Henry Lester
@mudh3n.bsky.social
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"In a personalist dictatorship, the tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants
"The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
www.publicnotice.co
March 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"In a personalist dictatorship, the tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
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RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Top HHS spokesperson quits after clashing with RFK Jr.
Thomas Corry resigned over disagreements with the HHS secretary and his approach to the measles outbreak.
www.politico.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
RFK Jr’s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Social security is funded by the payroll tax. There is no problem because payroll taxes should be increased just like Ronald Reagan did. A good start would be subjecting wages over $176,000 to the payroll tax. Consider that the average CEO makes 100 times that amount.
March 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Social security is funded by the payroll tax. There is no problem because payroll taxes should be increased just like Ronald Reagan did. A good start would be subjecting wages over $176,000 to the payroll tax. Consider that the average CEO makes 100 times that amount.
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BREAKING: judge just announced he is ruling in our favor! He’s reading his legal findings from the bench now, OPM did not have authority to direct firings. Says agencies LIED! Organizational plaintiffs have standing. Now awaiting rest of findings & relief
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
Coalition of Unions, Small Businesses, Veterans, and Conservation Organizations Seeks Court Order to Prevent Unlawful Firings - State Democracy Defenders Action
Press ReleaseFebruary 24, 2025 Amended Complaint also Targets Illegal “Five Things” Email WASHINGTON – In their lawsuit attempting to block the unlawful mass terminations of probationary federal emplo...
statedemocracydefenders.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: judge just announced he is ruling in our favor! He’s reading his legal findings from the bench now, OPM did not have authority to direct firings. Says agencies LIED! Organizational plaintiffs have standing. Now awaiting rest of findings & relief
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/coaliti...
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This is great.
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE
We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.
www.theverge.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is great.
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
www.theverge.com/news/617014/...
Right on
Working on extricating myself from amazon's evil book empire:
- Got a kobo on the way to replace my kindle
- Downloading, deDRMing, and converting ~400 ebooks
- Shopping at betterworldbooks instead of abebooks or amazon itself
- Switching from goodreads to storygraph (I'm theendofcinema)
- Got a kobo on the way to replace my kindle
- Downloading, deDRMing, and converting ~400 ebooks
- Shopping at betterworldbooks instead of abebooks or amazon itself
- Switching from goodreads to storygraph (I'm theendofcinema)
February 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Right on
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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA
7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”
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#Fire-the-Fascist-Oligarchs
Oligarch undertaxed wealth:
💰 Musk’s $402 billion
💰 Zuckerberg's $252 billion
💰 Bezos' $249 billion
Workers:
🛠️ 60% live paycheck to paycheck
🛠️ 85 million uninsured or underinsured
🛠️ 800k homeless
#Fight-for-Working-Families
www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
Oligarch undertaxed wealth:
💰 Musk’s $402 billion
💰 Zuckerberg's $252 billion
💰 Bezos' $249 billion
Workers:
🛠️ 60% live paycheck to paycheck
🛠️ 85 million uninsured or underinsured
🛠️ 800k homeless
#Fight-for-Working-Families
www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
Bernie Sanders launches tour "to fight oligarchy": Here's where he's going
Sanders said in a video message that his tour is against billionaires like Elon Musk, who are using power to gain more money.
www.newsweek.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
#Fire-the-Fascist-Oligarchs
Oligarch undertaxed wealth:
💰 Musk’s $402 billion
💰 Zuckerberg's $252 billion
💰 Bezos' $249 billion
Workers:
🛠️ 60% live paycheck to paycheck
🛠️ 85 million uninsured or underinsured
🛠️ 800k homeless
#Fight-for-Working-Families
www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
Oligarch undertaxed wealth:
💰 Musk’s $402 billion
💰 Zuckerberg's $252 billion
💰 Bezos' $249 billion
Workers:
🛠️ 60% live paycheck to paycheck
🛠️ 85 million uninsured or underinsured
🛠️ 800k homeless
#Fight-for-Working-Families
www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
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Money talks
We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Money talks
I think most libraries are run by and for open minded people, but this sort of thing is alarming.
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think most libraries are run by and for open minded people, but this sort of thing is alarming.
It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
Buy direct from authors. Get your files.
February 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
February 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941
@karaswisher.bsky.social check out the software chops of DOGE
February 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
@karaswisher.bsky.social check out the software chops of DOGE
@hickenlooper.bsky.social good morning. You should see what's happening to our security.
February 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
@hickenlooper.bsky.social good morning. You should see what's happening to our security.
DOGE clown show may be responsible
February 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
DOGE clown show may be responsible