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This machine plays folk music.

Views are someone else's
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From a filing today, the State Department intends to revoke and replace transgender people's passports that are changed under a current court order if a higher court reverses the order.

This would be a major problem for trans people traveling.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
July 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Who else AGREES with Pedro?! 🤚
April 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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every single video I've seen of the hearing today, Democratic Senators (including ones I don't even like) were pounding the shit out of administration officials.

if the media will not play those clips, it's up to make them go viral, show our friends & family, etc.

They did something.
Reward them.
March 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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"A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling, and complaining."

Like Trump, right? Right?
March 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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A billionaire member of Trump's Cabinet, on a podcast with his billionaire friends, just said that you shouldn't complain if they cut off your Social Security checks.
March 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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This isn’t legal, Elon.

Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.
March 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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CDC has never had authority to give or enforce mandates. CDC is essentially an advisor. States implement that advice to varying degrees. When republicans say they want to reform CDC's authority they mean remove the ability to make recommendations. This is exactly what Project 2025 calls for.
March 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.
March 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.
March 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security.
March 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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If you call because your social security check didn't arrive you are a "fraudster".

Unbelievable. You paid into SSA your whole life. That money is yours.

In 2025 SSA benefits represented ~31% of income of people over 65. Seniors NEED this.

#factcheckfriday #eattherich

www.ssa.gov/news/press/f...
March 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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💉🧵There is a concerning trend toward banning mRNA vaccines. Idaho, Montana, and Iowa have introduced proposals to ban or restrict mRNA vaccine use. What are mRNA vaccines and how do they work?

#factcheckfriday
March 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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One of these things is not like the other.
March 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
How various LLMs respond to requests:

ChatGPT:
> As a large language model...

Claude:
> Oh, that's super interesting, let me think about that...

Grok:
> I'm not racist, but...
March 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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NEW:

“Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.”

newrepublic.com/post/192059/...
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already implementing his dangerous anti-vax views at HHS.
newrepublic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Follow the money.
February 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Reminder to our troops from General Milley: you took an oath to defend the Constitution, NOT a would-be king. Refusing illegal and unethical orders are rights. As FOTUS moves closer to installing martial law, please remember your oath and your rights #Voices4Victory

m.youtube.com/watch?v=67Hu...
Nation's Top Military Officer: "We Do Not Take an Oath to a Dictator"
YouTube video by Brut America
m.youtube.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Don't forget that Trump is an adjudicated rapist. He was judged by a jury of his peers and found by a preponderance of the evidence that he did sexually assault a E. Jean Carol, and the judge clarified that it was, but for a statutory technicality, actually rape.
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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February 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.
February 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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It took ten years, but the NYT finally got there
February 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.
February 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM