@cults4kidz.bsky.social
Promoting solidarity and cultivating connections. We have more in common with each other than we do with billionaires and CEOs.
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Some amazing journalism worth supporting! (many nonprofit)
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I believe Sascha Riley.
January 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
I believe Sascha Riley.
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We talk all about Webloc, ICE's tool for monitoring phone locations; the continuing Grok abuse wave; and how police unwittingly revealed millions of Flock surveillance targets.
Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
We talk all about Webloc, ICE's tool for monitoring phone locations; the continuing Grok abuse wave; and how police unwittingly revealed millions of Flock surveillance targets.
www.404media.co
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
We talk all about Webloc, ICE's tool for monitoring phone locations; the continuing Grok abuse wave; and how police unwittingly revealed millions of Flock surveillance targets.
Hmm....
A former lumber lobbyists and exec has been placed over the care of our forests.
Cool, cool, cool....
#tomschultz
A former lumber lobbyists and exec has been placed over the care of our forests.
Cool, cool, cool....
#tomschultz
thehill.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hmm....
A former lumber lobbyists and exec has been placed over the care of our forests.
Cool, cool, cool....
#tomschultz
A former lumber lobbyists and exec has been placed over the care of our forests.
Cool, cool, cool....
#tomschultz
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Still thinking about the movement grifters who were so, so mad about people organizing rallies unauthorized by the self-appointed protest gods. Crying themselves to sleep tonight
This is an incredible grassroots display apnews.com/article/5050...
Thousands protest Trump administration policies in cities across the US
Thousands of demonstrators have gathered outside a federal courthouse in Philadelphia and at state capitols in Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin and Indiana to protest the early actions of President Donald T...
apnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Still thinking about the movement grifters who were so, so mad about people organizing rallies unauthorized by the self-appointed protest gods. Crying themselves to sleep tonight
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President Donald Trump said the sweeping tariffs that he has imposed on Mexico, Canada and China may cause 'short term' pain for Americans as global markets reflected concerns the levies could undermine growth and reignite inflation reut.rs/4jIyjc3 1/7
February 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
President Donald Trump said the sweeping tariffs that he has imposed on Mexico, Canada and China may cause 'short term' pain for Americans as global markets reflected concerns the levies could undermine growth and reignite inflation reut.rs/4jIyjc3 1/7
"The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money... Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds..."
A Nixon-era law forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements. Federal courts have also prevented presidents from refusing to spend money unless Congress grants them the flexibility.
Trump seeks to upend it all.
By @mtredden.bsky.social
(Published Nov. 2024)
Trump seeks to upend it all.
By @mtredden.bsky.social
(Published Nov. 2024)
How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress
The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the…
propub.li
January 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to appropriate the federal budget, while the role of the executive branch is to dole out the money... Trump and his advisers are asserting that a president can unilaterally ignore Congress’ spending decisions and “impound” funds..."
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Warn?
January 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Warn?
"Musk appeared on the inauguration stage as our new oligarch-apparent, where he thanked the crowd before slapping his hand over his heart and thrusting it into the air—palm down. Twice. On national television."
Reddit’s largest tabletop communities say “fuck Nazis”
Reddit’s largest tabletop communities say “fuck Nazis”
Twitter/X links banned after platform owner Elon Musk’s threw two Nazi salutes
www.rascal.news
January 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"Musk appeared on the inauguration stage as our new oligarch-apparent, where he thanked the crowd before slapping his hand over his heart and thrusting it into the air—palm down. Twice. On national television."
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“The day after the NewsNation ‘interview’ with E Block aired, the prison’s deputy superintendent threatened everyone in the unit, particularly the guys on the street-facing side, with time in the hole if they yelled from their cell or blinked their lights for the media again.”
An incarcerated writer shares what it was like to be at the same Pennsylvania prison as Luigi Mangione.
When Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison
A dispatch from SCI Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, which was briefly part of the biggest crime story in the nation.
prisonjournalismproject.org
January 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The day after the NewsNation ‘interview’ with E Block aired, the prison’s deputy superintendent threatened everyone in the unit, particularly the guys on the street-facing side, with time in the hole if they yelled from their cell or blinked their lights for the media again.”
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TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different
When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.
🔗 www.404media.co/tiktok-free-...
When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.
🔗 www.404media.co/tiktok-free-...
January 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
TikTok Says It’s Not Censoring ‘Free Palestine’ Comments. Users See Something Different
When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.
🔗 www.404media.co/tiktok-free-...
When TikTok returned after being pulled from the U.S., hours before President Trump’s inauguration, users reported “free palestine” comments were being instantly removed.
🔗 www.404media.co/tiktok-free-...
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Jabberwocking [Jan 21] Full breakdown of all the main E/Os issued yesterday (trans, Gulf, Canal, EVs, WHO, TikTok) -- what's likely to stick, what likely to get struck down, what can't be implemented, and what's just the usual performative MAGA-bait.
jabberwocking.com/a-brief-look...
jabberwocking.com/a-brief-look...
A brief look at Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders - Kevin Drum
Donald Trump has promised a blizzard of executive orders on Day 1. Some he's already signed while others are still waiting. Here's a list of the most important ones, along with my best read of how muc...
jabberwocking.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Jabberwocking [Jan 21] Full breakdown of all the main E/Os issued yesterday (trans, Gulf, Canal, EVs, WHO, TikTok) -- what's likely to stick, what likely to get struck down, what can't be implemented, and what's just the usual performative MAGA-bait.
jabberwocking.com/a-brief-look...
jabberwocking.com/a-brief-look...
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To confront billionaire authoritarians, economic inequality and fascism, we need to build power. In MLK's words "We can all get more together than we can apart; we can get more organized together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power."
As Billionaires Consolidate Power, We Need to Recommit to MLK’s Radical Vision
MLK was assassinated on the cusp of a strike wave in a time of counterrevolution. We need his “revolution in values.”…
truthout.org
January 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
To confront billionaire authoritarians, economic inequality and fascism, we need to build power. In MLK's words "We can all get more together than we can apart; we can get more organized together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power."
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Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
Some amazing journalism worth supporting! (many nonprofit)
January 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Some amazing journalism worth supporting! (many nonprofit)