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#FuckYouMakeMe • tax the rich • abolish (pol)ice • runforsomething.net RIP USA: July 4, 1776—July 3, 2025 REJECT fascism REBUILD democracy https://yt.vu/CxqgE gen x beach purveyor 💕🇲🇽 🐧 unix/linux geek i block back 😘

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · May 23

In 2014, Ursula Le Guin said: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · Mar 5

TechDirt:

But what’s happening now is even more extreme and more terrifying. Something that even experts in democratic collapse didn’t see coming. Normally when democracies fall apart, there’s also a playbook. A series of predictable steps involving the military, or the courts, or sometimes both.

But Do We Still Need Gov't Intervention To Open Mobile Networks?

A month and a half ago, Walt Mossberg wrote up an article saying that government intervention was needed to get US mobile phone operators to open up their networks. I took issue with that notion, n…

www.techdirt.com

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 2h

winner!

sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 2h

they should give it to him. the library will be underwater in a decade anyway

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 14h

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 2h

very nice, for abled people

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 2h

Breaking: Starting next year, Californians with diabetes will be able to purchase state-branded insulin at steeply reduced prices, Gov. Newsom announced today. Long-acting insulin pens will be available at pharmacies for $11 per pen beginning Jan. 1. https://cal.news/3W7SDZW

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a partnership with Civica Rx to provide insulin to Californians for $30 for 10 milliliters, which he said was as little as one-tenth of the current cost. Photo by Ringo Chiu, Sipa USA via Reuters

Hed: Newsom unveils $11 state insulin for Californians: ‘We took matters into our own hands’

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Linnea Hartspooker @linneaharts.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a trilogy of novels published by HarperCollins about a brother and sister caught on opposite sides of the war to unite Viking Age Norway.

Today is my birthday and if you are inclined to share this, it would be a lovely present!

The first: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-half-d...

The Half-Drowned King|Paperback

"Linnea Hartsuyker brings myth and legend roaring to life in this superbly good page-turning saga of Viking-era Norway. The book’s fiercest magic shines in the characters of Ragnvald and Svanhil...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 4h

it’s not even that. it is hopelessly compromised from a security pov

raze it, turn it into a museum, whatever

build a new white house

sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 4h

it’s possible. still good that it is called off

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 9h

Donald Trump and JD Vance can find money to launch missiles over the I-5 during a government shutdown, but not a dime for Americans’ health care.

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

www.latimes.com

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770yd.bsky.social @770yd.bsky.social · 9h

It’s not just the I-5. All businesses and housing would have to be evacuated.

The Navy HAS NEVER done a live fire onto Camp Pendleton because it’s unsafe. There is literally no Navy SOP to do this, no NOTAM or TFR issued, & no evac order given.

San Clemente Island is where the Navy test fires.

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 4h

fortunately for san diego the fuckers have cancelled that

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 4h

drive out on the 15 instead but this is ridiculous

sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 4h

california needs to acquire pendleton and either use it for nat guard or a massive state park preserve

get the feds the fuck out of there

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h

ABOLISH ICE and EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT should be mainstream Democratic promises and talking points.

But timidity and civility will rule the day and screw the rest of us and this country in the end.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 10h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Andrew Dyer @andrewdyer.bsky.social · 14h

I'll admit a lot of media-centered stories are a bit tedious but this one's important.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

apnews.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

Here's how differently-abled and disabled folks can join No Kings 2: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS for Differently-Abled and Disabled Friends · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 21h

The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.

That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 22h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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sandiego_cindy 👣🐾 @digitalramble.bsky.social · 1d

for-profit medical care kills people

Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Provision of public goods cannot be privatized by profit seeking entities without loss of function. Not for profit is OK, for profit is not.

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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