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Gardening, wandering, cats. US politics, tech ethics, equality, diversity, climate, science, human rights, social justice, accessibility.

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Two dozen kids in frog costumes and fairy wings and chicken suits. This is what Tr*mp is claiming = an insurrection at the ICE facility Portland. The regime are the worst kind of pathetic liars. Portland police, local and state govt all say: nothing is going on here. The only violence is from ICE.

10.10.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) Cause for concern

Stalinismus und Stephen Miller (Video)
Grund zur Sorge

Timothy Snyder

08.10.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve never seen anything remotely this petty charged as bank fraud.

09.10.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4509    πŸ” 979    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 22

the urban occupations are probably good for this sort of thing in a sort of Dr. Manhattan alien invasion sense

09.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't understand how conservatives have gone from the "state's rights and small government!" folks to the "let's give Tr*mp unprecedented amounts of power in our attempt to make him a king that can trample every state and crush every guardrail on the executive."

10.10.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what it looks like to be a spiritual leader in America in 2025. People of faith, step up to the plate.

10.10.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Koh: This is an AG who is taking orders via dm and is trying to save her job because Trump’s upset about what's happening with the Epstein files. That's what this is all about.

10.10.2025 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2813    πŸ” 709    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 12

Should the 9th circuit rule on the side of extreme executive power, should the Guard be mobilized: do not despair. Every action of the regime opens up an opportunity for us to create a backlash.

We must be solution-minded. Every move they make can be used to erode their power + build opposition.

10.10.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...

09.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 7
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20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

09.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12827    πŸ” 5211    πŸ’¬ 650    πŸ“Œ 346

The brutal and repulsive content being out by the fascist regime isn’t just propaganda, it’s creating ready-made and easily-shareable materials for intimidation and stochastic terrorism.

09.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

ICE Gestapo chuds expect our legitimate military service members to have their back as they brutalize clergy reciting Scripture, grannies laying flowers, and kids in chicken suits handing out cookies?

How do we think that's gonna play out for them?

09.10.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 166    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN OREGON: The Ninth Circuit held a hearing this morning on the government's motion to stay our first Temporary Restraining Order (TRO). We expect a ruling in the coming days and will share updates when we have them.

09.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

So has the Tylenol lawsuit just dropped?

Placentas are the superpower RFK can never have.

10.10.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other statesβ€”and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into anotherβ€”is extremely dangerous.

09.10.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 20049    πŸ” 5514    πŸ’¬ 367    πŸ“Œ 211

i cannot believe that he keeps bragging about passing a mini mental status exam

09.10.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1025    πŸ” 130    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 11

Just say no to trickle-down human rights.

09.10.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A new development: Now I see a "stay on web" link on Firefox mobile TikTok pages. Much more web friendly.

09.10.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten β€” just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

08.10.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 18359    πŸ” 4445    πŸ’¬ 455    πŸ“Œ 160

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

08.10.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 828    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 5
The now-defunct app was called "the shitty people follower tracker"

The now-defunct app was called "the shitty people follower tracker"

aka "the shitty people follower tracker" app which can help you analyze your social graph for people who fraternize with the enemy.

Typically such apps are intended to help you find people who follow you that you haven't followed back and to help you discover hot new accounts your peeps follow.

09.10.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

08.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8801    πŸ” 1056    πŸ’¬ 377    πŸ“Œ 219
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The president must follow the Constitution. If he wants to push the boundaries, we’ll hold the line in court.

This is America. The U.S. military has no place in our streets.

Portland is peaceful. There is no reason to deploy National Guard here.

08.10.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1004    πŸ” 346    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 10

"Sunlight as a Service" must be stopped. It's a stupid and destructive idea.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjy...

09.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reflect Orbital (RO) https://www.reflectorbital.com/ wants customers to pay them to reflect beams of sunlight down from
orbit. This is called β€œsunlight as a service.”

Their initial plan is for each beam to be several times as bright as the full moon and at least 5 km in diameter on the ground. […]

09.10.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

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Absolutely made up.

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LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just granted an administrative stay preserving the status quo: the Oregon National Guard remains federalized but the president cannot deploy them.

We'll share more updates as we have them.

08.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

every other day there's a headline like "area man who ate the livers of seventeen middle schoolers: 'i was just following diet advice from chatgpt'" and then on alternating days someone on here posts "I think you should respect that this Sora video of a goth girl is my wife"

08.10.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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