Grassroots Ma
@grassrootswork.bsky.social
Indian-American Liberal. Politics=Life So MUST Tackle. Fierce Ma to humans & pets. Grassroots emboldening of leftie neighbors. Parser of my community's info. Writer, researcher, bookish, cook, oppose digital voting, hacked since 1998 NE senate race etc.
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Grassroots Ma
@grassrootswork.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Voting experts warn of 'serious threats' for 2024 from election equipment software breaches
Experts say an effort to access voting system software and provide it to allies of Trump poses “serious threats” ahead of 2024 elections.
apnews.com
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Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Amid Hunt for Crime in DC, Whistleblower Implicates Ed "Big Balls" Coristine and John Roberts - emptywheel
John Roberts and his Republican colleagues have granted a kid with ties to criminal hackers, Ed "Big Balls" Coristine, live access to every American's Social Security data.
www.emptywheel.net
August 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Hasn't that ship sailed since we've been literally funding, arming & helping a defined genocide of Palestinians since 2023? Before that, decades of illegal, brutal occupation, apartheid, periodic mass killings, snipers shootings etc.? Or is the difference WHITE Ukrainians vs BROWN Palestinians?
The history of diplomacy has many euphemisms for disengaging from a fight before the enemy: “ending wars,” “retrenchment,” “refocusing,” “a decent interval,” and so on. The military has a simple word for it: surrender.
If We Don’t Stand With Ukraine, What Do We Stand For?
The decision to cancel a weapons shipment is a sign of weakness.
www.thebulwark.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hasn't that ship sailed since we've been literally funding, arming & helping a defined genocide of Palestinians since 2023? Before that, decades of illegal, brutal occupation, apartheid, periodic mass killings, snipers shootings etc.? Or is the difference WHITE Ukrainians vs BROWN Palestinians?
Well, what do you know! Even that brutal govt understands this better than the far-right wing majority supreme court "justices"/political hacks!
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Well, what do you know! Even that brutal govt understands this better than the far-right wing majority supreme court "justices"/political hacks!
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“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful…
www.propublica.org
July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
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This is a timely repost of a story about who is really using their identity to game the system, and stay in power with no merit
“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted.”
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
More on how the rich buy their children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations (published 2016):
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard
ProPublica editor Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite colleges. One student he covered is now poised to become one of the most powerful…
www.propublica.org
July 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is a timely repost of a story about who is really using their identity to game the system, and stay in power with no merit
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How did the poor guy mowing your lawn every two weeks become the biggest national security threat, rather than a Defense Secretary posting war plans on Signal?
July 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
How did the poor guy mowing your lawn every two weeks become the biggest national security threat, rather than a Defense Secretary posting war plans on Signal?
Another Times as Israel-agent routine, for-Israel rules re: Gaza reporting, Israel-needed anti-Iraq & Iran spin etc. doing another for-Israel - to take down a brown, Muslim speaking out against genocide of Palestinians. NYTimes imagine itself king-maker so just can't have that be NY Mayor.
worth noting the pipeline here:
* Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data
* Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data
* NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign
* Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story
* Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data
* Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data
* NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign
* Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story
July 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Another Times as Israel-agent routine, for-Israel rules re: Gaza reporting, Israel-needed anti-Iraq & Iran spin etc. doing another for-Israel - to take down a brown, Muslim speaking out against genocide of Palestinians. NYTimes imagine itself king-maker so just can't have that be NY Mayor.
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Looks very similar to attacks on Black scholars.
*Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct
*Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy
*Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone!
*Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct
*Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy
*Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone!
July 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Looks very similar to attacks on Black scholars.
*Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct
*Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy
*Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone!
*Complaint of some sort of academic misconduct
*Rufo and Times boost the story, giving it legitimacy
*Complainant turns out to be a eugenicist! Congrats everyone!
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Previous presidents didn't talk like this.
Trump on Democrats: "They hate Trump. But I hate them too. I really do. I hate them."
July 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Previous presidents didn't talk like this.
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A number of Republicans spoke out against the president's "big, beautiful bill," only to turn around and vote for it anyway.
OOF: Awkward New Supercut Shows GOP Lawmakers Trashing The Trump Bill They Voted For
A number of Republicans spoke out against the president's "big, beautiful bill," only to turn around and vote for it anyway.
www.huffpost.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A number of Republicans spoke out against the president's "big, beautiful bill," only to turn around and vote for it anyway.
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Elen: Dad, come stay with us.
Dr. Bursh: Yes, I will come to you tomorrow.
This was the last conversation Gaza doctor Adnan Al Bursh had with his family before he was detained and tortured to death by Israeli forces.
Watch ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’: gazadoctors.film
Dr. Bursh: Yes, I will come to you tomorrow.
This was the last conversation Gaza doctor Adnan Al Bursh had with his family before he was detained and tortured to death by Israeli forces.
Watch ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’: gazadoctors.film
July 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Great News, Unless You’re Trump
Great News, Unless You’re Trump
Protests against the big evil bill, Key West stands up to the Trump regime, and more
www.dworkinsubstack.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Great News, Unless You’re Trump
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Under Trump, ICE and border patrol are targeting and detaining Indigenous peoples. This piece doesn’t just tell a story. It challenges how we talk about borders, citizenship, and belonging.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land—ICE Versus the Indigenous in MAGA's America
Where would they send us?
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Under Trump, ICE and border patrol are targeting and detaining Indigenous peoples. This piece doesn’t just tell a story. It challenges how we talk about borders, citizenship, and belonging.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
thinkbigpicture.substack.com/trump-noem-m...
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A U.S. citizen who was arrested for filming an ICE raid at Home Depot is suing the federal government for $1 million— and I hope he gets every penny.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
July 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A U.S. citizen who was arrested for filming an ICE raid at Home Depot is suing the federal government for $1 million— and I hope he gets every penny.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
THIS‼️ When being transported, Garcia heard agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high fives.
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Here’s @mediaitenews.bsky.social rightly calling out NYT for what it just tried to do to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 👇🏽
Trying to turn hacked materials and a nothingburger about his ethnicity on a 15 year-old application into a scandal… is itself the scandal.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
Trying to turn hacked materials and a nothingburger about his ethnicity on a 15 year-old application into a scandal… is itself the scandal.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
July 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Here’s @mediaitenews.bsky.social rightly calling out NYT for what it just tried to do to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 👇🏽
Trying to turn hacked materials and a nothingburger about his ethnicity on a 15 year-old application into a scandal… is itself the scandal.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
Trying to turn hacked materials and a nothingburger about his ethnicity on a 15 year-old application into a scandal… is itself the scandal.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...
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Seriously, every person involved in bringing this nonsense to print should not be in this profession.
July 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Seriously, every person involved in bringing this nonsense to print should not be in this profession.
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A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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Safe to say at this point that Hillary Clinton definitely played it nice when she called MAGA a basket of deplorables, I would’ve called them a Nazi KKK subhuman immoral piece of shit criminal idiotic death cult.
July 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Safe to say at this point that Hillary Clinton definitely played it nice when she called MAGA a basket of deplorables, I would’ve called them a Nazi KKK subhuman immoral piece of shit criminal idiotic death cult.
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I’m not particularly religious but when these guys go to these lengths you should probably take another look at what the hell you’re doing!
July 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I’m not particularly religious but when these guys go to these lengths you should probably take another look at what the hell you’re doing!
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Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Hi, I think a lot of us received e-mails from SSA saying that social security will no longer be taxed - and that somehow there is "enhanced deductions" (how much enhancement can you make to 0?) for those over 65. What part, if any, of this is true? Thank you!
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.
It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
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Hours after Putin spoke to Trump
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
July 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Hours after Putin spoke to Trump
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
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Bluesky just ticked past the 37 million user mark, so well done us, we do just seem to keep going, don't we
July 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Bluesky just ticked past the 37 million user mark, so well done us, we do just seem to keep going, don't we
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We need a full-on ban on corporate PAC money. I’m one of six U.S. Senators who has never taken corporate PAC checks. Six out of 100. The middle class doesn’t have a lobbyist. They don’t have a super PAC. They don’t have a corporate PAC. But they should have the Democratic Party.
June 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We need a full-on ban on corporate PAC money. I’m one of six U.S. Senators who has never taken corporate PAC checks. Six out of 100. The middle class doesn’t have a lobbyist. They don’t have a super PAC. They don’t have a corporate PAC. But they should have the Democratic Party.