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And yes, I’m aware that objecting/refusing a nomination is likely to be moot, that the GOP can force it through, but it’s not moot. It’s refusing to be a party to corruption. It’s registering disapproval and opposition. And that’s necessary. It has WORTH. Those gestures matter. They show leadership.
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
And yes, I’m aware that objecting/refusing a nomination is likely to be moot, that the GOP can force it through, but it’s not moot. It’s refusing to be a party to corruption. It’s registering disapproval and opposition. And that’s necessary. It has WORTH. Those gestures matter. They show leadership.
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DOGE might officially be over, but that doesn’t change the fact that Musk’s goons pushed 7,000 Social Security workers out of their jobs, while dumping all of our private Social Security data on an insecure public server.
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
DOGE might officially be over, but that doesn’t change the fact that Musk’s goons pushed 7,000 Social Security workers out of their jobs, while dumping all of our private Social Security data on an insecure public server.
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
So very dangerous, and illegal.
#ICYMI: A sweeping data-sharing agreement authorizing DHS to merge Social Security data into the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system could threaten Americans’ privacy and lead to errors that disenfranchise legitimate voters, experts say.
By @jenafifield.bsky.social
By @jenafifield.bsky.social
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So very dangerous, and illegal.
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As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.
The Deportees Whose Stories We’ll Never Know
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.
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Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
Lee Zeldin announces on Fox that there will be "severe" layoffs at the EPA if the shutdown continues
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.
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Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
Eugenics is a Nazi shibboleth:
https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity
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The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
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4200 dollars a year is less than 90 dollars a week.
I need everyone within range of this skeet to think about your last grocery trip, what you bought, and how much you spent, and then think about how ridiculous this racist douchenozzle sounds.
I need everyone within range of this skeet to think about your last grocery trip, what you bought, and how much you spent, and then think about how ridiculous this racist douchenozzle sounds.
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
4200 dollars a year is less than 90 dollars a week.
I need everyone within range of this skeet to think about your last grocery trip, what you bought, and how much you spent, and then think about how ridiculous this racist douchenozzle sounds.
I need everyone within range of this skeet to think about your last grocery trip, what you bought, and how much you spent, and then think about how ridiculous this racist douchenozzle sounds.
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These contiguous posts in my timeline show how companies, both big and small, can either devote themselves to the trivial and evil or the substantive and good.
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
These contiguous posts in my timeline show how companies, both big and small, can either devote themselves to the trivial and evil or the substantive and good.
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Who is Rob Schneider again?
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Who is Rob Schneider again?
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💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown?
This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress.
The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats.
apnews.com/article/snap...
This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress.
The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats.
apnews.com/article/snap...
Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says
The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown?
This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress.
The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats.
apnews.com/article/snap...
This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress.
The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats.
apnews.com/article/snap...
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Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
www.propublica.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president.
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This prof of art history at Hunter's old thread reminds me of a story that I'm too lazy to look up now: Fred Trump deliberately destroying early 20th century Coney Island attractions he promised he wouldn't destroy out of spite. bsky.app/profile/did:...
I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This prof of art history at Hunter's old thread reminds me of a story that I'm too lazy to look up now: Fred Trump deliberately destroying early 20th century Coney Island attractions he promised he wouldn't destroy out of spite. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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On the one hand, I'm so proud and in awe of these young people who are taking care of their community.
On the other, I can't believe in 2025 that women have been reduced to starting underground birth control networks
apnews.com/article/abor...
On the other, I can't believe in 2025 that women have been reduced to starting underground birth control networks
apnews.com/article/abor...
A student 'womb service' works covertly to deliver contraception at a Catholic college
At DePaul University, a Catholic school in Chicago, students have created a covert contraceptive delivery network called “the womb service.”
apnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
On the one hand, I'm so proud and in awe of these young people who are taking care of their community.
On the other, I can't believe in 2025 that women have been reduced to starting underground birth control networks
apnews.com/article/abor...
On the other, I can't believe in 2025 that women have been reduced to starting underground birth control networks
apnews.com/article/abor...
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Codifying racism.
Trump’s Supreme Court just legalized racial profiling
September 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Codifying racism.
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Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma.
For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, @mlk50.com
For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, @mlk50.com
Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center
In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...
www.propublica.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma.
For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, @mlk50.com
For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.
By @wendicthomas.bsky.social, @mlk50.com
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Our billionaire President put an airline lobbyist in charge of the Department of Transportation. So no, this is not a surprise.
The Trump administration has canceled the Biden era rule where airlines would have to compensate passengers for flight disruptions.
September 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Our billionaire President put an airline lobbyist in charge of the Department of Transportation. So no, this is not a surprise.
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This story should be everywhere right now.
The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."
DOJ deputy chief: government will "redact every Republican" from Epstein client list
The deputy chief later said his comments were not based on what he's learned from his role at the DOJ.
www.axios.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This story should be everywhere right now.
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One of the biggest reasons people develop both perfectionism as an avoidance tactic and other forms of avoidant tactics is a history of not being allowed to fail, or being criticized for beginner efforts as if they’re not a beginner.
Failing is good. Confusion is the default state of learning.
Failing is good. Confusion is the default state of learning.
August 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
One of the biggest reasons people develop both perfectionism as an avoidance tactic and other forms of avoidant tactics is a history of not being allowed to fail, or being criticized for beginner efforts as if they’re not a beginner.
Failing is good. Confusion is the default state of learning.
Failing is good. Confusion is the default state of learning.
Fucking stupid.
Democrats’ favorite research firm told them to avoid discussing Trump’s “rising authoritarianism” and focus on tariffs instead.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Fucking stupid.
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20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States.
It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’).
If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’).
If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
Map shows countries suspending postal service to United States
Countries across the world are suspending parcel shipments to the U.S. over uncertainty over the Trump administration's policies.
www.newsweek.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
20 countries have now stopped shipping all valuable mail parcels to the United States.
It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’).
If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
It’s a result of the White House’s large and chaotic taxes on Americans who buy products made with any input from overseas (‘tariffs’).
If you listen closely, you can hear small businesses dying.
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"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney"
-- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
-- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
Loved ones shocked, worried after beloved Utah violinist detained by ICE
Friends and family are reacting after Utah violinist John Shin was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday.
www.fox13now.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney"
-- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
-- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...