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LauraDiane

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Hospice home health aide I love cats. I’m very upset that the orange one is now president and I’m working hard to get a handle on my inattentive ADHD symptoms.

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The ICE Prisons and Camps Are About To Get A Lot Worse A head-spinning appellate decision just greenlit detentions without end, supercharging an already horrific human rights crisis.

In a win for Trump's mass deportation program, a devastating court ruling now allows for indefinite immigration detention without bond hearings. With ICE looking to scale up its detention facility capacity, people are fighting back.

10.02.2026 21:03 — 👍 811    🔁 270    💬 46    📌 16
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Trump signs bill with harsher penalties for dealers of fentanyl variants The legislation does not extend to addiction treatment, which the Trump administration has cut in its broader quest to curb federal spending.

President Trump signed into law bipartisan legislation permanently classifying fentanyl-like substances among the most dangerous drugs — an effort to increase punishments for drug traffickers and curb the opioid epidemic.

16.07.2025 23:54 — 👍 49    🔁 13    💬 29    📌 6

Attention: Musk’s staffers are now seeking access to a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants. DOGE was never about saving the U.S. money—it’s about building a government-run machine to weaponize personal data.

17.04.2025 00:49 — 👍 7044    🔁 1960    💬 162    📌 91
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AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now.

We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done.

We will rally every corner of the U.S.

We will not stop until they actually vote no.

16.04.2025 21:35 — 👍 18846    🔁 3610    💬 404    📌 209

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. This number can connect you to both the House of Representatives and the Senate offices.

15.04.2025 15:44 — 👍 267    🔁 82    💬 6    📌 0

Talk of disappearing anyone into gulags in El Salvador is an affront to our Constitution. We need a few Republicans members to find the spine to join House Democrats in impeachment proceedings against the Fascist-in-Chief.

15.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 3885    🔁 611    💬 157    📌 20
Tweet from user '@quadcarl_carl' reads, "Imagine being afraid of diversity but not a dictatorship."

Tweet from user '@quadcarl_carl' reads, "Imagine being afraid of diversity but not a dictatorship."

Here is where MAGA has gotten us to.

15.04.2025 17:30 — 👍 4830    🔁 812    💬 69    📌 21
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MAGA Can't Handle the Real Donald Trump How His Base Created Their Own Mar-a-Lago Messiah

MAGA Land: where Trump is Hercules and facts don't matter.

15.04.2025 19:04 — 👍 40    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1
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Want to MAGA? Go back to executing traitors!!!

15.04.2025 20:07 — 👍 148    🔁 64    💬 6    📌 4

DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance.

Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

15.04.2025 20:08 — 👍 9074    🔁 2666    💬 215    📌 109
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AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror

15.04.2025 21:51 — 👍 19054    🔁 3868    💬 303    📌 205
A tweet by Max Burns (@themaxburns
) reads: "From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.' Welp."

A tweet by Max Burns (@themaxburns ) reads: "From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.' Welp."

Never forget.

15.04.2025 22:30 — 👍 4645    🔁 1303    💬 52    📌 31

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

15.04.2025 21:30 — 👍 64289    🔁 17731    💬 1737    📌 944

Not enough people are upset enough honestly. Seems like a lot of people are just going with this insanity.

14.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

14.04.2025 17:31 — 👍 36229    🔁 11233    💬 561    📌 317
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Bernie Sanders, AOC and the ‘Fight Oligarchy’ tour cheered by 20K in deep red Utah • Utah News Dispatch Bernie Sanders and AOC brought their "Fight Oligarchy" tour to deep red Utah, where they were cheered on by 20,000 frustrated Democrats.

Utah!!

"The arena has a roughly 15,000-seat capacity, according to the university. An estimated 1,000 more packed the arena floor, and about 4,000 crowded outside the arena..."

utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/04/13/b...

14.04.2025 19:03 — 👍 10663    🔁 1858    💬 340    📌 72
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April 13, 2025 This evening, lawyers for the Department of Justice told a federal court that the administration does not believe it has a legal obligation to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States,...

April 13, 2025

14.04.2025 05:47 — 👍 2241    🔁 614    💬 75    📌 142

Our coalition is committed to mobilizing America and showing the world that this administration does not speak for our nation. We’re proud to serve you. And always remember — it’s you who are making the difference.

08.04.2025 03:10 — 👍 3405    🔁 207    💬 38    📌 2

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?"

This is our moment. This is our time.

We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

08.04.2025 00:26 — 👍 32831    🔁 7825    💬 2688    📌 639
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Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.

Can I get some code on a router that makes it so Amazon only get stuff that starts with a person speaking “Alexa”?
Anyone have any ideas where to find that?

Might be a great add-on product that someone can make money from.

www.wired.com/story/everyt...

20.03.2025 17:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Restored?

20.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported Researchers say Aardvark Weather uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current systems

This sounds to me like a really good use of AI.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

20.03.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why am I not surprised?

20.03.2025 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love this. I was literally saying to myself”I yams what I yams” this morning and thinking hats about time to watch the Popeye movie again. And then this pops up in my feed very cool.

20.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We need libraries and we need them to keep growing

20.03.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is not OK

20.03.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It has taken me a while to figure out that I want to focus on Social Security Medicare Medicaid in my protests.
But I’m gonna call about Do Not shut down the department of education

20.03.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s nonstop news-making can be exhausting, making it harder for people to scrutinize his presidential actions Overwhelming people with a deluge of announcements makes it difficult to easily track and understand what is happening in the White House.

“How do you push back against a tidal wave?” wrote political communication expert Dannagal Young. Overloading people with news is a propaganda tactic used by authoritarians like Putin to distort reality. A communication professor explains: buff.ly/qyQ9nfd Jennifer Mercieca @tamu.bsky.social #media

20.03.2025 16:14 — 👍 30    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 2