Taquito Jones
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Taquito Jones
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· Oct 30
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
We must bear witness.
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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I only needed to read the headline to know @sulliview.bsky.social was dead on. When she called the coverage of Trump “stenography” I said to myself “yep.” And I applauded when she outlined 3 changes on how to respond to Trump.
Follow them please, journalists.
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Follow them please, journalists.
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
America has tragically changed, but journalism is still stuck in old ways
The swift slide into authoritarianism should have been a five-alarm fire for the media
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I only needed to read the headline to know @sulliview.bsky.social was dead on. When she called the coverage of Trump “stenography” I said to myself “yep.” And I applauded when she outlined 3 changes on how to respond to Trump.
Follow them please, journalists.
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Follow them please, journalists.
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
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Not that anyone likely cares, nor does it really matter, but I finally (probably a couple years too late) pulled the plug on Twitter, and will be posting here exclusively. It felt like when my local mall started dying--except with more bigots, creeps, and the bad kind of weirdo.
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not that anyone likely cares, nor does it really matter, but I finally (probably a couple years too late) pulled the plug on Twitter, and will be posting here exclusively. It felt like when my local mall started dying--except with more bigots, creeps, and the bad kind of weirdo.
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So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So probable cause is now just...going to an East African restaurant
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EFI Foundation researchers have developed a Carbon Accounting Framework that outlines a product-based carbon accounting system modeled on standard financial accounting principles.
Read more about this framework –
Read more about this framework –
Carbon Accounting: Framework for a Comprehensive New Product- and Entity-Level, Ledger-Based Carbon Accounting System
EFIF is developing a framework for product-based carbon accounting to augment current carbon reporting, which lacks the granularity needed.
efifoundation.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
EFI Foundation researchers have developed a Carbon Accounting Framework that outlines a product-based carbon accounting system modeled on standard financial accounting principles.
Read more about this framework –
Read more about this framework –
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Low-carbon markets continue to develop at varying paces, emphasizing the need to accurately track and measure carbon emissions.
By synthesizing financial accounting principles and carbon mass engineering fundamentals, @efifoundation.org has put forward a ledger-based carbon accounting system.
By synthesizing financial accounting principles and carbon mass engineering fundamentals, @efifoundation.org has put forward a ledger-based carbon accounting system.
Integrated Product- and Entity-Level Carbon Accounting: Putting Concepts into Practice
Read EFIF's synthesis of a ledger-based accounting framework that integrates product- and entity-level carbon dioxide
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Low-carbon markets continue to develop at varying paces, emphasizing the need to accurately track and measure carbon emissions.
By synthesizing financial accounting principles and carbon mass engineering fundamentals, @efifoundation.org has put forward a ledger-based carbon accounting system.
By synthesizing financial accounting principles and carbon mass engineering fundamentals, @efifoundation.org has put forward a ledger-based carbon accounting system.
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Don't fa-la-la-la-fall for the myth that nuclear weapons make us safer.
December 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Don't fa-la-la-la-fall for the myth that nuclear weapons make us safer.
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”Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him.”
Olga Lautman
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January 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
”Just in case people don’t fully grasp it. The pardoning of insurrectionists is Trump’s way of building loyalty from militias and domestic terrorists to carry out unofficial acts for him.”
Olga Lautman
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Olga Lautman
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@olgalautman.bsky.social
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I'm a lawyer who fights for democracy. I built Democracy Docket from scratch because we needed an independent pro-democracy news outlet to keep you informed. For $10 a month you can help its 22 person team do their vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I'm a lawyer who fights for democracy. I built Democracy Docket from scratch because we needed an independent pro-democracy news outlet to keep you informed. For $10 a month you can help its 22 person team do their vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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Credit to the Equal Justice Initiative for the details of this event. Black soldiers have historically been denied the honor of their service afforded to the white military for decades. Indeed this injustice is what fueled Black Army officer Charles Hamilton Houston to become "Mr. Civil RIghts."
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Credit to the Equal Justice Initiative for the details of this event. Black soldiers have historically been denied the honor of their service afforded to the white military for decades. Indeed this injustice is what fueled Black Army officer Charles Hamilton Houston to become "Mr. Civil RIghts."
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To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."
December 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."
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Convicted Felon Trump is the Pardon Peddler & it’ll cost you a pretty penny, if you’ve got it.
My latest on how the pardon of former Rep. Henry Cuellar blew up in Trump’s face & how there's a whole cottage industry being built on Trump handing out pardons like candy.
youtu.be/xoLUt-WLGIo?...
My latest on how the pardon of former Rep. Henry Cuellar blew up in Trump’s face & how there's a whole cottage industry being built on Trump handing out pardons like candy.
youtu.be/xoLUt-WLGIo?...
Trump’s Latest PARDON BLOWS UP as Bribery SCHEME EXPLODES
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Convicted Felon Trump is the Pardon Peddler & it’ll cost you a pretty penny, if you’ve got it.
My latest on how the pardon of former Rep. Henry Cuellar blew up in Trump’s face & how there's a whole cottage industry being built on Trump handing out pardons like candy.
youtu.be/xoLUt-WLGIo?...
My latest on how the pardon of former Rep. Henry Cuellar blew up in Trump’s face & how there's a whole cottage industry being built on Trump handing out pardons like candy.
youtu.be/xoLUt-WLGIo?...
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@captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov
What can be done to make this bs stop? Now they’re setting attack dogs on these poor people!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
What can be done to make this bs stop? Now they’re setting attack dogs on these poor people!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
December 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov
What can be done to make this bs stop? Now they’re setting attack dogs on these poor people!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
What can be done to make this bs stop? Now they’re setting attack dogs on these poor people!
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
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December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Corisk did the math Europe's politicians haven't.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
Arm Ukraine to win: €522-838 billion. Let Russia win and rearm Europe: €1.2-1.6 trillion—double the cost. Plus 6-11 million additional refugees.
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This could probably be done with simple legislation. Article 3 says almost nothing about how the Supreme Court operates. It mentions that a chief justice will exist, but that’s about it. There are essentially no constitutional rules about how they hear or decide cases.
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This could probably be done with simple legislation. Article 3 says almost nothing about how the Supreme Court operates. It mentions that a chief justice will exist, but that’s about it. There are essentially no constitutional rules about how they hear or decide cases.
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Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must.
Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.
Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must.
Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.
Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.
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ICE isn’t “protecting communities” — it’s terrorizing them. Armed agents hunting workers for their skin color or speaking Spanish isn’t law enforcement, it’s state sanctioned fear. We are a nation built by immigrants, founded on immigration itself. The moment we forget that, we lose our soul!
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
ICE isn’t “protecting communities” — it’s terrorizing them. Armed agents hunting workers for their skin color or speaking Spanish isn’t law enforcement, it’s state sanctioned fear. We are a nation built by immigrants, founded on immigration itself. The moment we forget that, we lose our soul!
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What will America look like if this monstrous racist behavior is allowed to continue and get worse for another three years?
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What will America look like if this monstrous racist behavior is allowed to continue and get worse for another three years?
“I Got Paid $17/hr to Discredit Veganism Online”
open.substack.com/pub/veganhor...
open.substack.com/pub/veganhor...
“I Got Paid $17/hr to Discredit Veganism Online”
A whistleblower just exposed Big Meat's smear campaign
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“I Got Paid $17/hr to Discredit Veganism Online”
open.substack.com/pub/veganhor...
open.substack.com/pub/veganhor...
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