Some exciting news: this morning we launched a collaboration with [@icrc.org](
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International Committee of the Red Cross (@icrc.org)
100 countries, 1 humanitarian mission: to promote respect for the laws of war #IHL and help people caught up in armed conflicts and violence. Com...
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Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict
Navigate the challenging world of trust & safety amidst an unfolding armed conflict.
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Trust & Safety: Armed Conflict
Navigate the challenging world of trust & safety amidst an unfolding armed conflict.
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The view from nowhere reporting style is so stupid. RE:
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Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)
"experts say" https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/business/prescription-drug-prices-trump
There is so much dumb in this, but remember when the GOP flipped out with the (misleading) claim that the IRS was targeting conservative groups and their tax exempt status? And now it's official WH policy for the IRS to target "left" leaning groups in that way. RE:
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Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
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Hey [@schumer.senate.gov](
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Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov)
Official Account of Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator and the Senate Democratic Leader. schumer.senate.gov
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Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social)
Brooklyn Congressman. Democratic Leader. Work hard. Stay focused. Deliver results #ForThePeople.
 ), it's beginning to look like the "kitchen table issue" is fucking corruption. So maybe lean in on that? Otherwise, you guys kinda look... well... corrupt. Or incompetent. RE:
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Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social)
I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: C...
Just recently [@hankgreen.bsky.social](
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Hank Green (@hankgreen.bsky.social)
Long Time Internet Guy
 ) had a good video putting forth a theory as to why a bunch of people are embracing certain drugs as miracle cure-all's. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC9g...]( ) RE:
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Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)
One of the truly weird culture war flashpoints of this era is how an anti-parasitic on the market for 35 years became the right's cure-all snake oi...
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So... who gets to keep the phone numbers and use them "for promotional and marketing messages"? Trump? The RNC? The US government? This all seems very, very sketchy and bad. RE:
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Kate Klonick (@klonick.bsky.social)
So a DC-based colleague sent me this -- but apparently to get alerts from the White House you have to agree to *promotional and marketing messages ...
Stephen Miller's latest method of attacking free speech is falsely claiming that any criticism of authoritarianism incites violence (which isn't even the full Brandenburg standard anyway, but also... is wrong). https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreievfqyhzwo5j7t5otc43ycw2k3dapsfanr2myc5ycbj3p5qcatdyi
Did you hear the story this week about how Google admitted that Biden made it ban people on social media? It's making the rounds in the MAGAverse. It's also not accurate. The real story is Google caving to pressure from Jim Jordan. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong Look, if you want to cut to the ch...
Watching [@dwillner.bsky.social](
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Dave Willner (@dwillner.bsky.social)
Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
 ) give a keynote at TSRC framed around why he hates my impossibility theroem because it's right. But also why there is reason for optimism, in part because of new tech that might provide an answer to it [www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/m...](
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Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information ec...
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Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well
As some people know, I’ve spent a fair bit of time studying economist Kenneth Arrow whose work on endogenous growth theory and information ec...
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