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Are LLMs used in the military? No, it's Maven
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Is it?
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U.S. troops to Iran? Join tomorrow’s (3/7) nationwide protests!
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BREAKING: New reports suggest that the Pentagon may be preparing to deploy the 82nd Airborne Division to take part in a ground invasion of Iran. The Washington Post reports that this elite unit has been instructed not to participate in scheduled exercises, and is awaiting further orders. Will they be the first "boots on the ground" as Trump escalates the war with Iran to new heights?
A U.S. ground invasion would be absolutely catastrophic. Huge numbers of U.S. troops would die, unthinkable Iranian casualties would ensue, and the economic crisis would deepen. It would be just like George Bush's disastrous invasion of Iraq, but perhaps even more bloody. The U.S. public knows this — that's why Trump administration officials have lied about their intentions so insistently.
Now is the decisive moment. The people of this country need to take a stand before it's too late and Trump plunges us into yet another forever war in the Middle East.
Protests are taking place nationwide tomorrow as part of a powerful coordination day of action. Join a demonstration near you!
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Akron, OH
Highland Square
12:00 p.m.Aliso Viejo, CA
Aliso Creek Road & Enterprise
11:00 a.m.Allenstown, NH
Memorial Park Main St, Durham, NH
6:00 p.m.Allentown, PA
Memorial Park Main St, Durham, NH
6:00 p.m.Anchorage, AK
Anchorage Veteran's Memorial (W. 10th Ave & I St.)
5:30 p.m.Asheville, NC
Pack Square
2:00 p.m.Baltimore, Maryland
G.H. Fallon Federal Building (31 Hopkins Pl)
4:00 p.m.Baton Rouge, LA
7122 Perkins Rd
2:00 p.m.Bennington, VT
Main Street - Four Corners
10:00 a.m.Brainerd, MN
Intersection of Sixth and Washington Streets, across from the historic Brainerd water tower
1:00 p.m.Boise, ID
Boise City Hall
5:30 p.m.Cadillac, MI
Shay Locomotive (130 W Cass St)
10:00 a.m.Charlotte, NC
CLT Military Entrance Processing Station
12:00 p.m.Chicago, IL
Water Tower Park, 806 N Michigan Ave
12:00 p.m.Cincinnati, OH
Jacob Hoffner Park - 4109 Hamilton Ave
3:00 p.m.Cleveland, OH
W 25th Market Square
5:30 p.m.Columbia, SC
City Hall (1737 Main St.)
11:30 a.m. — March to State House at 12:00 p.m.Corvallis, OR
Benton County Circuit Court
12:00 p.m.Columbus, OH
Ohio Statehouse
4:00 p.m.Dayton, OH
Dayton Courthouse Square
3:00 p.m.Eugene, OR
Wayne Lyman Morse Federal Courthouse
2:00 p.m.Fort Myers, FL
Corner of Daniels Pkwy and Cleveland Ave
9:00 a.m.Fresno, CA
Blackstone and Nees
3:00 p.m.Gainesville, FL
Alachua County Clerks Office - 201 E University Ave
4:00 p.m.Hudson, NY
5th & Warren Sts.
11:00 a.m.Indiana, PA
IRMC Park - North 7th Street
12:00 p.m.Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Statehouse, east side
2:00 p.m.Junction City, OR
Eugene Federal Courthouse
2:00 p.m.Kent, OH
Downtown Kent (Gazebo)
2:00 p.m.Kingston, NY
Academy Green Park
3:00 p.m.Lake Forest Park, WA
Intersection of Bothell Way and Ballinger Way
11:00 a.m.Lancaster, PA
Penn Square, King & Queen St
12:00 p.m.Largo, FL
Central Park
5:30 p.m.Las Vegas, NV
City Hall - 495 S. Main Street
6:00 p.m.Long Beach, CA
Cherry Ave and Ocean Blvd
2:00 p.m.Los Angeles, CA
LA City Hall
2:00 p.m.Lowell, MA
Lowell City Hall
4:00 p.m.Montpelier, VT
Vermont State House
5:00 p.m.New London, CT
70 Huntington street
12:00 p.m.New Orleans, LA
Congo Square
4:30 p.m.New York, NY
Union Square
2:00 p.m.Oneida, NY
Oneida City Building - 109 N Main Street
4:00 p.m.Pittsburgh, PA
Corner of S. Highland Avenue & Penn Avenue
2:00 p.m.Richmond, VA
Monroe Park
1:00 p.m.St. Louis, MO
Arsenal and Grand
1:00 p.m.Salem, MA
Riley Plaza
12:00 p.m.San Diego, CA
4812 W Point Loma Blvd
10:00 a.m.San Francisco, CA
Embarcadero Plaza
2:00 p.m.San Jose, CA
Cesar Chavez Plaza
2:00 p.m.Santa Ana, TX
411 W 4th St
3:00 p.m.Twin Cities, MN
Chicago Ave & Franklin Ave
3:00 p.m.Washington, DC
White House
3:00 p.m.West Springfield, MA
Park Street, Town Common
2:00 p.m.Wilton, NH
NH State House, 107 North Main Street, Concord, NH
2:00 p.m.
(Taken from an email sent to me by the ANSWER Coalition. Emphasis original.)
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I don't think so. Who is going to over turn it, the Democrats? The Republicans?
I'm so fucking ready to vote. I'd vote right now if I could!
They want violence so martial law can be declared. Sharing this article actually promotes their agenda.
This is disgusting... Absolutely sick and depraved.
Hell on earth, obviously.
How is this your outlook? I'm very confused.
In sorry, the idea that injunctions would prevent this is laughable. In many states the state police are directly collaborating with ICE. What procedure are you even imagining? You want the deportations so long as it's done so in a professional way? The legal system is dead, only it's ghost remains and this regime doesn't believe in ghosts.
This view provides an interesting detail. He walks around the car with the phone, documenting the plates and the bumper stickers, and then before he walks in front of it a second time (for what reason?) he switches the hand with which he is holding the phone to free up his right hand. In a video from another angle, you can see he starts reaching for his gun when she's still in reverse, or at least before she accelerates. So to me, it seems like he's performing the behavior that was mentioned in a 2013 paper on CBP use of force. In that report, they mentioned agents were standing in front of cars about to flee, and then shooting the drivers in frustration and then claiming self-defense. Here, Ross positions himself in front of a fleeing person (but just barely, so he can still step out of the way) and uses them hitting the gas as an excuse to use deadly force. The fact he says "fucking bitch" afterward and also flees the scene suggests he killed her with malice and knew it was unjustified.
Here is an article about the use of force paper from 2014 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/
This has been a great early Christmas gift!
Actually, he just pissed and moaned for, like, 30 min and didn't even hint at a war. Fantastic stuff.
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Blaming "protest‑non‑voters" for ICE brutality misses why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, and why Democrats keep failing vulnerable communities.
Yes, Gaza cost Harris votes: about 422,000 Democratic‑leaning voters stayed home or voted third‑party, with roughly 122,380 directly linked to protest (Al‑Shabaka). But protest voters were a smaller factor compared to the 6.8 million former Biden voters who switched sides or stayed home due to broader campaign failures (Common Dreams).
The Democratic Party’s own autopsy points to larger failures: voter disenchantment as millions switched sides or stayed home, a chaotic primary process, abandoning the working class to court Republicans and donors, alienating young and minority voters over Gaza and the economy, and losing Black and Latino voters who shifted toward Trump (NPR).
ICE brutality isn’t a Trump‑only problem. Obama deported a record 2.7 million people (Migration Policy Institute). Biden’s Title 42 expulsions removed over 2.5 million migrants without asylum hearings (PBS NewsHour). The agency’s culture of violence was built by successive administrations.
When we blame individuals who refused to vote for a candidate supporting genocide, we ignore why Democrats offered such a candidate. The answer isn’t that voters failed the party, it’s that the party failed voters. A political machine funded by corporate donors cannot deliver protection for vulnerable people.
If we want to stop ICE brutality, we need to confront the system that produces both Republican and Democratic presidents who expand its powers. Focusing on “protest‑non‑voters” lets that system off the hook.
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Curious if any of you could do a better job of explaining this persons position here.