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Trump has Project 2025.
We need Project 2000. In 2000, DHS didn't exist. You could cross the border into Canada or Mexico with just a driver's license. The USCG was part of Commerce. ICE didn't exist, the INS and Customs Service did. Let's put things back to 2000. Let's Make America Great Again!
We need Project 2000. In 2000, DHS didn't exist. You could cross the border into Canada or Mexico with just a driver's license. The USCG was part of Commerce. ICE didn't exist, the INS and Customs Service did. Let's put things back to 2000. Let's Make America Great Again!
February 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Trump has Project 2025.
We need Project 2000. In 2000, DHS didn't exist. You could cross the border into Canada or Mexico with just a driver's license. The USCG was part of Commerce. ICE didn't exist, the INS and Customs Service did. Let's put things back to 2000. Let's Make America Great Again!
We need Project 2000. In 2000, DHS didn't exist. You could cross the border into Canada or Mexico with just a driver's license. The USCG was part of Commerce. ICE didn't exist, the INS and Customs Service did. Let's put things back to 2000. Let's Make America Great Again!
@aflcio.org People out here at work. Waiting for guidance.
January 30, 2026 at 1:11 PM
@aflcio.org People out here at work. Waiting for guidance.
Bill Clinton has to turn himself in. Bill Gates has to turn himself in. Noam Chomsky and Matt Groening have to turn themselves in. How much longer are they going to be safe outside of official custody?
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Bill Clinton has to turn himself in. Bill Gates has to turn himself in. Noam Chomsky and Matt Groening have to turn themselves in. How much longer are they going to be safe outside of official custody?
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Just 2 thoughts: Dawkins was right about genes being the fundamental units of selection, and Gould was right about Dawkins being an asshole.
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Just 2 thoughts: Dawkins was right about genes being the fundamental units of selection, and Gould was right about Dawkins being an asshole.
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Remember how Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) that gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country? I sure do!
Texas Cops Are Tracking Abortion Patients With License Plate Data
5.29.25
jessica.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Remember how Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) that gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country? I sure do!
If my stocks are up, but the dollar is down, are my stocks really up, or have they stayed the same while my wages got devalued?
July 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
If my stocks are up, but the dollar is down, are my stocks really up, or have they stayed the same while my wages got devalued?
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I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.
July 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.
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Hey America. You need to know something:
This level of corruption IS NOT NORMAL.
Don’t ever believe that it is.
This level of corruption IS NOT NORMAL.
Don’t ever believe that it is.
May 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hey America. You need to know something:
This level of corruption IS NOT NORMAL.
Don’t ever believe that it is.
This level of corruption IS NOT NORMAL.
Don’t ever believe that it is.
I feel bad for the Qatari intelligence workers who will have to listen to the inane conversations surveilled on the new bribe-jet.
May 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I feel bad for the Qatari intelligence workers who will have to listen to the inane conversations surveilled on the new bribe-jet.
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Automobile dependence erodes public health in many ways: blunt force trauma (#1 cause for children and young adults), air pollution (CVD, asthma), noise pollution (QoL, dementia) but perhaps the most pernicious is that it has almost completely displaced walking. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
Less than 25 percent of Americans walk for more than ten minutes continuously in a typical week
Many people in the U.S. do not walk, bike or engage in other forms of active transportation, missing an important opportunity to improve their cardiovascular health, concludes a new study.
www.sciencedaily.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Automobile dependence erodes public health in many ways: blunt force trauma (#1 cause for children and young adults), air pollution (CVD, asthma), noise pollution (QoL, dementia) but perhaps the most pernicious is that it has almost completely displaced walking. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...
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Nice parallel with SINNERS.
April 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Nice parallel with SINNERS.
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The arrest comes amid a growing feud between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the White House’s immigration enforcement policies. to.pbs.org/42SDwXh
FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration agents, agency director Patel says
FBI Director Kash Patel says his office believes Judge Hannah Dugan "intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse."
to.pbs.org
April 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The arrest comes amid a growing feud between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the White House’s immigration enforcement policies. to.pbs.org/42SDwXh
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there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch
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If SCOTUS wants POTUS to have "super immunity", they should also put a limit on pardon power only to the effect that it can't be used to pardon crimes of the Administration.
Immunity can protect POTUS, but must be balanced to protect the People.
Immunity can protect POTUS, but must be balanced to protect the People.
April 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If SCOTUS wants POTUS to have "super immunity", they should also put a limit on pardon power only to the effect that it can't be used to pardon crimes of the Administration.
Immunity can protect POTUS, but must be balanced to protect the People.
Immunity can protect POTUS, but must be balanced to protect the People.
Republican political class look weird. They all have AI face.
April 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Republican political class look weird. They all have AI face.
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Katy Perry went to space, cried "feminism" while NASA's forced to remove women's achievements from their history, caused an enormous amount of environmental damage, & contributed NOTHING to art or culture while she was up there. She released a set list for a tour that can't even give away tickets.
April 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Katy Perry went to space, cried "feminism" while NASA's forced to remove women's achievements from their history, caused an enormous amount of environmental damage, & contributed NOTHING to art or culture while she was up there. She released a set list for a tour that can't even give away tickets.
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Farmers are poisoned by rural preachers. Farmers are not your opponents. Rural preachers are. They create and spread mental illness like wild fires.
April 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Farmers are poisoned by rural preachers. Farmers are not your opponents. Rural preachers are. They create and spread mental illness like wild fires.
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An opinion I am developing while doing this project is that if your city has a separate committee for "Equestrian" anything then you need to be immediately absorbed into the nearest city without one.
Update: as of today I am officially 50% done with this very long webscraping project.
Also, in case you were wondering, since January of 2008, the city of Los Angeles has held 10,227 public meetings for which there are Agendas available. Which is a thing I know now.
Also, in case you were wondering, since January of 2008, the city of Los Angeles has held 10,227 public meetings for which there are Agendas available. Which is a thing I know now.
Working on some web scraping stuff for data collection and I keep having to remind myself that web developers don't write their webpages with the ease of scraping them in mind 😅😅
April 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
An opinion I am developing while doing this project is that if your city has a separate committee for "Equestrian" anything then you need to be immediately absorbed into the nearest city without one.
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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
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What if the fastest way to challenge human rights abuses in El Salvador’s mega prison isn’t politics—but your wallet? A strategic boycott of Salvadoran-made goods could hit hardest where it counts.
Here’s how: 🧵
Here’s how: 🧵
April 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
What if the fastest way to challenge human rights abuses in El Salvador’s mega prison isn’t politics—but your wallet? A strategic boycott of Salvadoran-made goods could hit hardest where it counts.
Here’s how: 🧵
Here’s how: 🧵
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
April 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
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My latest dives deep into this breaks down, dissecting how global democracies have succeeded in holding leaders accountable while US institutions and elites shielded power and exploring what we must learn from this failure.
An Exceptional Failure of Democratic Accountability: How American Institutions Protected Power While Global Democracies Upheld Justice
How Elite Deference Eroded America's Rule of Law, Defying the Global Norm.
open.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My latest dives deep into this breaks down, dissecting how global democracies have succeeded in holding leaders accountable while US institutions and elites shielded power and exploring what we must learn from this failure.