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“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The House passed a resolution condemning socialism. Okay.

When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.

The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.

It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.

Textbook corporate greed.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.

Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.

Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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i find it so off-putting when you watch journalists interviewing politicians and you can tell they’re friendly, all in a big club that doesn’t serve the public’s interests. access journalism is the opposite of accountability journalism.
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Worth noting that Nekrasova has been on the bandwagon for a while - Red Scare interviewed Yarvin back in 2022, and she was a guest at Passage Press's "Coronation Ball" earlier this year.

(The whole Dimes Square/Sovereign House scene has been bought with Thiel money and is spreading his ideologies.)
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Srinivasan took most of his ideas from Curtis Yarvin, reframing them as the Network State.

Dasha Nekrasova interviewed Yarvin on Red Scare a few months ago, so it comes full circle.

This stuff is not happening in a vacuum. It's a propaganda play.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan identified listeners of "Red Scare" as potential converts to the tech fascist cult.

He called them "Left-Libertarians" & said they were key to a new political strategy uniting far-left & far-right.

And...

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The Long, Thorny Path to Dasha Nekrasova’s Hollywood Shunning
For years, the 'Succession' actress awkwardly balanced a mainstream acting career with her controversial 'Red Scare' podcast. But an invitation to white nationalist Nick Fuentes proved a step too far.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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“Providing tech services to supercharge ICE operations while blocking tools that support accountability of ICE officers is entirely backwards." - @kateruane.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel: trump delegate? fun
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now.

Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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the amount of people who will say something like "they went to tech so you know they're smart"

YALL

math science engineering is a certain kind of skill that some ppl study but lolll plz do not defer to stem folks on all the things, just on stem things
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Woke 2.0 needs class consciousness as a primary ingredient
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The group chat pings around school drop-off and dismissal time. “All quiet at [Elementary School X],” one message says, or “smooth sailing at [Middle School Y].” Neighbors are on heightened alert because a federal government helicopter has been doing laps over our communities…
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM