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A second lamp in the belfry burns! Old North Church, April 18, 2025 #TwoLanterns #PaulReveresRide250

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Wow, this is the first time we've heard this number. Previous reporting suggested it was $6 million. So now it's $15 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars to imprison people in El Salvador without trial.

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US Senator Van Hollen has been able to successfully meet with Kilmer Abrego Garcia.

submitted 3 days ago • 140 comments

This is an extraordinary interview by Heather Cox Richardson of Senator Angus King, and is well worth listening to the entire interview. Very solid suggestions on what people can do to influence Congress and the Republican Party, which is abdicating congressional powers to a psychopathic, narcissist

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

Book 📖 review of “Science vs. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators” by me for @ncse.bsky.social: “Narrative webs’ use in analysis is obvious, but it’s not so clear how to use them to create effective stories.” ncse.ngo/review-scien... 1/2

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I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts. Tune in here:

submitted 4 days ago • 1013 comments

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

submitted 5 days ago • 1502 comments

🚨Today! Just days after a Louisiana judge approved the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, thousands have gathered at ICE HQ in NYC for an emergency Passover Seder, & protest declaring: IF YOU COME FOR ONE, YOU FACE US ALL! #3E #Endimpunity

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

It’s time to clear your calendars for a National Day of Action on April 19! Polish up those pots and pans & bring out instruments. All hands on deck! If you don’t see a protest happening in your area make one. Share far and wide. Let’s do this. #indivisible #fiftyfiftyone #moveon #3E #USProtests

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 6 days ago • 914 comments

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

submitted 8 days ago • 224 comments

Computer scientists first learned to appreciate randomness by using Pierre de Fermat’s “little theorem:” For any two integers 𝑁 and 𝑥, if 𝑁 is a prime number, then 𝑥ᴺ − 𝑥 is always a multiple of 𝑁, regardless of the value of 𝑥.

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Take a burner phone, or keep your phone turned off, when traveling through the U.S. border, recommends attorney Amir Makled. Makled, who represents pro-Palestine student protesters, had his phone seized by federal agents while traveling.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

submitted 10 days ago • 231 comments

Get involved locally and change your part of the world for the better.

submitted 11 days ago • 358 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 11 days ago • 1523 comments

ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

submitted 12 days ago • 1105 comments

As a reminder that protests don’t end where they start: when news of the Stamp Act first arrived in America in May 1765, most printers reacted by advertising on the premise of “buy now before prices go up.” Took until August/September for even the people most affected to actively turn against it.

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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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Call to Action: Nationwide protests for April 19th. Events information will be announced between now and then. #3E #FiftyFiftyOne #Handsoff

submitted 14 days ago • 115 comments

Creating and sharing deceptive media made with artificial intelligence is now a crime in New Jersey.

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

#3E

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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

submitted 17 days ago • 1191 comments

Mediazona—fearless, independent media, banned by the Kremlin for telling the truth. Founded by my comrade @nadyariot Pussy Riot. They’re on the brink—cutting staff, slashing pay, fighting to survive. Support truth: en.zona.media/article/2025...

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Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

submitted 20 days ago • 138 comments

France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling European Union funds. She has been sentenced to 4 years in prison and banned from running for public office again. During her previous campaign she was friendly to the Kremlin but recently began to sour on them publicly.

submitted 20 days ago • 188 comments

X down globally

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President Trump's Executive Order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to History" finds fault with scientific evidence that #race is a social construct rather than a biological fact. This overlooked line in Trump's Smithsonian executive order is truly alarming www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc

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Elon Musk has updated his post with new language apparently after being informed that his previous tweet was evidence that he was committing a state felony. Screenshots live forever.

submitted 23 days ago • 461 comments

Trump defeated again and has caved to Canada as the Prime Minster confirms the old relationship with the US is over. 24 hours later Trump groveled to Canada via a tweet where he stopped calling it the 51st state or referring to the PM as the governor. #cdnpoli www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 23 days ago • 216 comments

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

submitted 23 days ago • 692 comments

I can't stress enough how important this is. A lot of people are contacting SSA right now because of what they're hearing in the news. That's a huge waste of time. SSA employees don't know any more than you do. Call your reps instead. Let them know you'll blame them if SSA dies. (202) 224-3121

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Whiskey Pete Hegseth has a Russian burner phone which he uses to communicate in secret with someone. 👊🇺🇸🔥

submitted 24 days ago • 454 comments

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg orders a 4pm hearing in the Signalgate lawsuit by American Oversight

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Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E

submitted 25 days ago • 65 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 2092 comments

#3E

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