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Politics. Music. Geek stuff. Blerd. Gen-X. Cis/het dude
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This is why I think Dems should just cede the issue of immigration. It's a loser at the ballot box because these white-adjacent POC are their own worst enemies. We can't save these people from bad actors in their own community.
"They used us. During the campaign, the elected officials from the Republican Party, they actually told us that he was not going to touch the documented people. They said, 'No, it is with undocumented people.'"
www.npr.org/2025/02/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/02/04/n...
'Beyond betrayal.' Venezuelans in Florida are angry at Trump immigration policy
Trump's decision to remove Temporary Protected Status means more than 500,000 Venezuelans may be forced to leave the U.S. Venezuelan Americans, many of whom voted for Trump, call it a betrayal.
www.npr.org
February 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is why I think Dems should just cede the issue of immigration. It's a loser at the ballot box because these white-adjacent POC are their own worst enemies. We can't save these people from bad actors in their own community.
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Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).
February 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).
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Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.
February 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hearing nonsense that Ds are threatening a shutdown. False. Entire matter is in GOP hands. What's happening is that Rs are coming hat in hand to Ds for help because they can't agree among themselves. Ds shld have a simple demand. No help until the criminal conduct stops.
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Rest In Peace to Sandra Bland who would be 38 today ✊🏾✊🏾 (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015)
February 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Rest In Peace to Sandra Bland who would be 38 today ✊🏾✊🏾 (February 7, 1987 – July 13, 2015)
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Donald trump refused to show his tax returns. Now Elon and his rando tech dweebs have our Social Security info, and folks are just going along with it?
This is fucking insanity.
This is fucking insanity.
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Donald trump refused to show his tax returns. Now Elon and his rando tech dweebs have our Social Security info, and folks are just going along with it?
This is fucking insanity.
This is fucking insanity.
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A blind man is raising concerns about Indiana gun laws after he was allowed to get a license to carry a handgun
Blind man gets license to carry permit to make a point about Indiana gun laws
A blind man in Indiana raises concerns about gun laws after easily obtaining a license to carry permit. He advocates for a competency test for gun owners.
www.wishtv.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A blind man is raising concerns about Indiana gun laws after he was allowed to get a license to carry a handgun
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Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
February 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a ‘DEI hire.’
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.
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DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts.
NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms.
This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms.
This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts.
NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms.
This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms.
This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.
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the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
February 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!
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This fact sheet on the White House website lists bullet point items of what it alleges are “waste and abuse” at USAID. I was curious what they came up with. Actually every link is to articles at Daily Mail, Breitbart and Washington examiner. www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorize...
At USAID, Waste and Abuse Runs Deep
For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the
www.whitehouse.gov
February 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This fact sheet on the White House website lists bullet point items of what it alleges are “waste and abuse” at USAID. I was curious what they came up with. Actually every link is to articles at Daily Mail, Breitbart and Washington examiner. www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorize...
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This is possibly the most astonishing thing I've read from the last week. DOGE re-writing air traffic control. DOGE gutting USAID & raiding its SCIF. DOGE hoovering up OPM. All of it madness. But this one is worse. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
February 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is possibly the most astonishing thing I've read from the last week. DOGE re-writing air traffic control. DOGE gutting USAID & raiding its SCIF. DOGE hoovering up OPM. All of it madness. But this one is worse. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
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not a fan of all the bigots
February 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
not a fan of all the bigots
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the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”
February 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”
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New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
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i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing
Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist
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BREAKING: Federal judge in D.C. blocks Musk from accessing sensitive Treasury Department systems and records. More to come.
Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
![With the consent ofthe parties, the Court DEFERS RULING on the Plaintiffs' [8] Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and ORDERS as follows:
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records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, except that the Defendants may provide access to any of the following people:
o Mr. Tom Krause, a Special Government Employee in the Department of the Treasury, as needed for the performance of his duties, provided that such access to payment records will be "read only";
o Mr. Marko Elez, a Special Government Employee in the Department of the Treasury, as needed for the performance ofhis duties, provided that such access to payment records will be "read only";
o Any person who is an employee (but not a Special Government Employee) of the Department of the Treasury and who has a need for the record or system of records in the performance of their duties;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bam3rkdzsg74tx5ddflbgils/bafkreih4hvsidq54ufnzdudz7cnlngxbzmb6bzws6jhy2c2czn65tz2i2a@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge in D.C. blocks Musk from accessing sensitive Treasury Department systems and records. More to come.
Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
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Critical thinking is important.
February 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Critical thinking is important.
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Absolutely. Grind it to a halt.
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Thank you for making the MeidasTouch Podcast the number 1 news podcast in the United States and the number 2 overall podcast!
Corporate media wants to pretend the pro-democracy movement is dead.
Well, they are dead wrong.
Corporate media wants to pretend the pro-democracy movement is dead.
Well, they are dead wrong.
February 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Thank you for making the MeidasTouch Podcast the number 1 news podcast in the United States and the number 2 overall podcast!
Corporate media wants to pretend the pro-democracy movement is dead.
Well, they are dead wrong.
Corporate media wants to pretend the pro-democracy movement is dead.
Well, they are dead wrong.
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
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As I reported during the election, Trump was running a disinformation operation not a conventional political campaign. That is continuing in the White House. The conventional media has trouble coming to terms with this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As I reported during the election, Trump was running a disinformation operation not a conventional political campaign. That is continuing in the White House. The conventional media has trouble coming to terms with this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...