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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Hey zine makers and zine librarians: Tranzmission Prison Project, an LGBTQ+-centered prison advocacy and abolition group, is looking for digital files of zines on specific topics. They will print paper copies to share. If you can help them out, please consider it! 📚

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Hakeem Jeffries is on TV trying out nicknames - like "captain chaos" if you can believe it. HE COULD GO ON TV AND SAY "NO KINGS" DASSIT. My God.

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The New York Times analyzed the electoral impact of annexing Canada instead of asking why the president is talking like a dictator. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analy...

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Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

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Folks outside the United States - if you want to help the Americans who didn’t vote for this nightmare, please petition your governments to place their most severe sanctions on Elon Musk and all his companies

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They should call it the gulf in america between the haves and the have nots

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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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One of our brilliant students wrote an analysis of how Universities laid the groundwork for Trump's repressive policies. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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100% to this. It’s been clear to anyone watching closely that there is a multi-pronged attack on U.S. universities & the playbooks we are using to address this attack are not up to the challenge of the moment. (That said, some have been better than others, and at least UW let my team fight.)

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Buckle up everyone this is going to be a LONG thread but if you are a current Fed you are going to want to bookmark it because it’s the roadmap for what’s coming. #SaveUSAID #SaveAmerica 1/

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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

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Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

Jesus Christ.

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A conservative group backed by a grant from the Heritage Foundation has set up a "DEI Watchlist" with dossiers on civil servants it claims pushed DEI policies at US agencies. The site shows information and photos of the workers it labels as "targets." Most of those named are minorities or women.

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Hospitals (and anyone else), this is why you shouldn't act preemptively and weakly like this. You just become his pawn.

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

submitted 31 days ago • 332 comments

This is a great resource!

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I’ve been making up elaborate backstories about him, recently. Pretty sure he did time in Sing Sing for brutally attacking his old owners after they were two hours late giving him dinner. Paroled for good behavior, he hitchhiked the US for the last 5 years to feed his ‘nip addiction.

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We adopted a couple cats recently. The gray guy’s name is still pending. He’s 12. The kitten is Peanut. He’s itty bitty.

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For five years, I have been covering what is unquestionably the biggest criminal justice scandal in American history. Today it ended when the most corrupt cop in history took his life. But it's not over. A thread.

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Thread: I know we know, but here’s why “conservatives’” argument about allowing their voices so You don’t live in an “echo chamber” is false and bad faith: Their aim is to normalize their views by pulling the rest of us into THEIR echo chamber. Here’s voices you WON’T hear in the National Review:

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A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned #onhere putting together a mini-series of workshops for people new to activism and organizing. Well I put in the work last week to pull it together. “How Do I Take Action Where I Am” is a series of 5 sessions in Dec and Jan.

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WATCH: “Why hire a motherf*cker who you ain’t gonna listen to?” After Rep. Burchett downplays @robertfkennedyjr’s potential impact on public health and says “we (congress) write the laws”, @roywoodjr.bsky.social & @michaelianblack.bsky.social ask a valid question.

submitted 96 days ago • 23 comments

It's fall, so everyone is flipping the bird and taking to blue skies for a better climate. We need a name for this movement for the history books. Xodus bows

submitted 98 days ago • 43 comments

It’s been a week. This guy gets it.

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“Fred Rogers famously told us, in times of emergency and despair, to “look for the helpers.” It’s really good advice, but I will note: it is advice for children.… If you’re an adult in the coming crisis, you are the helpers.” - John Oliver on last week tonight

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