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Iain (一言) Dooley @iaindooley.com · Jan 21

In honour of the re-establishment of US fascism here is a brief thread about money and the concept of #basicincome and #crypto 🪡 🧵

Money is a word used to describe both a state unit of account in which assets and liabilities are denominated, and physical tokens issued by the state …

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Iain (一言) Dooley @iaindooley.com · 7h

Everyone thought the rock in his name was talking about Music

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Mike @mikeyay.bsky.social · 10h

Kid Rock is only qualified to give advice about the quality of meth.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 10h

If life gives you merm…

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 8h

Law enforcement needs to rein in ICE's anti-press abuses and investigate ICE attacks on independent journalists in Chicagoland.

A coalition of press freedom orgs explained why in a letter to the Broadview Police Department and Illinois State Police.

Independent journalists must be protected from ICE attacks

Letter calls on local authorities to investigate all attacks on journalists

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 1d

When I first heard about Stockholm Syndrome, it sounded awful, but now I love it.‬

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Farage and his allies have a long history of being associated with Russian funding and trying to avoid scrutiny and investigation of it. This from 2015:

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 1d

I was on the ground today in Broadview with Senator Durbin to conduct Congressional oversight on ICE’s processing facility.  As elected officials, we have a duty to ensure transparency within federal facilities. What is ICE hiding? Kristi Noem, what are you hiding?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 2d

Claim and celebrate ALL the victories

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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Waffles Mcgrawl @waffles-mcgrawl.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 1d

Go for it, Taylor!

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Kid is part of a research team in NASA’s Growing Beyond Earth study. Today the teams presented their findings. Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Plants for Space at La Trobe University attended. NASA’s rep wasn’t there. Because of the U.S. government shut down

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 2d

This week in American fascism:

Trump orders states to invade each other.

Trump indicts yet another political opponent for having prosecuted him.

Also this week:

Where are the Epstein Files?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 2d

Deloitte wrongly told government officials that errors in a major report authored for the employment department were simply transcription issues when they were actually caused by artificial intelligence www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte blamed ‘transcription issue’ for flawed AI report

The consulting firm is under pressure to repay the full balance of its $440,000 contract, but won’t be pursued by the department that commissioned the work.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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