Javel Antecedes
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If states can use nullification for cannabis legalization, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism by withholding federal taxes?
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Experts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s Precedent
If we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism?
medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If states can use nullification for cannabis legalization, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism by withholding federal taxes?
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To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:
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This is the Surrender Caucus:
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is the Surrender Caucus:
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The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.
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Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
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John Thune voted to acquit trump after the insurrection. Thune voted for ACB after people had begun voting in 2020 after his party withheld a Dem nomination for a year because it was "too close to the election". Dick Durbin is either corrupt or stupid. I'll go with both. #cave #Durbin #Democrats
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
John Thune voted to acquit trump after the insurrection. Thune voted for ACB after people had begun voting in 2020 after his party withheld a Dem nomination for a year because it was "too close to the election". Dick Durbin is either corrupt or stupid. I'll go with both. #cave #Durbin #Democrats
#Schumer is a weak and feckless leader and the eight Democrats voting to end the shutdown sold us all out.
#Durbin said “I was counting on [Thune] to keep his word,” on the ACA vote and “He assured me he would,”.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#Durbin said “I was counting on [Thune] to keep his word,” on the ACA vote and “He assured me he would,”.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
How Senate Republicans won the last vote to end the shutdown
Sen. Tim Kaine wanted a “moratorium on mischief” from the Trump administration. He didn't get it until Sunday night.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
#Schumer is a weak and feckless leader and the eight Democrats voting to end the shutdown sold us all out.
#Durbin said “I was counting on [Thune] to keep his word,” on the ACA vote and “He assured me he would,”.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
#Durbin said “I was counting on [Thune] to keep his word,” on the ACA vote and “He assured me he would,”.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Remember these names and vote them out of office.
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Remember these names and vote them out of office.
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Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant
thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a-d...
Discuss: www.sqox.com/c/?id=8b3f73...
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Discuss: www.sqox.com/c/?id=8b3f73...
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
The Python Software Foundation's courageous refusal of an anti-DEI $1.5 million federal grant immediately triggered an extraordinary outpouring of community support.
thenewstack.io
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant
thenewstack.io/psf-gets-a-d...
Discuss: www.sqox.com/c/?id=8b3f73...
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Discuss: www.sqox.com/c/?id=8b3f73...
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80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Here are the eight Democrats that voted with Republicans to get to 60. Remember their names:
#CortezMasto
#Durbin
#Fetterman
#Hassan
#Kaine
#King
#Rosen
#Shaheen
#CortezMasto
#Durbin
#Fetterman
#Hassan
#Kaine
#King
#Rosen
#Shaheen
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Here are the eight Democrats that voted with Republicans to get to 60. Remember their names:
#CortezMasto
#Durbin
#Fetterman
#Hassan
#Kaine
#King
#Rosen
#Shaheen
#CortezMasto
#Durbin
#Fetterman
#Hassan
#Kaine
#King
#Rosen
#Shaheen
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ICE is denying people their due process rights and endangering their lives in the process.
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
ICE is denying people their due process rights and endangering their lives in the process.
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”
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“When people understand that Flock data can be used to track them exercising reproductive freedom or to facilitate federal immigration enforcement, the calculus around ‘public safety’ technology changes entirely,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.
arstechnica.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“When people understand that Flock data can be used to track them exercising reproductive freedom or to facilitate federal immigration enforcement, the calculus around ‘public safety’ technology changes entirely,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
The ACLU calls on governors and mayors to adopt model executive orders that refuse any voluntary cooperation with Trump’s NSPM‑7, protecting nonprofits from politically‑driven raids and data grabs—a crucial safeguard for civil society.
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How Governors and Mayors Can Protect Nonprofits from Trump's NSPM-7 | ACLU
President Trump’s new directive, NSPM-7, targets charities and advocacy groups under the guise of national security. State governors and local mayors can protect them by refusing to cooperate with pol...
www.aclu.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The ACLU calls on governors and mayors to adopt model executive orders that refuse any voluntary cooperation with Trump’s NSPM‑7, protecting nonprofits from politically‑driven raids and data grabs—a crucial safeguard for civil society.
www.aclu.org/news/nationa...
www.aclu.org/news/nationa...
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A law that requires "age assurance" sounds reasonable and moderate. But if that law defines age assurance as requiring government ID verification, it's not moderate at all—it's mass surveillance. Here’s a guide to what all those terms mean: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the
If you've been following the wave of age-gating laws sweeping across the country and the globe, you've probably noticed that lawmakers, tech companies, and advocates all seem to be using different
www.eff.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A law that requires "age assurance" sounds reasonable and moderate. But if that law defines age assurance as requiring government ID verification, it's not moderate at all—it's mass surveillance. Here’s a guide to what all those terms mean: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Jonathan Capehart: "National Guard troops in LA, Portland, Chicago, and threatening to use them in New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins the election on Tuesday — that sends a different kind of message. That is a threat to democracy message that a lot of people take."
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Jonathan Capehart: "National Guard troops in LA, Portland, Chicago, and threatening to use them in New York City if Zohran Mamdani wins the election on Tuesday — that sends a different kind of message. That is a threat to democracy message that a lot of people take."
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WTF. Everyone, cameras out. Get it all on video.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
WTF. Everyone, cameras out. Get it all on video.
The mission of the #Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The mission of the #Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
Questions? Questions?! Please quit denying the facts and evidence.
Exhibit F: NBC 5 INVESTIGATES
Videos raise questions about if feds violated use of force policy, judge's order
Agents struck protesters in the head and back with pepper balls.
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
Videos raise questions about if feds violated use of force policy, judge's order
Agents struck protesters in the head and back with pepper balls.
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...
Videos raise questions about if Border Patrol's actions violated use of force policy, judge's order
Videos raise questions about if Border Patrol actions violate the agency's use of force policies and a federal judge's standing order.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Questions? Questions?! Please quit denying the facts and evidence.
My employer announced an RTO policy after a round of early retirement. The RTO policy doesn't even impact me (currently), yet I am looking for another job. They are centralizing departments — our division is losing it's autonomy and value as responsibilities as a result.
RTO became a natural, if completely illogical, weeding-out mechanism. f-st.co/PMM6ALB
Return-to-office mandates are about to backfire
Why companies demanding office returns are setting themselves up for failure.
f-st.co
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My employer announced an RTO policy after a round of early retirement. The RTO policy doesn't even impact me (currently), yet I am looking for another job. They are centralizing departments — our division is losing it's autonomy and value as responsibilities as a result.
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"The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny."
~ Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father
~ Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father
October 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny."
~ Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father
~ Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father
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When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.
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This is the guy who lied on the stand at a trial in LA, telling the jury he witnessed the defendant assault the ICE officer, when the video showed the ICE officer assault the defendant. The jury took an hour to acquit. He's referred to immigrants as "filth, trash, and scum."
Federal judge in Chicago has ordered U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to attend a hearing in her courtroom next week, after he was accused of violating a temporary restraining order limiting federal agents' use of certain tactics
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino ordered to face federal judge in Chicago, after being accused of violating court order
A federal judge in Chicago has ordered Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to attend a hearing in her courtroom next week, amid concerns about federal agents' aggressive tactics during immigration ...
www.cbsnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This is the guy who lied on the stand at a trial in LA, telling the jury he witnessed the defendant assault the ICE officer, when the video showed the ICE officer assault the defendant. The jury took an hour to acquit. He's referred to immigrants as "filth, trash, and scum."
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Silos and privacy protections preventing the centralization of government information exist for an important reason: to protect us from reprisals and retribution. Consolidating all government information is a serious danger to us all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Dangers of Consolidating All Government Information
The Trump administration has been heavily invested in consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, or perhaps AI-queryable, super database. The compiling of all of this
www.eff.org
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Silos and privacy protections preventing the centralization of government information exist for an important reason: to protect us from reprisals and retribution. Consolidating all government information is a serious danger to us all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...