Paul Coen
@paulrcoen.bsky.social
Higher Ed IT Director
Native New Englander living in New Jersey. ADHD.
Amateur photographer (Digital/Film - 35mm, 120, Polaroid), love films, music.
Native New Englander living in New Jersey. ADHD.
Amateur photographer (Digital/Film - 35mm, 120, Polaroid), love films, music.
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Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city."
Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.
Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.
Why Did Trump Pardon the Former Honduran President? Follow the Tech Bros.
“Próspera is an example of the tech-right concept of the network state, a phrase coined by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan.”
by @kieraevebutler.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Próspera is an example of the tech-right concept of the network state, a phrase coined by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan.”
by @kieraevebutler.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why did Trump pardon the former Honduran president? Follow the Tech Bros.
With Roger Stone taking a victory lap for having come up with the idea in the first place.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city."
Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.
Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
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WSJ story on pardon of Honduras' drug-trafficker ex-president notes his role in “Próspera, a libertarian ‘startup city’ backed by Silicon Valley investors including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.”
“A Thiel spokesman said Thiel wasn’t involved in the pardon.”
🎁 link:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“A Thiel spokesman said Thiel wasn’t involved in the pardon.”
🎁 link:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How a Man Convicted of Running a Latin American Narco State Landed a Pardon
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
WSJ story on pardon of Honduras' drug-trafficker ex-president notes his role in “Próspera, a libertarian ‘startup city’ backed by Silicon Valley investors including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.”
“A Thiel spokesman said Thiel wasn’t involved in the pardon.”
🎁 link:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“A Thiel spokesman said Thiel wasn’t involved in the pardon.”
🎁 link:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump’s pardon for Henry Cuellar is part of a truly ridiculous pro-corruption pattern, spanning both of his terms.
The message to politicians convicted or accused of corruption couldn’t be clearer: You have a friend in the Oval Office. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The message to politicians convicted or accused of corruption couldn’t be clearer: You have a friend in the Oval Office. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump’s pardon for Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar fits a pro-corruption pattern
Trump appears to have a soft spot for politicians accused or convicted of corruption charges, regardless of party.
www.ms.now
December 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Trump’s pardon for Henry Cuellar is part of a truly ridiculous pro-corruption pattern, spanning both of his terms.
The message to politicians convicted or accused of corruption couldn’t be clearer: You have a friend in the Oval Office. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The message to politicians convicted or accused of corruption couldn’t be clearer: You have a friend in the Oval Office. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Or put different, he’s pardoning people at SEVENTY FIVE TIMES the annual rate of the Biden presidency
So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Or put different, he’s pardoning people at SEVENTY FIVE TIMES the annual rate of the Biden presidency
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/2 Chuck C. Johnson is one of those people who make you want take God by the lapels and say “what were You thinking”? And then God would be yeah, yeah, I know, and be depressed and go lay on a couch and eat crackers in the dark for a few days
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
/2 Chuck C. Johnson is one of those people who make you want take God by the lapels and say “what were You thinking”? And then God would be yeah, yeah, I know, and be depressed and go lay on a couch and eat crackers in the dark for a few days
😂
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
😂
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RT=Endorsement
"A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon."
"A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon."
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
RT=Endorsement
"A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon."
"A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon."
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This headline and story cannot be too widely shared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This headline and story cannot be too widely shared. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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@anntelnaes.bsky.social
was ahead of the curve.
“Editorial cartoonists are democracy’s canary in a coal mine”
- Telnaes
was ahead of the curve.
“Editorial cartoonists are democracy’s canary in a coal mine”
- Telnaes
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
was ahead of the curve.
“Editorial cartoonists are democracy’s canary in a coal mine”
- Telnaes
was ahead of the curve.
“Editorial cartoonists are democracy’s canary in a coal mine”
- Telnaes
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November 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”
We can only hope that the more they listen to their own lickspittle media, the more out of touch they’ll be.
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a star
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We can only hope that the more they listen to their own lickspittle media, the more out of touch they’ll be.
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Happening tonight: I'll be on PBS NewsHour Weekend talking about There Is No Place for Us and the roughly four million people—many of them powering, through their labor, the very companies raking in profits this weekend—who are experiencing homelessness in America right now.
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happening tonight: I'll be on PBS NewsHour Weekend talking about There Is No Place for Us and the roughly four million people—many of them powering, through their labor, the very companies raking in profits this weekend—who are experiencing homelessness in America right now.
Utterly shunning academics, researchers, writers, and journalists who use GenAI and claim authorship is the only reasonable and rational response.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Utterly shunning academics, researchers, writers, and journalists who use GenAI and claim authorship is the only reasonable and rational response.
There’s no way to recover from any of this without Courts Martial and criminal trials for civilian officials. Failing that, I’d hope some courts of universal jurisdiction make it impossible for anyone involved to travel internationally without arrest.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
There’s no way to recover from any of this without Courts Martial and criminal trials for civilian officials. Failing that, I’d hope some courts of universal jurisdiction make it impossible for anyone involved to travel internationally without arrest.
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Russia has released its latest peace plan
by u/Chewie83
by u/Chewie83
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Russia has released its latest peace plan
by u/Chewie83
by u/Chewie83
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This is AMAZING journalism. The New York Times went through Trump's court filings related to what is happening in Chicago. There are videos, testimonies, and photographs. You can see this for yourself.
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is AMAZING journalism. The New York Times went through Trump's court filings related to what is happening in Chicago. There are videos, testimonies, and photographs. You can see this for yourself.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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The @nashvillescene.com on Musk’s Teslas only tunnel CEO Steve Davis holding an audio only not-a-town-hall: “…just hours after the town hall, construction crews walked off the tunnel site due to safety and pay concerns.” www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The @nashvillescene.com on Musk’s Teslas only tunnel CEO Steve Davis holding an audio only not-a-town-hall: “…just hours after the town hall, construction crews walked off the tunnel site due to safety and pay concerns.” www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
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"Bitcoin’s loss of spending power since an October 6 peak would be the equivalent of an annualised 900 per cent inflation rate."
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
The fatal flaw in using bitcoin as a currency
There is a crypto parallel in the aftermath of Europe’s 14th century bubonic plague
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Bitcoin’s loss of spending power since an October 6 peak would be the equivalent of an annualised 900 per cent inflation rate."
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...
lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...