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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 1h

In a nutshell, an actual Nazi group was doxxing left-leaning accounts and got banned for ~a day or less before Musk personally readmitted them

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 1h

What happened that we are suddenly welcoming Twitter-flee-ers again?

Is there a new batch? An inciting event?

I've been working all day....

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 1h

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

Wishing you a beautiful evening and a great start to tomorrow!

#WhiteWednesday

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

Formosan Firethorn flowers

Camera: iPhone SE (1st Edition).

May 2023. From a neighborhood walk.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 33m

Prison Journalist John J. Lennon on Exploitative Entertainment and Life in Sing Sing. Story via Lithub.

Against True Crime Sensationalism

In November 2016, when I arrived at Sing Sing, the prison was much less intense than Attica. Batons stayed on hips. COs, who were mostly Black and Hispanic, and about half of whom were women, talke…

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 31m

the constitutional crises are so nonstop these days that one could become numb to them

but there are some I feel, and continue to feel every day.

the illegal shutdown of USAID is one of them

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 39m

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 3h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 1h

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Potionseller @potionseller.bsky.social · 21m

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 1d

The Supreme Court denies Alex Jones' appeal, leaving Infowars open to being taken over by The Onion as he pays for his endless lies and defamation.

Finally, some good fucking news.

www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 1h

A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 12h

My review of ANNE OF MANHATTAN is on IG/SG. Anne Shirley is a grad student in NYC. She & Diana run into Gilbert Blythe in a bar. He’s back to finish school & they work on a project together. Matthew & Marilla own a Long Island vineyard. Anne & Gil forever! It’s a sweet retelling with some spice. 🌶️📚💙

The Kindle cover of ANNE OF MANHATTAN by Brina Starler is green with the outline of a woman looking to the left. She has bright red hair. An outline of a man is below her and he has dark hair. The NYC skyline is zigzagged across the green background.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not commenting on scotus today because I have to focus on one dumpster fire at a time so as not to have a heart attack in my 30s. I will just say, today is a great day to learn more about Reconstruction. I'll keep recommending Black Reconstruction as one of my favorite books on the period.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 3h

Capitol Police are literally protecting the same scumbag assholes who refuse to pay them but are still fighting to give money to January 6 terrorists. That’s another level of evil.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

The Voting Rights Act has done more than perhaps any other statute to build a multiracial democracy

which is precisely why the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have spent decades casting the law as constitutionally unsound

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

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404 Media @404media.co · 11h

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 6h

Taken to the extreme, and taken alongside impoundments, Trump’s ADA violations renders Congress completely irrelevant for spending.

The president is claiming the ability to not spend even if Congress makes him spend, and also the ability to spend even if Congress doesn’t let him spend.

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Moosebumpz @lorenzo49.bsky.social · 5h

The trump administration is playing a new monopoly game with rules made up as they go. Right now they are paying Community Chest assessments with Chance cards.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

I think there are five levels of potential badness here. Once you've decided to violate the ADA, you're only bound by self-imposed limitations. But depending on what the White House is self-imposing, this can range from "BAD" to "The Republic has fallen, pack it in."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

So just how bad is this? I got a text from an appropriator friend saying "The Republic has fallen. Pack it in."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

And the craziest part is this was needless. Congress would've passed a military pay bill with near unanimous support! Congressional Ds have been begging Rs to bring a bill to pay the military to the floor! But Johnson refuses to gavel in because he doesn't want an Epstein vote.

Johnson wearing a jacket that's photoshopped to say "this has nothing to do with epstein"

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

That is profoundly illegal. You may not spend money on a purpose without funding. The constitution expressly forbids it, as does the ADA.

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