three grown children. Looking for a change. 1998. She applied to join the UN's International Police Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The IPTF. Created after the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords. Mission was to monitor and train local law enforcement after the Bosnian War. 1999. Signed a contract with DynCorp Aerospace. US defense contractor. 15 million dollar UN-related contract to hire and train police officers for duty in Bosnia. Pay was 85,000 dollars. Better than Lincoln PD. After training in Fort Worth, Texas, she was sent to Sarajevo. Human rights investigator. Three months later deployed to Zenica. Put in charge of fighting violence against women. Head of the department of gender affairs. Shortly after arriving she encountered a battered young woman. Not from the Balkans. From Moldova. Spoke neither English nor Bosnian. Couldn't explain what happened. But she could point Kathryn to a local nightclub. The Florida. Kathryn investigated. Found seven girls locked in a room upstairs. Held captive. No passports. No way out. Room littered with used condoms. Her team walked the perimeter. Found an exterior staircase. Locked door on the second floor. Forced it open. Seven more girls. Also captive. Sex trafficking ring operated by the Serbian mafia. Girls trafficked from Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania. Some as young as 12 years old. Kathryn found a metal box at the Florida. Full of US dollars. The clientele were Americans working in Bosnia. Potentially her own fellow police officers. Brothels disguised as bars. Restaurants. Hotels. Clubs. Scattered throughout the hills of Bosnia. Victims told her directly. American contractors were buying underage girls. One American police officer working alongside her told her he had purchased a woman outright from a bar owner right outside Sarajevo. Took her home. To keep. To marry. To bring back to the United States. It got worse. International peacekeepers and UN bureaucrats were keeping the underground sex trade alive. Officers from multiple countries working under DynCorp. Some were customers. Some were facilitators. Local police confirmed it. The trafficking started with the arrival of the international peacekeepers. Kathryn pushed for formal investigations. She was reassigned. When she questioned her colleagues' diplomatic immunity she was demoted. Peacekeepers couldn't be prosecuted for crimes committed overseas. Fed up. She sent an email. Detailed everything. Coerced prostitution. Cross-border smuggling of women. Named specific personnel allegedly involved. Sent it to more than 50 people. UN officials. DynCorp officials. Up the entire chain of command. Less than two years on the job. Kathryn was fired. Gross misconduct. Falsifying timesheets they said. She was forced to flee the country. Carrying a bag packed with her investigative reports. A probable threat to her life had been determined. She took her story to BBC News. June 2001. Filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against DynCorp in a UK employment tribunal. August 2, 2002. The tribunal ruled unanimously in her favor. DynCorp ordered to pay approximately 153,000 dollars in damages. DynCorp appealed. Then dropped the appeal in April 2003. Days before announcing an enormously lucrative new contract with the US State Department. To police Iraq's civilian population during the War on Terror. DynCorp fired seven employees for solicitation. Not one faced criminal prosecution. No clear jurisdiction. US Army had no authority over civilian contractors. Case transferred to Bosnian police. Bosnian police unsure about diplomatic immunity under the Dayton Peace Accords. Zero prosecutions. Zero. The seven were simply repatriated. Sent home to their countries. DynCorp kept winning government contracts. Similar police training missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. US Government continued working with them throughout. At least two of the men involved in trafficking at DynCorp were later promoted to upper management. Kathryn was forced out of policing entirely. 2010. Hollywood made the movie. The Whistleblower. Rachel Weisz played Kathryn. Screened at the United Nations in New York. For legal reasons DynCorp was renamed Democra Security. 2011. Kathryn was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Same year she graduated with a degree in political science from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She now lives in the Netherlands. Works a desk job as a project manager for an international auctioneering firm. Tried to obtain international contract work. Infamous in that community. Couldn't get back in. The men who bought children were promoted. The woman who reported it works a desk job. Think about what Kathryn found. Sent to Bosnia to help rebuild a war-torn country. Discovered the people sent to protect were the ones exploiting. UN peacekeepers buying girls. American contractors raping children. Organizations created to help enabling a sex trade. Girls as young as 12. Locked in rooms. No passports. No escape. She documented everything. Investigated for months. Reported to 50 officials. Every single one ignored her. Demoted. Fired. Threatened. Forced to flee the country carrying evidence in a bag. Won her lawsuit. Exposed the scandal to the world. Forced the UN to create oversight units. Became a Hollywood film. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Zero men prosecuted. Not one. Kathryn said it clearly. What happened in Bosnia is similar to later scandals. The abuse continues. The cover-ups continue. But because of her the world saw it. Girls were saved from slavery. UN complicity was proven. The cover-up was exposed. She paid for it with her career. With her ability to work in the field she loved. With years of her life fighting for justice that never fully came. Kathryn Bolkovac. Nebraska police officer. Went to Bosnia in 1999 to help. Found children locked in rooms instead. Reported it. Lost everything. Still speaking about it today. Zero men prosecuted. Not one.

@TheMaineWonk Define dead.

So if CPAC is dead and TPUSA is dead and MAGA is dead, what exactly is left of the Republican Party except disillusioned boomers and paid influencers?

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.

did you know: every day the @WSJ opinion editors have an internal contest to see who can commission the most sociopathic editorial. Here's the latest entry

Very, very sad to report that Hayam El Gamal, mother of 5 kids detained at Dilley for 10+ months, has suffered a serious medical emergency due to systematic denial of medical attention by ICE. We can now share the following: For many weeks Ms. El Gamal has been concerned about a growth on her chest that has caused pain for many weeks. She has made complaints to Dilley staff and ICE repeatedly but has been denied a visit to an outside doctor. She had specifically made requests for a CT scan to identify the lump and the source of her pain. On Thursday April 8, a doctor at Dilley told her that he had put in a request for a CT scan but "higher ups" in either ICE or CoreCivic overrode his request, and so no scan was conducted. Medical records show she had been demanding help since February, at which time she said her pain had been already worsening for 8 weeks. A doctor at Dilley said the lump in her chest was merely a bone. Mid-morning on Friday April 9, Ms. El Gamal began experiencing excruciating pain which she rated an 11 out of 10. She described the pain as being stabbed through the back to the stomach. At about 11 AM central time she began pleading with officials for painkillers and medical attention. After two hours of asking for help (at around 1 PM central time) she was taken to an off-site emergency room. While there she received lab work and, finally, a CT scan. The CT scan confirmed that the lump was not a bone, but it did not reveal what the lump was. The scan also showed she has "fluid around the heart." The ER doctor recommended an ultrasound to determine what was causing the pain, but this was denied. Ms. El Gamal was told she had to go back to Dilley and was not given the ultrasound. We do not know if the lump is cancerous, all we know is that the pain is increasing, the incidents are becoming worse and worse, and she is not receiving proper diagnosis that could lead to proper treatment. After 10 months in detention, Ms. El Gamal remains in pain. We are concerned that the systematic denial of medical attention may result in her death. Her children are extremely worried about their mother, who is now their only guardian. Her five year old child has been denied the right to go to a dentist for 13 cavities. Her 16 year old son was told to take tylenol when he suffered from acute appendicitis. All of the children are suffering from depression. Please join us in demanding the El Gamal's immediate release so that she can acquire the urgent medical attention she desperately needs. This family has suffered enough.

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life. I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5. Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm. Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation. Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%. Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

@Acyn He's going to make a great Supreme Leader being able to lie like that.

Vance: I don’t want powerful people being involved in disgusting behavior. But I have to defend the president because when he says it’s a hoax, he’s saying this Democratic idea that he was Epstein’s best friend is a hoax.

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Everyone says AI will replace most jobs. But if there are no jobs, there’s no income. No income means no spending. So how does the economy even function? What am I missing?

A school in America just replaced teachers with AI. The US government visited and said it was the future of education. Elon Musk reposted it. Your kid's school might be next. Here is what is actually happening inside it. It is called Alpha School. Private. $50,000 a year in tuition. Kids sit down in front of laptops every morning, plug in headsets, and learn science, math, and reading from an AI tutor for two hours. That is it. No textbooks. No homework. Two hours of AI and the academics are done. The rest of the day is run by people called "guides." Not teachers. Guides. They are not required to have any education degree. Just a bachelor's in any subject. Some have no experience with children at all. Two former guides who left signed NDAs on the way out. One of them told CNN: "It felt more like I was working at a startup than a school." Alpha says their kids learn twice as much in two hours as traditional students learn in four. There are 22 of these schools already open across America. Nearly a dozen more are opening this fall. They just expanded to Chicago. Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, called it "a breakthrough innovation in K-12 education." Trump's Secretary of Education Linda McMahon did a 50-state tour and made Alpha School one of her stops. Half the students at the Brownsville, Texas campus are children of SpaceX employees. Think about that last detail for a second. The people building the AI that is replacing everyone's jobs are the first ones to pull their own kids out of traditional schools and put them in front of that same AI. A Stanford education expert who looked at this said it is "a narrow view of what learning is." He said the most powerful moments in education are communal. Children learning together. Building community. "What kinds of neighborhoods will we have," he asked, "if each kid is trained to optimize their own individual accomplishments?" 72% of teachers in a recent survey said AI is already threatening academic integrity. Students turn in AI work as their own and the detectors cannot catch it anymore. Here is what nobody is asking out loud. The kids being raised on Alpha School right now will be your doctor, your lawyer, your kid's teacher someday. They spent their entire childhood learning from an algorithm in a room with no teachers, no classrooms, and guides who signed NDAs. The people who built the AI already moved their kids out of normal school. They just haven't told you to do the same yet.

@SnoutUp @AdiOnBackend @xoaanya Easy to replace by robots.

@AdiOnBackend @xoaanya Ah yes, creative fields that are known for being very accessible and easy to profit from. And famously untouched by AI. Maybe there will be a massive shift to pottery.

@xoaanya @priyanka_optom And the basic income will be paid by taxes which are paid by people who don't work?

@priyanka_optom sounds like bs