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"The ability of autocrats & demagogues to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions and normalizes them. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear." Garry Kasparov
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Ello from Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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These are big strong men doing big important things to keep us all safe, you see
10/23/25 IG: mike_kelly_photography

10am ICE arrested US citizen after alleging she‘d made a threat. Both woman & onlookers refuted claim, but ICE proceeded to force her to ground & zip-tie her hands. Incident followed a failed attempt by ICE to gain access at nearby laundromat

🛑THIS MUST STOP🛑
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The New York Post claims to have been given a foreign intelligence service's documents on Zohran Mamdani and the worst accusations they could spin up from it is that Zohran is loosely affiliated with another American Muslim.
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If the amount of fedposting going on on Instagram isn't a clear indication of rapid radicalization of normies against ICE, dunno what is really. The algorithm over there doesn't appear to yet be suppressing ICE related content much either (for us, anyway). TikTok, OTOH, has clamped down hard
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Upturn savagely unmasks Medicaid's algorithmic gatekeepers as cynical ploys to starve disabled folks of home care, dialing eligibility via vendor whispers to slash costs over needs—time for rebel coders to hijack these sham equations. #DisabilityJustice
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The US Navy has crashed an F-18 and a Seahawk helicopter into the South China Sea while operating off the USS Nimitz, Reuters reports. All crew members have been recovered.
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“We may live in an attention economy, but time remains a finite resource. People are tired, scared, desperate, and ready to be overwhelmed by the crises initiated and maintained by Republican rule.”
We are at the precipice of a great economic calamity—and the left coalition has spent the bulk of the last week arguing about Nazi tattoos.
Graham Platner, Disaster, and a Ticking Clock | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue
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Bet365 CEO Denise Coates paid herself £277,000,000 this year, and £410,000,000 in 2020.

This was more than 20,000x the Minimum Wage that she paid most of her workers.

The betting industry needs to be taxed, heavily.
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All that asbestos-filled rubble from the East Wing demolition is being dumped on a public golf course near the Potomac.
White House's East Wing Debris Is Being Dumped On Public Golf Course
YouTube video by Inside Edition
www.youtube.com
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@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC.

“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…”

So good!! 🔥
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The SCOTUS allowed a man to be executed by nitrogen suffocation in Alabama the other day.

Alabama outlawed nitrogen suffocation as a means for putting down animals in 2018 because it was inhumane.

The man's execution was the longest recorded.
Prolonged Execution in Alabama Raises Alarms
Yesterday's execution by nitrogen suffocation was the longest recorded.
eji.org
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He posted an AI video of himself shitting on Americans six days ago
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
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Senator Grafstein, motioning for Garrett’s speech on gerrymandering to be entered into the senate journal.

The Republican vote, to strike the speech from the record.

This is how fascism works, in the shadows.

#Pinks
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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House Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million with taxpayer funds

"You waited until you became President and installed your handpicked loyalists at DOJ ... That isn’t justice, it is theft.” trib.al/fj9aCSP
Dems Investigate Trump Attempt to Take $230 Million From His Own DOJ
Leading House Democrats have launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million using taxpayer funds.
trib.al
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Despicable

“Earlier this month, the Trump administration declined to draw on a contingency fund that would have continued benefits, saying the money was needed for potential emergencies such as natural disasters.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Food stamps: US government says it will stop paying for food aid next week - BBC News
Food stamps will not be distributed from November due to the ongoing shutdown, it said.
www.bbc.com
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UN: With Hurricane Melissa threatening to unleash torrential rains and hurricane-force winds across the Caribbean, at least 1.6 million children are at risk as families in Jamaica, Haiti and surrounding islands brace for flooding, landslides and widespread disruption.
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That’s $500 million lost per day
Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Established facts are unfair to the Trump regime.
WELKER: Coffee prices are up 19%, beef is up almost 15%, and bacon up almost 6% just to name a few. So when are all grocery prices going to come down as President Trump promised?

BESSENT: Kristen, it's unfortunate. As much as I like you, you like to cherrypick.
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