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Mastercard Sponsors Trump’s Freedom 250 USA Birthday, Despite Backlash Risk - Financial services giant Mastercard is listed among 10 corporate sponsors of Trump's Freedom 250, a Christian nationalist-themed hijack of America's birthday. A group of U.S. senators has launched an ...

Trump issued a proclamation in Jan, announcing May 17 event in DC to "rededicate ourselves as one Nation under God." Freedom 250 is sponsored by 12 corporations. Sen Adam Schiff has launched an investigation into the White House's Freedom 250 fundraising tactics.

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🧵 The Trump regime is set to bring its Christian nationalist extremism tour to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 17th. For America's birthday, Trump's Freedom 250 'Rededication' event proclaims that the U.S. is 'One Nation under God.'

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...

“Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report has found that they come from a tiny minority of users…
just 100 users were responsible for almost 70% of online conspiracy posts…”

Via @nationalobserver.com #UrbanTruth

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Here’s when Texas voters can expect to see 2026 primary election results Republicans’ decision to count ballots by hand in two Texas counties could delay unofficial primary election results.

It's Election Day in Texas and some counties could be slower to report results.

Those include Gillespie and Eastland where results are likely to take longer because Republicans are counting their ballots by hand.

Here's what to expect:
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Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? Is oil behind the U.S. attack on Iran? To understand the Trump administration’s military targets, take a closer look at the petrostate pattern.

On Iran, see the larger context.

Five of the seven countries that the Trump admin has militarily attacked since Jan. 2025 are significant oil producers, even though petrostates are rare.

It's not a coincidence. I explain why @goodauth.bsky.social

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Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators Users in Europe of Meta's AI smart glasses may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive financial information with moderators outside of the bloc.

“If a wearer wants to make use of that AI, though, they must agree to Meta's terms of service that allow any data captured to be reviewed by humans.”

A turning point pac sign for the SRP race. It’s promoting Chris Dobson, Barry Paceley, Rusty Kennedy and Kelly Cooper Someone has tagged “FUCK TRUMP” in black paint over the entire sign

TPUSA is putting their weight behind nine SRP officials who have mostly been with SRP for *decades* one of these guys is literally an SRP nepo baby going back to its beginning. So these guys go unnoticed for the most part and it’d be so funny if the TPUSA endorsement is what ends their reigns.

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.

Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

The Great Replacement of Conservative Ideology The Great Replacement unites the factions of conservatism like "fusionism" never could.

“Fusionism strove to articulate a more respectable account. Libertarianism was fusionism’s counter to the New Deal, social conservatism its counter to evolving social change, and anti-Communism its umbrella faith—one that even New Deal liberals had to agree to, to varying degrees.”

There are key differences between the 1971 protest and the growing resistance to AI today. Back then, advanced computational development was directed explicitly toward military purposes. When this research had to pass through university infrastructures, the violence of its purpose was easy to see. And this, in turn, made the potential targets of resistance clear; indeed, it was relatively easy to organize protests in front of large mainframe computers, located in very specific facilities and locations. Now, however, computation is distributed. And this makes the targets to resist so diffuse that the shape of direct action becomes difficult even to conceptualize.

In my and @cnygren.bsky.social's piece, we said the following prior to proposing alternative modes of protest to the data expropriation industry's cooptation of education:
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When Bender shared our piece a couple of months ago, she issued an important quibble w respect to my & @cnygren.bsky.social's specific argument regarding resistance to the AI industry's takeover of education. A story broken by student journalists at GW reveals that quibble to have been prescient. 1/

GW sold Virginia campus for $427 million to Amazon for data center development The deal transfers all of GW’s roughly 122 acres of property in Loudoun County, Virginia, to ADS for $427,299,350 — roughly $3.5 million an acre — according to real estate records.

Well, now we see how even universities themselves are literally selling themselves to firms like Amazon for the construction of data centers. Here's that story again.

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Corporate media has turned its back on these values and in fact has turned them on their head. They promote the interests of billionaires and ruthlessly target the nation’s most vulnerable.

For that reason, many in the public distrust big media today, and I can’t disagree w them.

Hartford Courant A1 Oct 11, 1998 Hundreds of the nation’s most vulnerable have been killed by the system intended to care for them Deadly Restraint A five part series

Hartford Courant A1 Sept 28, 2000 House Passes Restraint Law President Expected to Sign Bill Requiring Federal Review of Deaths

Defending the most vulnerable and giving voice to those who cannot speak up for themselves was once a bedrock journalistic principle.

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

TED makes multi-million-dollar investment to boost safe abortion in 10 countries This is the first time TED’s Audacious Project has invested in an organization specifically focused on abortion access and care.

The global reproductive rights organization Ipas will be receiving "multi millions" from TED's Audacious Project. This is the first time the project has funded an organization that works specifically in abortion access and care since the initiative was developed in 2018.

This is a Christian fascist org in WA. They have been targeting abortion clinics. I previously made a thread about them. They are the same org that was using an app to get people to sign “con” on the millionaires tax.

Email your representatives: No War with Iran! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Iran. Can you join me? https://go.dsausa.org/iranwarpowers

I write or call my Dem Rep and Dem Senators multiple times a week. I even call the GOP morons

What is more important is those of you with GOP Reps call and email them as often as possible.

They do not know your party affiliation . Or who you voted for.

No more dead American Soldiers 🇺🇸

Last year I wrote a detailed explainer on why this position cannot be filled by an obvious political partisan (much less one both unqualified and statutorily ineligible).

Earlier partisan Archivists have significantly damaged NARA, federal recordkeeping, and, most importantly, agency staff. 🧵

progressive trends in education, the Association for the Study of Free Institutions.

Wilson fails the statutory requirements that "The Archivist shall be appointed without regard to political affiliations and solely on the basis of the professional qualifications required to perform the duties 🧵

According to public information, Wilson has no experience in the federal government or leading any large organizations, nor any relevant executive-administrative experience.

But he does have a long record in ultra-conservative academia, including as president of an organization to "counter" 🧵

BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States.

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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran.
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N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE IS HEALTH CARE.

Thank you to the NY Attorney General’s Office for affirming our community.

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THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March

This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight.

But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.