Wes Spears-Newsome
@wespearsnewsome.com
Performer of rituals, organizer of political power, writer of books you might be able to read someday hopefully maybe
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Thanks Greg! We're super excited to move forward. Many years of work led to this moment!
I'm excited about the work my friends and colleagues are doing in Cary. Bravo, @wespearsnewsome.com !
Cary Approves Affordable Housing in Church’s Backyard, Struggles with Plans for Apartments Elsewhere #housing
April 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thanks Greg! We're super excited to move forward. Many years of work led to this moment!
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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Meta illegally scraped almost every piece of fiction I’ve had published over the past 20+ years. That’s half my life. That’s what those portions of my life and my work amount to. Grist for a trillion-dollar grift machine. And most people will just never give a damn.
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
March 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Meta illegally scraped almost every piece of fiction I’ve had published over the past 20+ years. That’s half my life. That’s what those portions of my life and my work amount to. Grist for a trillion-dollar grift machine. And most people will just never give a damn.
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The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
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Homan: "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming."
March 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Homan: "We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the left thinks. We're coming."
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ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.
No one knows why he was detained.
No one knows why he was detained.
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Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Tell your Dem senators you are withholding any donations until there's a leadership change. I specified that I'm moving my donations to organizations that WILL mobilize a strong opposition, like Run For Something and Sister District.
So here's the deal: Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028, Gillibrand in 2030, two of the cowards aren't even running again!
For now, the push has to be that Schumer has lost the party and betrayed the country, and must step down as leader. Pelosi spoke out against him. Jeffries
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For now, the push has to be that Schumer has lost the party and betrayed the country, and must step down as leader. Pelosi spoke out against him. Jeffries
1/2
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Tell your Dem senators you are withholding any donations until there's a leadership change. I specified that I'm moving my donations to organizations that WILL mobilize a strong opposition, like Run For Something and Sister District.
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None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace.
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.
March 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
None of these Democrats should enjoy a moment's peace.
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
They've effectively just voted for Donald Trump's agenda without putting up a fight. Never let them hear the end of it.
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The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind.
And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.
If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.
And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.
If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.
NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”
Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions
March 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind.
And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.
If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.
And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.
If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.
It showed something.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer tells @jaketapper.bsky.social that he believes his decision to vote YES showed “strength and courage.”
March 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It showed something.
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whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them
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Of the three presidential campaigns against Trump, two (2016 and 2024) made elaborate appeals to centrists at the expense of their relationship with progressives, and only one (2020) prioritized efforts to bridge the gap with progressives, however impermanently. The latter approach won.
March 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Of the three presidential campaigns against Trump, two (2016 and 2024) made elaborate appeals to centrists at the expense of their relationship with progressives, and only one (2020) prioritized efforts to bridge the gap with progressives, however impermanently. The latter approach won.
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"I don’t get paid if there’s a shutdown but shutting the government down and putting up a fight is preferable to giving in."
"Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow."
"Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."
"Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow."
"Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."
'If You Don't Fight, You Can't Win': Federal Employees Want Chuck Schumer and the Democrats to Grow a Spine
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"I don’t get paid if there’s a shutdown but shutting the government down and putting up a fight is preferable to giving in."
"Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow."
"Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."
"Every single one of my colleagues supports a shutdow."
"Everyone I know in my office was hoping the Dems would grow a spine and shut the government down."
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The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
March 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The people who said “wokeness” was totalitarian are applauding as dhs sends agents to college campus to apprehend students for thoughtcrime
If the GOP needed Democratic votes they needed to negotiate with Democrats.
To vote for their partisan bill is to say they can take the federal government hostage whenever they'd like.
Takes a special kind of spinelessness to give up like that.
To vote for their partisan bill is to say they can take the federal government hostage whenever they'd like.
Takes a special kind of spinelessness to give up like that.
March 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If the GOP needed Democratic votes they needed to negotiate with Democrats.
To vote for their partisan bill is to say they can take the federal government hostage whenever they'd like.
Takes a special kind of spinelessness to give up like that.
To vote for their partisan bill is to say they can take the federal government hostage whenever they'd like.
Takes a special kind of spinelessness to give up like that.
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When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism
March 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism
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these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
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👇🎯 Everything since January 20 boils down, ultimately, to a total failure of everyone in the legislative branch to fulfill their damn oaths of office to country & Constitution.
these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
👇🎯 Everything since January 20 boils down, ultimately, to a total failure of everyone in the legislative branch to fulfill their damn oaths of office to country & Constitution.
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The NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, etc etc have shifted to the right. Fox & the Post et al have always been hard right. Twitter & Meta are controlled by right wingers. On a daily basis, millions of Americans - probably the majority - see nothing but sanitized, accomodationist, right wing coverage of Trump.
the average person isnt paying attention. Most people have no idea whats going on.
March 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, etc etc have shifted to the right. Fox & the Post et al have always been hard right. Twitter & Meta are controlled by right wingers. On a daily basis, millions of Americans - probably the majority - see nothing but sanitized, accomodationist, right wing coverage of Trump.
If Dems vote to pass this spending bill, I'm out. No longer interested in Democratic party politics. Changing my registration.
March 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If Dems vote to pass this spending bill, I'm out. No longer interested in Democratic party politics. Changing my registration.
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there is such a pathological fear among dem electeds of backlash that it leads them to basically do nothing
As the unofficial Dem strategy explainer on here I can't really tell you why Jeffries had such a wimpy response to the Eric Adams quid pro quo. At some point this just becomes a timid resistance to doing anything.
February 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
there is such a pathological fear among dem electeds of backlash that it leads them to basically do nothing
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Shogan is the person who was accused of removing pictures of Japanese incarceration camps from historical displays because they were "too negative and controversial."
Now Trump's fired her.
Please note that compliance with bigots will not save you.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Now Trump's fired her.
Please note that compliance with bigots will not save you.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
February 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Shogan is the person who was accused of removing pictures of Japanese incarceration camps from historical displays because they were "too negative and controversial."
Now Trump's fired her.
Please note that compliance with bigots will not save you.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Now Trump's fired her.
Please note that compliance with bigots will not save you.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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I’m going to keep hitting this until they figure it out, because they are it…the Democrats are THE ONLY political opposition. They had three months to prepare for these acts. And they seem surprised and flat footed.
I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I’m going to keep hitting this until they figure it out, because they are it…the Democrats are THE ONLY political opposition. They had three months to prepare for these acts. And they seem surprised and flat footed.