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I’m a tech/finance writer. Former journalist. Elder-ish millennial. I have AuDHD and HEDs. I’m queer and mixed. 🏳️‍🌈🍉✊🏽 Here to resist and disobey.
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A president who has the power to send an innocent human being to a foreign concentration camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you can't prove your citizenship well enough to to vote... ...then you can't prove your citizenship well enough to keep from being deported to a South American prison.

😂😂

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Just kidding no tech manufacturing in America. Lolz those jobs aren’t for us after all.

Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors...

This part

It’s surreal how fast the United States has fallen into a dictatorial regime. Checks and balances are gone, the president disappears innocent people into foreign prison camps, words get banned, and the Overton window shifts at light speed. I honestly wonder these days when they will come for me.

Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴 Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

🤦🏻‍♀️ for fucks sake can’t they be consistent about a single goddamn thing?! It’s maddening even as a consumer.

Sen Lisa Murkowski: The Constitution gives Congress the power to assess and levy tariffs. Congress needs to reassert its authority as the Constitution prescribes.

Free speech applies to everyone in this country. This is wrong.

47's beef with China is personal, based on his own business dealings, and I cannot believe we gotta bear the brunt of this shit because grown ass people don't understand why addressing conflicts of interest with corporate titans who want to run the country is important.

owning a small business in 2025…

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

When Trump changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Republicans acted as if nothing had changed. It takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat:

There is no 3D chess… just incompetence newrepublic.com/post/193930/...

I remember a few years back there were 2 Amazon sellers that ended up listing some textbook for like a million dollars because they had a bot which looked at the price the other was using and automatically raised theirs slightly, and it just kept going up and up Mentioning for no particular reason

Good morning Bluesky !

More lost American business; more lost American jobs.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes a harrowing journey from her neighborhood in Somerville to a cell in Vermont, where she was locked up overnight before being put on a flight to Louisiana early the next day. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

We must, of course, keep up the fight to free Garcia, and Khalil, but there are others we must not forget. www.advocate.com/news/gay-mak...

A man is being deported for using his voice. If free speech leads to detention and deportation, this is only the beginning. If Khalil isn't safe, none of us are safe. #FreeMahmoud #FreeKhalil #DefendDissent #BringThemBack

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Warren Buffett, "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

*chef’s kiss*

With the SAVE act passing through the house I would like to remind everyone that it took the Taliban only 3 years to ban women from speaking #waronwomen #SAVEact

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

I have to prove that I have a Constitutional right to vote but I don’t have to prove I have a Constitutional right to own a gun - even one w/ the sole purpose of killing a human. This is crazy fucked up. I want to challenge the govt to prove that I DON’T have the right to vote, like they do w/ guns.

Creepy. youtu.be/pVbFqzgS6Q4?...

It’s. What. We. Must. Do. ✨

If you are a Democratic member of Congress and you’re trading stock, you are part of the reason millions of voters believe the system isn’t built to help them.

I’m at the market crash. I’m at the tariff war. I’m at the combination market crash and tariff war.

Masks are a critical public health tool that help protect people from COVID and other airborne viruses, and attempts to ban them endanger anyone who wants to protect their health. Everyone has a right to wear a mask. If you live in NY, contact your elected officials to tell them #NoNYMaskBan.

weird, what could explain this

Can this finally put an end to the idea that Republicans are fiscally responsible?

Looks like Trump's next move to distract from the tariff chaos is war with Iran

⚠️ JUST IN: The University of Michigan’s April survey shows that one-year inflation expectations in the U.S. surged to 6.7%, the highest reading since 1981. The rise was seen across all party affiliations.