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Starlight @starlightmilkyway.bsky.social · Apr 5

Every move like this is demonstrative of only one thing: they believe they will always remain in power. There’s no reason to do all this, unless the goal is complete authoritarian control. The human trafficking to a torture prison is meant as a warning of what will happen to those who oppose.

makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Apr 5

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a common feeling across the U.S. right now, a sense of helplessness. Many people want to do more but feel like they can’t. Remember: every action you take pushes the resistance forward.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 5d

The government wants us to recognize Charlie Kirk today. But, today is George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. And, the genocide in Palestine continues after two years.

We have our own people to mourn.

Jennmjacksonphd.substack.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Nth Earl of Inverness; seasonal tortilla chip; AI futures trader @jimmydeltaone.bsky.social · 7d

Humans of New York
We’ve lost a legend. Stephanie ‘Tanqueray’ Johnson passed away last night after suffering a severe stroke. She will be most remembered for holding the world in thrall with her no-holds-barred storytelling about life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970’s. Stephanie was a complicated person. Her public persona was irresistibly charismatic. Yet behind the scenes I’ve rarely met somebody who had such difficulty with close relationships. She was internationally adored, yet intensely lonely. She was desirous of companionship, yet quick to cut people out of her life over the smallest slights. Stephanie told me endless stories about how badly her mother treated her as a child, yet remained capable of exhibiting that same behavior toward others. People are complicated. And the longer you live, the more you realize the most inexcusable behavior often stems from the saddest traumas. There was always a little girl inside of Stephanie who never had a chance to feel safe. A little girl who learned at a young age that the best way to keep from getting hurt was to throw the first punch. But this little girl also had such a love of life. And despite her X-rated stories, and her sharp edges, was capable of such innocence. Stephanie slept with a teddy bear until the day she died. She’d melt in the presence of animals and babies. And until the very end, she laughed like a little girl. In the final weeks of her life all the hard edges melted away. All the defense mechanisms, the learned responses. She reverted back to the little girl she’d been before she’d gotten hurt. And that is the Stephanie that is smiling down on us right now. In her own words: ‘When I get to heaven I hope God shows me a movie of my life. But just the funny parts. Not the in-between parts, cause then we’d both start crying.

Underneath all the laughs and the gags, it was always about one thing: survival. Tanqueray was a lot of fun. But Tanqueray was Stephanie. And Stephanie was a teenage runaway from Albany: doing what she needed to do, and being who she needed to be, to get what she needed to get.” I love ya, Steph. Thanks for taking me, and all of us, on the greatest ride of our lives.
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On Friday night between 8 PM and midnight, the main concourse of Grand Central will transform into a tribute to Stephanie’s life. Thank you, Steph, for being such an important part of Dear New York.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8d

Jorge Ruiz’s blood alcohol level was far below the legal threshold for intoxication.

When his lawyers looked at similar car crash cases, they found that although Ruiz had the lowest amount of alcohol in his system, his sentence was by far the longest.

➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3KDEql5

Article excerpt reads: Then it was Ruiz’s turn. He spoke for the first time in court.

“I want to say that I am sorry to the family,” Ruiz said. “I wouldn’t have wished for this to happen. I wish that this would have only been a dream.”

Lewis peered down from the bench at Ruiz.

“This is America,” Lewis said. “It’s the greatest country in the world and we have the right to trial in this country. I would never penalize you for exercising that right, but Mr. Lively talked about acceptance of responsibility, contrition, remorse. I haven’t seen any of that from you.”

He sentenced Ruiz to the maximum possible punishment, longer even than the 50 years requested by prosecutors: 99 years.

The court went quiet. Even the prosecutor was shocked.

Years later, Robinson remembered that moment. “That was not something that I had expected,” he said.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

One of the only welcome things about this current period in the U.S. is that the "this is not who WE are" stuff might finally be over.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 7d

please explain to me how diane keaton dies at 79 and another 79 yo who lives off mcdonald’s and stares at the sun is doing fine

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10d

Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said.

The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 10d

Everyone associated with this prosecution should end up in front of a bar hearing and subsequently disbarred.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Pikop Andropov @soycomosoy.bsky.social · 13d

PENNSYLVANIA, MAINE & NEVADA VOTERS YOU HAVE TRAITORS

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine - once again broke ranks and voted to advance the GOP stopgap bill.

You know what to do

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MaKettle @makettle.bsky.social · 11d

I was hoping for Star Trek but it looks more like Skynet.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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sunny 🌻 @lolsniperftw.bsky.social · 13d

We're normalizing airplane crashes like school shootings so trump can avoid accountability and jail, got it

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14d

I don’t really understand the people who think we shouldn’t situate the current moment in context of the last 25 years in American politics, including the actions of the three Democrats who were president during that time

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16d

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 16d

Why was Emmett Till killed?
Because a white woman told a lie.

Why was Black Wall Street burned down?
Because a white woman told a lie.

And why did Kyren Lacy take his own life?
Because a white woman told a lie.

Our society infantilizes white women, so much so that we forget they owned slaves too.

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Thee Spooky BlackSky👨🏾‍🍳 @xavierbeloved.blacksky.app · 16d

HE WAS LITERALLY NO WHERE NEAR IT AND THEY CHARGED HIM WITH HOMICIDE

RIP KYREN LACY

Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 16d

www.louisianasports.net/2025/10/03/2...

Video shows Kyren Lacy nearly 100 yards behind fatal crash, attorney says

By Matt Moscona Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78...

www.louisianasports.net

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Ricky @rasolis.bsky.social · 15d

Watching the whole interview will piss you off even more.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwWR...

Kyren Lacy Update: HTV's Martin Folse - Attorney Matt Ory

YouTube video by HTVHouma

m.youtube.com

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A Whisp of Whelm @erikswartz.bsky.social · 15d

Sounds like the police, prosecutors, DA, or whoever is responsible for lying about this need to be arrested and charged with manslaughter for facilitating his suicide.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d

Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78 year-old man, a newly released video shows

Lacy took his own life days before he was set to appear before a grand jury

Video shows Kyren Lacy nearly 100 yards behind fatal crash, attorney says

By Matt Moscona Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was nearly 100 yards behind a fatal crash that killed a 78...

www.louisianasports.net

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