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Dave | NortheastKingdom | He/Him/His
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Antifascism is proper. Dog rescue. Vegetarian/Sober/Married
Records not vinyls. Journalism not 'research'. Public not voucher. 2A=colonialism, patriarchy, slavery; not guns. Fuck guns.
Antizionism=anti-oppression, liberation—NOT antisemitism #deconflate
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nek.blue-ocean.social
Former & current Trumpists are all losing their usefulness to the Rockbridge/Heritage parasites who installed puppet Don and the whole clownshow but the plutocrats are already setting the table for trumpless MAGA II, to extend their terror, plunder and dismantlement of Society & public institutions.
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
nek.blue-ocean.social
“The government’s attempt to prosecute Mr. Comey without a valid 'indictment of a Grand Jury' violates the Fifth Amendment.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135/gov.uscourts.vaed.582135.211.0.pdf
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Trump offers praise for ‘rational’ Mamdani in remarkable White House meeting

He once called a black person articulate, and a woman competent, too, maybe.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5617923-trump-mamdani-meet-white-house/
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
More than half of Americans say DOJ cases against Trump foes are ‘unjustified’: Marquette Law poll

Retaliatory legal charges & courts-as-weapon bad, some people are correctly saying.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5617821-marquette-poll-trump-cases/
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
MAGA Mike Sets House Agenda To 'Condemning Socialism' Then Splits

#generalStrike

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/11/maga-mike-springs-action-health-crisis
MAGA Mike Sets House Agenda To 'Condemning Socialism' Then Splits
The House "debated" the evils of "Socialism" and then went on vacation again until December. We're facing a health and food crisis, you lazy git.
crooksandliars.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-bop-federal-prisons-corrections-officers
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration legal-rights activists

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration [1/4]
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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newrepublic.com
What’s been oddly absent from much of the coverage is the question: Is it reasonable to fear that Trump (or his top advisers) actually *are* giving illegal orders to people in the military/intelligence services?

The answer: Yes, of course it’s reasonable. trib.al/eX7cHrX
November 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Very good point here, wish I had thought to add this data point to the piece. Also the gutting of inspectors general. Note that the IG who should be overseeing the corrupt use of mortgages to gin up pretexts for prosecution just got pushed out.
davidkurtz.bsky.social David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 14h
Adding to @gregsargent.bsky.social's spot-on post:

SefDef Pete Hegseth laid the groundwork for this back in February by firing the top JAGs for the Army and USAF (the Navy JAG post was already vacant). He wanted pliant JAGs who wouldn't get in the way of illegal orders. apnews.com/article/pent...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Israeli airstrike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 young boys

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/israeli-airstrike-on-palestinian-refugee-camp-in-lebanon-kills-13-young-boys/ [1/2]
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Microsoft Finally Admits Almost All Major Windows 11 Core Features Are Broken

https://slashdot.org/story/449373 [1/3]
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Maybe ALL of little Nazi wars being waged against our cities, towns and community by the plundering, disruptive plutocrats' usurped military & their masked, white-nationalist, mercenary, abductor-thugs will be judged to be illegal, and voided. All this could be revealed as criminal and impermanent.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's DC troop deployment is likely illegal — both as to D.C. National Guard and and out-of-state National Guard units — granting DC's request to block the use of the troops in this way.

The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.
The record in this case, including many of the amicus briefs filed, makes clear that there are strong views on both sides about whether these deployments represent good policy. But the Court is only tasked with deciding whether Defendants' actions are lawful. In this opinion, the Court addresses two of the District's statutory arguments under the APA and finds that it is likely to succeed on the merits of both. First, the DOD Defendants have exceeded the bounds of their authority under Title 49 of the D.C. Code, and thus acted contrary to law, in deploying the DCNG for non-military, crime-deterrence missions in the absence of a request from the city's civil authorities. Second, these Defendants lack statutory authority under 32 U.S.C. § 502 to support their request for assistance from out-of-state National Guards and their actions in calling those Guards to the District. The Court finds that the District's exercise of sovereign powers within its jurisdiction is irreparably harmed by Defendants' actions in deploying the Guards, and that the balance of equities and public interest weigh in the District's favor. As such, the Court will GRANT the District's motion for preliminary relief and partially DENY Defendants' motion to dismiss on those claims. The Court finds, however, that the public interest weighs in favor of an administrative stay in this case, and that a stay is needed to permit orderly proceedings on appeal. Accordingly, the Court will STAY its order for 21 days, until December 11, 2025?
November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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atrupar.com
this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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thebulwark.com
Rep. Jason Crow: “Karoline Leavitt is outright lying. Actually, what she said from the podium is that there was an encouragement of disobeying lawful orders. We actually said the exact opposite.”
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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nekindivisible.bsky.social
HOW (AND WHY) TO TALK WITH MAGA FAMILY: NOV. 24 8pm ET act.womensmarch.com/signup/Massc...
Dreading the dinner? If you’re in relationship with MAGA fam who seem disillusioned or questioning, learn to rebuild bridges instead of letting isolation drive them deeper into extremism. leavingmaga.org
Uncomfortable Conversations: How (and Why) to Talk with MAGA Family
November 24 | 8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT The holiday season is coming, and for many, that means navigating political landmines at the dinner table. On Nov 24 at 8pm ET, we’re teaming up with Leaving MAGA for...
act.womensmarch.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Fund them.
https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-to-be-primaried-11079953
John Fetterman to be primaried
The Pennsylvania Working Families Party said it intends to mount a primary challenge against Senator Fetterman in 2028.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediGarden/115587663680180965 [1/3]
Fedi.Garden 🌱 (@FediGarden@social.growyourown.services)
Attached: 1 image Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer? Given the circumstances, getting people to join other servers except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else 😞 #Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonSocial
social.growyourown.services
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Actual consequences could possibly loom for the massive orange and purple lardlump Lord Fauntleroy's call to his puppets for the killings of his political & legal opposition.

https://newrepublic.com/article/203487/trump-angry-tirade-calling-death-dems-just-backfired-badly
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out illegal orders.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Emperor scribes: REVEAL
themountaingoats.bsky.social the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20h
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
The order reclassifying Swastikas and images of nooses as okay now was just RESCINDED because the Coast Guard commandant's office saw our posts, and they don't like the Guard being revealed as a racist nazi institution.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
nek.blue-ocean.social
It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink. Millions of others are about to lose access to affordable medical care if Congress doesn't change its mind before the imminent break.
Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with health insurance through work
It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
nek.blue-ocean.social
Claim via Social Media: In a 2017 email just released by the House Oversight Committee [November 2025], convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote, “I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.”

Snopes rating: True
The email is authentic [1/2]
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
nek.blue-ocean.social
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/christmas-mural-ai
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM