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Calling all journalists covering the US-MX border and immigration: we're teaming up with @freedom.press , @tcij.org g‬, and ACOS Alliance to offer dedicated security workshops in Albuquerque and El Paso in August. Apply here! eff.org/jstapp

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Aside from the fact she's dead, may I also present reason.com/2023/11/21/m...

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

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Would like to say: there is an open recall for this mayor that has until July to collect signatures

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Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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The Senate bill aims to effectively end all civil rights lawsuits against the federal government except by entities rich enough to potentially pay million/billions in fees. I am not making this up.

submitted 6 days ago • 128 comments

In response to the Brevard Co (FL) sheriff's incendiary speech threatening the kill protestors who point guns at police (which they've always had the right to do), I see ppl saying "hey, FL is a Stand Your Ground state, so, y'know...." So just want to remind ppl: there's no SYG vs cops.

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The limits and perils of "Vote Blue No Matter Who". "75 Democrats broke ranks to join Republicans voting for a House resolution, which expressed gratitude for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement officers" www.newsweek.com/democrats-ic...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Part of what it looks like to save ourselves is for folks to take over our library, park, water and other local boards. Get leftists on there who can make decisions that benefit the working class. We can do that because few people actually pay attention to those levers of power.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

The one rap single Zohran Mamdani released as Mr Cardamom should be cringe and instead it's great? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVs...

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NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

Just a reminder that during Freddie Gray uprising in Baltimore its was revealed afterward that some of the “looting” was done by the cops on the gun trace task force

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Removing pepperball residue from clothing and other items. This is based on my (unfortunately extensive) personal experience and experimentiation. Pepperballs contain powdered PAVA, an oily, synthetic capsaicin analog. The only reliable way to remove it is with a good surfactant soap and water. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

All the people I still know in LA laugh and laugh when they hear that "Los Angeles is burning." I made a couple of maps to show just how tiny and localized the protests are. GOPers are working really hard to make an excuse for declaring martial law. People should be very wary of that.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

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Planning to attend an upcoming protest? Here are things to keep in mind, especially if you are an immigrant or going with someone who is. Your voice matters —and so does your safety. Let’s look out for one another. #KnowYourRights #NoKingsDay

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New from 404 Media: here's our report on the aircraft circling above the LA protests. Local, state, DHS, military all flew. Left: aircraft from air base. Right: a distinctive high altitude/hexagonal flight pattern, looks like a Predator drone (it flew to border after) www.404media.co/dhs-black-ha...

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Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

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If you're a New Yorker who follows me—here's my ask of you: 1. Vote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor by Ranking him #1 2. Do Not Rank Cuomo for any reason whatsoever 3. Tell everyone you know to do steps 1 and 2 above Election day is June 24. Early voting on June 14. Spread the word! Let's go!

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"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

submitted 11 days ago • 329 comments

its seems inevitable that a lot of these companies pivoting to ai will find it doesnt work like they wanted after a year and then theyll just start hiring again but this time paying people less

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

submitted 22 days ago • 600 comments

This man, Judd Stone, has argued some of Texas' most evil cases in front of the Supreme Court. He defended the state's abortion bounty hunter law, sought to dismantle tribal sovereignty, and repeatedly asserted Texas' right to seize control over the southern border and immigration policy from Biden.

submitted 22 days ago • 98 comments

This isn’t just a suspension of new student visa interviews, it’s also all new interviews for exchange visitors. Many exchange visitors work at summer camps and other similar programs. This could have an immediate impact on many American businesses as well, not just higher ed.

submitted 22 days ago • 36 comments

if you are in san antonio, please go vote! early voting in the runoff starts today and we really don’t need one of greg abbott’s pals as our mayor.

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Israel is imposing LIFE IMPRISONMENT without due process ON CHILDREN. aje.io/jks1jt?updat...

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.

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🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.

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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

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