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Kentuckian. Programmer. Activist. Leftist. Ally. Working in medical research helping to develop tools that improve patient and researcher experiences. Rustic Tough Party Dude Anti-Fascist, Pro Fashion
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i’m not a big Troop Respecter™️ but if members of congress took their oaths of office as seriously as enlisted soldiers do, the country would be in a much better place. and if we ever get power again, people who violated their oaths should be punished

I know things are bleak and scary right now. But I promise you that you - yes YOU - can get through this. You don't have to fight all of this on your own. Find one person you can help, and help them. Make the life of one person better every day. Hold onto your joy. That's how we win.

Also, YOU don't need to be violent. Opposition is built on different people doing different things to uplift all of us. If you are scary, be scary, and if you are kind, be kind. Use what you have to the best ability.

There has always been an element to which peaceful protest and advocacy is backed by a threat of violence against an oppressor. We dont need to glorify violence, but there is a place for making sure that oppressive forces are scared of us. Fascists SHOULD be afraid. Robber barons should too.

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

Vladimir Putin — an actual dictator — started this war by invading Ukraine. Don't let Donald Trump continue to lie to you — he is trying to rewrite history. I stand firm in my unwavering support for Ukraine's independence and democracy. bit.ly/410x0Na

Why does efficiency to Elon Musk mean lean times, starvation, inability to save or spend. That's not efficiency, that's an exercise in financial abuse.

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

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if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

Rand Paul has introduced a National Right to Work Act. The bill is an attack on organized labor and workers across the country. It would make it harder for workers to unionize, win good contracts, and maintain their unions.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Trump's executive orders impacting refugees leave stranded in Afghanistan the children of a former U.S. military translator, the wife of a former Texas National Guard member, and the sister of two U.S. soldiers. “We feel betrayed," said one. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

watch out: there's a drug on the streets called "tagalongs". insanely addictive. this shit is everywhere. and the fucked up part is they're using children to push it.

Probably correct that at least some GOP senators have been cowed by violent threats (threats coming from people who stormed the capitol building and tried to kill them). I also think this is precisely why TRUMP SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO RUN AGAIN, I wonder if anyone made this point at the time

I will tell you what I expect from Democrats. If they do these things I will praise them to high heaven. (1) Routine objections, even nonsense ones, in the Senate, and objecting to unanimous consent on *everything.* Grind the chamber to a halt. No progress on anything until Musk's goons are gone

Logic here is that they believe that what America needs is two conservative parties

The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a capitalists' coup right now are rebelling against the people & the "free market" for rejecting them & the tech they need us to become dependent on. They're taking over the government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter

even when it's nazis doing nazism, the press has to call them communists

I'm a representative for the Democrats. A decade ago a grand piano fell on my head and ever since then, my memory restarts every 45 minutes. I am confident our existing legislative playbook will be able to handle this crisis.

Who works at DOGE? Our new tracker: projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Worth asking yourself what they’d be doing differently if they were under explicit instruction from hostile foreign governments.

the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

The dem response to literally any of this shit being "well of course we voted for it, you can't fight everything, you've gotta vote yes sometimes" is crazy. No. You really don't have to vote against the interest of every American and the existence of our democracy.

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

Wow if only there was some way that we could've seen something like this coming. If only there's been obvious corruption scandals, allowing multiple supreme Court seats to be stolen by opposition, abuse of voting districts, mass voter deregistration or something else to hint at the allocation of pwr

I'm 24 and I think I have the emotional maturity to admit that maybe I shouldn't have a terrifying amount of control over large government systems. I think I should have that responsibility even less if I were a Nazi freak subscribed to the cult of personality of one of Earths most unhinged people

Trump is considering executive action to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education

"Trump is demanding protection money. Pay him, and you won’t be subject to the president using the weight of the federal government to wreck your company. Pay him, and you won’t be subject to ceaseless frivolous litigation filed in Trump-friendly courts."

Can't wait for the maple syrup black market.

Americans Start Stockpiling Moose Ahead Of Tariffs theonion.com/americans-st...

All humans want to control themselves. Strong people control themselves via self-mastery. Weak people don't have self-mastery, so they attempt to control themselves by controlling others. Autocrats aren't strong; they're dependent & weak. They need to subvert others' freedom to feel self-control.

Working for the government isn't about money. Dedicated civil servants often earn less than their private-sector counterparts. Imagine knowing you could rake in a fortune at a pharmaceutical giant, but instead, you choose to dedicate your life to research at NIH or environmental hazards at the EPA.

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening: