Fire Rokita
@firerokita.bsky.social
Hoosier. Democrat. Tree planter.
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It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
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Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
Indiana’s GOP Shows Us the Future of Gerrymandering — And It’s Grim: A Conversation With Election Law Expert Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Indiana has rapidly become the latest flashpoint in the GOP’s national push to engineer aggressive mid-decade gerrymanders. Few states illustrate the immense costs to voters and how far lawmakers are willing to go to appease President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ind...
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NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.
futurism.com/future-socie...
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EU has fined X $140m for breaking European laws and refusing to address that when warned. Likely Musk won't pay and the Trump regime will pressure EU, but if so, they should stand strong and ban the website.
And oh the irony that this won't cover the UK, where Musk is stoking division and violence.
And oh the irony that this won't cover the UK, where Musk is stoking division and violence.
trump admin reaction to EU fine of X is illuminating. it shows a few things:
1. they are trying to distract from its own massive censorship of americans.
2. they are worried about losing a propaganda and disinformation platform to support racist anti-migrant parties in europe.
1. they are trying to distract from its own massive censorship of americans.
2. they are worried about losing a propaganda and disinformation platform to support racist anti-migrant parties in europe.
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
EU has fined X $140m for breaking European laws and refusing to address that when warned. Likely Musk won't pay and the Trump regime will pressure EU, but if so, they should stand strong and ban the website.
And oh the irony that this won't cover the UK, where Musk is stoking division and violence.
And oh the irony that this won't cover the UK, where Musk is stoking division and violence.
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So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
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All of this.
Some quick thoughts about the functioning of the bullshit media cycle and #TN7. Clearly the mod group chat got together earlier this week and decided when @aftynbehn.bsky.social lost, they had a chance to run their standard play. The story writes itself:
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
All of this.
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Aiming to give Republicans an extra House seat in 2028, a Trump-aligned nonprofit has put $4.35 million toward supporting a proposed ballot measure that would repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law.
Post-Trump, What Happens to His War Chest? Utah Offers One Clue.
A Trump-aligned political group is quietly spending millions to help state Republicans have a friendlier House map in 2028 — not in 2026, as with all of his other redistricting efforts.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Aiming to give Republicans an extra House seat in 2028, a Trump-aligned nonprofit has put $4.35 million toward supporting a proposed ballot measure that would repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law.
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Other countries honored for their humanitarian achievements by FIFA include Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Other countries honored for their humanitarian achievements by FIFA include Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Dark. Hitler would be proud. It’s very disturbing that the U.S. has joined forces with Putin to try to destabilize Europe and Great Britain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Dark. Hitler would be proud. It’s very disturbing that the U.S. has joined forces with Putin to try to destabilize Europe and Great Britain. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
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I can’t help it, I’m so mad about this. My kids just finished their childhood vax schedule THIS WEEK, and nothing is better as a parent than being able to just follow the recommended schedule as determined by doctors/scientists without any “research”
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I can’t help it, I’m so mad about this. My kids just finished their childhood vax schedule THIS WEEK, and nothing is better as a parent than being able to just follow the recommended schedule as determined by doctors/scientists without any “research”
*%#&@:!
Indiana Republicans Aim to Sideline Courts to Protect their Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 AM
*%#&@:!
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I'd just like to point out that when Hegseth told the Admiral to commit these crimes, both Hegseth and the Admiral were in their respective air-conditioned offices/bridge/rooms. Neither of those pecker heads can claim it was the fog of war.
We didn’t hit it twice
We did hit it twice and that’s legal
The Admiral did it
We didn’t see them
I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
We did hit it twice and that’s legal
The Admiral did it
We didn’t see them
I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'd just like to point out that when Hegseth told the Admiral to commit these crimes, both Hegseth and the Admiral were in their respective air-conditioned offices/bridge/rooms. Neither of those pecker heads can claim it was the fog of war.
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if you can't win, cheat
🚨BREAKING: An Indiana House committee voted 8-5 Tuesday to approve a new GOP-backed congressional map, advancing the measure over the objections of Democrats and members of the public who called the plan a racial gerrymander.
Indiana House Committee Advances Map, Despite Racial Gerrymandering Allegations
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
if you can't win, cheat
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1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
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Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
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"Joe Biden helped people, and we're putting an end to that."
Stellar argument
Stellar argument
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Joe Biden helped people, and we're putting an end to that."
Stellar argument
Stellar argument
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The Trump administration said it will withhold federal SNAP funding from more than 20 Democratic-led states unless they turn over sensitive personal data about program recipients to the Trump administration.
Trump to halt some food aid support for Democratic-led states over data fight
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will halt federal payments that help administer the food stamp program to Democratic-led states next week if they do not turn over aid recipient data,...
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Trump administration said it will withhold federal SNAP funding from more than 20 Democratic-led states unless they turn over sensitive personal data about program recipients to the Trump administration.
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This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This is what you get when billionaires own the media. Support grassroots, independent media like Truthout if you can. truthout.org/donate/
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I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
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The Trump admin has been quietly pressuring Europe to not seize the Russian billions for Ukraine. He fully intends to give it back to Russia and likely will find a way to profit himself.
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Trump admin has been quietly pressuring Europe to not seize the Russian billions for Ukraine. He fully intends to give it back to Russia and likely will find a way to profit himself.
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
Shame on America, and shame on Europe
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Lots of "it's not really authoritarian" etc takes skip over details like how Trump refuses to let a majority-Republican Senate have a say in who runs several U.S. Attorney's Offices. It's profoundly anti-democratic, and by itself strong evidence of corruption and malfeasance.
Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba is disqualified as top New Jersey prosecutor, US appeals court rules
President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Alina Habba has been disqualified from serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Lots of "it's not really authoritarian" etc takes skip over details like how Trump refuses to let a majority-Republican Senate have a say in who runs several U.S. Attorney's Offices. It's profoundly anti-democratic, and by itself strong evidence of corruption and malfeasance.
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The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...
UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble
Public and private-sector funds concerned over market’s growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...
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This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
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The peace president's administration is very proud of its war crimes.
Imagine being a career officer in the chain of command on Trump's boat bombings. You have deep moral and legal concerns about them. Your faith in leadership is shaky. Then you see Pete Hegseth tweet out a sadistic cartoon about it. Must be awful.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The peace president's administration is very proud of its war crimes.
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