Faldoun Goboom
@atiny1118.bsky.social
Proud resident of the Country of California.
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. -James Baldwin
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. -James Baldwin
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Flipping back and forth between CNN and MSNBC wondering if they're showing any part of the House fight over the biggest bill in recent history and, no, they're reporting on Puff Daddy's trial and something about hot dogs, so
July 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Flipping back and forth between CNN and MSNBC wondering if they're showing any part of the House fight over the biggest bill in recent history and, no, they're reporting on Puff Daddy's trial and something about hot dogs, so
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Tomorrow's wildly expensive parade—on which the Army alone has said it is spending up to $45 million—and the upcoming 250th anniversary celebrations have become a source of lucrative job and contract opportunities for Trumpworld operatives.
How MAGA took over America’s 250th birthday
Trump's military parade is just the beginning.
www.motherjones.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Tomorrow's wildly expensive parade—on which the Army alone has said it is spending up to $45 million—and the upcoming 250th anniversary celebrations have become a source of lucrative job and contract opportunities for Trumpworld operatives.
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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
Proud Californian, and I 100% agree! Where is everyone else??
Where are the rest of the state Governors? They should also be talking about this.
June 12, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Proud Californian, and I 100% agree! Where is everyone else??
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Since the beginning of his first term, Trump has publicly glorified police brutality, directly encouraging officers to behave more violently than they already do, and making it one of his biggest laugh and applause lines at rallies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'American Death Squads': Inside Trump's Push to Make Police More Violent
Donald Trump wants to push cops to be as brutal as possible and shield them from accountability.
www.rollingstone.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Since the beginning of his first term, Trump has publicly glorified police brutality, directly encouraging officers to behave more violently than they already do, and making it one of his biggest laugh and applause lines at rallies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with…
propub.li
March 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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Last week, Trump revoked a policy prohibiting federal contractors from having segregated facilities.
Today, Republicans are opposing my amendment to ban segregation.
They literally want to take America back to Jim Crow.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2WbyXJK/
Today, Republicans are opposing my amendment to ban segregation.
They literally want to take America back to Jim Crow.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2WbyXJK/
Last week, Trump revoked a policy prohibiting federal contractors from having segregated facilities. Today, Republicans are opposing my amendment to ban segregation. They literally want to take Americ...
TikTok video by Rep. Pressley
www.tiktok.com
March 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Last week, Trump revoked a policy prohibiting federal contractors from having segregated facilities.
Today, Republicans are opposing my amendment to ban segregation.
They literally want to take America back to Jim Crow.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2WbyXJK/
Today, Republicans are opposing my amendment to ban segregation.
They literally want to take America back to Jim Crow.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2WbyXJK/
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@cathygellis.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @paris.nyc @craignewmark.bsky.social I just wanted to make sure this Florida bill and the Federal bill to repeal Section 230 are on your radar. @paris.nyc has a great piece about the Federal bill.
Florida’s House Bill 667 would "incentivize baseless accusations of defamation in hopes of getting articles taken down, by plaintiffs who know they won’t ultimately prevail in court."
It's up for a hearing on Thursday. Read what's at stake:
It's up for a hearing on Thursday. Read what's at stake:
Florida lawmakers want online news outlets to self-censor
Supposedly pro-tort reform legislature invites frivolous lawsuits against the press
freedom.press
March 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@cathygellis.bsky.social @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @paris.nyc @craignewmark.bsky.social I just wanted to make sure this Florida bill and the Federal bill to repeal Section 230 are on your radar. @paris.nyc has a great piece about the Federal bill.
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Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
March 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Undocumented workers are bad, so let’s have teenagers replace them working overnight so they can fall asleep in school, because who needs education when they can work for sweatshop wages?
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
Rap Latte with the political beat this morning. Great discussion! youtu.be/67e0X6Hr4oU?...
POLITICAL LATTE | EP. 65 ft MAYA MAY
YouTube video by Rap Latte
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March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Rap Latte with the political beat this morning. Great discussion! youtu.be/67e0X6Hr4oU?...
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This is egregiously unacceptable, @washingtonpost.com.
Trump cannot do this. It's illegal. You know it! You say it!
And yet, you *still* give him the headline. This is journalistic malpractice, with democracy hanging in the balance.
Trump cannot do this. It's illegal. You know it! You say it!
And yet, you *still* give him the headline. This is journalistic malpractice, with democracy hanging in the balance.
March 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is egregiously unacceptable, @washingtonpost.com.
Trump cannot do this. It's illegal. You know it! You say it!
And yet, you *still* give him the headline. This is journalistic malpractice, with democracy hanging in the balance.
Trump cannot do this. It's illegal. You know it! You say it!
And yet, you *still* give him the headline. This is journalistic malpractice, with democracy hanging in the balance.
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Giving DOGE subpoena power over election records?👀
Trump's illegal executive order today is a big step in his attack on free and fair elections.
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Trump's illegal executive order today is a big step in his attack on free and fair elections.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Giving DOGE subpoena power over election records?👀
Trump's illegal executive order today is a big step in his attack on free and fair elections.
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Trump's illegal executive order today is a big step in his attack on free and fair elections.
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March 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Tulsi Gabbard refuses to answer Warner's questions about the Signal group chat
March 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Tulsi Gabbard refuses to answer Warner's questions about the Signal group chat
They are using Permanent Residents as the warmup...
This is the latest person decreed by Marco Rubio to be a foreign policy threat and thus now subject to deportation:
March 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
They are using Permanent Residents as the warmup...
Paul Weiss severed ties with the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil-rights organization, the League of United Latin American Citizens as part of the dirty deal with the dictator. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The United States of Fear
For anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.
www.theatlantic.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Paul Weiss severed ties with the nation’s oldest and largest Latino civil-rights organization, the League of United Latin American Citizens as part of the dirty deal with the dictator. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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NEW: The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey,…
propub.li
March 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
NEW: The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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"Adding to the inanity, the government argued in court that the fact that many of these men don’t have criminal records is precisely why they’re dangerous."
Trump’s Deportations Rely on Tattoos—It’s Bullshit.
It turns out tattoos inspired by a reggaeton artist who endorsed Trump are also a marker of gang involvement.
www.thebulwark.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"Adding to the inanity, the government argued in court that the fact that many of these men don’t have criminal records is precisely why they’re dangerous."
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Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."
March 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Brian Kilmeade calls for the end of due process: "It's not practical to think we can do due process on 8 million people ... if we're gonna give every one of these guys a day in a court and a lawyer, we can't do it. They don't deserve it."
It's a sh*t show of great proportions.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's a sh*t show of great proportions.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."
March 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg denies the federal government's effort to vacate the TROs in the Alien Enemies Act case, finding that people the government claims are subject to the proclamation at least have a right to "individualized hearings to determine whether the Act applies to them at all."
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Meanwhile, the civil war in Sudan has escalated into a terrible humanitarian crisis. But it's Africans, so the rest of the world cares very little. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?
As territory is won and lost by opposing military forces, people grasp at scraps of normality. But the country is undergoing the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe and global announcements o...
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Meanwhile, the civil war in Sudan has escalated into a terrible humanitarian crisis. But it's Africans, so the rest of the world cares very little. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...