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thebestjayne.bsky.social
Israel's blockade of empathy for Palestinians is finally showing significant cracks
Israeli Allies Ban Trade With Settlements as U.K. Cites ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ (Gift Article)
Britain, Canada and France on Tuesday announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with Britain saying Israel had “turned a blind eye” to violence against Palestinians.
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2026 at 6:55 AM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
No, I don't want to use your app instead of your webpage.

And if you make me use your app, no, I do not want to rate it.

#Enshittification #SurveilanceCulture #IDontWantToUseYourApp
August 24, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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waldo.net
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law.

I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
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August 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
Someone wrote all this down and thought "this will be great for a court filing", which is itself an indictment of our current political and social structures
jimsaksa.com Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · Aug 11
Trump's high school pal, Peter Ticktin, filed a lawsuit on behalf of some January 6ers recently, and it is batshit insane.

I have only read a 10th of this so far, look at these gems
August 11, 2026 at 10:53 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
"Why are you pointing that phone at me?" **suspicion**

#Caturday #CatsOfBsky
A grey striped cat with a white belly curled up on blankets stares suspiciously up at the camera.
August 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
Does anyone in #communications land have recs for books on communications from an #AntiWhiteSupremacy angle?

Maybe from #black, #indigenous, #feminist, #anticolonial, or #community focused authors?

Looking for new (to me) perspectives

#Comms #Bookrecs #PublicRelations #MediaRelations
August 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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murray.senate.gov
The Fifth Circuit just told millions of women that three judges know better than the FDA, their doctors, and 25 years of evidence. They don't.

This restriction on medication abortion is a nationwide abortion restriction, full stop.

I have no intention of letting this stand.
May 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
it is not inevitable or even likely that social media, as we know it, will exist for the rest of our lives. future generations will look much more harshly on this stuff than we do smoking.
quinnslobodian.com Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · Apr 13
The human condition
April 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · Feb 8
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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melbuer.bsky.social
The dildo brigade has come to Los Angeles. Couple dozen people have come to the Metropolitan Detention Center to protest ICE, bringing bags of dildos with them. This is lowkey surreal to see in person
April 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
For the amount the US spends on healthcare, we should have a system where this high-risk pregnant woman isn't SOL when one doc goes on vacation

#USHealthcare #M4A
Screenshot from r/AskDocs 36 weeks pregnant, history of stillbirth, doctor leaving for a month with no alternative OB I am 30F and 36 weeks pregnant. I have a history of going into labor early and have had two stillbirths, two second trimester miscarriages, and one ruptured ectopic. My doctor has just informed me today that he will be going on vacation from the 37th week to the 42nd week of my pregnancy. He is the only doctor at the practice and canceled my remaining appointments. He referred me to an alternative practice for my remaining appointments, and I contacted them and they do not accept my insurance and denied me as a patient. I called my doctor back about this and he responded “uh oh! That’s no good!” and told me he needed to get off the call to perform a c section. I called 20 other practices in my area and they all turned me away due to being high risk and so far along in my pregnancy. I called the hospital where I deliver and asked them what my options were and they gave me a list of five offices, but all were practices that had already turned me away. The planned parenthood in my area doesn’t provide this type of care and told me to call OBs in my area. I left my doctor another voicemail and he never called back. What do I do? How do I obtain care for four weeks? How do I prevent a stillbirth without care?
April 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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adamisacson.com
Hey, has anyone visited TRAC Immigration and looked up asylum denial rates in US immigration courts?

October 2000-January 2025: 56% of cases denied
February-November 2025: 75% denied
December 2025: 84%
January 2026: 91%
February 2026: 95%

tracreports.org/phptools/imm...
Jan-15 45.4% Feb-15 52.4% Mar-15 51.0% Apr-15 49.8% May-15 48.0% Jun-15 47.6% Jul-15 49.5% Aug-15 54.8% Sep-15 53.1% Oct-15 52.1% Nov-15 52.8% Dec-15 53.3% Jan-16 57.2% Feb-16 58.3% Mar-16 56.7% Apr-16 54.2% May-16 55.3% Jun-16 51.9% Jul-16 56.9% Aug-16 56.6% Sep-16 50.3% Oct-16 56.2% Nov-16 55.6% Dec-16 55.1% Jan-17 56.3% Feb-17 59.4% Mar-17 60.3% Apr-17 59.4% May-17 59.9% Jun-17 61.7% Jul-17 65.9% Aug-17 64.2% Sep-17 63.0% Oct-17 63.5% Nov-17 62.3% Dec-17 63.7% Jan-18 62.0% Feb-18 64.5% Mar-18 64.5% Apr-18 61.8% May-18 64.6% Jun-18 66.9% Jul-18 68.6% Aug-18 67.6% Sep-18 68.0% Oct-18 68.5% Nov-18 66.5% Dec-18 67.7% Jan-19 74.1% Feb-19 68.1% Mar-19 69.8% Apr-19 68.4% May-19 65.1% Jun-19 66.0% Jul-19 65.7% Aug-19 68.3% Sep-19 68.5% Oct-19 69.5% Nov-19 67.7% Dec-19 67.0% Jan-20 69.5% Feb-20 70.7% Mar-20 69.3% Apr-20 61.0% May-20 63.7% Jun-20 66.3% Jul-20 59.7% Aug-20 55.7% Sep-20 63.6% Oct-20 63.0% Nov-20 64.9% Dec-20 65.4% Jan-21 62.9% Feb-21 56.7% Mar-21 56.4% Apr-21 58.7% May-21 61.4% Jun-21 55.3% Jul-21 43.7% Aug-21 45.8% Sep-21 47.2% Oct-21 49.3% Nov-21 44.4% Dec-21 44.4% Jan-22 46.7% Feb-22 51.7% Mar-22 49.7% Apr-22 43.8% May-22 41.2% Jun-22 45.8% Jul-22 52.7% Aug-22 55.5% Sep-22 54.0% Oct-22 52.7% Nov-22 50.6% Dec-22 46.8% Jan-23 47.1% Feb-23 49.8% Mar-23 47.8% Apr-23 49.7% May-23 45.8% Jun-23 45.6% Jul-23 45.2% Aug-23 43.4% Sep-23 42.9% Oct-23 44.2% Nov-23 45.5% Dec-23 46.5% Jan-24 47.9% Feb-24 46.4% Mar-24 47.5% Apr-24 49.3% May-24 50.8% Jun-24 50.8% Jul-24 52.1% Aug-24 56.6% Sep-24 59.2% Oct-24 59.1% Nov-24 62.0% Dec-24 60.3% Jan-25 64.1% Feb-25 71.2% Mar-25 73.0% Apr-25 75.1% May-25 75.4% Jun-25 72.0% Jul-25 73.9% Aug-25 74.8% Sep-25 78.3% Oct-25 78.8% Nov-25 78.2% Dec-25 84.4% Jan-26 90.5% Feb-26 94.7%
April 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
Your employer buys EyeMed vision: the premiums go to Luxottica

EyeMed sends you to in-network providers: LensCrafters, Target Optical, Pearle Vision, Glasses'com. Every one is owned by Luxottica

You walk into a store and select frames: Ray-Ban, Oakley, Prada, Coach, Versace. All made by Luxottica
Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose
How an Italian orphan built a $27 billion monopoly that controls the brands, the stores, the lenses, and the insurance.
worse-on-purpose.beehiiv.com
April 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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steventdennis.bsky.social
President Trump threatened to obliterate every power station and bridge in a country of 90 million people on Tuesday night in prime time and basically no one is bothering to even ask him how that is not a “war” that would require authorization from Congress under Article I of the Constitution.
April 7, 2026 at 2:33 AM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
Yesterday, my friend saw a poster at his work about things employees could do for Earth Day

The poster was made by AI
mollytaft.com molly taft @mollytaft.com · Apr 2
NEW: air permit applications for a data center being built with investment from google shows it would rely on a natural gas power plant that emits more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses each year

google has publicly touted its commitment to renewables but appears to be privately eyeing gas
A New Google-Funded Data Center Will Be Powered by a Massive Gas Plant
Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2026 at 7:50 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
But we want daycare, Medicaid, and Medicare.

And we don't want to spend billions of dollars blowing up schoolgirls and oil fields in the middle east.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Apr 1
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
April 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.
April 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
I appreciate that when the #BBC refers to the US birthright citizenship issue they call it "ending birthright citizenship for babies"

US media is afraid of this kind of accuracy
April 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
donimath.org
The Most Pro-Feminist Legislation in a Generation (We Checked the Math)
The SAVE Act has given 69 million American women a financially compelling reason to reclaim their birth names. The Department of Nominal Independence did the math. Congress did not.
donimath.org
April 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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justinlevitt.bsky.social
Trump has not “given” the USPS special control over mail ballots because that is not a thing that is his to give.

PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THAT THE CARNIVAL BARKER HAS MAGIC POWERS JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE HAS MAGIC POWERS.
April 1, 2026 at 2:40 AM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
"All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you"
leguinbot.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Apr 1
I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.
April 1, 2026 at 5:06 AM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
The "are we the baddies" skit but with golden noose pins
April 1, 2026 at 4:40 AM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
*alarm bells ringing intensifies*
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Mar 31
As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Extract List of Jews From Penn The decision to allow the government to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere. • Listen • 3:32 min < 1 TODAY
April 1, 2026 at 1:47 AM
thebestjayne.bsky.social
I feel like my entire life is being lived in between the point that a huge tidal wave casts its shadow over my town and I start yelling about it, and the point where the wave crashes over us and destroys everything.

Anyway how's your Tuesday going?
April 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM