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Rick Coelho (he/him)
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Father, activist, rural renewable energy siting advocate, radio DJ, hockey player, photographer, music lover, book lover, and lover of food. Flyers, Phillies, Badgers. Proudly Madison, WI. "It is darkest before the dawn." *Opinions are my own*
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At the same time as the Chicago raid, ICE made its first raid in Madison.

7 individuals were disappeared on the NE side.

They’re here in our city. What are we going to do about it?
Well, that was one hell of an inning.
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We are all Spartacus!

Boycott Billionaires
General Strike
Stay Home Protest
Neighborhood Networking
Blackout Block Parties

Stop or reduce as much as possible paying tax to the turd reich
Well, I am beginning the process of moving away from Apple and moving to Linux.

Fuck the tech monopolies.
This gave me the belly laugh I needed.
A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.
Motherfucker went to Hotchkiss?

Yeah, the working class thing is a fucking costume.
Yeah, standing room only for the NLCS in Milwaukee was 130.
I think the issue I am struggling with is “Now what?”

I see and agree what is happening.
But who’s our Luthen Rael, Mon Mothma, and Cassian Andor?
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Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get.

Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.
Narrator: Yes. And you’re currently not living in one.
Imagine if in another country the president’s masked army racially profiled in opposition areas as he enriches himself (even raiding the treasury), oligarchs renovated a massive ballroom for him, and his unofficial top advisor said he won’t leave.

Is this how democracies end?
Can she order him jailed for violation of the TRO?
If I used AI, I'd ask it to rig up a Renfield Johnson.
Let me get this right. During a shutdown of the federal government:

Releasing monthly inflation reports is a 👎.

Demolishing 1/3 of the White House is a 👍.

Someone let me off this merry-go-round.
Ahead of the Nov 1 end of SNAP benefits, research local food banks in your community and set up a regular donation of goods or money.

Here's a list of the Dane County Food Pantry Network. Pick one and start giving. We might not be able to collectively fill the gap, but we can lighten the pressure.
Dane County Food Pantry Network | Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin
The Dane County Food Pantry Network is a group of food pantries, meal sites and shelters who receive food and support from CAC.
www.cacscw.org
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A group of organized people could select 2 of these corporations and launch a BDS inspired campaign against them. Lift them up as examples and use this as a way to make the broader case to the public about Oligarchic rule...
Morning. ☕

ICYMI: A list of all the CEOs, real estate moguls, defense contractors, telecom companies, Big Tech companies, crypto guys and otherwise just really rich people financing the construction of Trump's ballroom as he demolishes the White House.
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having "civil unrest" National Guard trained for all 50 states by April 2026

🤝

monitoring polling sites in NJ and CA 2025 elections
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
If you don’t want the Nazi tattoo, sexist, racist, homophobic Reddit poster to win the race, this is currently the best alternative horse.
The difference couldn’t be more clear. I fight for Maine, Susan Collins bends the knee to Donald Trump.
I am going to put my real effort in disentangling from the tech monopolies to the best of my ability.

They have utterly failed us all and are the handmaidens to an authoritarian America.

No more of my money. No more of my attention. To the best of my ability.
I think there are a lot of little weaknesses where public goodwill or at least indifference would go a long way for these corporations
I don't think we're going to see a ton of boycotts of them (or significant boycotts, anyway) but the median position on "should the FTC just ream the fuck out of these guys" shifting towards the "yeah, fuck 'em" end of the spectrum is probably not gonna make them happy.
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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If consumer sentiment had fallen back to the 50s & inflation was rising again & at 3% & Kamala Harris were POTUS, dollars to donuts we'd be having a very different National Conversation™️ now about Suffering & the Terrible Economy. Yes, part of that is the sheer volume of daily fascism now, & yet 🤷‍♂️
Right now leaning Mint or Ubuntu, with which I have some past experience.