AbiGezunt
@abigezunt.bsky.social
Avid reader, PhD Cognitive Development, programmer since days of punch cards (so, old), network engineer, grew up on farm, middle school tutor, gardener, owned by 3 cats, fun fam, & 1 kid. Raised by moral, ethical people. But what do i know?
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The FDA has not been protecting consumer, not only tRump's FDA.
WHY NOT? IT'S THEIR JOB!
Congress does nothing unless we demand their response!
www.congress.gov/contact-us
www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
WHY NOT? IT'S THEIR JOB!
Congress does nothing unless we demand their response!
www.congress.gov/contact-us
www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds
Lawmakers requested the report after a 2023 ProPublica and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation revealed that the FDA had received hundreds of complaints over many years about defective breathing mac...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The FDA has not been protecting consumer, not only tRump's FDA.
WHY NOT? IT'S THEIR JOB!
Congress does nothing unless we demand their response!
www.congress.gov/contact-us
www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
WHY NOT? IT'S THEIR JOB!
Congress does nothing unless we demand their response!
www.congress.gov/contact-us
www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
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A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing.
Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”
Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A new investigation revealed that school districts and local governments are reportedly overpaying for supplies because of Amazon contracts that bind them to dynamic pricing.
Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”
Rather than allow for competitive bidding, the deals “covertly raise prices and inflate costs for governments.”
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An executive order is not Oz the Great and Powerful. It is the frantic gesticulations of an old man behind a curtain. The media ought to act like it.
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly…
Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you'd think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across major outlets are breathlessly reporting that Donald Trump "blocked states from passing AI laws" with an executive order. Except, that's not how any of this works, and anyone who stayed awake during middle school social studies should know better.
www.techdirt.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
An executive order is not Oz the Great and Powerful. It is the frantic gesticulations of an old man behind a curtain. The media ought to act like it.
Data government has about people in US are being used to apprehend air travellers. Today, they are looking for 'illegal immigrants' tho they've deported legal immigrants too.
Tomorrow, with data tRump & DOGE sucked up? It could be any of us.
Gift article NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Tomorrow, with data tRump & DOGE sucked up? It could be any of us.
Gift article NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Data government has about people in US are being used to apprehend air travellers. Today, they are looking for 'illegal immigrants' tho they've deported legal immigrants too.
Tomorrow, with data tRump & DOGE sucked up? It could be any of us.
Gift article NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Tomorrow, with data tRump & DOGE sucked up? It could be any of us.
Gift article NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
And tRump's 'American Anschluss' begins.
You may have thought it would be Canada or Iceland. Instead, Venezuela.
Which country does tRump go to war with next?
You may have thought it would be Canada or Iceland. Instead, Venezuela.
Which country does tRump go to war with next?
Coming land strikes may be against specific people, and just in Venezuela, Trump says. "It's land strikes on horrible people that are bringing in drugs and killing our people...So it doesn't necessarily have to be in Venezuela--it's people that are bringing in drugs to our country, are targets."
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
And tRump's 'American Anschluss' begins.
You may have thought it would be Canada or Iceland. Instead, Venezuela.
Which country does tRump go to war with next?
You may have thought it would be Canada or Iceland. Instead, Venezuela.
Which country does tRump go to war with next?
tRump considering executive order to ease federal marijuana restrictions. I'm cynical. tRump must be getting a payoff.
15 years of research concludes evidence of benefits often weak. Still, cannabis significantly less deadly than alcohol.
Gift article NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...
15 years of research concludes evidence of benefits often weak. Still, cannabis significantly less deadly than alcohol.
Gift article NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...
Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
tRump considering executive order to ease federal marijuana restrictions. I'm cynical. tRump must be getting a payoff.
15 years of research concludes evidence of benefits often weak. Still, cannabis significantly less deadly than alcohol.
Gift article NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...
15 years of research concludes evidence of benefits often weak. Still, cannabis significantly less deadly than alcohol.
Gift article NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...
These ICE detention facilities are no different than the WWII internment camps of Japanese American citizens. Not White Germans or Italians. Those who looked different. That's happening again.
Contact Congress and demand ICE be stopped. www.congress.gov/contact-us
Contact Congress and demand ICE be stopped. www.congress.gov/contact-us
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
These ICE detention facilities are no different than the WWII internment camps of Japanese American citizens. Not White Germans or Italians. Those who looked different. That's happening again.
Contact Congress and demand ICE be stopped. www.congress.gov/contact-us
Contact Congress and demand ICE be stopped. www.congress.gov/contact-us
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So treason isn't a crime if trump does it?
December 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
So treason isn't a crime if trump does it?
How long before all these items are required to vote, purchase a home, even leave the country?
Under fascist, authoritarian rule, all are possible.
Under fascist, authoritarian rule, all are possible.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
How long before all these items are required to vote, purchase a home, even leave the country?
Under fascist, authoritarian rule, all are possible.
Under fascist, authoritarian rule, all are possible.
A 48-year-old Guatemalan man detained at Camp East Montana detention facility at Fort Bliss has died from what ICE are calling “suspected natural causes.”
In such horrible conditions in ICE detention, no access to medical care, far more will die. And NOT naturally.
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
In such horrible conditions in ICE detention, no access to medical care, far more will die. And NOT naturally.
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
www.aclu.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A 48-year-old Guatemalan man detained at Camp East Montana detention facility at Fort Bliss has died from what ICE are calling “suspected natural causes.”
In such horrible conditions in ICE detention, no access to medical care, far more will die. And NOT naturally.
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
In such horrible conditions in ICE detention, no access to medical care, far more will die. And NOT naturally.
www.aclu.org/news/immigra...
Presidents get nicknames:
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
December 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Presidents get nicknames:
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
What happens when there isn't enough power for both homes, usual businesses & AI?
Rolling power outages for everyone?
Higher costs for consumers? (already happening)
Power outages only for those who didn't contribute something to tRump or Mafia boss du jour?
Rolling power outages for everyone?
Higher costs for consumers? (already happening)
Power outages only for those who didn't contribute something to tRump or Mafia boss du jour?
Fox Host Stuns Co-Hosts By Urging Them to Buy a Fake Christmas Tree to Support Data Centers
Fox Host Stuns Co-Hosts By Urging Them to Buy a Fake Christmas Tree to Support Data Centers
Dagen McDowell horrified her co-hosts on Friday when she urged them to free up land to power AI data centers by purchasing fake Christmas trees.
The post Fox Host Stuns Co-Hosts By Urging Them to Buy a Fake Christmas Tree to Support Data Centers first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What happens when there isn't enough power for both homes, usual businesses & AI?
Rolling power outages for everyone?
Higher costs for consumers? (already happening)
Power outages only for those who didn't contribute something to tRump or Mafia boss du jour?
Rolling power outages for everyone?
Higher costs for consumers? (already happening)
Power outages only for those who didn't contribute something to tRump or Mafia boss du jour?
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I keep saying it: Courts. (Well, and federalism, and other things.)
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I keep saying it: Courts. (Well, and federalism, and other things.)
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Really not a a happy Friday for 🟠
newrepublic.com/post/204360/...
newrepublic.com/post/204360/...
Trump Hit With Massive Lawsuit Over His Tacky Ballroom
Donald Trump is being sued for destroying the White House to build his gaudy ballroom.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Really not a a happy Friday for 🟠
newrepublic.com/post/204360/...
newrepublic.com/post/204360/...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Presidents get nicknames:
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
House Oversight Committee released a batch of 95,000 photos from the Epstein Files—
"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump — Not one decent cell in his body" - Jeffrey Epstein
"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump — Not one decent cell in his body" - Jeffrey Epstein
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Presidents get nicknames:
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
Lincoln: Honest Abe
Jefferson: The Sage, Great Emancipator
Washington: Father of Country
Reagan: Great Communicator, Gipper
Bush: Dubya
The Latest? tRump: Prez Dementia or President Perv
How low we have fallen.
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Social media is reshaping how we see politics, each other and even reality itself.
Let’s look at the research and gain some insight into how our democracy and communities could do better (thread) ⬇️
#polisky #socialmedia #misinformation
Let’s look at the research and gain some insight into how our democracy and communities could do better (thread) ⬇️
#polisky #socialmedia #misinformation
December 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Social media is reshaping how we see politics, each other and even reality itself.
Let’s look at the research and gain some insight into how our democracy and communities could do better (thread) ⬇️
#polisky #socialmedia #misinformation
Let’s look at the research and gain some insight into how our democracy and communities could do better (thread) ⬇️
#polisky #socialmedia #misinformation
Thou Shalt Not Paywall US Citizenship
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt...
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt...
Thou Shalt Not Paywall US Citizenship
Your human rights are now for sale.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Thou Shalt Not Paywall US Citizenship
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt...
www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt...
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When the rationale changes, it was made up
The Caribbean Killings Were Unnecessary. Trump Just Proved It.
If we can seize an oil tanker, why did eighty people have to die?
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
When the rationale changes, it was made up
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For the umpteenth time since at least Watergate, there are going to be no actual legal, personal, or professional consequences for the lawless authoritarianism from the GOP. It’s the signal feature of 🇺🇸 politics & why all the awful & illegal things keep happening again & again & again.
Aside from how he's wrong right now on the history, process, strategy, and merits, this is Jeffries heavily signaling that even when they're in the majority, he'll oppose any impeachment that doesn't first get slow-walked in needless committee dithering for as long as he can delay it there.
Significant statement from Jeffries and House Democratic leaders saying they will vote “present” on the motion to table Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump. They say they’re “laser-focused on fighting to lower the high cost of living” plus on health care and corruption.
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
For the umpteenth time since at least Watergate, there are going to be no actual legal, personal, or professional consequences for the lawless authoritarianism from the GOP. It’s the signal feature of 🇺🇸 politics & why all the awful & illegal things keep happening again & again & again.
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I’m very confused. I obviously think this is awful, but how is this different than the 100 other times they’ve done the same exact thing — threaten states with pulling funding if they don’t run their state how Trump wishes it were run?
December 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I’m very confused. I obviously think this is awful, but how is this different than the 100 other times they’ve done the same exact thing — threaten states with pulling funding if they don’t run their state how Trump wishes it were run?
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so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
so, this right here? this is one of the absolutely most lawless, brazenly unconstitutional impeachable offenses ever committed by any president other than trump in the history of our country.
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*
like, this is an open and shut case. and it's a case which targeted *republicans.*