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jrriver.bsky.social
Retired English professor. UT Austin and URI. Currently living in a rural red state and trying to be loud against the fascists. I read history.
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Make a new state law, that no agent who is masked has authority.

The result of Trump’s tariffs are hitting the shelves . . .

SCOOP: DOJ is dissolving its four-decade old transnational crime fighting network, OCDETF. Its operations, I've learned, will be absorbed by the new DHS task forces But many q's remain. A group of Democratic senators have sent a letter to AG Bondi seeking answers 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wisconsin evangelical youth pastor James Lane has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for repeatedly raping a child in his youth group. wsau.com/2025/06/03/f...

Palantir posted a response to my story on X earlier today. I’m not on that platform anymore, but the NYT said:

Agree

This is impeachable. It is a “high crime” to impound appropriations, bc it’s in defiance of both the Constitution (basically ≈ all of Article I) and the Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974. Ya know, laws and shit! Rs just dgaf when their team breaks laws to do stuff America doesn’t support.

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#GVerse #Attention: Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social calls for #OrangeTurd's masked ICE agents engaged in aggressive overreach to be identified, because "This is America, this is not the Soviet Union, we're not behind the iron curtain." BOOM! REPOST!!!

Oligarch Overlords: I’m not going to give you enough hours to qualify you for health insurance, and if I do your coverage will suck. Also, Oligarch Overlords:

After the Dept. of Defense removed mention of the 6888th Battalion from their website, I called on them to right their wrong and honor our servicemembers. I've now received word they're doing exactly that and have restored some webpages.

Dangerous

So here’s some fresh hell for Tuesday June 3rd. Women in West Virginia could face felony charges for having a miscarriage. (These types of laws are Project 2025 in practice) www.newsweek.com/women-who-ha...

Nearly 14 MILLION people are estimated to lose their health insurance under Republicans' “big beautiful bill.” That's like everyone in: Wyoming Vermont Alaska North Dakota Montana Maine New Hampshire Hawaii West Virginia Idaho and Nebraska COMBINED.

ICE arrested Elsy Noemi Berrios without cause or due process, damaging her car and traumatizing her family in the process. America cannot be a country where this is considered acceptable. Call Congress to demand due process: 202-224-3121 #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump #PeoplesMovement

If you're truly pro-family, you don't slash support for moms and newborns. This GOP plan is anti-family, plain and simple.

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your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary

A military occupation by ICE

#WisdomWell

#CritterWell #WisdomWell #AnimalAdvocate #ProtectorOfAllCreatures

Days after Rep. Josh Gottheim announced his bid for New Jersey governor, his House office paid $180,225 on advertisements across the whole state. The Ethics Committee should look into whether that's a violation of the law.

This is so evil.

Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, left school at 13 to work in factories and suffered an injury that left him with a disability. He then started studying at night to become a human rights lawyer. He now leads the country. 🇰🇷❤️ #HumanRights #Democracy

“I saw an iridescent biosphere teeming w/life..I didn’t see the economy. But since our human..systems treat everything, including the very life-support systems of our planet, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the global economy, it’s obvious from the vantage point of space that we’re living a lie.”

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Lowe’s Dyson Nivea Tiffany Capital One UPS Disney Door Dash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo Pepsi Nissan PWC Citi Mastercard …all pulled their support for Pride. If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability. popular.info/p/pride-and-...

If ICE has a warrant to arrest someone, let them show that warrant and proceed legally and properly. No to tyranny. No to police state activity. No to traumatizing individuals, families, and communities. Go America!!

Texas baptist pastor Nathan Roach has been arrested for child grooming. www.texomashomepage.com/news/crime/w...

Can you give @fightagainstcecot.bsky.social a follow? They’re one person, sometimes joined by a few others, sometimes not, reminding folks in the DMV (DC-MD-VA) that 278 individuals have been sent to the notorious CECOT concentration camp in El Salvador and none of them have so far been returned.