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They, them. LGBTQA+. Sci-fi and fantasy nerd. World’s okayest GM. VTer. Grower. Gamer. Cosplayer. Animist. Cat parent. Leftist. Anti-capitalist.

Wherever you see evil, speak out against it, and give no frith to your enemies. - Hávamál 127
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🖋️ “Trump gave Quatar the OK to bomb a U.S. base. Explain me if that's treason” hit 250 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PZSRDE to 50409
Trump gave Quatar the OK to bomb a U.S. base. Explain me if that's treason
Text SIGN PZSRDE to 50409 — Is this treason? Trump gave an OK to Quatar to bomb a U.S. base. Yes. He gave a foe a nod to attack one of our bases. Please reply to let me known whether this can be categorised as treason. If not explain your reasoning. Please do oversight and investigation. Let me refresh your memory on the facts via Heather Cox Richardson: "Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo also called out that at a press conference in the Netherlands last Wednesday, Trump said he had given Iran permission to bomb a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons program sites. “They said, ‘We’re going to shoot them. Is one o’clock OK?’ I said it’s fine,” Trump said. “And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn’t get hurt, except for the gunners.” Marshall expressed astonishment that this admission has attracted very little attention. He suggested that, if it is true, it represents “the most shocking dereliction of duty one could imagine for the commander-in-chief,” and he wondered how Republicans would have reacted if a Democratic president had said he had let “a foreign adversary fire on an American military installation.”"
resist.bot
June 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Billionaire donors to Cuomo's super PAC included:

-Bill Ackman
-Michael Bloomberg
-Stephen Ross
-Ken Langone
-Dan Loeb
-Ken Griffin

Let Zohran's victory in the face of Big Money remind us that people have the power.
June 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Truth-tellers, not rioters. Protect these two men at all costs.

“You feel tough with your assault rifles and your sticks. You should be standing here with us. You’re on the wrong side of history.”

“John Lewis said make good trouble… that means make trouble on behalf of democracy.”
June 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law
May 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Amazon's Prime Video has canceled its fantasy series The Wheel of Time after its third season wrapped up. It’s another casualty of a streaming TV world that is tightening up.

transfer-orbit.ghost.io/wheel-of-tim...
Wheel stop
Amazon's Prime Video has canceled its fantasy series The Wheel of Time after its third season wrapped up
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
May 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Make it make sense
May 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
May 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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so good
May 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"Why aren't young people protesting?"

Consider—because they all got their shit rocked by police and prosecutors last year trying to stop a genocide, and you abandoned them.
April 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and more

www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...
Justice Department halts funds for programs for victims of hate crimes, child abuse, school violence and more
At least two of the 365 grants have since been restored. Nonprofits call it a "devastating blow."
www.cbsnews.com
April 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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WISCONSIN: The chair of the elections commission, a lawyer, breaks down what actually happened using the actual complaint.

Arresting judges like this is a wild fast-forwarding of our plunge into authoritarianism.
April 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The Supreme Court is weighing a case that could hand presidents total control over federal agencies.

If Trump wins Trump v. Wilcox, future presidents could fire watchdogs, gut civil service protections, and politicize everything from labor rights to interest rates. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/9HxguI
April 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?
April 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
April 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🚀🚀
April 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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NEW: Climate experts expressed shock at the Trump administration's plan to stop collecting American polluters’ greenhouse gas emissions.

“Not tracking the data doesn’t make the climate crisis any less real,” one said. “This is just putting our heads in the sand.”

By @fastlerner.bsky.social
Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.
propub.li
April 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Wha happened today would be treated as crime if they didn’t now also control all the law enforcement agencies
April 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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⚠️ Trump says he’s “not joking” about running for an unconstitutional third term.

(He also throws Vance under the bus in terms of passing the baton.)

🎁🔗
wapo.st/3DOkOHT
Trump suggests ‘methods’ exist for bid for unconstitutional third term
President Donald Trump again raised the idea of running for a third term in office, an unconstitutional idea that would run afoul of the 22nd Amendment.
wapo.st
March 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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💰
March 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The people who did this (despite a judge directly instructing them not to) need to go to jail.
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Reminder: If you’re sharing information, protect yourself. Documents and communications often contain hidden watermarks, intentional typos, odd punctuation, inconsistent spacing, or stylized phrasing—all designed to uniquely identify the source.
March 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM