@martinjosephq.bsky.social
I love books, music, cooking, Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, democracy, and fighting authoritarianism.
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According to the 2025 Freedom on the Net report, global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year. Of 72 countries assessed, conditions deteriorated in 28, while 17 registered overall gains. The US was among the countries that experienced the most significant declines.
Global Internet Freedom Declines for 15th Consecutive Year | TechPolicy.Press
Despite funding cuts, Freedom House delivered its annual report on how countries are performing on measures of digital rights and internet freedom.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
According to the 2025 Freedom on the Net report, global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year. Of 72 countries assessed, conditions deteriorated in 28, while 17 registered overall gains. The US was among the countries that experienced the most significant declines.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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LMAO he's trying to be Mamdani!
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
LMAO he's trying to be Mamdani!
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Protesters attempt to go into Mike Johnson’s office.
(Swear in Adelita Grijalva — the deciding vote to release the Epstein files)
(Swear in Adelita Grijalva — the deciding vote to release the Epstein files)
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Protesters attempt to go into Mike Johnson’s office.
(Swear in Adelita Grijalva — the deciding vote to release the Epstein files)
(Swear in Adelita Grijalva — the deciding vote to release the Epstein files)
NYC squirrel
October 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
NYC squirrel
The No Banned Books demonstration I help plan is satisfying. There's interaction with 100s of people from around the world in front of NYPL on 42nd and 5th. Librarians and teachers thank us and talk about their struggles with banned books. Some passersby are shocked that books are banned at all.
October 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The No Banned Books demonstration I help plan is satisfying. There's interaction with 100s of people from around the world in front of NYPL on 42nd and 5th. Librarians and teachers thank us and talk about their struggles with banned books. Some passersby are shocked that books are banned at all.
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📣 Hands Off Tish James
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)
#HandsOffTish
More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)
#HandsOffTish
More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
📣 Hands Off Tish James
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)
#HandsOffTish
More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)
#HandsOffTish
More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations...
Not Stephen Miller accidentally outting the regime in an interview. Let that "plenary authority" claim slip right out and then had to act like the audio cut out.
Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.
Sir! We heard you.. and the President does NOT have plenary authority.
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations...
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We're scrappy and just getting started, so help us out! Spread the word, subscribe to the podcast, and if you're moved, sign up for our book club! allstora.com/pages/queer-...
Queer History 101 Book Club
The bookstore for all stories.
allstora.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We're scrappy and just getting started, so help us out! Spread the word, subscribe to the podcast, and if you're moved, sign up for our book club! allstora.com/pages/queer-...
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Midwest Correspondent for The Economist:
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Midwest Correspondent for The Economist:
Sad that we have to protest outside 26 Federal Plaza, NYC because the federal government is attacking journalists and sending them to the hospital, but we do and we will.
October 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Sad that we have to protest outside 26 Federal Plaza, NYC because the federal government is attacking journalists and sending them to the hospital, but we do and we will.
A moment of silence at a huge ICE Out of NYC march in downtown Manhattan. I mourned and reflected on what more I could do.
September 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A moment of silence at a huge ICE Out of NYC march in downtown Manhattan. I mourned and reflected on what more I could do.
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Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
Already dreading the 'my ratings were bigger than Kimmel's ratings' blather.
September 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Already dreading the 'my ratings were bigger than Kimmel's ratings' blather.
"For email and calendar, the interest group recommends Proton Mail & Calendar, Tuta Mail & Calendar, and Soverin. For alternative browsers and search engines, Bits of Freedom advises downloading and installing Firefox, Brave, Startpage, and DuckDuckGo."
Want to escape Google, Meta, and Microsoft? Dutch activists share simple steps to move away from Big Tech
Dutch group warns Europe too reliant on Google, Meta, Amazon and launches guide to reduce Big Tech dependency
cybernews.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"For email and calendar, the interest group recommends Proton Mail & Calendar, Tuta Mail & Calendar, and Soverin. For alternative browsers and search engines, Bits of Freedom advises downloading and installing Firefox, Brave, Startpage, and DuckDuckGo."
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Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.
September 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.
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This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is the playbook, folks.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.
Do not be quiet in this moment.
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This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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For our friends across the country asking how you can help, this one's for you. 🧵
freedcproject.org/allies
freedcproject.org/allies
August 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For our friends across the country asking how you can help, this one's for you. 🧵
freedcproject.org/allies
freedcproject.org/allies
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D.C. residents rallied near the White House this morning to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of city law enforcement.
Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.
Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.
August 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
D.C. residents rallied near the White House this morning to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of city law enforcement.
Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.
Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.
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Protesters in NYC blocked the street in front of 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE is inhumanely kidnapping and detaining people—to demand their release.
Refusing to budge until people were released, more than a dozen protesters were arrested by the NYPD while they screamed, “Let them go, or we stay too!”
Refusing to budge until people were released, more than a dozen protesters were arrested by the NYPD while they screamed, “Let them go, or we stay too!”
August 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Protesters in NYC blocked the street in front of 26 Federal Plaza—where ICE is inhumanely kidnapping and detaining people—to demand their release.
Refusing to budge until people were released, more than a dozen protesters were arrested by the NYPD while they screamed, “Let them go, or we stay too!”
Refusing to budge until people were released, more than a dozen protesters were arrested by the NYPD while they screamed, “Let them go, or we stay too!”
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we don't actually know what's going to *work* so we need to try many different kinds of things and that means that a lot of what people are trying will not be your choice of action.
July 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
we don't actually know what's going to *work* so we need to try many different kinds of things and that means that a lot of what people are trying will not be your choice of action.
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Also sneak peek thanks to Julie for helping me with graphics. I am collecting books for Bluestockings Bookstore and I am hoping that lots of people will help me meet my goal of 2500 gently used and new books by 9/1! If you want to organize your own book drive in your area, reach out.
June 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Also sneak peek thanks to Julie for helping me with graphics. I am collecting books for Bluestockings Bookstore and I am hoping that lots of people will help me meet my goal of 2500 gently used and new books by 9/1! If you want to organize your own book drive in your area, reach out.