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Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social · 41m

Basically I was implying that you are King Arthur and thus able to recognize a round table.

Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social · 1h

custom built solution based on a fork of Postregres that only runs on MINIX servers. We have been trying to come to an agreement for almost fifteen years. We're now up to 143 proposed software solutions.

Once we get all that figured out the fundraising will start.

Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social · 1h

What happened was they needed people who could configure the software used for bulk-emailing, bulk-texting, and other fundraising functions (including a functioning website that can take electronic payments securely). 135 of us volunteered. We proposed 134 existing software solutions plus one 1/

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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 2h

ICE has to wear masks to protect themselves from ruining their cases in family court.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2h

Democrats Must Abandon the Moderate Messaging of The White Dude Data Complex

Democrats have their lowest favorability rating since 1994, & still believe they can be "Republican-lite" & win elections by ignoring a progressive, anti-oligarchy message. They're wrong.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social · 1h

I need two milkshakes.

Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social · 1h

Because he's a Nazi and so is Trump.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Two stories about how Stephen Miller is drawing resources away from actually security to hunt down grannies.

First cybersecurity.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3h

The fossil fool fallacy "it was arson, not climate" targets audience bereft of critical thinking, unable to distinguish between what *starts* a fire & what determines magnitude & destructiveness. Google nicely summarizes my past explanations (w/ links): www.google.com/search?q=Mic...

Freebeacon spouts dishonest fossil fuel industry propaganda

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him, and he’s following a four point plan to do it.

Here’s what you need to know about it — and some thoughts on how to respond. www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

www.youtube.com

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Some Guy @darthd00bius.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah the farting sound wasn't the costume.

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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 3h

Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater is on tour with a mission to make ‘the revolution irresistible.’ A group of 15 artists is traveling to 33 U.S. cities to stage this year’s show, ‘Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress.’ This is one of their acts.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 3h

Incredible that they realized they don’t even have to set something on fire to get the crisis powers, they can just SAY it’s on fire — who are we going to believe, what they say or the evidence of our own eyes?

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Amy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 1d

A $10 million Medicaid settlement was quietly sent to the Hope Florida Foundation — a charity led by Casey DeSantis meant to help Floridians. But instead it was funneled into the coffers of a political com. to fight last year’s marijuana legalization effort.

floridapolitics.com/archives/759...

Subpoenas are flying over Hope Florida scandal with grand jury reportedly imminent

Hope Florida has been the subject of increasing scrutiny and lawmakers’ questions.

floridapolitics.com

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The Princess Formerly Known As Prince @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 3h

I urge every leftist to study COINTEL-PRO and its techniques, and to NOT assume it’s a thing of the past.

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