@mareofetown.bsky.social
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Hey conservatives, what do you think tyranny looks like in North Korea or Russian? What do you think it looked like in Nazi Germany? A bunch of liberals holding up signs? Wrong, it looks exactly like these soldiers occupying your supposedly free city streets. Who do you think does the tyrannizing? 👇
June 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Hey conservatives, what do you think tyranny looks like in North Korea or Russian? What do you think it looked like in Nazi Germany? A bunch of liberals holding up signs? Wrong, it looks exactly like these soldiers occupying your supposedly free city streets. Who do you think does the tyrannizing? 👇
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Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
June 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.
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May 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal
May 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The Facebook account Trump shared with South Africa's president as "proof" of a genocide against white South Africans belonged to a fringe account that frequently posts racist imagery and pushes flat Earth conspiracies.
Exclusive: Trump Shared Racist, Flat-Earth Facebook Account With South African President
Trump handed President Ramaphosa a Facebook post from a fringe account that labelled his administration the “White Supremacy House"
www.meidasplus.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The Facebook account Trump shared with South Africa's president as "proof" of a genocide against white South Africans belonged to a fringe account that frequently posts racist imagery and pushes flat Earth conspiracies.
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People getting mad at me for accepting a mysterious figure’s gift of a large bag with a dollar sign on it… until I point to my punched-out timecard
REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
May 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
People getting mad at me for accepting a mysterious figure’s gift of a large bag with a dollar sign on it… until I point to my punched-out timecard
Wtf???
"Internal proposals to release the food remain on hold, awaiting sign-off from the Office of Foreign Assistance, now headed by 28-year-old Elon Musk appointee, Jeremy Lewin."
Call your representatives.
Call your representatives.
Food For Millions Rots in Storage After Trump’s USAID Cuts
Over 60,000 tons of U.S. food is going to waste in warehouses while millions starve and children die.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Wtf???
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I haven’t stopped thinking about this since I came across it an hour ago and honestly I am feeling very disheartened about the depravity of people both in charge and not. It’s shocking
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I haven’t stopped thinking about this since I came across it an hour ago and honestly I am feeling very disheartened about the depravity of people both in charge and not. It’s shocking
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Gov. Shapiro Warns Pennsylvanians Will Lose Health Care, Hospitals Will Close Under GOP Cuts to Medicaid | "There are no dollars available at the state level to make up for these cuts at the federal level. So if they cut someone off Medicaid, they’re off. We will not be able to fix that for them.”
Governor Shapiro Warns Pennsylvanians Will Lose Health Care, Hospitals Will Close Under GOP Cuts to Medicaid - Bucks County Beacon
"There are no dollars available at the state level to make up for these cuts at the federal level. So if they cut someone off Medicaid, they’re off. We will not be able to fix that for them,” warned S...
buckscountybeacon.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Gov. Shapiro Warns Pennsylvanians Will Lose Health Care, Hospitals Will Close Under GOP Cuts to Medicaid | "There are no dollars available at the state level to make up for these cuts at the federal level. So if they cut someone off Medicaid, they’re off. We will not be able to fix that for them.”
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#ICYMI: Disclosure forms show that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
#ICYMI: Disclosure forms show that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
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Some thoughts on TrumpWorld. (And along with the tenacity, I’d add shamelessness.)
May 16, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Some thoughts on TrumpWorld. (And along with the tenacity, I’d add shamelessness.)
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“Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Public Safety indicating the reporters’ alleged involvement in the protest”
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Public Safety indicating the reporters’ alleged involvement in the protest”
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No work of fiction - unless it was a deliberately over-the-top satire - would get away with depicting something so deranged, so ridiculous, so pathetic as these cabinet meetings.
The government of the most powerful nation in human history: In the hands of a movement fully detached from reality.
The government of the most powerful nation in human history: In the hands of a movement fully detached from reality.
Bondi: "President, you first 100 days has far exceeded that of ANY other presidency in this country. Ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you."
May 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
No work of fiction - unless it was a deliberately over-the-top satire - would get away with depicting something so deranged, so ridiculous, so pathetic as these cabinet meetings.
The government of the most powerful nation in human history: In the hands of a movement fully detached from reality.
The government of the most powerful nation in human history: In the hands of a movement fully detached from reality.
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Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
May 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.
We cannot let this stand.
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BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politician.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th.
On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs.
Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
Palantir is up nearly 50% since.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th.
On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs.
Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
Palantir is up nearly 50% since.
April 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politician.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th.
On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs.
Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
Palantir is up nearly 50% since.
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th.
On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs.
Marjorie sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
Palantir is up nearly 50% since.
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Here's the thing - I pay $5.80 round trip to get in and out of Manhattan. Duffy isn't asking for freedom, he's asking for me to subsidize the costs of him driving into New York as a taxpayer. He wants a free lunch because he's a special beep-beep vroom-vroom boy.
Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
April 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Here's the thing - I pay $5.80 round trip to get in and out of Manhattan. Duffy isn't asking for freedom, he's asking for me to subsidize the costs of him driving into New York as a taxpayer. He wants a free lunch because he's a special beep-beep vroom-vroom boy.
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This ultra-small generator is designed to harness energy from even the smallest rivers, like those flowing through urban areas between homes. It can power street lights, offering a sustainable solution for remote or urban communities to generate their own electricity.
April 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This ultra-small generator is designed to harness energy from even the smallest rivers, like those flowing through urban areas between homes. It can power street lights, offering a sustainable solution for remote or urban communities to generate their own electricity.
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NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.
April 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.
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"By February, staff were locked out. Phone lines dead. HIV treatments in Africa halted. Food relief suspended in Haiti. Contracts canceled. The message wasn’t subtle: this government no longer builds; it erases."
"[T]he test? Whether you can eliminate a congressionally mandated agency, cancel lifesaving programs midstream, fire thousands of public servants, and reassign global health responsibilities to a shell office down the hall—and get away with it.
So far, they are."
So far, they are."
The Test of Our Time: USAID, Authoritarianism, and the Slow Coup We’re Failing to Stop
While billionaires buy democracy wholesale, the institutions meant to protect it are being dismantled piece by piece.
substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"By February, staff were locked out. Phone lines dead. HIV treatments in Africa halted. Food relief suspended in Haiti. Contracts canceled. The message wasn’t subtle: this government no longer builds; it erases."
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“We”? Why did so many see it, and so many not? When you answer THAT question, you’ll understand what ails this country.
Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“We”? Why did so many see it, and so many not? When you answer THAT question, you’ll understand what ails this country.
Then GET THE F#CK OUT. Resign, you f#cking coward!
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."
April 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Then GET THE F#CK OUT. Resign, you f#cking coward!
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So the “women in space” sending the message that young girls belong in STEM was……bullshit ?
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
So the “women in space” sending the message that young girls belong in STEM was……bullshit ?
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WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw
April 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
WOW. One of the Venezuelans whom Kristi Noem tried to render to El Salvador's slave prison managed to avoid removal and was able to make it to immigration court, and you'll never guess what happened: THE GOVERNMENT GAVE NO EVIDENCE OF HIS GANG MEMBERSHIP. Due process ftw
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if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.