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DOGE has apparently created a cloud database of gov’t data & personal info about almost every American … used AI to mine it … and, evidently, exposed it to grave security vulnerabilities in the process. This isn’t dystopian fiction. This is happening in the United States.
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
God forbid Americans see democracies (Brazil, S. Korea…) holding presidents accountable for illegal activities. They might get ideas.
The last time the U.S. had a War Department was WWII But I'm sure that means nothing /s
Trump's Presidencies have so far involved numerous Saturday Night Massacres, dozens of Watergates, and a never ending parade of Tea Pot Dome scandals. I worry that we're about to enter the "dozens of Kent State's" portion of the story.
Everything in this event has been sycophantic nonsense and officials lying repeatedly about what's happening in DC, but this part is actually newsworthy. Trump is saying he intends to send the National Guard to other cities after LA and DC. Not hypothetically.
If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984
The Authoritarian Playbook has 10 steps. We’ve checked off 7: win “legitimate” power, pack courts, control info, purge civil service, weaponize law enforcement, target vulnerable groups, militarize the capital. We are here. The last 3? Total control. #DemocracyUnderThreat
This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.
Read this. Read every word. This is who CDCers, who NIHers are, who Feds are. “Public servants are not the enemy. Attacks on them are attacks on America. Say it plainly. Say it loudly. Say it now.” - Jessica Rogers-Brown, CDC employee, public servant, hero www.decaturish.com/public_safet...
The agreement would end a monthslong battle that has tested the boundaries of the government’s authority over America’s universities. https://to.pbs.org/470R6M1
A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
They’re rewriting history.
brrrlhhhhggggggh
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
I feel this should be a bigger story, right?
Babe wake up. New corporate boycotts just dropped.
Ah, yes. More of that efficiency and cost saving we were promised 🙄 Crazy suggestion: don't fire people without truly understanding what they do and why it matters. Speaking as someone in tornado country, the NWS saves lives. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/08/...
"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country. cnn.it/4fohb9Y
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Torres: "Republicans are beginning to realize there is nobody in DC that has closer & longer ties to Epstein than Trump ... the most damning fact: Trump made Acosta, who gave a sweetheart plea deal to Epstein & to all co-conspirators, his sec of labor, which has jurisdiction over human trafficking"
Totally not a cult.
more businesses need signage like this brownsville flea market
this would be active duty US troops deployed indefinitely on US streets? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
the more you learn about ai and the business behind it and truly how horribly ai mega datacenters are for the environment and are destroying the communities they’re in it makes you want to return to living in a cave
Text CALL to 43367 to get the info you need to call your Representative’s office.
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
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Trump announces attack on Iran. No congressional approval. At the hands of the self-proclaimed "anti-war" president.
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline included a service that provided specialized suicide prevention support by phone and text for LGBTQ+ kids. That's ending.
The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
There are widespread reports of ICE agents abducting people while masked, without warrants or identification. Due to recent events, we strongly advise: do not open your door or car for anyone you don’t know. That’s the message. No need to elaborate.
Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025
I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON UNITED STATES BY ILLEGALLY DEPLOYING UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Politicans should be required to prove they understand a piece of legislation before they're allowed to vote on it. When the lives of millions are in your hands, ignorance is not an option.
I used to think I was pretty uneducated in the intricacies and complexities of politics. Now I feel like a genius every time a member of this administration opens their mouth. And that's terrifying.
Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.
After standing side by side with Harvard and other edu institutions against this admin's schoolyard bullying, MIT folded. www.cbsnews.com/news/mit-clo...
The plane the royal family has been unsuccessfully trying to pawn off for years and definitely isn't covered in bugs and definitely isn't a bribe?
Gather around kids!! Tell these fuckers that you want “Updated Sub-Lineage Covid Vaccines” or “Updated Covid Vaccines” or That it’s patriotic to vaxx & be heathy. We have till Friday at 11:59 to make comments on the shit they dropped today. This is on purpose. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
And then everyone clapped 🙄
FWIW, Walgreens doesn't ask for details when you click the box that says you have a preexisting condition for vaccines
They've gutted the NWS offices who try to keep us safe and informed. Everyone in active weather areas needs to take much more caution now.
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
Trump, who cut the National Weather Service, has been silent about the 23 people who were recently killed in storms and tornadoes in Kentucky. Instead, he’s been posting multiple Middle East trip propaganda videos featuring himself.
Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.
The White House's latest flip flop 🤦♀️ Does Dumpty even remember that he eliminated federal recognition of AANHPI Heritage Month on day 1?
So...... The Hunger Games as a shitty reality game show? As an actual real life thing?!? Those books aren't a how-to manual. They're a warning, and the alarm is blaring 🚨
Not even catholic, but I am 100% rooting for Leo. I sincerely hope he is able to be a force of positive change in the world. We desperately need it.
Why do so many Americans not have empathy for anyone? Do they think this makes them look cool? It makes them look weak.
Amen to this! 💙
Here is a list I recently sent to premium members of what each of us can do to stand up for democracy and defend our elections. Democracy Docket is dropping the paywall and publishing it because we must all feel the power we have to stand up to Trump and protect our democracy.
On June 5, 1989, an unidentified man made history by stepping in front of a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. No one knows who he was, what motivated him to put his life on the line, or what happened to him afterward. #AltCitizen 1/
Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.
The difference between one of the happiest societies, Norway and America is that in Norway they spend $300 million helping the homeless dude on the sidewalk, while in America they spend $300 million rebuilding Alcatraz. Do you get it yet?
www.nokings.org
Good morning! It’s a perfect day to realize that the politics you’re used to are gone and never coming back so you can either think about what you want the future to look like and try to build toward that or keep trying to wishcast the country back to 1998 and be part of the problem.
As a graphic designer, I try to default to constructive criticism instead of design shaming but... Can the world's richest military not afford 1 actual designer?
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.
Wily Economy Coyote
There's only one person who's allowed to enter someone's home without a warrant, and that is Santa.
Every accusation was/is an admission. Dump & friends project their problems with all the subtlety of a giant flashing neon sign directly in front of your face in pitch black darkness.
please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers
Devastating news for the art, history, and black communities. The latest efforts to rewrite / whitewash our history. It will not stop here unless we stop it. www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...
So incoherent it makes me feel like I'm the one who definitely didn't have a series of mini-strokes
This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
They’re both very evil and very stupid
Folks, is it illegal to have friends, carpool, or use public transport 🤔 Stupid and dystopian at the same time
I think that instead of giving birth American women should focus on strength and resistance training.
The Internet Archive is the latest victim of irrational funding cuts. In this case, however, you have the power to help preserve the preservation of human kind's vast knowledge & cultures.
Sound on 😽🤍 #cat #purr
Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?
1. *have no economic value TO THEM 2. Economic value is not the only kind of value Love how authors' & artists' works are worthless yet also the backbone of generative AI futurism.com/meta-copyrig...
Unusually considerate of the WH to compile a boycott list for us 🤣
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
He wasn't hired to run the HHS effectively. He was hired to destroy it and/or weaponize it against anyone Dumpty says. As we know, the qualifications for that job are much lower.
I need to stop checking the news when I'm in a good mood. Gotta save that for when the mood is already ruined.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” ⚖️ April 16, 1963. Birmingham Jail.
The government is supposed to be there to serve you, to support you, to help make your life easier. You shouldn't need to earn it, we all pay into it so it can help support people's needs. It shouldn't be profitable or business-like, because it's not a business, it's a service you are co-owner of.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18
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Authoritarianism
Trump is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against him. The Constitutional Crisis is no longer some abstract idea, it's right here staring us in the face.
Trump said again he’s open to sending U.S. citizens to a Salvadoran prison. There is no constitutional basis for this—such an act would be a direct violation of the Constitution.
The most revolting Oval Office presser since Feb. 28 (the Zelensky one). Even just hitting a few of the lowlights of this will leave you sickened and dismayed. BUT it's also clarifying. Anyone who has been talking about "the road to authoritarianism" can stop that now. The road is behind us.
