@ericapytlovany.bsky.social
Never wanted to be an activist, but I guess I was due for a new hobby.
Stand with Ukraine.
End the genocide in Gaza.
Trans rights are human rights.
Black lives STILL matter.
Speak up for LBGTQ+ and Women's Rights.
Hold the line.
Use your voice.
Stand with Ukraine.
End the genocide in Gaza.
Trans rights are human rights.
Black lives STILL matter.
Speak up for LBGTQ+ and Women's Rights.
Hold the line.
Use your voice.
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Anyone surprised that this could happen in the US needs to read up on their history. Specifically:
- Trail of Tears
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Tuskegee Experiments
- Project MKUltra
That's just some of what we do to ourselves. Look up what we do to our "enemies" if you don't want to sleep well.
- Trail of Tears
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Tuskegee Experiments
- Project MKUltra
That's just some of what we do to ourselves. Look up what we do to our "enemies" if you don't want to sleep well.
If you don’t think this administration is so incompetent or callous as not to do this, you haven’t been paying attention.
March 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Anyone surprised that this could happen in the US needs to read up on their history. Specifically:
- Trail of Tears
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Tuskegee Experiments
- Project MKUltra
That's just some of what we do to ourselves. Look up what we do to our "enemies" if you don't want to sleep well.
- Trail of Tears
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Tuskegee Experiments
- Project MKUltra
That's just some of what we do to ourselves. Look up what we do to our "enemies" if you don't want to sleep well.
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an executive order is not a law
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March 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Clean opsec y'all.
SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Clean opsec y'all.
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This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election.
Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.
Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.
March 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is illegal: Musk announced in an overnight post on X that he’ll hand out million-dollar checks at a Sunday night event in Wisconsin—but only to those who voted in the state’s Supreme Court election.
Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.
Why is Elon so invested in this race? Tesla is facing legal challenges in Wisconsin.
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Even Trump has got to be surprised by how much of the media has defaulted to, "Trump posted a long tweet that is the law now," and reality gets filed under "however, critics say..."
It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
DC is uniquely vulnerable and we really need all of you with State representation to join us in pushing back against what promises to be a ton of cruel and unnecessary actions: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
March 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Even Trump has got to be surprised by how much of the media has defaulted to, "Trump posted a long tweet that is the law now," and reality gets filed under "however, critics say..."
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The page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address.
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address.
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I searched this and just wow, there are tons of stories of Rogers' heroism & service but now the official DoD site not only says "not found" but the text is "deimedal" | see Congressional Medal of Honor list www.cmohs.org/recipients/c...
March 16, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I searched this and just wow, there are tons of stories of Rogers' heroism & service but now the official DoD site not only says "not found" but the text is "deimedal" | see Congressional Medal of Honor list www.cmohs.org/recipients/c...
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That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
March 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.
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"The Trump administration has not been shy in asserting that Khalil’s political expression is at the root of efforts to deport him," writes author and scholar Sarah McLaughlin. "You don’t need to hold any sympathy for Khalil’s views to see why this is an immense threat to free expression."
Deporting speakers over supposed ‘propaganda’ is a stock authoritarian move | Sarah McLaughlin
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"The Trump administration has not been shy in asserting that Khalil’s political expression is at the root of efforts to deport him," writes author and scholar Sarah McLaughlin. "You don’t need to hold any sympathy for Khalil’s views to see why this is an immense threat to free expression."
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Mahmoud Khalil must be released, the Trump Administration must answer for his detention, and these attacks on First Amendment rights must end.
🚨BREAKING: With @raskin.house.gov & @scanlon.house.gov, I’m leading 100+ House Democrats in demanding answers on Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest.
Trump’s attempt to deport Khalil is authoritarian & an attack on the First Amendment. We won’t sit quietly as his administration tries to dismantle free speech.
Trump’s attempt to deport Khalil is authoritarian & an attack on the First Amendment. We won’t sit quietly as his administration tries to dismantle free speech.
March 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mahmoud Khalil must be released, the Trump Administration must answer for his detention, and these attacks on First Amendment rights must end.
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Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers write in new filing
Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers write in new filing
Lawyers demand in updated lawsuit that Columbia University graduate student be released from custody
Mahmoud Khalil felt as though he was being kidnapped when he was handcuffed and shackled and rushed from New York to immigration detention in Louisiana…
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers write in new filing
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Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States.
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March 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States.
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This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is really, really bad. Columbia made the mistake of thinking that placating the administration would spare them. Other universities made the mistake of thinking it would stop with Columbia. It won’t stop without disciplined pushback; it’s an existential question for American universities.
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WaPo readers need to realize that every opinion piece they read is now the product of Bezos' rightwing censorship rules. Whether the author self censors or Post management does it after review, the result is the same.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
In Ruth Marcus' new column for The New Yorker in which she unveils the Washington Post column that was rejected and led to her resignation, she points out that the paper's media critic Erik Wemple also had a piece disagreeing with Bezos' new opinion mandate nixed.
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
March 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
WaPo readers need to realize that every opinion piece they read is now the product of Bezos' rightwing censorship rules. Whether the author self censors or Post management does it after review, the result is the same.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
This is what oligarch controlled media looks like.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
March 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
If this doesn’t scare you, you aren’t paying attention. Free Mahmoud Khalil.
ICE just DETAINED a lawful permanent resident and recent grad student in the middle of the night… because Mahmoud exercised his First Amendment rights in a way Donald Trump didn’t like.
Straight up authoritarianism.
Straight up authoritarianism.
March 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If this doesn’t scare you, you aren’t paying attention. Free Mahmoud Khalil.
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ICE just DETAINED a lawful permanent resident and recent grad student in the middle of the night… because Mahmoud exercised his First Amendment rights in a way Donald Trump didn’t like.
Straight up authoritarianism.
Straight up authoritarianism.
March 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ICE just DETAINED a lawful permanent resident and recent grad student in the middle of the night… because Mahmoud exercised his First Amendment rights in a way Donald Trump didn’t like.
Straight up authoritarianism.
Straight up authoritarianism.
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