With his pardon powers and his authority over the AG an American president already has the power to abuse the federal justice system, says New York Times columnist David French. But now Trump has changed the stakes. www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
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With his pardon powers and his authority over the AG an American president already has the power to abuse the federal justice system, says New York Times columnist David French. But now Trump has changed the stakes. www.alternet.org/donald-trump...
yโall know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right? yโall know why they did it yโall know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else yโall see whatโs right in front of you, right?
If this is how your thoughts think โฆ I highly recommend Discworld โฆ the Tiffany Aching books specifically:
i want to see sam altman set on fire in a public space
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Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official โcopied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.โ The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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i named a cat after Jack White and right now i couldnโt be more proud
"who gave the orders to flip on the unprofitable plagiarism machine that also lights the planet on fire"
And then after surviving all of it he had the fortitude to consciously write his story in as journalistic a mode as possible because he wanted to maximize the number of people who would read and believe the reality of it. Damn.
My law firm is currently litigating 50 voting and election cases in 22 states. Here are the states with the most cases: GA, AZ, FL, NC, LA, MT, NV, WI. The fight for free and fair elections is the fight for democracy. Please, pay attention.
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Keep refusing to let people minimize whatโs happening. Keep refusing to look away.
The official voice of the U.S. government draws from 4chan trolls, explicitly white nationalist phrases and talking points, and radicalizing, dehumanizing, desensitizing language for its targets. I talked to propaganda experts about what itโs doing to us: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
WIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.
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are you cis and youโre reading this and nodding gently but thinking, โstill, we have to pick our battlesโ and youโre not gonna read a whole article, read this. trans people: i use the one with the highlights because we all recognize it and you already know to just look away.
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Cats with foreign languages
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โWhat mood are you in?โ was always a helpful follow up too. Some of my favorite customers would come in and give me some version of โGo wild!โ as a response. Utterly fascinating conversations when they came back from having read something I offered them on those days.
A thousand times yes to this! ๐ Child of two librarians and myself a long time bookstore worker, I always answered โI need a recommendationโ with two qโs: What have you read that you really loved? Are you looking for something similar or do you want to go in a new direction?
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Couple people in this thread I need to catch up on so thanks for the recs, you two!
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One of my favorite Brooklyn facts is the BPL Central Branch in Grand Army was designed to look like an open book from the air.
a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf
Such a great breakdown! My experience reflects these same four groups and the same difficulties reaching them.
Pay attention. Hereโs โthe Godfather of Artificial Intelligence,โ Geoffrey Hinton, accepting the 2024 Nobel Prize. Hinton co-developed the 1980s backpropagation algorithm, which laid the foundation for A.I. Hinton left Google in 2023, so he could speak freely about the risks A.I. poses to humanity:
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Pavillin de Thรฉ, 2012 by Lisbon based artist Joana Vasconcelos #womensart
Two minutes well spent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT1v...
One thing I like about the Marvel universe and black characters is the pan-Africanness of it all. And I don't think Ziglar and Ayodele get credit for leaning into it when given the opportunity.
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Couldnโt possibly count the number of times Iโve seen Apollo 13. Magnificent film and masterclass in crisis management and leadership. โWeโre not gonna go bouncing off the walls for 10 minutes cause weโre just gonna end up back here with the same problems. Trying to figure out how to stay alive.โ
Picked up some of my favorite listens on the street in NY for a dollar. Sade: Diamond Life and Harry Belafonte: Belafonte at Carnegie Hall among them.
Terror squads running through the streets without thought or consequence
Walked all the way back to the beginning of this thread and it was amazing.
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"You don't need to be healed to begin. You just need to be honest." Waiting for perfection is how we avoid our own power. You're allowed to show up tender, unsure, halfway through your own transformation. Start with what's real. That's where the soul work begins.โ Happy Thursday gorgeous souls! ๐ค
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Sadly this is an entirely made up quote. The original article is still available. Though in the years since then he has reportedly said things in private that convey similar sentiments and worse about his loyal voters. Itโs not a stretch to predict that he does indeed think this way.
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Itโs worth noting that this is a long term pattern for them. This bizarre and hyperbolic fantasy life is the way they engage everything from religion to their concepts of 2nd amendment rights. Theyโve been in a cult for a long time; now itโs just formalized with a universal, dangerous figurehead.
All of them need George. No not Jesus; they hate people who are brown. No they need George Carlin. His 3rd commandment specifically: โThou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.โ
new video shows the ICE agent who claimed he was randomly "assaulted" by this 4'11" US citizen on her way to work is shown literally picking her up and carrying her away.
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These people need George. No not Jesus, they hate people who are brown. No they need George Carlin. His 3rd commandment specifically: โThou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.โ
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Try and come for my marriage, you goons. Just try.
You can hear about from CBS nearly two weeks later. Sometimes. Maybe. Or you could just listen to @dailybeanspod.com and get a clear picture daily.
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Elders remind their elected official: โYouโre here to listen.โ
There is no bottom.
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IGDA is NOT happy with MasterCard and Visa. This new press release even calls on readers to call both companies igda.org/news-archive...
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Sigh.. why are the mothers always blamed instead of the system who causes the harm?
He is! Years now of doing crazy-long sets that change nightly and just posting them for everybody to enjoy! Who needs a tight 5 or 10? ๐
โThe makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it.โ โMore of this from the entire industry please.
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When a disabled person asks for help, please understand weโve likely exhausted all options before asking. Weโve tried everything before coming to you. Believe us and offer the help requested (if you can) Donโt force us to spin our wheels answering a bunch of โwhy donโt you just doโฆโ questions
I always take the time to stop and watch bees going about their day.
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Use your voice. Use your presence. Use your silence. Use whatever tools you have to help stop the atrocities.
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People need to understand that fascism is an ultimately unworkable system That it is very much still stoppable at this stage That every shocking new initiative is a test balloon that we must meet with anger and that this administration is a collection of incompetents and is particularly weak
Josh Johnson giving us gold and guidance as always
Josh Johnson giving us gold and guidance as always
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Sincerely why I have always tried to fight to get anyone to acknowledge how difficult this is for anyone with a chronic illness or disability to do. Homecooked meals take time, effort, expensive equipment to cut corners. It is exhausting to do for my household, but government care packages disagree.
โItโs not about immigration status really..." vtdigger.org/2025/07/23/w...
The Trump admin has formally unveiled a program to illegally use money Congress passed for sheltering migrants released from immigration custody to instead detain them in state-run prison camps. They are calling this โ no joke โ "shelter in a detention environment." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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โHe always looks like he just saw the Epstein filesโ
Statement on the latest executive order www.ndrn.org/resource/nat...
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. Shining examples: the renewable engineering marvels reshaping skylines - Positive News There is #hope, because we have the solutions ๐ ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ to take #ClimateAction. More: www.positive.news/society/s... .
Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying itโs because CBP agents are just โarresting first and asking questions later.โ
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In the meantime Iโll be glad for every single day of his his โno holds barredโ era and look forward to whatever he does next
There are not enough expletives in the world for this.