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@drelwell.bsky.social

Inputs: words & music, pictures too. Outputs: not so much. When I'm working: editorial & publications. When I'm not: aimless.

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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

09.12.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 12041    πŸ” 5955    πŸ’¬ 732    πŸ“Œ 346

Trump's War on Drugs

09.12.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Report Downgrades US Civic Rating to β€œObstructed,” Citing Trump’s Second Term Actions Trump has β€œtriggered a wave of measures undermining democratic institutions and civic freedoms,” the group said.

The U.S. was previously rated as a β€œnarrowed” society, in terms of civic freedoms. In its new report, Civicus now rates the U.S. as an β€œobstructed” society due to Trump's policies such as the deployment of National Guard troops and ICE to quell protests in cities across the country.

09.12.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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New Orleans Resists ICE Invasion Despite Surveillance and State Repression Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.

Despite a new state law making it a crime punishable by a year of hard labor in prison to interfere with immigration enforcement, and mass surveillance of social media and Reddit by state and federal cops, New Orleanians are determined to protect immigrants from ICE sweeps -- and it's working.

09.12.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jesus christ

09.12.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3477    πŸ” 1008    πŸ’¬ 213    πŸ“Œ 283

hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people.

I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people.

Let me explain:

09.12.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

Noteworthy

09.12.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You may be done with climate change, but climate change isn't done with you

09.12.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope. www.wired.com/story/openai...

09.12.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 126    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8
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Don’t deprofessionalize our jobs! Respect those who teach and heal our students and our communities. On Nov. 6, the Department of Education proposed a new framework of professional degree programsβ€”one that strips advanced degrees for nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, audiologists, ar...

Taking away professional degree designation from healthcare workers, educators & public employees, could make college more expensive & worker shortages worse. Tell Congress to stop the disrespect of our workers! actionnetwork.org/letters/dont... @AFT.org

09.12.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Reporters Without Borders has released its annual report on violence against journalists, this year ominously titled, "2025, a deadly year for journalists: this is where hate and impunity lead." rsf.org/en/2025-dead...

09.12.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Everybody duck!

09.12.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump take disparate impact liability

09.12.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve been notified of two more deaths in ICE custody in the last 24 hours β€” meaning that 25 people have now died in detention since Trump returned to office.

That’s the most in more than two decades. The cruelty and inhumanity of this administration must end.

09.12.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 11

In the Trump administration's own words, from yesterday's oral argument: the president β€œmust have the power to control” administrative agencies, and β€œthe one who has the power to remove is the person that they have to fear and obey” πŸ₯΄

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

09.12.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

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Trump's National Security Strategy shocked many in pushing to overturn our alliances and cozy up to Russia. Reports now say it was largely written by Michael Anton, one of the first to push election-fraud claims in 2020: "Game on for the Coup", he wrote. Today's players are still the Jan 6 crew. 1/

09.12.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9

One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
β€œIt took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”

09.12.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 938    πŸ” 392    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 19
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ICE is now setting up racial profiling checkpoints to stop people on major US highways. These checkpoints are being seen near Washington, DC on the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy, on the DC/Maryland border.
(12|8/25)

09.12.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 751    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 83

Everything has escalated toward (more) horror in the past couple of weeks. This spreads Hegseth's white supremacist/crusader cross tattoo into their propaganda (and it's weird how the administration is now fully among the overly online with its AI slop and hate fantasies and juvenile jokes). I

09.12.2025 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 241    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1
The FACTS about January 6, 2021…
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS The FACTS about January 6, 2021…

The FACTS about January 6

(Bookmark, as needed)

youtube.com/shorts/7AEbO...

08.12.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 391    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4
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Thank you to the four incredible witnesses who participated in our fifth shadow hearing to raise alarm about the horrific conditions that detainees are experiencing under Trump. Please listen to their stories:

08.12.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 131    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 8

Remember that ice tested the tactics they would eventually unleash and Los Angeles and across the country here first and it appears they are doing the same with what appears to be a warrantless raid of a home in order to black bag it’s residence who are citizens
fascist terrorism is accelerating.

08.12.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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Trump administration abruptly cancels citizenship ceremonies for some immigrants Several immigrants ready to take their citizenship oaths at Boston’s Faneuil Hall this week were told they could not proceed because of their countries of origin.

Several immigrants ready to take their citizenship oaths at Boston’s Faneuil Hall this week were told they could not proceed because of their countries of origin.

The same situation is playing out across the country.

08.12.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
A large group of young Republicans and Texas GOP leaders at the Texas Governors Mansion.

A large group of young Republicans and Texas GOP leaders at the Texas Governors Mansion.

Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.

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This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.

AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.

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β€œAnother word for this place is a big bathroom. It’s open. Everything is open. There’s no privacy.”

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A judge has twice ordered Kordia’s release. Both times, the government appealed, accusing her of supporting Hamas. Kordia has denied that in court.

She told her cousin:
β€œI came to America looking for freedom and freedom of speech - freedom of everything. You know what I mean? To be held here in this place for saying - free Palestine, ceasefire now - that was, kind of a shock to me 'cause that's not the America that I heard of.”

πŸŽ₯ NPR shared the audio from a recent call between Kordia and her cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, who speaks to her nearly every day.

β€œAnother word for this place is a big bathroom. It’s open. Everything is open. There’s no privacy.” β€” A judge has twice ordered Kordia’s release. Both times, the government appealed, accusing her of supporting Hamas. Kordia has denied that in court. She told her cousin: β€œI came to America looking for freedom and freedom of speech - freedom of everything. You know what I mean? To be held here in this place for saying - free Palestine, ceasefire now - that was, kind of a shock to me 'cause that's not the America that I heard of.” πŸŽ₯ NPR shared the audio from a recent call between Kordia and her cousin, Hamzah Abushaban, who speaks to her nearly every day.

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πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ The last Columbia University protester still in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia, describes conditions inside the Texas facility where she has been held for the past 9 months.

KORDIA: β€œRight now, we’re 87 people and the capacity is 37. A lot of people are sleeping on the floor.”

β€œAnother word for...

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If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control:

Paramount Studios
CBS
CNN
MTV
HBO
Comedy Central
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Warner Bros.
DC Studios
Fandango
New Line Cinema
TNT Sports
TBS
Oracle

And more.

08.12.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1337    πŸ” 755    πŸ’¬ 123    πŸ“Œ 166

not sure you can talk coherently about maintaining the rule of law without promising serious court reform

08.12.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1259    πŸ” 290    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

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