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Dora B.
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They/them. GenX Mestizo GQ spoonie. Probably in need of a nap, definitely in need of a good story. C'mon over and we'll swap tales... Owner of https://detroitusedbooks.com
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Every House Dem needs to join us in demanding @schumer.senate.gov be removed from leadership by Senate Dems. If they don't call for his removal, we know where they stand on tonight's disastrous vote.
This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.

We need new leaders in the Senate.
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
Me too!

I'm so sick of those two
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
Heads up.

This is a running theme through GDT's work (see: any of his films where children are central characters) but I still appreciate the note. Since the monster presents as an adult I might not have expected this going in so it's much appreciated.

signed, Still Destroyed by Pan's Labyrinth
I really loved GDT’s Frankenstein, but I will warn people it makes the subtext of childabuse and parental neglect text.

Victor is both verbally and physically abusive similar to how many kids, especially disabled ones, are abused.

Be careful and pass this on to anyway who might be impacted.
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
ok it's working again

what was that
...seriously, is no one else seeing this? Or can those of us who are seeing outages unable to stay connected long enough to complain about them?
Internet keeps crapping out, phones aren't working, helicopters overhead and sirens in the streets for the past hour. I should go out to see what's happening, but I don't wanna.

This'll teach me to watch apocalyptic dramas late at night*

*no it won't
*waves from Detroit*

Is anyone else having intermittent internet outages + complete phone service outage (Net10/Verizon)? I got a recorded message @ Net10 saying "extreme weather event" has messed up their service but can't find info online

partly bc Xfinity keeps going down too
Okay, the Dems can have a third talking point

1. Trump & the Republicans love to starve Americans, + they want thousands of us to die from lack of healthcare
2. Release the Epstein files
3. No fucking bailouts for AI companies
3a. Especially while Americans are starving, + dying from no healthcare
Dems need to use this. No taxpayer money for bailing out billionaires who are struggling to get their computer slaves to work right so they can stop paying taxpayers to work for them.
Funny how fast the talk about OpenAI seeking a government bailout happened once even pro-AI commentators began calling out their circular funding ecosystem as being wildly unsustainable...

But let's be real: They were always going to ask for a bailout. That was their grift's goal from the start.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
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“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.
Hochul a 'no' on Mamdani's free bus plan; 'yes' on statewide universal childcare
The price tag to expand a universal childcare program statewide is $15B.
ny1.com
Imagine being part of an administration that gleefully fired tens of thousands of people across the country and then going out in public and bragging about 800 temporary jobs and 300 potential future jobs to ONE city
Bessent: "I think that we're at the cusp of the liftoff. In 2026 and 2027 -- President Trump was committed to bringing manufacturing jobs back to America and this is the start."
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
@peters.senate.gov we're gonna need you to actually go to work for a few days without selling us out on this one, thanks
All of the "link, pls???" folks here are giving deeply unserious vibes.

this took me about 10 seconds

bsky.app/profile/afte...
Malicious code was inserted into Chrome extensions in a phishing campaign in an attempt to steal user data such as web browser cookies and authentication. Specifically to obtain access to social media advertising accounts, FB Ads accounts, and AI platform credentials.

mashable.com/article/hack...
Hackers take over Google Chrome extensions in cyberattack
Malicious code was inserted into Chrome extensions in a phishing campaign.
mashable.com
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The more videos I see of masked ICE agents smashing windows or driving off with babies in the backseat…the more I think about last week’s FBI warning

Criminals are dressing as ICE to hurt people

If we normalize ICE taking off with children, guess what happens?

More trafficking & kidnapping
Dear Target: Beauty is on the inside. Smiling more won't make you any prettier & it won't bring us back to your stores.

Fire your CEO & your entire upper management team. Replace your board. Bring back DEI. Stop happily complying in advance with fascists. And fucking pay everyone a living wage.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.

They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.

If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."

🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com