Sierra Delta
@sierradelta328.bsky.social
I struggle with making my rudimentary technical skills work in the 21st-century world. Broligarchy isn't in the U.S. Constitution (yet), and orange is not a color I will ever voluntarily choose.
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Sierra Delta
@sierradelta328.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Why Participate in the October 18th No Kings Protest?
Oh gosh, another protest? We've already had a few this year and have they made any difference? What's the point of participating in the upcoming No Kings protest on October 18th? Isn't it futile? That...
www.wardrobeoxygen.com
As always, one of the best sources of thoughtful analysis and information regarding protests is Wardrobe Oxygen: www.wardrobeoxygen.com/october-18th...
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge
In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...
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Trump falsely claimed that all documents signed by Biden are now “invalid” because they were allegedly authorized using autopen. The president’s attack comes days after revelations that Trump himself has recently relied on mass-signature processes.
Trump Claims Former President Joe Biden’s Pardons Are Invalid
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Trump falsely claimed that all documents signed by Biden are now “invalid” because they were allegedly authorized using autopen. The president’s attack comes days after revelations that Trump himself has recently relied on mass-signature processes.
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Shame on everyone who elevated her to some ill-deserved 'golden girl' status. (And Vanity Fair? What could you people be thinking!?!?)
What a rotten excuse for a news reporter. Good freaking grief, this is disgraceful.
What a rotten excuse for a news reporter. Good freaking grief, this is disgraceful.
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Shame on everyone who elevated her to some ill-deserved 'golden girl' status. (And Vanity Fair? What could you people be thinking!?!?)
What a rotten excuse for a news reporter. Good freaking grief, this is disgraceful.
What a rotten excuse for a news reporter. Good freaking grief, this is disgraceful.
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Here’s the thing about people my age: I thought I was going to finally start to be able to save up for retirement. Almost all my kids are grown. But that’s not how it’s working out. We still have to support our kids who did everything right (college, apprenticeships) because nothing is affordable.
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Here’s the thing about people my age: I thought I was going to finally start to be able to save up for retirement. Almost all my kids are grown. But that’s not how it’s working out. We still have to support our kids who did everything right (college, apprenticeships) because nothing is affordable.
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This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This gangster government steals everyone’s property and doesn’t care about the laws respecting the rights of creators. Everything they see belongs to them like the greedy leeches on this country that they are.
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BTW the suspect whom the FBI has reportedly arrested today and will charge in relation to placing the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters will almost certainly argue that Donald Trump has already pardoned him 🙃
I don't think it'll fly, but I have little doubt it'll be briefed and argued
I don't think it'll fly, but I have little doubt it'll be briefed and argued
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
BTW the suspect whom the FBI has reportedly arrested today and will charge in relation to placing the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters will almost certainly argue that Donald Trump has already pardoned him 🙃
I don't think it'll fly, but I have little doubt it'll be briefed and argued
I don't think it'll fly, but I have little doubt it'll be briefed and argued
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Oh. Look. I'm not the only one: bsky.app/profile/klas...
Annie Farmer, who delivered testimony that helped convict Maxwell, expressed concern that Trump's DOJ would "use orders issued by the Court as a public excuse to continue to withhold crucial information," according to a footnote of the newly public letter.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Oh. Look. I'm not the only one: bsky.app/profile/klas...
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The Trump DoJ has already adopted the position that Trump's J6 pardons' phrase "offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" extends to unrelated offenses that were discovered due to search warrants executed in relation to J6 investigations
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Trump DoJ has already adopted the position that Trump's J6 pardons' phrase "offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" extends to unrelated offenses that were discovered due to search warrants executed in relation to J6 investigations
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NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
NEWS: U.S. companies have announced over 1.1 million layoffs in 2025, the highest total since the pandemic-hit year of 2020, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas
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This person has no idea how many people have died, or will die, as a result of shattering our entire global infrastructure for providing lifesaving assistance.
He did no analysis of those impacts before the reckless and illegal obliteration of USAID. These statements are made-up assertions.
He did no analysis of those impacts before the reckless and illegal obliteration of USAID. These statements are made-up assertions.
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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how utterly ridiculous
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
how utterly ridiculous
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Dr. Cassidy raised the major scientific objections to (and proof against) Junior's idiocy during those sham confirmation hearings (which is what thy are) then voted for him. There's no redemption for him no matter what his current decision is.
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Dr. Cassidy raised the major scientific objections to (and proof against) Junior's idiocy during those sham confirmation hearings (which is what thy are) then voted for him. There's no redemption for him no matter what his current decision is.
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That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.
ACIP may end universal Hep B vaccination today.
Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.
But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!
He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
Hep B prevention is Cassidy's passion, as he made clear during RFK Jr's confirmation hearings.
But let's not forget... his vote to confirm RFK Jr. got us into this mess!
He needs to use every lever of power he has in the Senate to fix it.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.
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Oh.
Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.
Exclusive | Hegseth Asked Top Admiral to Resign After Months of Discord
The relationship between the Pentagon chief and Adm. Alvin Holsey had been rocky since Trump’s inauguration.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oh.
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The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Macron reportedly warned Zelenskyy US may ‘betray Ukraine on territory’
Macron reportedly warned Zelenskyy US may ‘betray Ukraine on territory’
Der Spiegel quotes leaked call in which European leaders voice doubts about Washington’s approach to peace talks
Emmanuel Macron has reportedly warned Volodymyr Zelenskyy that “there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory, without clarity on security guarantees”, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported, quoting a leaked note from a recent call with several European leaders.
Der Spiegel said it had obtained an English summary of Monday’s call, featuring what it said were direct quotations from European heads of government in which they expressed fundamental doubts about Washington’s approach to the talks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Macron reportedly warned Zelenskyy US may ‘betray Ukraine on territory’
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Reminder about Jan 6:
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Reminder about Jan 6:
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
it really happened
It was a horror
140+ police were injured
A range of violent weapons were used by attackers
Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard
There was a gallows and guns
Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
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When I learned about WWII as a kid I wondered how people could be so void of empathy & humanity to do what they did to millions of innocent people.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When I learned about WWII as a kid I wondered how people could be so void of empathy & humanity to do what they did to millions of innocent people.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
It didn't start as concentration or death camps. It began as "they don't belong here" with gov propaganda to normalize stripping people of citizenship.
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We are seeing "influencers" & the federal government pumping out propaganda to try to desensitize Americans to the idea of entire demographics being stripped of citizenship by using terms like "remigration" & peddling blatant lies about those groups of people.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We are seeing "influencers" & the federal government pumping out propaganda to try to desensitize Americans to the idea of entire demographics being stripped of citizenship by using terms like "remigration" & peddling blatant lies about those groups of people.
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The White House as recently as Sunday was calling it the United States Institute of Peace.
It has now removed the “United States” in formal communications and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.”
It has now removed the “United States” in formal communications and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.”
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The White House as recently as Sunday was calling it the United States Institute of Peace.
It has now removed the “United States” in formal communications and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.”
It has now removed the “United States” in formal communications and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.”
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Rep. Jim Himes after being briefed by Adm. Bradley:
"What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States."
"What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States."
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Rep. Jim Himes after being briefed by Adm. Bradley:
"What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States."
"What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service. You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States."
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With Trump and his Putin loving cronies, Macron is effing spot on:
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"We Must Not Leave Ukraine and Volodymyr Alone with These Guys"
DER SPIEGEL has obtained notes from a conference call involving EU leaders - including Germany's Friedrich Merz and France's Emmanuel Macron - showing just how little trust Europe has in Washington.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
With Trump and his Putin loving cronies, Macron is effing spot on:
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
"“There is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory without clarity on security guarantees,” Macron said according to the English language notes of the call that DER SPIEGEL has obtained."
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Cheaper for Big Oil to buy Congress than to pay taxes. Let alone pay for the harm of their pollution.
American Big Oil Pays More in Taxes Abroad
A new report details how fossil fuel lobbyists have won huge U.S. tax giveaways.
inequality.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Cheaper for Big Oil to buy Congress than to pay taxes. Let alone pay for the harm of their pollution.
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Trump/GOP own this BAD economy! Small businesses shed jobs at a level not seen since the pandemic & are on the brink of recession! See www.axios.com/2025/12/04/m....
Meanwhile, Trump builds a golden ballroom for himself while laughing it up about how Americans can’t afford the basic cost of living!
Meanwhile, Trump builds a golden ballroom for himself while laughing it up about how Americans can’t afford the basic cost of living!
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trump/GOP own this BAD economy! Small businesses shed jobs at a level not seen since the pandemic & are on the brink of recession! See www.axios.com/2025/12/04/m....
Meanwhile, Trump builds a golden ballroom for himself while laughing it up about how Americans can’t afford the basic cost of living!
Meanwhile, Trump builds a golden ballroom for himself while laughing it up about how Americans can’t afford the basic cost of living!