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The Lanterns show is gonna be lit! Lol

#kylechandler #GreenLantern #AaronPierre #NathanFillion #haljordan #JohnStewart #GuyGardner #TomKing #Jamesgunn #dcu #DCcomics
March 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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cheriepriest.com
One more time, because I’m not afraid of being fired from the VA - and I will NOT let this go quietly.
February 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Moroccan fans deliver a beautiful and defiant message. #Gaza
February 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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February 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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dell.bsky.social
“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
February 4, 2025 Edward R. Martin, Jr. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Patrick Henry Building 601 D Street NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Transmitted via email Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.: We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who "target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue. On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of "all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots. As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest. Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th… X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names. As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them. Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to 'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.' You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2 Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S. Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted… government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical. It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17 Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would. Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism. We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish… Common Cause Courage Foundation Defending Rights & Dissent Demand Progress Education Fund Democracy Matters First Amendment Coalition First Amendment Foundation Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Freedom of the Press Foundation Government Information Watch GovTrack.us Greenpeace USA Muslims for Just Futures Partnership for Civil Justice Fund PEN America Project On Government Oversight Radio Television Digital News Association Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Revolving Door Project RootsAction.org Social Security Works Society of Environmental Journalists Society of Professional Journalists The Authors Guild The Freedom BLOC Whistleblower & Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts Woodhull Freedom Foundation CC: All House, All Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune Speaker of the House Mike Johnson House Majority Leader Steve Scalise Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dick Durbin House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin 4
February 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
davidstewart.bsky.social
it’s called GENOCIDE!
A convicted felon and a war criminal standing next to each other telling the world they are about to commit an atrocity and the cbc says “permanently displacing” - so tired of the way journalists are soft pedaling fascism. Use your words!
@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social #genocide
February 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
davidstewart.bsky.social
The USA never entered the war to defeat nazism. They entered (late) to acquire the assets (people, machinery, ideas/messaging, + money) of nazism to redirect these to anti-communist efforts.
January 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen (a tech billionaire & close ally of Elon Musk) and mining for electric vehicle metals in Greenland. (Article from 2021.) 1/ www.reuters.com/business/bil...
January 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Saint Luigi, hear our prayer...
smogget.bsky.social Smogget 🍉 @smogget.bsky.social · Jan 26
If Trump is going to lock us out of every international food market, there will be nothing left to eat but the rich 🍽️
January 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
People who "find joy in making an obvious Nazi gesture" are called Nazis, Zack
zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Jan 24
This is my theory of what happened: Elon is an overgrown adolescent who thinks Nazi trolling is just hilarious www.vox.com/politics/396...
January 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamhsays.com Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · Jan 24
An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO:

“Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Rutgers cancels HBCU event to align with Trump DEI orders
The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President...
www.insidehighered.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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For all the doubters, how are these not the same?
January 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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This is the cowardice of The New York Times. Legacy media is failing.
January 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
davidstewart.bsky.social
Time to Luigi the fuck out every last one of these bastards
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · Jan 20
he wants to be hitler
January 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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#ufosky
Disclosure as Lucy’s football . Lucy says “this time I mean it”
January 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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tinyklaus.com
Based on Tucker Carlson’s recent comments, that bullshit manifesto, and narratives being pushed on social media by several Thiel-adjacent influencers, it seems like there is a coordinated effort to exaggerate the sophistication of Chinese drone technology.

The possible motives are very specific.
January 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out

Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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January 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I will post this everyday for the next 4 years as a reminder that Jan 6th was a day of insurrection.
December 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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tinyklaus.com
This article exposing Erik Prince’s WhatsApp group chat with his
international network is worth a read.

newrepublic.com/article/1820...
Comparing the contemporary United States to Nazi Germany is an admittedly imprecise analogy. Nevertheless, it’s impossible not to be alarmed by the crypto-fascist, off the leash views expressed by Trump’s allies in the group chat about exterminating their foreign and domestic enemies and needing to “find the will to levy the toll.” However imprecise the comparison, as a model political capital, Berlin 1933 is far more compatible with the worldview of Off Leash participants than Washington 2024, and in the event they and like-minded associates gain power in the U.S. or elsewhere, they’ll be pushing backward in that general direction.
December 11, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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November 21, 2024 at 11:58 PM