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Be anti-fascist.
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"This land was yours and mine until they bled it dry. History won't be […]
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he/him.
My views are not anyone else's. Retweets are not endorsements, etc
"This land was yours and mine until they bled it dry. History won't be […]
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Happy Wednesday, friends
February 11, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Happy Wednesday, friends
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This is very unusual. Aside from the disruption- it closes a large metropolitan airport for 10 days- no advance notice was given. So this isn’t for some planned event or operation.
February 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is very unusual. Aside from the disruption- it closes a large metropolitan airport for 10 days- no advance notice was given. So this isn’t for some planned event or operation.
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#faa Halts All Flights at #elpaso Airport for 10 Days
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”
In a move that appeared to surprise local officials & airlines, the restriction went into […]
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”
In a move that appeared to surprise local officials & airlines, the restriction went into […]
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masto.ai
February 11, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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[racism]
I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.
TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as […]
I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.
TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
[racism]
I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.
TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as […]
I find the way that some people understand what is and isn't racism mystifying.
TO ME? Saying (lying!) about Black Haitian immigrants "eating cats and dogs" is wildly racist and probably worse than putting the most powerful and untouchable Black American couple in a racist video as […]
so it seems like the beneficial parts of DHS (ie, whatever is left of CISA) would get shutdown in an appropriations lapse, but ICE has appropriations from the BBB and would be unaffected. is there another way this plays out?
February 7, 2026 at 12:39 AM
so it seems like the beneficial parts of DHS (ie, whatever is left of CISA) would get shutdown in an appropriations lapse, but ICE has appropriations from the BBB and would be unaffected. is there another way this plays out?
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116008693180427882
Often they could build if they wanted, but there is a long tradition of small local governments giving tax breaks, zoning leniency and other gifts to big companies because they think it will "help the economy"
One might be better […]
Often they could build if they wanted, but there is a long tradition of small local governments giving tax breaks, zoning leniency and other gifts to big companies because they think it will "help the economy"
One might be better […]
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sauropods.win
February 4, 2026 at 11:36 AM
RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116008693180427882
Often they could build if they wanted, but there is a long tradition of small local governments giving tax breaks, zoning leniency and other gifts to big companies because they think it will "help the economy"
One might be better […]
Often they could build if they wanted, but there is a long tradition of small local governments giving tax breaks, zoning leniency and other gifts to big companies because they think it will "help the economy"
One might be better […]
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🚨"Tulsi Gabbard, director of natl intelligence, is running her own review into the 2020 election with Trump’s approval, working separately from a justice department investigation even as she joined an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia last week." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation
Exclusive: Trump sent national intelligence director to Georgia raid last week in approval of Gabbard’s sweeping review
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
🚨"Tulsi Gabbard, director of natl intelligence, is running her own review into the 2020 election with Trump’s approval, working separately from a justice department investigation even as she joined an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia last week." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Sorry for taking Signal down. I plugged it back in when I was done vacuuming the server room. 😅
February 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Sorry for taking Signal down. I plugged it back in when I was done vacuuming the server room. 😅
is signal down or is it just me?
February 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
is signal down or is it just me?
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@andrewjweinstein.com @jianmin See https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3mdw6a2zlzk2f and read the first few pages of the judge's opinion.
Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf
bsky.app
February 3, 2026 at 3:05 PM
@andrewjweinstein.com @jianmin See https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3mdw6a2zlzk2f and read the first few pages of the judge's opinion.
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This is the authoritarian tell:
If a judge rules against your preferred outcome, declare the judge illegitimate.
If that mindset takes hold, courts stop being guardrails and become targets.
Democracy cannot survive a government that believes the law only counts when it wins.
If a judge rules against your preferred outcome, declare the judge illegitimate.
If that mindset takes hold, courts stop being guardrails and become targets.
Democracy cannot survive a government that believes the law only counts when it wins.
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
This is the authoritarian tell:
If a judge rules against your preferred outcome, declare the judge illegitimate.
If that mindset takes hold, courts stop being guardrails and become targets.
Democracy cannot survive a government that believes the law only counts when it wins.
If a judge rules against your preferred outcome, declare the judge illegitimate.
If that mindset takes hold, courts stop being guardrails and become targets.
Democracy cannot survive a government that believes the law only counts when it wins.
spent so much time protecting the perpetrators that they forgot to redact the victims. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/nude-photos-epstein-files.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.DkBA.Ur9zSCyAlpZx
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
spent so much time protecting the perpetrators that they forgot to redact the victims. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/nude-photos-epstein-files.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.DkBA.Ur9zSCyAlpZx
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No, Trump does not have the legal authority or the practical ability to “nationalize” US elections, for all the same reasons he also didn’t when he issued an executive order a few months ago abolishing mail in voting. Elections are governed by states, and, to a limited extent, Congress. Not the […]
Original post on federate.social
federate.social
February 3, 2026 at 6:41 AM
No, Trump does not have the legal authority or the practical ability to “nationalize” US elections, for all the same reasons he also didn’t when he issued an executive order a few months ago abolishing mail in voting. Elections are governed by states, and, to a limited extent, Congress. Not the […]
RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115999301702708882
this concept of freedom reminds me of Dr. Timothy Snyder's book, On Freedom. highly recommend it.
this concept of freedom reminds me of Dr. Timothy Snyder's book, On Freedom. highly recommend it.
techhub.social
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115999301702708882
this concept of freedom reminds me of Dr. Timothy Snyder's book, On Freedom. highly recommend it.
this concept of freedom reminds me of Dr. Timothy Snyder's book, On Freedom. highly recommend it.
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Congresswoman who is an M.D. gained oversight access to Whipple dentention center, a Trump immigrant concentration camp in Minneapolis. She posted about it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SxPn8n2Bfg In pictures is a rough transcript of her […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Congresswoman who is an M.D. gained oversight access to Whipple dentention center, a Trump immigrant concentration camp in Minneapolis. She posted about it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SxPn8n2Bfg In pictures is a rough transcript of her […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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February 1, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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A couple quotes #elonmusk doesn't want you to "misinterpret" from his emails to #epstein...
“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
"Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really […]
“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
"Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really […]
Original post on techhub.social
techhub.social
February 1, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?
February 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?
in this article: a bunch of folks in a small Montana town advocate for the Democratic immigration platform without realizing it.
> "We now know he was here illegally, but we want to do what we can to get in here legally, and we're asking for help, whether it be from our local representatives […]
> "We now know he was here illegally, but we want to do what we can to get in here legally, and we're asking for help, whether it be from our local representatives […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
February 1, 2026 at 1:40 AM
in this article: a bunch of folks in a small Montana town advocate for the Democratic immigration platform without realizing it.
> "We now know he was here illegally, but we want to do what we can to get in here legally, and we're asking for help, whether it be from our local representatives […]
> "We now know he was here illegally, but we want to do what we can to get in here legally, and we're asking for help, whether it be from our local representatives […]
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Is the Fulton County election office search warrant online (preferably the affidavit, but I'll take the order itself)?
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Is the Fulton County election office search warrant online (preferably the affidavit, but I'll take the order itself)?
imagine going to a church that has protestors and journalists arrested for daring to interrupt their plastic bubble. Matthew 25:41 and Luke 18:11 vibes.
par for the course for conservative christianity, but still. wow.
par for the course for conservative christianity, but still. wow.
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
imagine going to a church that has protestors and journalists arrested for daring to interrupt their plastic bubble. Matthew 25:41 and Luke 18:11 vibes.
par for the course for conservative christianity, but still. wow.
par for the course for conservative christianity, but still. wow.
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Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
I'm thread-blogging on main. a story about finding meaning in life. feel free to ignore.
I grew up in a flavor of charismatic christianity where there was incredibly strong pressure to perform spiritually by "speaking in tongues," conjuring feelings during church services, or hearing a deity […]
I grew up in a flavor of charismatic christianity where there was incredibly strong pressure to perform spiritually by "speaking in tongues," conjuring feelings during church services, or hearing a deity […]
Original post on defcon.social
defcon.social
January 29, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm thread-blogging on main. a story about finding meaning in life. feel free to ignore.
I grew up in a flavor of charismatic christianity where there was incredibly strong pressure to perform spiritually by "speaking in tongues," conjuring feelings during church services, or hearing a deity […]
I grew up in a flavor of charismatic christianity where there was incredibly strong pressure to perform spiritually by "speaking in tongues," conjuring feelings during church services, or hearing a deity […]