ContraryMAF
@contrarymaf.bsky.social
Abyss gazer, language lover, nature worshipper. Blue dot 🔵 in a red county. Sketchy vibes and DMs get you blocked! And, I guess I have to add this: FFS, No f'n crypto pushers!
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August 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Donald Trump and the Republican party — big tough guys keeping America safe from… the little league world series.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series
The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Donald Trump and the Republican party — big tough guys keeping America safe from… the little league world series.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
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Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss.
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to…
www.propublica.org
July 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss.
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.
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You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.
July 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
You know that scene in an action movie when the bad guy runs through the kitchen of a restaurant and pulls down all the pots and pans behind him to slow down his pursuers? We're in that part of the Trump presidency.
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Alligator Alcatraz was supposed to be for hardened criminals. Instead they're filling it with people found during minor traffic stops. Highway patrol is stopping people for precisely this reason.
www.rawstory.com/alligator-al...
www.rawstory.com/alligator-al...
'DeSantis lied’: Key claim behind 'Alligator Alcatraz' just collapsed
When Florida Republicans unveiled a makeshift detention camp site for migrants in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz," they characterized it as a facility for hardened criminals who needed to...
www.rawstory.com
July 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Alligator Alcatraz was supposed to be for hardened criminals. Instead they're filling it with people found during minor traffic stops. Highway patrol is stopping people for precisely this reason.
www.rawstory.com/alligator-al...
www.rawstory.com/alligator-al...
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Just in: parents of dead kids are bad and evil...
REPORTER: Families are upset because warnings didn't go out in time. What do you say to those families?
TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil person would ask a question like that.
TRUMP: Well I think everyone did an incredible job under the circumstances. Only a bad person would ask a question like that. Only an evil person would ask a question like that.
July 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Just in: parents of dead kids are bad and evil...
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Trump is calling a bill that he doesn’t understand the only way to save America, and 50 people who mostly DO understand it - and hate it - just voted for it because the guy who doesn’t know what’s in it told them to.
What a clusterfuck.
What a clusterfuck.
July 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Trump is calling a bill that he doesn’t understand the only way to save America, and 50 people who mostly DO understand it - and hate it - just voted for it because the guy who doesn’t know what’s in it told them to.
What a clusterfuck.
What a clusterfuck.
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"No more secrecy. No more lies. No more empty promises. Spread this post far and wide so people understand what’s at stake. Call US Senators at (202) 224-3121. Flood their feeds and let them know how angry you are and tell them to vote 'NO' on the BBB. They are trying to silence our opposition."
My latest Substack on Trump's Big Bullshit Bill a/k/a the Bless the Billionaires Bill:
open.substack.com/pub/katiepha...
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"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."
The late Bill Moyers got it right. But all is not lost...yet.
open.substack.com
June 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"No more secrecy. No more lies. No more empty promises. Spread this post far and wide so people understand what’s at stake. Call US Senators at (202) 224-3121. Flood their feeds and let them know how angry you are and tell them to vote 'NO' on the BBB. They are trying to silence our opposition."
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WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
April 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
WATCH: “You’re saying you revere a time when their ancestors were in bondage.”
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
In NC, @davidjoy.bsky.social powerfully explains why it’s wrong to remove a “compromise plaque” without public input, and why revering the confederacy is offensive.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI9vdzA...
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Timeline:
Trump schedules deportation of Venezuelans without due process
ACLU sues
Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act
Hours later, Boasberg grants TRO in emergency hearing and orders planes in the air to return
Trump ignores the order while Rubio and Bukele high five on Twitter
Trump schedules deportation of Venezuelans without due process
ACLU sues
Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act
Hours later, Boasberg grants TRO in emergency hearing and orders planes in the air to return
Trump ignores the order while Rubio and Bukele high five on Twitter
March 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Timeline:
Trump schedules deportation of Venezuelans without due process
ACLU sues
Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act
Hours later, Boasberg grants TRO in emergency hearing and orders planes in the air to return
Trump ignores the order while Rubio and Bukele high five on Twitter
Trump schedules deportation of Venezuelans without due process
ACLU sues
Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act
Hours later, Boasberg grants TRO in emergency hearing and orders planes in the air to return
Trump ignores the order while Rubio and Bukele high five on Twitter
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The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration.
www.sfchronicle.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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They must go.
The only thing worse than this is when they come for company pension funds and empty them.
The greediest people on the planet have the keys to the biggest pot of money in the World.
What could possibly go wrong...
The greediest people on the planet have the keys to the biggest pot of money in the World.
What could possibly go wrong...
March 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
They must go.
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look familiar
February 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
look familiar
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Where law ends, tyranny begins.
February 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
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American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
Musk, Trump Establish New Era of Kleptocracy in America
A third dispatch comparing how the US media would cover this moment if it was happening overseas
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...
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If you can afford $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, you can afford to pay your fair share of taxes.
February 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If you can afford $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, you can afford to pay your fair share of taxes.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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"Silicon Valley types like to move fast and break things. I guess that’s fine if the only thing you break is your own bank account, but applying that spirit to foreign assistance (again, without a shred of legal authority) means breaking human beings."
Trump and Musk Take a Hammer to America’s Reputation
Their version of America is selfish, wasteful, and cruel.
www.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Silicon Valley types like to move fast and break things. I guess that’s fine if the only thing you break is your own bank account, but applying that spirit to foreign assistance (again, without a shred of legal authority) means breaking human beings."