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TikTok goes dark for US users, company pins hope on Trump Users on the app were saying their goodbyes, some filming themselves frantically scrolling or sharing final secrets with their followers ahead of the possible ban.

TikTok stopped working in the US and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that takes effect requiring the shutdown of the platform used by 170 million Americans reut.rs/4anRqUt

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

If you're exploring leaving Meta behind, how about cutting off the revenue they generate from you and your online behavior? Here's a great guide on how to turn off the revenue spigot, from @eff.org

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How Zuckerberg Sucked Up to Stephen Miller Before Changing Meta Rules Mark Zuckerberg reportedly met with the senior Trump adviser just before publicly announcing all the changes to Meta.

Zuckerberg met with Trump adviser Stephen Miller in late November and was told that he could help America, but on Trump’s terms. Miller said that Trump was taking on diversity, equity, and inclusion principles, as well as cracking down on immigration.

We Are on Our Own From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.

Each time I have sat down to write something since the election, I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I simply cannot get out of my head.

So,I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own.
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A polar vortex is set to grip much of the U.S. What does that mean? Bundle up and prepare: People living "basically anywhere from the Rockies eastward" will see extremely cold temperatures over the next several days, a meteorologist says.

Bundle up and prepare: People living "basically anywhere from the Rockies eastward" will see extremely cold temperatures over the next several days, a meteorologist says.

Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Lil Baby and more will play FireAid benefit concert in L.A. The Jan. 30 event will stream live and raise money for those impacted by the wildfires.

The Jan. 30 event will stream live and raise money for those impacted by the wildfires.

I will definitely NOT be watching. I'm already nauseated enough.

You're going to want to have these fine folks in the trenches with you for the next 4 years while we fight to retain our Democracy. Smash the follow all button these are some serious warriors. go.bsky.app/LxuV7mJ

Vivek Ramaswamy will announce run for Ohio governor 'shortly' Ohio entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will announce a bid for Ohio governor "shortly," a source close to Ramaswamy confirmed.

BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy is going to run for governor of Ohio. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/p...

Judge sentences Jan 6 defendant Kellye Sorelle, a former OathKeepers attorney, to one year in prison

This is the final day of court proceedings until after Inauguration

I'm new to Bsky and looking for my friends and like minded people!

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

TRUMP: “They should be the 51st state. Really…the people of Canada like it.”

Fact check: FALSE!

All Canadian leaders, from right to left, oppose this idea. According to a recent poll, 82% of Canadians are against joining the U.S.

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What we have to look forward to.
And this is only the beginning. When the working person’s economy collapses, the world economy will suffer and wars will increase. The climate will increasingly become unstable and ferocious storms will increase and get worse.

This will happen. This is not a maybe.

Do you think Nancy Mace and her MAGA Republican enablers in Congress realize the bathrooms they are all using on their flights back to Washington DC this week are unisex?

🤬😡

It's absolutely ridiculous.

I have a farm in the country in Ohio. I may be surrounded by Trump lovers but some of us have sense.

We're building the pro-democracy online army. I cant do it all myself so it falls to all of you. First steps:

• add a profile pic

• have a bio

• REPOST THIS (super important)

• hit like, and reply with #NoDemUnder1k

• follow each other using Reposts

• follow those who follow you

I guess its the year coming up for criminals in the white house.

Im new here. How do I see others comments?

Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.

and so it begins...

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It gets worse by the hour.

The Violence and Democracy Impact Tracker (VDIT)—which we we built alongside the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins—reveals that 51% of experts assess the impact of political violence on elections as indicating significant erosion.

BREAKING: John Bolton, who served in every Republican WH administration since Reagan, says today is not a good day and calls Trump picking Matt Gaetz as Attorney General the "worst cabinet pick in American history."

Whoa.

A Fox News host is going to run the Pentagon and be in charge of the most powerful military on the planet. It’s Day 8.