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may unfollow or not follow back accounts that mostly only post memes, carded quotes, lists, photos, art, poems, etc
block trolls, scammers & unlabeled NSFW
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
Bessent Has Yet to Fully Divest Assets, Raising Concern at Ethics Agency
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With farm bailouts back in the news, it's a great time to remind everyone that US Treasury Secretary Bessent owns thousands of acres of of soybean farms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
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How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
There is no budget "deal" to be made
President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...
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But Portland is on fire, & Chicago is a war torn town.
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
But Portland is on fire, & Chicago is a war torn town.
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There's been debate about whether Jan 6 was stochastic terrorism - it wasn't. THIS is likely stochastic terrorism: a judge's house torched right after Stephen Miller ranted about "liberal judges" who blocked Trump's actions, said they "shielded terrorists". This is the result he wanted. 1/
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There's been debate about whether Jan 6 was stochastic terrorism - it wasn't. THIS is likely stochastic terrorism: a judge's house torched right after Stephen Miller ranted about "liberal judges" who blocked Trump's actions, said they "shielded terrorists". This is the result he wanted. 1/
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And no one on the right will acknowledge any of these points. I’m aghast at my own realization that there is literally no rationalizing with anyone in a position of power from a conservative standpoint.
My counterpoint entire in a tweet:
My counterpoint entire in a tweet:
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And no one on the right will acknowledge any of these points. I’m aghast at my own realization that there is literally no rationalizing with anyone in a position of power from a conservative standpoint.
My counterpoint entire in a tweet:
My counterpoint entire in a tweet:
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These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
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Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
September 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.
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It is insane for this to be the only evidence you cite in your editorial about political violence. The far right has been responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States for years. Republican leaders routinely celebrate extrajudicial killings and refuse to regulate guns.
![In May 2019 and for the first time in its history, the FBI identified fringe conspiracy theories as a potential source of domestic terrorism, it specifically cited QAnon.[37]
A June 2020 study of domestic terrorist incidents by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reported that during the previous 25 years, the majority of attacks and plots were perpetrated and hatched by far-right attackers. This trend has accelerated in recent years, with this sector being responsible for about 66% of all of the attacks and plots which were perpetrated in 2019, and it was also responsible for 90% of all of those attacks which were perpetrated in 2020. The next most potentially dangerous group has been "religious extremists", the majority "Salafi jihadists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda", while the number planned by the far left has reduced to a minute fraction since the mid-2000s.[38][39]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreic2lqskmjkxl2u7wmfsvqxyxjwcfznx4njsr7sbrma44nlvr5mjcm@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
It is insane for this to be the only evidence you cite in your editorial about political violence. The far right has been responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States for years. Republican leaders routinely celebrate extrajudicial killings and refuse to regulate guns.
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the murder that’s not on every front page nationwide
An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
the murder that’s not on every front page nationwide
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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The Supreme Court is illegitimate and it's high time people started getting very comfortable with the idea that you cannot reform this specific court and that we'll need to ignore them completely moving forward.
September 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Supreme Court is illegitimate and it's high time people started getting very comfortable with the idea that you cannot reform this specific court and that we'll need to ignore them completely moving forward.
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I also wrote a book on targeted killings carried out by the US and wow, as Nicholas points out, this is so far outside of any previously settled practice or norm. Absolutely, unambiguously abnormal and well into 'murder' territory by any established convention.
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
September 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I also wrote a book on targeted killings carried out by the US and wow, as Nicholas points out, this is so far outside of any previously settled practice or norm. Absolutely, unambiguously abnormal and well into 'murder' territory by any established convention.
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"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation."
Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
“They just see us as little toy soldiers to put on the street to show some muscle.”
Alex, a National Guard recruiter who requested anonymity to speak freely, told Mother Jones that the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed soldiers to their breaking points.
Alex, a National Guard recruiter who requested anonymity to speak freely, told Mother Jones that the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed soldiers to their breaking points.
The National Guard soldier pissed about Trump’s DC takeover
“This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for and it feels like a violation.”
www.motherjones.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation."
Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
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The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz.
-230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles
-30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs
-agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m.
-new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
-230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles
-30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs
-agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m.
-new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones
Flash-bang grenades and early morning raids: How Trump is planning to target Chicago
Hundreds of federal agents are being sent to a suburban naval base from Los Angeles, where an immigration blitz this summer spurred protests that pushed Trump to call in the National Guard. Trump has ...
chicago.suntimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
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One thing I have been repeatedly saying about this administration is that they won't just kill people more quickly through their policies; the people who survive will also facer higher rates of disease, disability, and generally lower quality of life. We're taking a dramatic step back.
People have misunderstood how successful we are at increasing quality of life up to a certain point (i.e. late 70's and early 80's) and the fact that ultimate life expectancy, while up, is not nearly as transformative as the increase in just general quality.
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
One thing I have been repeatedly saying about this administration is that they won't just kill people more quickly through their policies; the people who survive will also facer higher rates of disease, disability, and generally lower quality of life. We're taking a dramatic step back.
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How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation?
You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands.
Why help the lie?
You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands.
Why help the lie?
September 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How do any lawyers or legal commentators still say the Supreme Court majority believes “unity executive theory” and rules according to that interpretation?
You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands.
Why help the lie?
You witnessed years of the same Justices restricting a president only to do the opposite when the White House changed hands.
Why help the lie?
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Evidencd that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal remains a potent political threat to the Trump admin: Fox News has largely ignored this morning's dramatic Capitol Hill press conference by Epstein survivors. Fox has only covered it briefly while CNN and MSNBC have carried it all live.
September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Evidencd that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal remains a potent political threat to the Trump admin: Fox News has largely ignored this morning's dramatic Capitol Hill press conference by Epstein survivors. Fox has only covered it briefly while CNN and MSNBC have carried it all live.
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Epstein victims' lawyer: While we have seen the documents, you haven't. When you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. The American people deserve to see everything. Evil flourishes in the darkness. If you care about these women, about our country, this should pass with flying colors
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Epstein victims' lawyer: While we have seen the documents, you haven't. When you see the documents, you're going to be appalled. The American people deserve to see everything. Evil flourishes in the darkness. If you care about these women, about our country, this should pass with flying colors
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Does anyone need a reminder that Alex Acosta, who gave Jeffrey Epstein the notorious "sweetheart deal" the first time his crimes were exposed became Trump's first labor secretary (until he was forced to resign when Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald exposed the whole thing in 2018).
Former Labor secretary will be interviewed in House Epstein probe
Alex Acosta brokered a deal with the sex offender as US attorney in Miami.
www.politico.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Does anyone need a reminder that Alex Acosta, who gave Jeffrey Epstein the notorious "sweetheart deal" the first time his crimes were exposed became Trump's first labor secretary (until he was forced to resign when Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald exposed the whole thing in 2018).
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This is good news, but we also need to be seriously talking about a national guard/military alliance. This administration isn’t going to stop coming after what they perceive as “Democratic states” unless we have the power to make them stop.
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system.
As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is good news, but we also need to be seriously talking about a national guard/military alliance. This administration isn’t going to stop coming after what they perceive as “Democratic states” unless we have the power to make them stop.
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The president implemented a hundred billion dollar tax hike with a memo it’s incredible that this is even a constitutional question at all
Trump’s Tariffs Are Basically All Illegal, Federal Appeals Court Rules www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's tariffs are basically illegal
The president's global trade war has a bad day in court.
www.motherjones.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The president implemented a hundred billion dollar tax hike with a memo it’s incredible that this is even a constitutional question at all
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The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty.
The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
August 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."
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During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living.
“Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?”
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“Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?”
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“Stop Lying”: Voters Erupt at GOP Lawmaker’s Shocking Claim on Economy
Iowa State Representative Ashley Hinson’s comments were met with boos and jeers.
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August 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living.
“Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?”
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“Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?”
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they’re calling the most recent shooter in minnesota trans to ignore the fact that there has been an organized group of far-right suicidal school shooters and this person is very likely going to be linked to them as well
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
they’re calling the most recent shooter in minnesota trans to ignore the fact that there has been an organized group of far-right suicidal school shooters and this person is very likely going to be linked to them as well