@niqwood.bsky.social
Future first wave refugee: climate and authoritarianism
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“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
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In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.
n.pr
September 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.
With the clear failure of all the 2A types to rise up in armed defense of the people in the face of a tyrannical regime, I think we can re-evaluate the possibly that there is no good reason to own a weapon with a magazine.
August 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
With the clear failure of all the 2A types to rise up in armed defense of the people in the face of a tyrannical regime, I think we can re-evaluate the possibly that there is no good reason to own a weapon with a magazine.
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Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how:
Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up.
Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up.
Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
August 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Corrupting economic statistics will change our economic reality. Here's how:
Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up.
Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
Tariffs raise prices. Social Security is indexed to inflation. If Trump tells a partisan BLS head to downplay inflation, seniors' social security checks won't keep up.
Rigged stats = stolen benefits.
This and Portland’s Clean Energy Fund show it’s possible to strategically tax high earning individuals and corporations…the challenge is moving the funds out quickly enough to drown out anti-tax messaging from “fiscal conservatives” and others invested in individualist narratives.
Huh, so I guess they haven't all fled the state
Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe
Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.
www.bostonglobe.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This and Portland’s Clean Energy Fund show it’s possible to strategically tax high earning individuals and corporations…the challenge is moving the funds out quickly enough to drown out anti-tax messaging from “fiscal conservatives” and others invested in individualist narratives.
Hoping dems can eke out a midterm victory and haul all these duplicitous cabinet members into public hearings with clear lines of questioning about how their actions have been detrimental to the nation.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hoping dems can eke out a midterm victory and haul all these duplicitous cabinet members into public hearings with clear lines of questioning about how their actions have been detrimental to the nation.
The lavender in the yard is abuzz
July 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The lavender in the yard is abuzz
This. 1,000,000% this.
What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.
i wish i had the power or the money to like hire thousands of out of work journalists and put them (us?) to work doing what we do best ie chipping and scraping at the lies people in power tell. horse race commenters not welcome
July 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This. 1,000,000% this.
Just a random guy selling internationally traded goods here. From my perspective we’re just beginning to see cost impacts of tariffs. While many goods have relatively low cost-price ratios, there’s also a whole lot of shit we buy where the cost increases are 100% likely to drive up prices.
July 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just a random guy selling internationally traded goods here. From my perspective we’re just beginning to see cost impacts of tariffs. While many goods have relatively low cost-price ratios, there’s also a whole lot of shit we buy where the cost increases are 100% likely to drive up prices.
Agreed. We should be proud of the US Ship of State, and I can think of a few mutineers we could throw overboard to increase our pride.
"People want to be proud of the ship they're sailing in," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in announcing the ship named after the gay rights leader would now be called the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.
USNS Harvey Milk renamed amid Trump administration efforts to cut DEI
"People want to be proud of the ship they're sailing in," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in announcing the ship named after the gay rights leader would now be called the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.
n.pr
June 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Agreed. We should be proud of the US Ship of State, and I can think of a few mutineers we could throw overboard to increase our pride.
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
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"Nationally, half of all Black people say that secure bike parking will allow us to ride more often. Locally, in a densely populated city where a quarter of households report losing at least one bike to theft, the figure is sure to be much higher. Secure parking makes cycling accessible."
Black Cycling Clubs: 'We Just Want a Safe Place to Park Our Bikes' - Streetsblog New York City
Leaving a bike on the sidewalk overnight or while at work often results in a missing tire or gearset, but for most of us, it’s only a matter of time until the entire frame disappears.
nyc.streetsblog.org
June 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Nationally, half of all Black people say that secure bike parking will allow us to ride more often. Locally, in a densely populated city where a quarter of households report losing at least one bike to theft, the figure is sure to be much higher. Secure parking makes cycling accessible."
Fucking right. Now let’s get another 2/3 republican appointed judiciary panel to rule against overstepping on anti-immigrant EOs.
May 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Fucking right. Now let’s get another 2/3 republican appointed judiciary panel to rule against overstepping on anti-immigrant EOs.
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It genuinely sounded like Trump did not understand what his own administration was doing here. In a week where we're talking about Biden's alleged lack of capacity, maybe some pundits could get on this.
Trump calls his own foreign aid cuts at USAID 'devastating' reut.rs/3FoEHWw
Trump calls his own foreign aid cuts at USAID 'devastating'
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its aid programs worldwide have been "devastating."
reut.rs
May 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It genuinely sounded like Trump did not understand what his own administration was doing here. In a week where we're talking about Biden's alleged lack of capacity, maybe some pundits could get on this.
I’d like to see some of these career officials refuse to walk out calmly. We need the optics of them being dragged out their office by goons while yelling that the administration is violating the constitution.
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 4:13 PM
I’d like to see some of these career officials refuse to walk out calmly. We need the optics of them being dragged out their office by goons while yelling that the administration is violating the constitution.
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One of your investments did not lose a dime today…
SOCIAL SECURITY.
And remember, it’s the one they want to get rid of…
Paying ATTENTION, yet?!
SOCIAL SECURITY.
And remember, it’s the one they want to get rid of…
Paying ATTENTION, yet?!
April 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
One of your investments did not lose a dime today…
SOCIAL SECURITY.
And remember, it’s the one they want to get rid of…
Paying ATTENTION, yet?!
SOCIAL SECURITY.
And remember, it’s the one they want to get rid of…
Paying ATTENTION, yet?!
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Well, it looks like my business now has a cumulative 104% tariff rate on our imports from China.
April 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Well, it looks like my business now has a cumulative 104% tariff rate on our imports from China.
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I've been posting since 2016 (when I first joined twitter) that it would be good for American society if more elites went to prison. Not signed mea culpas, not paid fines, prison.
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
March 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I've been posting since 2016 (when I first joined twitter) that it would be good for American society if more elites went to prison. Not signed mea culpas, not paid fines, prison.
Interesting, esp in light of the news that the administration wants to move the federal student loan portfolio to SBA.
NEWS: Staffing cuts coming at Small Business Administration. SBA reducing staff by 40%, sources told @edokeefe and me early this morning.
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Interesting, esp in light of the news that the administration wants to move the federal student loan portfolio to SBA.
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
My working theory of the auto pen thing is that Trump is big mad about it because he views signing EOs as his core (sole?) competency as president, therefore auto pen use is a legit dereliction of duty by his predecessor.
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
My working theory of the auto pen thing is that Trump is big mad about it because he views signing EOs as his core (sole?) competency as president, therefore auto pen use is a legit dereliction of duty by his predecessor.
This describes our current situation with great clarity:
I think a lot of people I know are traumatized or triggered right now because they understand that we can't count on the grifters and bigots to do the right thing but now it's once again clear that some powerful people who pretend to be allies of what's righteous disappear when we need them most.
March 14, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This describes our current situation with great clarity:
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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.