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Black Lives Matter
Borderline “friend” who treats me like garbage and tells everyone else we’re moving in together: “Sorry I can’t make it over there today, kisses”
Me: Oh darn! And I was so hoping to have more of your horrendous behavior in my personal space
August 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:
March 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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As a white European man it must be acknowledged that privilege rarely is more on display than at borders.

Even with my history at borders, traveling with non-white friends and family is eye-opening. If we see profiling & discrimination we have a duty to be good allies, and do what we can to help.
March 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Today I saw a high level of anger at the massive number of cops that are protecting a Tesla dealership in Chicago. Lots of chants demanding to know why they are protecting Nazis. No one is letting CPD off the hook. This is what cops do - enable and participate in fascism. #Teslatakedown.
March 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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if you want to harden yourself against propaganda—you are not immune, this vulnerability is a universal feature of the sentient brain, like the propensity to cancer is a universal feature of living cells—consider adopting a religious practice of your choosing, which does not need to be "religion"
January 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Trump thinks we have transgender mice because he doesn't understand what transgenic means.

Hegseth thinks we have gay aircraft because a pilot named his plane after his mother whose surname was Gay.

Musk thinks he saved us money on contracts cancelled when George W. Bush was president.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
March 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What is it with the “we just have to get through the next four years”? How many dictatorships do you know about that have a 4 year time limit?
March 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Premier Wab Kinew of Manitoba MOCKS Trump by signing a “beautiful” order that officially removes ALL American liquor from Canadian stores in his province.

Donald Trump just caused massive economic damage to our country. How sad and embarrassing.
March 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The scam is coming from inside of SSA
NEW: In an email obtained by The Bulwark, the acting Social Security administrator made clear they're going to outsource-privatize operations. The expectation is it will be the call centers that seniors depend on.

w/ @cheetah.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-is-co...
Elon Is Coming for Your Social Security
Plus: Don’t call it a “State of the Union” speech.
www.thebulwark.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal
Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US Israel has cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement to allow…
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Shai Halud returns home after a very busy day of disrupting the Spice harvest
February 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.
February 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.
February 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
All-consuming, visceral fear. And how are you today?
February 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post
February 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.
Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
www.lawdork.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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🚨 SCOOP 🚨

The acting Social Security commissioner has left the agency after a clash over providing DOGE access to sensitive data

It follows our reporting that DOGE is seeking access to personal financial data at the IRS for every taxpayer, business and nonprofit.
Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Country music star Sheryl Crow sold her Tesla and will donate her funds to NPR

“There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla.”

📝 thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

#3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover #TeslaProtests
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.
February 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Oh my god.

They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.

"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"

WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.
February 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks. Indian lawmakers demonstrated outside parliament on Thursday, some wearing shackles and others mocking Trump & Modi. www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/i...
‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump | CNN
US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Tr...
www.cnn.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM