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Over the hill but still having fun.

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How Big Tech’s Unchecked Power Could Swallow Us All

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

02.11.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's the ole loose cannon all right.

01.11.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A kindness that will always be remembered.. πŸŽƒ

Well done πŸŽƒ

#SheShed

01.11.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4174    πŸ” 1187    πŸ’¬ 166    πŸ“Œ 103

"Heritage has zero tolerance for this kind of poison..." Really???

01.11.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta watch out for those illegal citizens!

01.11.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dems β€˜Need the Votes’ of β€˜Illegal Citizens,’ Top Federal Election Official Claims in Unhinged Rant Read more here.

EXCLUSIVE: Christy McCormick, a top federal voting official, is facing calls to resign following an unhinged public rant in which she accused Democrats of promoting "open borders" and widespread voting by "illegal citizens" to gain votes.

31.10.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 406    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 11
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk A little-known algorithmic process called β€œdifferential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone.

Read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest on the census and "differential privacy," a little-known algorithmic process that keeps census data from being used to identify individual respondents.

Huge implications for our congressional districts and the electoral college: www.wired.com/story/republ...

28.10.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Column: BREAKING: House GOP's monstrously cruel and ineffective food stamp cuts are voted down BREAKING: House conservatives determined to get a vote on a hard-line immigration measure sank a Republican farm bill Friday.

My reminder from 2018 that de-funding food stamps has been a long-term GOP goal: www.latimes.com/business/hil...

27.10.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The GOP is using the shutdown to literally make people choose between starving and losing their healthcare. That’s how sadistic this is and what the age of fascism is going to look like unless we defeat it.

27.10.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2388    πŸ” 824    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 33
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Complaint – #1 in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Agriculture (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-13165) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against Russell Vought, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, United States Department of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Filing fee: $ 405, receipt number AMADC-113243...

THE LIST OF 25 STATES & DC SUING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR WITHHOLDING SNAP BENEFITS!

1) MA
2) CA
3) AZ
4) MN
5) CT
6) CO
7) DE
8) DC
9) HI
10) IL
11) KS
12) KY
13) ME
14) MD
15) MI
16) NV
17) NJ
18) NM
19) NY
20) NC
21) OR
22) PA
23) RI
24) VT
25) WA
26) WI
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

30.10.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 548    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 21

Let the campaigning begin.

30.10.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2538    πŸ” 703    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 30

The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.

29.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3869    πŸ” 1231    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 71

Imagine if a New York mob family took over the White House. … On second thought, never mind. No need to imagine it. It’s reality now.

30.10.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4313    πŸ” 907    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 33
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US debt set to soar above Italy and Greece after Trump’s β€˜big, beautiful bill’ While the European countries have brought their spending under control, the US president’s tax cuts and defence spending will lead to increased borrowing

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

28.10.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Venezuela is among the world's richest sources of coltan. It would be convenient to install a government that would grant us first dibs.

26.10.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is Trump, the self-proclaimed β€˜president of peace’, aiming to topple the Venezuelan regime? Marco Rubio has pushed for a tough approach to Venezuela, while the president reportedly only cares about the oil

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

25.10.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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June Lockhart, Beloved Television Mother, Dies at 100

A lovely lady, in every way. May she rest in peace.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/a...

25.10.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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California Forever’s latest plan to build the β€˜next great American city’: Expand existing towns By making the proposed city part of a town’s expansion project, California Forever can avoid voter approval inΒ Solano County.

There's nothing like owning your very own fiefdom. Andreessen, Horowitz and other broligarchs may soon be the overlords of "California Forever."

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

25.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Is Putting Election Deniers in Charge of Elections

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

25.10.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

25.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vance is *always*, predictably vile.

25.10.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨President Donald J. Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the Binance founder convicted after U.S. investigators found that his exchange enabled illicit funds tied to terrorists, ransomware groups, and child-exploitation networks.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-pard...

24.10.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Justice Department says it will send election monitors to California on Election Day The unusual announcement comes amid sky-high tensions between state leaders and federal officials and as voting is underway on Prop 50.

Justice Department says it will send election monitors to California on Election Day

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

24.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Cuts Cyberdefense Even as Threats Grow

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

22.10.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only this were the worst thing he's done!

22.10.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just goes to show we have a petulant two -year-old at the helm of our nation. God help us.

19.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Trump got his Nobel Peace Prize after all The Nobel given to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado was really a prize for Donald Trump.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

18.10.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Austin tried free bus rides. It resulted in exactly what Cuomo describes. I'm not a Cuomo fan, but does Mamdani ride city buses on a regular basis?

17.10.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.

16.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 720    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 90
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β€˜Shocked and disappointed’: Ron Conway blasts Marc Benioff over Trump support The move ends a decades-long friendship between two of the city’s best-known tech figures and highlights deep political divides in the industry.

β€˜Shocked and disappointed’: Ron Conway blasts Marc Benioff over Trump support

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

16.10.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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