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If I were the city council in a blue city being asked to approve more police surveillance technology, particularly during a federal authoritarian swing that is very publicly co-opting said technologies, I would simply vote against it

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While many mayors of major U.S. cities claim to oppose ICE — and have even implemented formal “sanctuary city” policies — local police often act as a “force multiplier” for ICE, even when they aren’t directly involved in detaining migrants. Co-published with @economichardship.bsky.social

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Have YOU blocked JD Vance yet?

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Facebook banned @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this essay, "Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence." So, make sure to read it and share it! "The Trump Administration is a huge surge of almost every kind of violence." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

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What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.

submitted 21 hours ago • 104 comments

we are about to enter the golden age of scams, people are going to lose millions

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This is an absolutely disgraceful act of corruption by both major parties. It will lead to an incredibly foreseeable set of disasters: best case, unlimited corruption and scamming, worst case a global financial crisis and inevitable federal bailout. Horrifying that 18 Democrats voted for it.

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“A much more promising path to abundance is to embrace a 21st-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a ‘liberalism that builds’ in the U.S., and the book rightly invokes it as a foil to the present. Yet Klein and Thompson strangely shy away from calling for a new one.”

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Austin’s only and oldest queer and feminist bookstore was vandalized this weekend. Someone threw a hunk of concrete at the Pride flag painted on their front window, smashing it and damaging the inside of the building. This would be an amazing time to show them some love. Ebookwoman.com

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from decades of experience I can tell you unequivocally that anytime a Republican or Libertarian says they are "removing regulatory uncertainty that hinders innovation" you're about to get fucked

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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

This is criminalization in its highest and most extreme form - turning the mere existence of a people into an “ism” framed as an existential threat to world order that must be eradicated as a result.

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GET FUCKED @gallego.senate.gov You fascist collaborator

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"Hello, councilors. My name is Dave or something. I’m here on behalf of many well-groomed libertarians to speak with you about our new app, SPRUNK. SPRUNK streamlines parking by making everyone use an app that doesn’t work." buff.ly/YuKjNrb

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If your candidate isn't prepared to do this right here, then they are not prepared for the fight ahead. Bottom line. If you think your rep would stand in the way of ICE, you got a good one. If you think your rep wants to "work across the aisle" they're a Republican grifting you.

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New from 404 Media: cops in California investigated what they called an "immigration protest" with AI-powered cameras, according to new data we obtained. Data also shows local cops around the country tapping into California cameras on behalf of ICE. This is illegal www.404media.co/california-c...

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Masks to slow the spread of communicable disease=verboten Masks to speed the spread of fascism=height of style

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ICE needs to be fucking DISMANTLED and I simply won't vote for any Democrat in the 2028 primary who says otherwise.

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why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

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The Times saying last year they'd no longer endorse candidates in local elections, then immediately being like "oh but not THAT guy" 10 months later because the candidate wants free buses gives away the whole game. "Objectivity" means you break your own rules to punch left as much as you want.

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“I‘ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said the judge, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Reagan. “Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?”

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Once again the correct response to this is to immediately push for a huge amnesty bill. If farm, hotel, and restaurant workers are so vital to the country that even donald trump can admit it, they should all be getting green cards now

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

One of my office's top priorities is fighting elder abuse and protecting older adults in Arizona. For #WorldElderAbuseAwarenessDay, the Arizona Attorney General's Office spoke to experts in the field to share some signs of elder abuse and what you can do to help prevent it.

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One guy down the hall talking with another guy down the hall. Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic discuss global inequality, elephants, life chances, Rawls, and more. @pkrugman.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/global-ine...

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Budgets are the truest form of government intent, beyond any specific bill, law, policy or speech.

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Me: take hours to read a book You: have your super hot ChatGPT girlfriend download a million books, read them, then summarize them all to you in a barrage of lies that you can't even tell are lies because you don't read books; also you have the critical thinking skills of a shovel-struck donkey

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

This rundown of the factors leading to political violence "from all stripes" is one of the worst paragraphs I have ever read.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

Yesterday, Cuomo's campaign set up tents outside the poll sites in Parkchester - a predominantly Muslim neighborhood, with an additional Hindu minority - with a BBQ giving away free hot dogs. In case you were wondering how much he understands - or cares about - his Muslim constituents.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

A lot of blue mayors and governors know the "don't give an order you don't expect to be obeyed" leadership maxim but interpret it as "I guess I can't order the cops to do anything" rather than as a crisis of insubordination.

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I would love to see a 50-state campaign to pass free school lunch and anti-gun measures in tribute.

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Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me,” he said www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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@nbc.com calls it ‘strong words.’ @cnn.com calls it a ‘stern warning.’ It’s a threat of on-the-spot execution. Media is failing, whitewashing, complicit in normalizing a government that threatens and menaces people daily. They need to WAKE UP NOW.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

When I think of populism I don't think of Trump or his band of grifters, I think of Bob.

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Earlier, federal agents shot a protester in the eye. Vincent is an ER nurse and said he came to the protest at the ICE facility in South Portland after a shift. Other protesters called an ambulance for him, but he had to walk several blocks to meet it, due to the munitions still flying.

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