Barbra Taylor
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For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
www.rollingstone.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival | via Maya Smith #ksleg
Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival • Kansas Reflector
A documentary about the police raid of the Marion County Record is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2026, more than two years after law enforcement stormed the newspaper office, ...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival | via Maya Smith #ksleg
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A whole article about the collapse of Target and it doesn’t once mention the word boycott.
Pressure grows on Target as activist investor builds stake
Move by hedge fund TCIM comes as US retailer struggles with a sales slump
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A whole article about the collapse of Target and it doesn’t once mention the word boycott.
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Internal docs show Meta’s real goal: make Instagram “the world’s largest platform for teens” by 2027.
The company studied teen behavior, tweaked algorithms, boosted influencers, and reshaped products to hook young users — even as dozens of states
#BlueSky #NewsSky #PedsSky
The company studied teen behavior, tweaked algorithms, boosted influencers, and reshaped products to hook young users — even as dozens of states
#BlueSky #NewsSky #PedsSky
Leaked documents show Instagram’s plan to win back teens
Instagram has pursued a yearslong strategy to win teens back to the app after its critics said the platform wasn’t safe for them, documents obtained by The Post show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Trump came back and unleashed chaos: masked agents in streets, migrants sent to brutal foreign prisons, corruption on a massive scale, intimidation of critics, pressure on media, politicized prosecutions, and loyalty tests across government. A year of fear 1/3
#BlueSky #NewsSky #PoliSky
#BlueSky #NewsSky #PoliSky
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🚨🔥 Warmest Christmas on record for the Contiguous U.S.! The average high of 57.9F and the average low of 36.6F each broke the Christmas record by a full 3F. 🔥🚨
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🚨🔥 Warmest Christmas on record for the Contiguous U.S.! The average high of 57.9F and the average low of 36.6F each broke the Christmas record by a full 3F. 🔥🚨
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This is going to be an ecological disaster. No one needs most of this tech. But they do need the water and energy and land. 😞
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
Data Center Surge Reaches India as American Tech Giants Invest Billions
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is going to be an ecological disaster. No one needs most of this tech. But they do need the water and energy and land. 😞
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...
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Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids?
Seems relevant now.
Seems relevant now.
December 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids?
Seems relevant now.
Seems relevant now.
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The US has sanctioned European researchers and policymakers studying misinformation, framing independent inquiry as a free speech violation. The Trump admin's refusal to allow regulation of platforms is US tech policy by other means—now being enforced through sanctions. Scholars must pay attention.
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The US has sanctioned European researchers and policymakers studying misinformation, framing independent inquiry as a free speech violation. The Trump admin's refusal to allow regulation of platforms is US tech policy by other means—now being enforced through sanctions. Scholars must pay attention.
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Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Having encountered little resistance here in the U.S., the Trump regime is now weaponizing the “censorship” narrative globally, for example by rescinding travel visas for people at organizations combating hate speech in Europe.
December 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Having encountered little resistance here in the U.S., the Trump regime is now weaponizing the “censorship” narrative globally, for example by rescinding travel visas for people at organizations combating hate speech in Europe.
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Imagine looking like Stephen Miller and thinking you’re genetically superior
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Imagine looking like Stephen Miller and thinking you’re genetically superior
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SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.
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Working today on a very busy shift at St George's A&E. This Christmas and New Years there will be many NHS staff, doctors, nurses, porters and others, working tirelessly to save lives.
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Working today on a very busy shift at St George's A&E. This Christmas and New Years there will be many NHS staff, doctors, nurses, porters and others, working tirelessly to save lives.
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My Nanna (95) has never had the internet or a mobile phone. She just flat-out refused to even though it would have genuinely improved her life. In the past couple of weeks she's had to have broadband installed coz her old landline was gonna be switched off.
Anyway, she's in the Nanosphere now.
Anyway, she's in the Nanosphere now.
December 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My Nanna (95) has never had the internet or a mobile phone. She just flat-out refused to even though it would have genuinely improved her life. In the past couple of weeks she's had to have broadband installed coz her old landline was gonna be switched off.
Anyway, she's in the Nanosphere now.
Anyway, she's in the Nanosphere now.
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Politico's report that Amazon was stonewalling the Epstein investigation is one of the more interesting details to come out from the dumps.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Politico's report that Amazon was stonewalling the Epstein investigation is one of the more interesting details to come out from the dumps.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Trump’s name is all over the Epstein files, but the DOJ is still working to protect him.
I will continue to call for transparency and to demand justice for the survivors. We all deserve the truth.
I will continue to call for transparency and to demand justice for the survivors. We all deserve the truth.
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Trump’s name is all over the Epstein files, but the DOJ is still working to protect him.
I will continue to call for transparency and to demand justice for the survivors. We all deserve the truth.
I will continue to call for transparency and to demand justice for the survivors. We all deserve the truth.
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In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In case people tell you that public criticism of the court doesn’t matter, here’s Brett Kavanaugh trying to walk back what he said in the ICE roving patrol case - when he blessed racial profiling & called the stops prompt.
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
He was lambasted; @akalhan.bsky.social coined the term “Kavanaugh stops”
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The Trump admin has sanctioned five individuals for being part of the “censorship industrial complex”: the Orwellian misnomer for efforts to combat harassment and disinfo online. It’s an escalation of a clear trend: weaponizing immigration laws to persecute First Amendment-protected activities.
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Trump admin has sanctioned five individuals for being part of the “censorship industrial complex”: the Orwellian misnomer for efforts to combat harassment and disinfo online. It’s an escalation of a clear trend: weaponizing immigration laws to persecute First Amendment-protected activities.
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Marco Rubio appears to be coked out of his little mind in this video. FUN FACT: His brother-in-law's cocaine dealing paid for Marco's parents' house. www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...
Rubio looks completely blasted
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December 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Marco Rubio appears to be coked out of his little mind in this video. FUN FACT: His brother-in-law's cocaine dealing paid for Marco's parents' house. www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...
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In a major victory, we won our lawsuit stopping the Trump administration from illegally cutting student mental health funding.
Children are facing record-high rates of mental health challenges. This funding helps our young people access the mental health care they deserve.
Children are facing record-high rates of mental health challenges. This funding helps our young people access the mental health care they deserve.
December 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In a major victory, we won our lawsuit stopping the Trump administration from illegally cutting student mental health funding.
Children are facing record-high rates of mental health challenges. This funding helps our young people access the mental health care they deserve.
Children are facing record-high rates of mental health challenges. This funding helps our young people access the mental health care they deserve.
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You’ll recall I told you that if Bondi violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act, it would trigger a lawsuit. That’s what Schumer’s resolution does. It directs the Senate Majority Leader to file federal civil action against the government over failure to release the Epstein files. 1/
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You’ll recall I told you that if Bondi violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act, it would trigger a lawsuit. That’s what Schumer’s resolution does. It directs the Senate Majority Leader to file federal civil action against the government over failure to release the Epstein files. 1/
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"Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power".
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power".
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed
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Great to meet with @the-rac.bsky.social to discuss the need to curb settler violence in the West Bank and the harms of Trump weaponizing antisemitism to push his political agenda at home and abroad.
Grateful for their partnership and their continued advocacy for democracy, justice, and peace.
Grateful for their partnership and their continued advocacy for democracy, justice, and peace.
December 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Great to meet with @the-rac.bsky.social to discuss the need to curb settler violence in the West Bank and the harms of Trump weaponizing antisemitism to push his political agenda at home and abroad.
Grateful for their partnership and their continued advocacy for democracy, justice, and peace.
Grateful for their partnership and their continued advocacy for democracy, justice, and peace.
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.