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Cybrarian Janet

@janetastevenson.bsky.social

Jazz vocalist, retired IT professional, former journalist, law & medical librarian. Internet user since 1992. Happily married to my best friend.

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Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

17.08.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10931    πŸ” 6063    πŸ’¬ 2399    πŸ“Œ 1066
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Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

19.07.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10750    πŸ” 3949    πŸ’¬ 284    πŸ“Œ 290

Dick-o-centric he means

06.06.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tis only a matter of time before she displeases the King and is summarily dumped, just like many other past suckups. Trying to imagine how radioactive she will become. Can’t happen soon enough.

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CBO says Trump’s BBB would screw the poor to help the rich. In 2027, the bottom 10 percent would lose the equivalent of 2 percent of their income largely because of the reduced benefits, while the tax cuts would provide the top 10 percent with a 4 percent increase to their income

22.05.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe vital question Biden’s party faces is not about the former president. What must the Democrats know about themselves, and when will they know it?”

20.05.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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They apparently are only triggered by seashells

17.05.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Is Bezos next?

17.05.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uncivil service How would you feel about the VA treating your cancer with a horse drug?

Uncivil service
open.substack.com/pub/daveswan...

14.05.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anonymous hacked the airline GlobalX at the center of President Donald Trump's campaign of deportations to an offshore detention center in El Salvador, a Reuters viewing of the airlines website showed on Monday. Manifests and flight logs have begun leaking.

Good work, what took you so long?

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One can only hope.

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The current US population is about 347,275,807. Last November, 77,302,580 voters created an authoritarian nightmare for immigrants and made our country look like a bunch of Nazis. Don’t believe the mandate lie.

17.04.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Vibe Shifts Against the Right People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Irving Kristol famously said that neoconservatives were liberals who’d been β€œmugged by reality.” Maybe soon we’ll need a similar word for the right wingers who can’t stand to live in the world they helped build.- Michelle Goldberg

15.04.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maureen Dowd on Trump’s math skills.

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China slaps 84% retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in response to Trump China said tariffs on U.S. goods will rise to 84% from 34% starting on April 10.

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/c...

Trump baby, β€œYou’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now.”

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Ouch I still say gift is not a verb.

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Teenaged DOGE State Department adviser did tech support for a cybercrime ring: report New reporting from Reuters laid out how DOGE's teenaged senior adviser in the State Department "once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalki...

New reporting from Reuters laid out how DOGE's teenaged senior adviser in the State Department "once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent. www.rawstory.com/teenaged-dog...

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David French is a former JAG officer (army lawyer). Here is what he wrote today in the NYT about the Hegseth debacle in the article β€œThe Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Group Chat Debacle. And why the careless secretary of defense should resign.”

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David French is a former JAG officer (army lawyer). Here is what he wrote today in the NYT about the Hegseth debacle in the article β€œThe Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Group Chat Debacle. And why the careless secretary of defense should resign.”

26.03.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which it definitely is. Any record of these discussions cannot simply be deleted as Signal does. Trump got in trouble his first term for tearing up records and putting in trash can. He can hardly pretend he doesn’t know

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There was absolutely NO reason for Columbia University to cave to the Trump administration. Zero, zip, nada. They have enough money to easily replace a cut of $400 million. This in today’s NYT from the article
β€œ$15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President”
by Charlie Eaton, an economic sociologist

25.03.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There was absolutely NO reason for Columbia University to cave to the Trump administration. Zero, zip, nada. They have enough money to easily replace a cut of $400 million. This in today’s NYT from the article
β€œ$15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President”
by Charlie Eaton, an economic sociologist

25.03.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There was absolutely NO reason for Columbia University to cave to the Trump administration. Zero, zip, nada. They have enough money to easily replace a cut of $400 million. This in today’s NYT from the article
β€œ$15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President”
by Charlie Eaton, an economic sociologist

25.03.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There was absolutely NO reason for Columbia University to cave to the Trump administration. Zero, zip, nada. They have enough money to easily replace a cut of $400 million. This in today’s NYT from the article
β€œ$15 Billion Is Enough to Fight a President”
by Charlie Eaton, an economic sociologist

25.03.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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