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The statute of limitations here is six years. These oligarchs engaging in blatant insider trading are betting there’s no change in administration in 2028.

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Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

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Was down in Mexico city last year, and had a beer with a guy from Iceland, who was doing basically what these students were: a world tour without a fixed schedule. It seemed incredibly cool, and also something that can get you locked up when you try to enter America.

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Sen. Van Hollen: "I don't think it's ever wrong to fight for the constitutional rights of one person because if we give up on one person's rights, we threaten everybody's rights...Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the Constitution doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 18 hours ago • 202 comments

I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

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Another story of 1. Admin sends fascist order 2. Media reports on it 3. People are outraged, say no 4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake” Lesson is defy fascist orders kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

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Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

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So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):

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incredibly important that he and everyone else frame it that way. we do need to fight for Abrego Garcia but we also cannot let that be the end of resistance against this lawless historic crime occurring at the behest of a Republican junta.

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Beyond vital political stakes, it also looks like admin misread the narrative, too. They tried to pitch “MS-13 illegal” and assumed story would end there. Instead it’s become a daily, episodic, human-interest and court drama about a wrongfully deported loving husband, union-member and caregiver.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Today's newsletter is about this www.readtpa.com/p/not-very-c...

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Like seriously yall, being compensated for your work and having the right to sell it to whom you choose is like a cornerstone of being a creative We call it the theft machine for a fucking reason

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 3 days ago • 315 comments

Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

We didn’t say “Abolish Ice” and “Defund the Police” because they’re cute catchy slogans. We said it because they are and always have been the tools of oppression and fascism, and this gestures at everything was the most predictable outcome in the fucking world.

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“No time can be easy if one is living through it,” said the great writer James Baldwin. This is a reminder that the present looks different from inside of it. It's important from time to time to try to look at the current moment from outside of it, to try for a little distance from the daily slog.

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I personally think the thing about prison that is unsafe for women is that they are in a prison

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As a historian of eugenics, I can tell you that the "taxes" thing is straight up from sterilization eugenics. Not only that, it represents an even more extreme form of early 20thC. eugenics that I study: euthanasia eugenics. They are tax burdens therefore they shouldn't exist. 1/2

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Friends, this story strongly suggests the interim US Attorney in DC was very recently on the payroll of Russian intelligence. bsky.app/profile/wash...

submitted 4 days ago • 48 comments

Call it what it is: a race/ gender purge.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

So it turns out Musk offered via DM to impregnate this influencer, and when she told others he unfollowed her and cut her X income stream. This is the guy eliminating core public services.

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

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YUP. Always love to whip that one out when people try to tell me that chiropractors are sorta-kinda-basically doctors. Like lol no they are not. Remotely. At BEST, it's like a massage. But that shit can and has killed people.

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🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

Pam Bondi is a liar, propagandist and criminal accomplice. Kilmar Abrego Garcia never received a court hearing and due process. Pam Bondi is an eternal stain on the Justice Department and justice itself.

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

submitted 4 days ago • 80 comments

couch fucking, baby cult, genital inspectors but dont put in the paper that theyre weird

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18F. US Digital Service. The Office of Transformation at SSA. Across the government the technologists who combined real tech skills with knowledge of policy and a commitment to making things work are being pushed out, replaced by Musk acolytes with no real plan to make govt work.