tsteck23.bsky.social
@tsteck23.bsky.social
Political Researcher. Blue dot. Mom.
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January 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The family went to bed, so I'm continuing my reread of 1984 with some (seemingly fitting) dystopian space opera music on for ambiance. #GeorgeOrwell #RedRisingMusic
January 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Happy Wednesday friends 👋

If you want to meet blue friends drop a 💙

Have a great day!
January 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
January 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I worked on the Paris Climate Agreement as a UN climate advisor.

This outrageous decision is a handout to oil & gas execs who are hellbent on damning us to a future of endless climate catastrophes. It’s all about $$$ for them — they’ll get richer as more people die & lose their livelihoods.
Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.
January 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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The point is for you to be scared.

The point is for you to be too exhausted and inundated to take true action.

The point is for you to feel defeated.

The point is for you to feel isolated.

Don’t believe the point.

Take a deep breath.

Focus on community, on tangible actions.
January 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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January 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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January 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Everything happening with TikTok this weekend is a show and happening outside the legal system. I’m looking at it this way: TikTok shut down to send the message to users that Trump wanted to fix it; TikTok is coming back up before the inauguration because Trump wants it up for his inauguration.
January 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Can someone with more tech knowledge tell me if TikTok having limited functionality for some users makes sense? I can scroll my FYP, but don't have access to comments or anything else. My wife is sitting right next to me on the same network and still can't access anything. What is going on?
January 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently
January 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Just such an obvious and should have been headed off bamboozle to watch Trump lead the discourse into banning TikTok and then become the hero of saving TikTok. We are truly is the reality show politics era and I can’t believe no one had a staffer that explained the bamboozle to them
January 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I cannot believe that our ghetto ass govn't actually worked together to get rid of a fuckin app. Meanwhile, I can die from eating a mixed salad laced with Listeria or a mass shooting on my way to get it. Man, FUCK YALLL
January 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Reminder that Mitt Romney explicitly said the rationale behind the tiktok ban was pro Palestinian content. The renewed push last year was explicitly to help Israel conduct a genocide without scrutiny on social media.

Imperial boomerang in action.

www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
Sen. Romney links TikTok ban to pro-Palestinian content
Critics say his remarks belie the "national security" motive and expose free speech suppression.
www.axios.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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January 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM