Debra 🐝
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Avid reader 📚
📍Dallas, TX
Sports fan 🏈🏀🏒
Love me plants 🪴
Rabid painter 👩🎨
DM = block🙅🏼
Lurker 👀
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RealPage faces lawsuits, and state and federal investigations into their AI software that price gouges renters.
Republicans added a 10 year ban on states regulating their technology to the budget bill.
RealPage gave Republicans $728k in 2024.
👆 Bribes.
www.levernews.com/republicans-...
Republicans added a 10 year ban on states regulating their technology to the budget bill.
RealPage gave Republicans $728k in 2024.
👆 Bribes.
www.levernews.com/republicans-...
Republicans Aim To Enshrine Rental Price-Fixing
After a lobbying surge, rent-tech giant RealPage is set to score a nationwide reprieve from crackdowns on how it’s price-gouging renters and fueling the housing crisis.
www.levernews.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
RealPage faces lawsuits, and state and federal investigations into their AI software that price gouges renters.
Republicans added a 10 year ban on states regulating their technology to the budget bill.
RealPage gave Republicans $728k in 2024.
👆 Bribes.
www.levernews.com/republicans-...
Republicans added a 10 year ban on states regulating their technology to the budget bill.
RealPage gave Republicans $728k in 2024.
👆 Bribes.
www.levernews.com/republicans-...
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Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms
Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it.
www.wired.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Donald Trump has proposed launching a "gold card" program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
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Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
May 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
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“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”
Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
bit.ly
May 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”
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Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
May 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards.
I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.
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Trump's State Dept collects data on alleged critics, with the intention of smearing them
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
The State Department is using Elon Musk’s playbook.
www.theatlantic.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Trump's State Dept collects data on alleged critics, with the intention of smearing them
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten, starved, and sexualized—sparking fears of a new Elsagate wave. www.wired.com/story/dozens...
Dozens of YouTube Channels Are Showing AI-Generated Cartoon Gore and Fetish Content
A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten, starved, and sexualized—sparking fears of a new Elsagate wave.
www.wired.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The chair of the Election Assistance Commission says states should stop counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, echoing Trump’s anti-voting order to withhold funds from states that don’t comply.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal election panel chair opposes counting ballots that arrive after Election Day
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The chair of the Election Assistance Commission says states should stop counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, echoing Trump’s anti-voting order to withhold funds from states that don’t comply.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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1. The UK has announced autism tests for all transgender youth. In the United States, RFK Jr. is pushing autism registries. Fearmongering is spreading about autistic trans people.
S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare.
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S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare.
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Why the UK’s Autism “Tests” for Trans Youth Should Raise Alarms
Neurodivergence has been weaponized by bad faith, anti-LGBTQ forces in order to invalidate the existence of transgender people.
www.erininthemorning.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
1. The UK has announced autism tests for all transgender youth. In the United States, RFK Jr. is pushing autism registries. Fearmongering is spreading about autistic trans people.
S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written.
@ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:
@ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:
American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
bit.ly
April 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written.
@ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:
@ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:
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Ya’ll no longer means “All” in TX!
Not only will this affect abortion rights & trans rights, it will impact hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause.
# MomSky
Not only will this affect abortion rights & trans rights, it will impact hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause.
# MomSky
Texas GOP Introduces Bill to Test Waste Water For Abortion Pill Byproducts
The bill also requires testing water for the pregnancy hormone
meidasnews.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ya’ll no longer means “All” in TX!
Not only will this affect abortion rights & trans rights, it will impact hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause.
# MomSky
Not only will this affect abortion rights & trans rights, it will impact hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause.
# MomSky
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Lots of good stuff here, especially the point that although we need a popular front, people who were sneeringly wrong about the threat should not lead it. Trumpism was fascist from the start, and those who stated this plainly were often derided.
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.
Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lots of good stuff here, especially the point that although we need a popular front, people who were sneeringly wrong about the threat should not lead it. Trumpism was fascist from the start, and those who stated this plainly were often derided.
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...
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This story hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. It is openly fraudulent what they’re doing.
This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This story hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention. It is openly fraudulent what they’re doing.
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I can’t believe how stupid everything is
April 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it.
Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.
This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.
Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.
This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pundits hate simplicity. If something is simple you don’t have to have pundit expertise to explain it.
Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.
This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.
Trump Cabinet now has a public record as the stupidest Cabinet in history.
This isn’t complicated. They are stupid rich people. Any analysis that doesn’t begin with their stupidity is stupid.
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In 1992 there was an "America First" party that bucked mainstream politics by calling for the reimposition of tariffs, eliminating income taxes, eliminating foreign aid, stopping immigration, restoring our balance of trade with other nations, returning education to the states, and banning abortion.
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In 1992 there was an "America First" party that bucked mainstream politics by calling for the reimposition of tariffs, eliminating income taxes, eliminating foreign aid, stopping immigration, restoring our balance of trade with other nations, returning education to the states, and banning abortion.
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my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
my daily reminder that “pro-segregation” is better framing (and more accurate) than “anti-DEI”
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Also, the folks pushing for these changes are ghouls
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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Fox News today
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fox News today
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
theatln.tc
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief.
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs.
What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?
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To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
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"I’m talking about the moment when the Trump administration announces that it outright refuses to comply with court orders. Such an event would trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis — one we are simply unequipped to handle right now."
The Sharks Circling the Boat
From Marc | Donald Trump’s “flood the zone” strategy is designed to overwhelm us.
www.democracydocket.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"I’m talking about the moment when the Trump administration announces that it outright refuses to comply with court orders. Such an event would trigger a full-blown constitutional crisis — one we are simply unequipped to handle right now."
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NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.
March 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.