Ace Avery
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they want worldwide jim crow
1/ The Trump Administration is seeking to force foreign companies worldwide to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes within their firms if they want to do business with the US government. It's an aggressive expansion of its anti-DEI crusade. ⬇️
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
they want worldwide jim crow
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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I might gently suggest that if someone thinks "living paycheck to paycheck" and "lacking a 3-month reserve" are the same thing, they perhaps have never lived paycheck-to-paycheck.
March 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I might gently suggest that if someone thinks "living paycheck to paycheck" and "lacking a 3-month reserve" are the same thing, they perhaps have never lived paycheck-to-paycheck.
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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habeas corpus is what keeps the government from grabbing anyone off the street and putting them in a dark hole forever.
If the government can refuse to tell a court why it’s detaining you? how you planning on getting out?
It’s a right that was afforded to all those J6 arrestees.
If the government can refuse to tell a court why it’s detaining you? how you planning on getting out?
It’s a right that was afforded to all those J6 arrestees.
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
habeas corpus is what keeps the government from grabbing anyone off the street and putting them in a dark hole forever.
If the government can refuse to tell a court why it’s detaining you? how you planning on getting out?
It’s a right that was afforded to all those J6 arrestees.
If the government can refuse to tell a court why it’s detaining you? how you planning on getting out?
It’s a right that was afforded to all those J6 arrestees.
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"Free speech is back" says the president who this week posted on social media that he would be banning and criminalizing what he deems "illegal protests" at colleges and universities.
March 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Free speech is back" says the president who this week posted on social media that he would be banning and criminalizing what he deems "illegal protests" at colleges and universities.
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The top priorities of US national security today are to protect the fragile ego of our president and to advance the interests of Russia and its president Vladimir Putin.
Sadly, not an exaggeration.
Sadly, not an exaggeration.
March 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The top priorities of US national security today are to protect the fragile ego of our president and to advance the interests of Russia and its president Vladimir Putin.
Sadly, not an exaggeration.
Sadly, not an exaggeration.
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You have more in common with every unhoused person, every undocumented immigrant, every trans or otherwise LGBTQ person, every disabled person, every person in any marginalized minoritized ethnicity, than you do with even one single billionaire.
March 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You have more in common with every unhoused person, every undocumented immigrant, every trans or otherwise LGBTQ person, every disabled person, every person in any marginalized minoritized ethnicity, than you do with even one single billionaire.
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March 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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fascinating to watch a global superpower tear itself apart for no good reason
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
February 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
fascinating to watch a global superpower tear itself apart for no good reason
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Joy Reid will host her final evening news show with MSNBC this week as part of a slate of programming changes by Rebecca Kutler, the network’s new president, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s evening show as part of a major programming shakeup | CNN Business
Co-hosts from MSNBC’s “The Weekend” are expected to take over Reid’s 7 p.m. evening timeslot.
www.cnn.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Joy Reid will host her final evening news show with MSNBC this week as part of a slate of programming changes by Rebecca Kutler, the network’s new president, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Good morning Bluesky and to all the otters out there too.
February 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Good morning Bluesky and to all the otters out there too.
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Everyone who pays alot of attention to politics right now is losing their mind because it’s really difficult to understand how the majority of people are just like “yep living my life, oh a program to hire more women? Idk sounds good to me, I voted Trump to lower inflation hopefully he’s doing that”
Favorability of DEI Programs:
Favorable: 45%
Unfavorable: 36%
Net: +9%
YouGov / Feb 11, 2025 / n=1595
Favorable: 45%
Unfavorable: 36%
Net: +9%
YouGov / Feb 11, 2025 / n=1595
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Everyone who pays alot of attention to politics right now is losing their mind because it’s really difficult to understand how the majority of people are just like “yep living my life, oh a program to hire more women? Idk sounds good to me, I voted Trump to lower inflation hopefully he’s doing that”
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Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion.
Trump on what Trudeau could offer him to change his mind on tariffs: "What I'd like to see -- Canada become our 51st state."
February 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant.
The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.
The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Framers foresaw this problem and figured legislators' ambition, self-preservation, and self-respect would drive them to act against a tyrant.
The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.
The Framers didn't expect a majority of Congress would be cowards and fools who cheered it like pigs celebrating the arrival of the butcher.
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Elon Musk has infiltrated the U.S. Treasury Office to identify ways to cut off funding for various projects, prompting the abrupt retirement of the Treasury official responsible for overseeing the government’s vast payment system.
January 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Elon Musk has infiltrated the U.S. Treasury Office to identify ways to cut off funding for various projects, prompting the abrupt retirement of the Treasury official responsible for overseeing the government’s vast payment system.
Trump might be right...just not in the way he thinks...
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Trump might be right...just not in the way he thinks...
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Civics matters. You cannot understand the blatant power grab Trump is making right now if you don’t understand separation of powers.
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Civics matters. You cannot understand the blatant power grab Trump is making right now if you don’t understand separation of powers.
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The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway.
And those who warned America about it were right.
And those who warned America about it were right.
January 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The past several days have proven without a shadow of a doubt that Project 2025 is real and underway.
And those who warned America about it were right.
And those who warned America about it were right.
It looks like NOAA websites are down...what's going on here?
January 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It looks like NOAA websites are down...what's going on here?