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Good ol’ what’s his face
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All around tech nerd. I torture electrons for fun and profit. Sometimes I make sawdust or maintain the petrol chariot. Mostly I attempt to entertain the furbeasts. Neurospicy. Please spay or neuter your elected reprehensibles & own a radio. he/him/dumbass
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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I remember, and they treated it like it was a stupid argument. Ask the families of the Venezuelan and Colombian victims who were killed while fishing their how they feel about it. Not so stupid or hypothetical now, huh?!
November 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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im sorry you cant have food but we gave all our money to one guy who “invented” 2 day shipping and another thats promising robot butlers so you can see how our hands are tied
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.

Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Anyone who would so nonchalantly tear down a huge chunk of the White House would sell ANY and all top secret information to any foreign power.
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000
Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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This pair of adjacent headlines in today’s print NYT really encapsulates the world we live in.

On the right, SCOTUS may ban use of race in redistricting.

To its left, Trump administration to give white people a racial preference for refugee admissions.
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Same.
My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison
Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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October 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Jacob Soboroff is very brave for this reporting. At a time when other news outlets are cowering in fear, he's fulfilling the highest order of journalism, which is truth telling and holding the powerful accountable.
bsky.app/profile/jaco...
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

Support its vital work to help keep you informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
October 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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About the Politico article just posted. #arrestrepublicans #notohate
October 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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🎯
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!
October 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”
October 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"Now Wired — which has become indispensable and deserves your subscription dollars (🙏) — reports that DHS wants to create dedicated centers to mass monitor social-media in real time."
"Authoritarian Capacity" and the Trump Regime - Lawyers, Guns & Money
In May of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security tried to stand up a group to coordinate government anti-disinformation efforts. As Deepa Shivaram wrote at NPR, the “decision” resulted from a “coor...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him
October 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM