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Chuck Darwin

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 5h

Republican Unity
The Contrarian
Michael de Adder
@deadder.bsky.social
Oct 8

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Stephen Miller has a theory about this political moment.

As President Trump expands his lawbreaking and dictatorial rule,
the powerful MAGA disinformation apparatus
—at Miller’s direction
—is supercharging public attention to the debate over Trump’s conduct in a way that’s designed to deeply […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 2h

The Internal Revenue Service will furlough nearly half of its employees – around 34,000 workers – due to the ongoing government shutdown.
In a statement on Wednesday, the IRS said that “due to the lapse in appropriations”, it will begin its furlough on 8 October for “everyone except […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

The third-party app store known as AltStore,
one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union,
is preparing to connect its platform with the open social web known as the fediverse.

The move would connect users on other open social apps,
like Mastodon or […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Trump on Wednesday said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.
The officials said they would not be deterred.
The Republican […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?

Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script.

Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Does AG Pam Bondi think she’s auditioning for the VP slot in Trump’s unconstitutional third term?

Here’s the mashup from today’s shitshow you definitely didn’t ask for. But this important point: she’s reading off a script. Someone actually wrote this garbage and thought it was good to go.

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Stephen Miller has a theory about this political moment.

As President Trump expands his lawbreaking and dictatorial rule,
the powerful MAGA disinformation apparatus
—at Miller’s direction
—is supercharging public attention to the debate over Trump’s conduct in a way that’s designed to deeply […]

Original post on c.im

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Texas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections

Photographs Tuesday showed Texas National Guard troops carrying rifles and riot shields at the Joliet Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois,
about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.

In a statement over the […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Zach Bryan, one of the biggest stars in US country music, has been criticised by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over a new song in which he sings about immigration raids by Ice.
The DHS’s assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, told Bryan to “stick to Pink Skies […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Congressional Democrats are introducing a bill that would provide childcare relief to federal workers affected by the shutdown of the federal government,
as it drags on through a second week.

Parents would be reimbursed for fees paid to childcare facilities during the shutdown under plans […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

For over four months, masked federal officers have been arresting and disappearing immigrants attending their mandatory asylum court dates.

Photojournalists in New York City fought to maintain their First Amendment right to observe the chaotic, cruel, and often violent breach of due process […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Six former U.S. surgeons general have published an op-ed in The Washington Post,
warning Americans that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using his role as head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to endanger the health of the nation.

The authors of the op-ed, which was published on […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs.

She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door.

She calls it “the final mission.”

But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down.

Even as […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18h

This Fediverse Enhancement Proposal describes a way to attach a chat room to ActivityPub actors and objects.

The chat room itself can be a web page, a XMPP room,
a Matrix room,
an IRC channel, ...
The chat itself does not necessarily publish messages using ActivityPub […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users,
is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,”
which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.

The idea is similar to a […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
paid $825,000 earlier this year
to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement,

including fake cellphone towers known as “cell-site simulators,” which can be used to spy on nearby phones.

According […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he’ll schedule the swearing in of the new Arizona Democratic House member “as soon as she wants.”

Watch the clip in the video player above.

Adelita Grijalva won a special election for a House seat on Sept. 24, but has been unable to actually represent […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is,
‘Love your neighbor, love your God,
save your soul and quit your job,’”
said David Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
“Everybody chants that.” […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

As the federal government begins to implement President Trump’s new national security directive
to investigate the so-called
radical left as domestic terrorists,
a little known FBI organization,
located in an affluent and leafy suburb of Northern Virginia,
is at the center of it all.

Based just […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Three academics affiliated with U.S. universities have been awarded the
2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit,”
the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcedTuesday morning.
British physicist […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Late last month, fires engulfed Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve
– Etosha National Park.
An analysis of satellite imagery by Bellingcat has found that more than a third of the park was affected,
impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos, giraffes and […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Christian nationalist pastor
Joel Webbon urges Christians to
join ICE and serve as "
God's appointed avenger"
to round up and deport immigrants:

"You can join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you, with a gun,
pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country.
That is a […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Qualcomm buys open-source electronics firm Arduino.

“Qualcomm said Arduino
‘will retain its independent brand, tools and mission.’”

(I wonder how long that independence will last)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/qualcomm-buys-open-source-electronics-firm-arduino-2025-10-07/

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Stephen Miller is trying to make you think that it's a done deal that they have all the power ...

It's not a done deal

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22h

Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.