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Champion of the Ren hug. SoCal transplant, enamored with Colorado skylines. Occasional athlete, full time nerd.

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Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer Trump’s mass pardon of election deniers

Trump’s sham Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin, announced a mass pardon of at least 77 people involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020 election results. This is another unprecedented and extremely dangerous use of the pardon power. Please watch and share. youtube.com/shorts/cHkqw...

10.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 732    πŸ” 279    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 20
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"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%...

"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

10.11.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4122    πŸ” 1478    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 69
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

10.11.2025 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4733    πŸ” 2347    πŸ’¬ 630    πŸ“Œ 351
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Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.

This is not a deal β€” it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

10.11.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12174    πŸ” 3398    πŸ’¬ 555    πŸ“Œ 290

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

09.11.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 26714    πŸ” 7507    πŸ’¬ 844    πŸ“Œ 530

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

07.11.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5746    πŸ” 1926    πŸ’¬ 156    πŸ“Œ 67

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

07.11.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4554    πŸ” 1325    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 20

Trump is appealing the judicial order to pay full SNAP benefits by tomorrow.

He’s spending tax payer dollars going back to court to try and avoid giving folks money they are legally owed.

He’s starving 42 million people because to him they are leverage.

It’s enraging.

07.11.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1770    πŸ” 504    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 13

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

05.11.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 47080    πŸ” 8190    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 220

Dear Canada,
We are deeply ashamed of our hateful, incoherent, graceless president and his spineless enablers. You don’t deserve this and we apologize.

02.11.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 592    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 7

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about β€œyour money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

31.10.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 10101    πŸ” 3925    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 112
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No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

Food stamps are used overwhelming by people near the poverty line to feed young and old. When they end tomorrow, it will be devastating for millions of the most vulnerable in society.

So obviously far-right influencers are using this to push racist disinformation

www.wired.com/story/disinf...

31.10.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 195    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts Read more here.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

30.10.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4031    πŸ” 1426    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 50

this is beyond ridiculous. it is concerning. it is scary.

30.10.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

30.10.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7235    πŸ” 2765    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 187
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden.

The Trump administration is rolling them back

By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

30.10.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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[Exclusive] The White House Responds To Its Use of Halo Imagery: 'Yet Another War Ended Under President Trump's Watch' | Alyssa Mercante - Video Games, Internet Culture & More Get more from Alyssa Mercante - Video Games, Internet Culture & More on Patreon

I reached out to The White House and asked about its use of AI-generated Halo imagery. White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai just responded to me, and it's insane.

I've removed the paywall. Please share and subscribe if you can.

www.patreon.com/posts/exclus...

28.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1405    πŸ” 560    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 133

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

26.12.2024 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 26950    πŸ” 35182    πŸ’¬ 254    πŸ“Œ 392
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EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.

If only everyone could have predicted this

www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...

24.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6542    πŸ” 2396    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 326

I am a business executive. I stand here and and say okay everyone make more money now regardless of what is actually possible in reality, and then they pay me 100 million dollars a year.

23.10.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

22.10.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4921    πŸ” 1807    πŸ’¬ 183    πŸ“Œ 67
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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Charged With Threatening Hakeem Jeffries

"An upstate New York man pardoned by Trump after taking part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, was charged last week with a new crime: threatening to assassinate Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, at an event in New York City..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

21.10.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1992    πŸ” 750    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 58

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

21.10.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4189    πŸ” 1160    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 16
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Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

13.10.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4433    πŸ” 2528    πŸ’¬ 216    πŸ“Œ 230
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ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

08.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5338    πŸ” 2133    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 258

I still can't get over the surreal experience of watching Trump effectively telling all our generals he is going to order them to kill American citizens in my city in a speech that he also stopped midway through to spend 5 minutes explaining how he is so smart for walks down stairs slowly.

01.10.2025 01:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1778    πŸ” 420    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 12
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Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

tired: the government has shut down

WIRED: the government shut down and federal workers are being told to blame democrats for it

01.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sen. Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cashβ€”$50,000β€”and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president...you can get away with anything."

21.09.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3088    πŸ” 1002    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 44
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a β€œdeep state” probe in early 2025.

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents β€” who were posing as business executives β€” win government contracts in a second Trump administration..."

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

20.09.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3438    πŸ” 1314    πŸ’¬ 266    πŸ“Œ 109

Still blown away that they pulled off bringing it to the screen. Such a phenomenal ensemble cast.

19.09.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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