Ryan Mann
@rmann0581.bsky.social
I have been visually impaired my whole life. I teach people who are blind or visually impaired how to use technology at the Conklin Davis Center in Daytona, FL. aI can't wait until Trump is no longer in office.
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech #opensource
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech #opensource
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Welcome to 2026. We're back today with our first Emptywheel Friday of the new year! Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social & I get together every Fri to discuss news you need to know. Join us today 3pm ET/noon PT youtu.be/7Spp8_PxCvY, nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net, pod, nicolesandler.substack.com
Emptywheel Friday - Welcome to 2026 on the Nicole Sandler Show 1-2-26
YouTube video by Nicole Sandler
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January 2, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Welcome to 2026. We're back today with our first Emptywheel Friday of the new year! Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social & I get together every Fri to discuss news you need to know. Join us today 3pm ET/noon PT youtu.be/7Spp8_PxCvY, nicolesandler.com, emptywheel.net, pod, nicolesandler.substack.com
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The same politicians pushing age verification laws and social media bans are the ones who don't like what young people are saying online. They can't win the argument, so they want to control the platform. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The same politicians pushing age verification laws and social media bans are the ones who don't like what young people are saying online. They can't win the argument, so they want to control the platform. @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
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This was my absolute favorite part of this banger of a speech.
Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
January 2, 2026 at 12:08 AM
This was my absolute favorite part of this banger of a speech.
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🚨 USPS Postmark Change Alert 🚨
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🚨 USPS Postmark Change Alert 🚨
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
“Your mailbox date ≠ official postmark date”
What to do:
1️⃣ Mail early.
2️⃣ Ask for a manual postmark at drop-off.
3️⃣ Use electronic filing/payment whenever possible.
Spread the word! This will affect voting IMMEDIATELY.
Credit to @cjnlegalnurse for the vid
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Before you start throwing jabs at this, remember:
--There's not a ton Dems in Congress can do as the minority
--This will renew the spotlight on J6, elections, etc. which will help alert the public as well as encourage people to be more pro-active
--There's not a ton Dems in Congress can do as the minority
--This will renew the spotlight on J6, elections, etc. which will help alert the public as well as encourage people to be more pro-active
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has announced in a 'Dear Colleague' letter that House Dems will hold a 'special hearing' on January 6 to "examine ongoing threats to free and fair elections … and detail the threats to public safety posed by the hundreds of violent felons who were pardoned."
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Before you start throwing jabs at this, remember:
--There's not a ton Dems in Congress can do as the minority
--This will renew the spotlight on J6, elections, etc. which will help alert the public as well as encourage people to be more pro-active
--There's not a ton Dems in Congress can do as the minority
--This will renew the spotlight on J6, elections, etc. which will help alert the public as well as encourage people to be more pro-active
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NEW: The USPS finalized a postmark rule that could increase late mail-in ballots for rural voters. Even in states with grace periods, mail voters submitting ballots even a day or two before Election Day could now risk their votes not being counted.
Rural Mail-In Ballots at Risk as Post Office Finalizes Changes to Postmark Dates
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
NEW: The USPS finalized a postmark rule that could increase late mail-in ballots for rural voters. Even in states with grace periods, mail voters submitting ballots even a day or two before Election Day could now risk their votes not being counted.
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An open letter to Representative Vicente Gonzalez:
If you don’t want a serious primary challenge, don’t vote to let ICE to strip-search literal children.
Until then, stop whining.
If you don’t want a serious primary challenge, don’t vote to let ICE to strip-search literal children.
Until then, stop whining.
CNN: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...
‘They’re attacking their own’: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line | CNN Politics
When Rep. Dan Goldman first ran for Congress in 2022, he was cheered on the left as the party’s top lawyer during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
www.cnn.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
An open letter to Representative Vicente Gonzalez:
If you don’t want a serious primary challenge, don’t vote to let ICE to strip-search literal children.
Until then, stop whining.
If you don’t want a serious primary challenge, don’t vote to let ICE to strip-search literal children.
Until then, stop whining.
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If it implicated 3rd party voters, the free Palestine movement or any common democratic scapegoat they would have it plastered everywhere! Democratic pride led to their fall and like Trump they’re hiding the proof of their incompetence
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If it implicated 3rd party voters, the free Palestine movement or any common democratic scapegoat they would have it plastered everywhere! Democratic pride led to their fall and like Trump they’re hiding the proof of their incompetence
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A "mistake" implies that they aren't happy with the way things turned out. It's a big club and we ain't in it. Dems will happily lose to Republicans; their job is to thwart progressives.
December 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A "mistake" implies that they aren't happy with the way things turned out. It's a big club and we ain't in it. Dems will happily lose to Republicans; their job is to thwart progressives.
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Sadly, the @democrats.org seem incapable of learning from their many mistakes
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Sadly, the @democrats.org seem incapable of learning from their many mistakes
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
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BREAKING: After ordering a report on what went wrong in the 2024 election, DNC Chair Ken Martin is now refusing to release the report, claiming doing so would be counterproductive.
This lack of transparency kills trust, disenfranchises voters, and shows weakness. Just ridiculous. Indefensible.
This lack of transparency kills trust, disenfranchises voters, and shows weakness. Just ridiculous. Indefensible.
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
BREAKING: After ordering a report on what went wrong in the 2024 election, DNC Chair Ken Martin is now refusing to release the report, claiming doing so would be counterproductive.
This lack of transparency kills trust, disenfranchises voters, and shows weakness. Just ridiculous. Indefensible.
This lack of transparency kills trust, disenfranchises voters, and shows weakness. Just ridiculous. Indefensible.
Give the indie web a try https://www.theverge.com/column/829831/indie-web-geocities-neocities
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Give the indie web a try https://www.theverge.com/column/829831/indie-web-geocities-neocities
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Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s new mayor.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani, NYC’s new mayor.
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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Important
🚨BREAKING: Democrat Abigail Spanberger WINS Virginia! She ran on a pro-democracy platform that included supporting constitutional amendments on redistricting and voting rights restoration.
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Important
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Just Trump being Trump.🙄
Most of America won't freak out until it's too late.
Most of America won't freak out until it's too late.
Bannon: we have a plan and Trump will be president in 2028.
A normal country would see this and freak out.
A normal country would see this and freak out.
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Just Trump being Trump.🙄
Most of America won't freak out until it's too late.
Most of America won't freak out until it's too late.
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Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right?
Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
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No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online,
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,
www.eff.org
August 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...