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SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.
From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.
From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
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October 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"In a study published in The Lancet in September, UC Davis researchers surveyed over 9,300 people. They found that those who hold racist, xenophobic, and transphobic beliefs and negative attitudes toward gay people are more likely to support political violence and be inclined to commit lethal acts."
Two recent studies from the Centers for Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis, aim to understand how political acts of violence are linked to certain beliefs and support of specific organizations. Their findings are striking.
Read more: thetr.ac/GUM7t
Read more: thetr.ac/GUM7t
October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"In a study published in The Lancet in September, UC Davis researchers surveyed over 9,300 people. They found that those who hold racist, xenophobic, and transphobic beliefs and negative attitudes toward gay people are more likely to support political violence and be inclined to commit lethal acts."
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THE PURGE
Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months.
Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025.
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Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months.
Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025.
🧵
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
THE PURGE
Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months.
Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025.
🧵
Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months.
Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025.
🧵
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Journalist Mario Guevara is reporting that he will be deported to El Salvador today, after spending more than 100 days in detention after he was arrested on June 14 while covering a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, GA. The charges against him were dropped, but DHS pursued deportation anyways.
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Journalist Mario Guevara is reporting that he will be deported to El Salvador today, after spending more than 100 days in detention after he was arrested on June 14 while covering a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, GA. The charges against him were dropped, but DHS pursued deportation anyways.
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Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
www.teenvogue.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.
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Disappointed today in the people who are given multiple opportunities to do simple things and just never do those.
October 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Disappointed today in the people who are given multiple opportunities to do simple things and just never do those.
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Think about ways to expand what's good and improve on the good.
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Think about ways to expand what's good and improve on the good.
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My nephew who is 13 pushed back against one of his uncles saying this to him. He said “why aren’t you angrier and fighting for the world to be fairer then?” And you know what, he is absolutely right.
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
My nephew who is 13 pushed back against one of his uncles saying this to him. He said “why aren’t you angrier and fighting for the world to be fairer then?” And you know what, he is absolutely right.
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I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.
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New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:
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What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.
October 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What I know from being Black my whole life, and poor for the majority of it, is that politely ignoring a root issue to attend to one closer to the surface is like robbing Peter to pay Paul. It’s a band-aid on a gaping wound, and it will not hold your flesh together for long. The US needs stitches.
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I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
October 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.
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As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.
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Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Marginalized folks know TONE and LANGUAGE CHOICE are only part of what’s being communicated. But those in the power majority are accustomed to spaces that value and demand the faux nicety of polite tones no matter the core message being shared. To them, sounding angry makes you wrong in any event.
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The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
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The worst thing you can do to these people is to not engage with them. It drives them mad.
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The worst thing you can do to these people is to not engage with them. It drives them mad.
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Tariffs
+ deportations
+ govt shutdown
+ artificial intelligence
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finance.yahoo.com/news/us-hiri...
+ deportations
+ govt shutdown
+ artificial intelligence
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finance.yahoo.com/news/us-hiri...
October 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tariffs
+ deportations
+ govt shutdown
+ artificial intelligence
_______________________
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finance.yahoo.com/news/us-hiri...
+ deportations
+ govt shutdown
+ artificial intelligence
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finance.yahoo.com/news/us-hiri...
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the optics of Trump building a ballroom while laying people off and jacking up healthcare costs for everyone is a rich tapestry for an opposition party comfortable with doing good propaganda
October 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
the optics of Trump building a ballroom while laying people off and jacking up healthcare costs for everyone is a rich tapestry for an opposition party comfortable with doing good propaganda
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And if you are consistently focused on one or two areas then you can safely ignore all of the people doing NOTHING who are constantly yelling "someone needs to do something" [that I am personally not doing myself].
Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
And if you are consistently focused on one or two areas then you can safely ignore all of the people doing NOTHING who are constantly yelling "someone needs to do something" [that I am personally not doing myself].
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It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others.
I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.
I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's always the people taking consistent action who feel they aren't doing "enough." Let that shit go. You are doing more than 85% of others.
I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.
I am personally at more than capacity. What we need is for others to do their part(s) too.
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Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.
reut.rs
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt
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Like clockwork, we are back to the Republican framing that government assistance is okay if its farmer bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy & big corporations but hell no for people who need help with healthcare, food or housing.
Joni Ernst: "Unfortunately, our farmers do need that assistance. They don't like it. They consider it welfare. They want trade, not aid. So we really need to see some of these new markets opening up around the globe ... but if there's anybody that can make a deal, it's President Trump."
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Like clockwork, we are back to the Republican framing that government assistance is okay if its farmer bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy & big corporations but hell no for people who need help with healthcare, food or housing.
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Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?