Kim Hunter
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Kim Hunter
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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos.

Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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In addition to everything else I just mentioned in that SSA thread, important to remember: this isn't Congress making these changes. It's certainly not reform coming from within the SSA. And it's not even really coming from MAGA, tho Trump is responsible. This is being done by a by a bunch ...
March 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
www.techdirt.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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February 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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this is theft on an unimaginable scale
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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This is a coup. A completely unconstitutional takeover of central government institutions, resources, and functions. Unfolding at a dramatic pace. All based entirely on the regime's assertion of absolute power and impunity.
Musk and his allies are ransacking the federal treasury, gaining access to closely guarded payment systems that disburse trillions of dollars and hold massive amounts of incredibly sensitive information—including Social Security numbers. Just a terrifying development. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
February 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM