Joe Calhoun
@jbc3.bsky.social
#Cville! Co-founder, organizer, Indivisible Charlottesville. Proud rural progressive. Recovering coder.
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed.
This story is part of a collaboration between FRONTLINE and ProPublica that includes an...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump’s Immigration Forces Are Recklessly Deploying ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons. Protesters Are Getting Maimed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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We have power as consumers and we can leverage that power to protect our democracy. When companies support authoritarianism, we don’t support them. That's why we are asking our whole Indivisible Charlottesville community to join the Indivisible #WeAintBuyingIt campaign.
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We have power as consumers and we can leverage that power to protect our democracy. When companies support authoritarianism, we don’t support them. That's why we are asking our whole Indivisible Charlottesville community to join the Indivisible #WeAintBuyingIt campaign.
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Looking 👀 at you, Charlottesville! You have shown up in so many ways to protect democracy and our communities.
Over the last year, you could have given into anger and despair.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
Instead, you’ve organized in the largest numbers this country has ever seen to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.
We could not be more thankful for you and everything you’re doing to defy Trump’s agenda.
November 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Looking 👀 at you, Charlottesville! You have shown up in so many ways to protect democracy and our communities.
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This week! Check out all of our upcoming events - Thursday, December 4, the People's Activist Series starts again - Saturday, December 6, join us for an All Hands Meeting - Monday, December 8, bring a friend to Beer Run for our inaugural Dine to Donate event!
Upcoming Events — Indivisible Charlottesville
Information about upcoming actions, protests, trainings.
www.indivisiblecharlottesville.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This week! Check out all of our upcoming events - Thursday, December 4, the People's Activist Series starts again - Saturday, December 6, join us for an All Hands Meeting - Monday, December 8, bring a friend to Beer Run for our inaugural Dine to Donate event!
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If a man personally implicated in war crimes can remain atop the Pentagon, why would he stand by and risk his freedom should Vance (or Trump again) lose the 2028 election?
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
Pete Hegseth And Adm. Mitch Bradley Belong In Prison
The South American boat strikes are plainly murders. Now we have the names of the murderers. Do we have the political will to lock them up?
www.forever-wars.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If a man personally implicated in war crimes can remain atop the Pentagon, why would he stand by and risk his freedom should Vance (or Trump again) lose the 2028 election?
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.
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Could not agree more. Eighth graders write better papers than the one at issue. She’s at a major university, for crying out loud.
Honestly re: that student at OU, I think there should be heavy, heavy mocking. They're gonna be a big stupid bully and join the ranks of the rest of the Toilet Paper USA grifters at this point, why not soundly mock them back & make them uncomfortable to be outside. They'll do it to us in a second.
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Could not agree more. Eighth graders write better papers than the one at issue. She’s at a major university, for crying out loud.
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We are trying to make Christmas shopping easier for the urbanist in your life
We are putting together our first “Holiday Gift Guide” and need your help!
Please reply with items you use to walk/bike/roll through your community that you think others will enjoy.
It can be clothing, gear, books, etc.
And of course all we really want for the holidays is better infrastructure!
Please reply with items you use to walk/bike/roll through your community that you think others will enjoy.
It can be clothing, gear, books, etc.
And of course all we really want for the holidays is better infrastructure!
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We are trying to make Christmas shopping easier for the urbanist in your life
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The most annoying thing in the world constantly telling me we need to encourage politicians when they take quarter measures in response to outcry by showing our appreciation.
No, we actually don't.
No, we actually don't.
December 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The most annoying thing in the world constantly telling me we need to encourage politicians when they take quarter measures in response to outcry by showing our appreciation.
No, we actually don't.
No, we actually don't.
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Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump's crypto memecoin.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Multi-million dinners with CEOs.
Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption.
Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.
Thread. Love you, New York.
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Thread. Love you, New York.
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This isn’t me. I’ll never have an alt and I’ll never ask you to delete things on “my official page”
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This isn’t me. I’ll never have an alt and I’ll never ask you to delete things on “my official page”
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Doesn’t this technically make him a Croque Madame
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Doesn’t this technically make him a Croque Madame
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The @schumer.senate.gov account here awfully quiet about imperial wars of aggression and atrocity rn
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The @schumer.senate.gov account here awfully quiet about imperial wars of aggression and atrocity rn
Not in this country, right, because pardon power: which is why we’ll have to deliver him (and all of them) to The Hague
Pete Hegseth doesn’t seem to me like the type who goes to prison.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Not in this country, right, because pardon power: which is why we’ll have to deliver him (and all of them) to The Hague
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The NYT and the Washington Post are simply ignoring the rapidly growing constitutional crisis in the White House. Almost nothing in their news coverage or opinion sections. They are as culpable as anyone in this.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The NYT and the Washington Post are simply ignoring the rapidly growing constitutional crisis in the White House. Almost nothing in their news coverage or opinion sections. They are as culpable as anyone in this.
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There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home.
They are lawless bestial scum.
They are lawless bestial scum.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It remains not only so shameful and such a profound betrayal but also just so EMBARRASSING that universities are signing things that are like:
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
"Men" and "Women" are defined the way President Buttface said in his Big Fancy Statement.
Signed,
The Leader of an Actual Institution of Higher Education
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I want you to understand that while news media and politicians were fearmongering every day about shoplifting in SF (while property crime was *down*), THIS was happening: "the inhalation of one-millionth of an ounce will cause cancer with a virtual 100% statistical certainty."
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I want you to understand that while news media and politicians were fearmongering every day about shoplifting in SF (while property crime was *down*), THIS was happening: "the inhalation of one-millionth of an ounce will cause cancer with a virtual 100% statistical certainty."
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
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The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false.
Lots of people are going to die.
Lots of people are going to die.
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This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
Vinay Prasad of the FDA claims that he has proof that 10 children died from COVID19 vaccines, so the FDA will now target flu shots, look at whether people should receive multiple vaccines at the same time, and make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
To call this despicable is an understatement.
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“The researchers describe the bicycle as a kind of “lifestyle companion” for older adults—a tool that keeps them physically active, mentally sharp, socially connected, & confidently mobile. That combination appears to delay the need for long-term care, preserve independence,& ultimately extend life”
A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives.
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A Decade-Long Study Shows Cycling Helps Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives
If you’re looking for yet another reason to hop on your bicycle today—especially if you’re in your 60s or beyond—new research out of Japan has delivered a big one.
momentummag.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“The researchers describe the bicycle as a kind of “lifestyle companion” for older adults—a tool that keeps them physically active, mentally sharp, socially connected, & confidently mobile. That combination appears to delay the need for long-term care, preserve independence,& ultimately extend life”