DCMurphy
@dc-adk-ny.bsky.social
Mom, wife & retired history teacher 🐶 🐈⬛ #historicfiction 📚 #politics 🫏 #travel 🌍 Living with #raredisease #PBC #GoBills #Adirondacks
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Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.
@gtconway.bsky.social #UpstateNY #NY21 #NoKings #GlensFallsNY i hope the thousands who ahowed up in our city is a wake up for Elise Stefanik. Her days as our missing faux representative are numbered. #Nov2026isComing
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@gtconway.bsky.social #UpstateNY #NY21 #NoKings #GlensFallsNY i hope the thousands who ahowed up in our city is a wake up for Elise Stefanik. Her days as our missing faux representative are numbered. #Nov2026isComing
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Fort Myers Florida No Kings Protest.
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
October 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fort Myers Florida No Kings Protest.
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
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There will be paid agitators out there. Some will be there free, just to feed their bigoted bloodlust.
Many of them will be posing as True Resistors.
Don't take the bait.
Many of them will be posing as True Resistors.
Don't take the bait.
October 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There will be paid agitators out there. Some will be there free, just to feed their bigoted bloodlust.
Many of them will be posing as True Resistors.
Don't take the bait.
Many of them will be posing as True Resistors.
Don't take the bait.
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US Christian Leadership in a nutshell, I think the last one was a pedophile.
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
US Christian Leadership in a nutshell, I think the last one was a pedophile.
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TV tonight: Bruce Springsteen returns to Graham Norton’s sofa
TV tonight: Bruce Springsteen returns to Graham Norton’s sofa
The Boss discusses his new biopic, along with Jeremy Allen White. Plus, Gardeners’ World looks ahead to spring. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
TV tonight: Bruce Springsteen returns to Graham Norton’s sofa
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In Trump’s America, billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is a kind of shadow president. Meanwhile, the Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America
The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
wrd.cm
October 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Trump’s America, billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is a kind of shadow president. Meanwhile, the Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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This was a week in every day brought new signs we’ve become a police state. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.
OPINION: The answer to Trump's authoritarian power grab must be to fight back—even at the risk of becoming the target of the next wave of retribution.
Yes, It IS a Police State. And Yes, You Can Do Something
In the short term, the answer must be to use what tools remain to fight back—even at the risk of becoming the targets of the next wave of MAGA retribution.
trib.al
August 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This was a week in every day brought new signs we’ve become a police state. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social.
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Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesdays thru September 3
Sign Wave at Woodbrook Church
Wednesdays thru September 3
Sign Wave at Woodbrook Church
August 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesdays thru September 3
Sign Wave at Woodbrook Church
Wednesdays thru September 3
Sign Wave at Woodbrook Church
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we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
Trump on the Oval Office: "You see the way this is looking. I can't tell you how much that gold costs. A lot of money. This beautiful office needed it."
August 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage
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Enslaved Black women were particularly vulnerable to insidious and unrelenting sexual violence at the hands of their enslavers. In his 1857 book, William Anderson, born enslaved in Virginia, describes this:
August 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Enslaved Black women were particularly vulnerable to insidious and unrelenting sexual violence at the hands of their enslavers. In his 1857 book, William Anderson, born enslaved in Virginia, describes this:
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The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
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In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
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That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s?
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It.
The States Sending Troops to DC Have Way Worse Crime Problems. Most Didn’t Want to Talk About It.
www.democracydocket.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s?
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
So, we asked them.
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...
He should he granted refugee status by another country, a true democracy
Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined a plea offer, his defense attorneys told a court Saturday.
US seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he refused plea offer in his smuggling case
U.S officials intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined to plead guilty to human smuggling charges, his attorneys said Saturday.
www.chicagotribune.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
He should he granted refugee status by another country, a true democracy
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Rightwing ratbags in the GOP must be fought on every level......
August 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Rightwing ratbags in the GOP must be fought on every level......
In my experience the belief in a binary choice between winners and losers makes them think any gain by minorities is a loss for them.
Opinion from Fred Pincus: In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged #ksleg
In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged • Kansas Reflector
White Americans believe that people of color, as a group, face more discrimination than white people do. People of color agree — and so do Americans overall.
kansasreflector.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In my experience the belief in a binary choice between winners and losers makes them think any gain by minorities is a loss for them.
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Opinion from Fred Pincus: In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged #ksleg
In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged • Kansas Reflector
White Americans believe that people of color, as a group, face more discrimination than white people do. People of color agree — and so do Americans overall.
kansasreflector.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Opinion from Fred Pincus: In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged #ksleg