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Imagine this is you.

You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
July 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 111 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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So basically DOJ was flagrantly violating the court’s order, as Sotomayor notes (her dissent was before this came out), but this is even worse: It’s a coordinated effort by top DOJ leadership to ignore court order; to mislead lower court in filings; to deflect on another agency; then to cover it up.
June 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
June 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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NEW: VoteVets Responds to Trump’s Illegal Strikes on Iran
June 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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•US Intel confirmed Iran has 0 nukes
•Iran never attacked USA
•Iran offered to revive nuclear deal
•Iran is a signature to NPT
•Iran allows full IAEA inspections

And ALL notwithstanding

•Trump had no approval from Congress

Trump has violated his Oath. If Congress had a spine they’d impeach him
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
May 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪

digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34....
February 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
February 18, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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While we're thinking about COBOL and infrastructure, this is a wonderful essay from @histoftech.bsky.social
Built to Last
Don’t blame COBOL. Blame austerity.
logicmag.io
February 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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"In February 1933, Germany’s wealthiest industrialists, financiers, and CEOs were very explicitly promised by Hitler and Göring that these would be the last elections held for the next 10-100 years. They had no qualms getting out their checkbooks and signing over German democracy."
"A pact with the devil"
David de Jong on oligarchs getting in bed with fascists.
www.publicnotice.co
January 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
www.psypost.org
January 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

More:
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?
January 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Honestly, I think one reason why Governor DeSantis is so focused on attacking immigrants for this upcoming Special Session is so that we are too distracted to notice that he’s also upending the ENTIRE citizen ballot initiative process. 1/2
January 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission."

Lina Khan really is That Girl.
UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
fortune.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
January 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Take a break and breathe, love
January 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM