DavinaSass

Recent actions across government show an alarming pattern of silencing dissenting voices. We must speak out.

That’s why I’m launching a 1st Amendment Tour to Challenge Government Censorship and Control.

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For the first few months of Trump’s second term, I was outraged by his abuse of power. But then I got bored by it all and decided to go back to writing about woke culture Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.

Show me the lie.

I’ve driven between Alice & the border many times. Most people don’t realize there are ICE checkpoints on ALL highways approx. 100 miles out. They stop EVERY vehicle, ask about citizenship, eyeball you/your car. I don’t know what the policy was for school buses before, but checkpoints are not new.

I’ve loved watching our Texas girl @oliviajulianna.bsky.social come up and school us on how to use social media for good. I’m proud to be a part of her army!

For those banned on Reddit:

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT HEADLINE

And I guess that’s where we are. Waiting. Watching. Hoping people will wake the fuck up before it’s too late and we are too far gone. Reading another Substack informing us, yes, but also repeating the theme to the same sliver of us who were already paying attention. To what end? I wish I knew.
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before enough Trump voters and non-voters felt the repercussions on THEIR lives to generate change—not to recognize and recant their selfishness, but to put their selfishness to use to change the outcomes for themselves at least.
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Yes, make phone calls. Yes, join protests. But it feels so small, so inconsequential when our leaders are mute. On November 6, I said we would have to watch everything burn before enough (white) people gave a damn,
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Because we’ve swallowed the “rugged American individualism” trope, I fear we will never coalesce, too busy pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps to come together, to sacrifice a few sacred cows for the good of the country, the collective. We are disparate and disconnected and despairing.
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But I hate how fractured this information is, how it feels like we are grasping around in the void. I think about Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton’s pamphlets, stoking revolution. We have a million pamphleteers now, constant demands on our attention, and no social compact.
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad people have the equivalent of the soapbox in Hyde Park to express these things, particularly because our mainstream press is woefully unable/unwilling to rise to the occasion.
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I’m so demoralized this morning. Every day, more of our democracy falls into the sea like glaciers melting, and every day there’s a new Substack about how terrible it is.
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Gonna try to repost a thread here since Zuck is clearly throttling over on 🪡. But I have to chop posts down to fit the character limits here… 😩

Where are you, @schumer.senate.gov ???

They’ve never been particularly smart.

Wow 😳

This vampire is YOUNGER than me.

🧑‍🌾 “post after post in the ag community social media channels of massive issues impacting U.S. farmers and the U.S. ag economy from Trump's DOGE efforts, tariff wars and the USAID shutdown…”
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According to an NNSA employee, roughly 300 of the agency's 1,800 staff are expected to be fired after the agency was denied a national security exemption. The small organization is responsible for maintaining and upgrading America's arsenal of nuclear weapons, combatting nuclear terrorism, and preventing proliferation around the world.

Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

I’m starting to regret voting for Elon Musk.

What a clown show.

Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

And he looks like a milquetoast Max Headroom.

You mean I could have just declared my student loans invalid? I WAS DUPED!

Every company that has a black person holding a job that a white person wants is going to be dragged through a wasteful legal gauntlet because racists can't believe that a black person could ever be the most qualified applicant for a job.