Chuck Darwin
@cdarwin.bsky.social
Social and economic justice, technology and tennis. Follow me on Mastodon: https://c.im/@cdarwin searchable
Elon Musk wants to buy Republicans a win in the midterms, but Donuts + Democracy knows how to defeat him and MAGA. Help us >> d-de.me
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Young voters have the power to determine elections, but outdated GOTV strategies often fail to reach them. Donuts+Democracy offers a simple, cost-effective solution to increase young voter turnout.
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ICYMI: In a win for voters, a federal judge blocked Trump’s recent ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote. The court found the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens. https://demdock.com/4xeEjiG
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Today is Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" Nuclear War Day
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Today is Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" Nuclear War Day First published in 1950, Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" describes a single house miraculously standing af...
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The wildfires in North America have claimed 10-80 times as many lives as those in Europe so far
Chuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)
Wildfires are to natural disasters what ballistic missiles are to human weaponry —able to kill from hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. The heat that they generate lofts smoke high into the at...
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“I just felt like people needed a reminder of why we have unions,” Sayles told the Guardian about why he made the film. “Without them, you don’t have anywhere to stand.”
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime.
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Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
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Chuck Darwin@cdarwin.bsky.social · 2d agoJoin DeFlock and thousands of others in demanding an end to the use of all ALPRs for policing purposes. Please sign up below to receive these updates. noalprs.com?ref=hibf
Join DeFlock and thousands of others in demanding an end to the use of all ALPRs for policing purposes. Please sign up below to receive these updates. noalprs.com?ref=hibf
National Week of Action Against ALPRs | DeFlock
Mass surveillance doesn't equal safety. Join the movement to dismantle automated license plate readers in our communities.
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If we recognize the arbitrariness of imprisoning people because of where they are from or where they have moved, we begin to see through the illusion of the camp. We are in such a period now. We can see through the illusion, and we can take that short step toward rebellion against the camp.
Excerpt: How to Close a Camp
Detention was sold as both a law-and-order necessity and an economic opportunity, welding together the racist politics of the drug war with the rise of private prisons.
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New York City recorded 205 anti-Jewish hate crimes in the first seven months of 2026, up from 189 during the same period in 2025. More than half of all hate crimes in the city were anti-Jewish, despite Jewish New Yorkers comprising 10% of the city’s population
Hate Crimes Against Jewish New Yorkers Surge Amid Heightened Antisemitism
Jewish communities fear Mamdani’s anti-Israel views and attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu puts them at risk.
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New reporting by Wired reveals an incident in which the testing of an experimental GPS jammer White Sands Missile Range resulted in a medical plane carrying two pilots and two medical workers crashing into the side of a mountain.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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The Michigan primary could be summarized in one sentence: El-Sayed is unabashedly pro-Palestine, Stevens is benefiting from millions in AIPAC spending, and that’s all many primary voters need to know. www.notus.org/newsletters/...
Normies’ Left Turn
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@cdarwin.bsky.social Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes The disabled immigrant froze to death in early March at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh after she was dropped off in the city by #ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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Capital One's lawyers wrote that the bank's own filings and the Trump businesses' allegations "make clear that Capital One closed Plaintiffs' accounts for anti-money laundering ('AML') reasons."
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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Balaji: “If you are building a startup society, a network state, should you…pitch Andreessen Horowitz?” Ben Horowitz: “For sure. We're very interested in it. We believe in the whole thing from the Sovereign Individual on up, so we wanna be part of it for sure.” - Oct 2025.
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Peter Thiel has promoted the Sovereign Individual, which says that the shift from “mass democracy” to “individual sovereignty” can happen “invisibly” (and without a shift in public opinion) via tax-f...
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Why are they only "once great," Chad? skywriter.blue/@reichlinmel...
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Is there a connection between opulence and the decline of empire? Who cares, suggests Chad Mizelle, Trump's 2025 former Deputy Attorney General, as he comments on the tourism draw of gilded statues an...
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Capital One hit back on July 31 against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts reut.rs/4g7FISl
By working all year-round, we're building a future where voting is a lifelong habit, civic engagement is second nature, and the next generation of leaders drives lasting change. Young people won't just participate in democracy, they will lead it. Join us! www.donuts-democracy.org
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Young voters have the power to determine elections, but outdated GOTV strategies often fail to reach them. Donuts+Democracy offers a simple, cost-effective solution to increase young voter turnout.
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Two people in Michigan have died in connection with the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, health officials reported Monday. These are the first known deaths related to the multi-state outbreak of explosive diarrhea in the United States www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/h...
First deaths reported in cyclosporiasis outbreak | CNN
Two people in Michigan have died in connection with the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, health officials reported Monday.
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Two people have died in Michigan in connection with the cyclosporiasis outbreak, the first known US deaths tied to the diarrhea-causing parasite https://cnn.it/45C5gB1
Some people are terrified of ever being seen as weak and vulnerable, of not having all the answers, of being doubtful and unsure. And that terror is where the fascist aesthetic finds purchase. mastoreader.io?url=https%3A...
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Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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"For now, people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by falling space junk. But those odds are shifting. Governments and companies should be compelled to use materials that will fully disintegrate. No such regulation exists." -- space_environmentalism
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
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DROP THE MIC, PATTY NOW GO TELL TRUMP AND CONGRESS FACE TO FACE!
Our corrupt county commissioners thought banning public comment would make the issue go away. Spoiler alert: It did not. This is what 3 drums + 2 cowbells + a trumpet + a tambourine + 60 vuvuzelas sound like in a torrential downpour. #nokingsnocamps
Among potential 2028 contenders, Newsom seems the most committed in trying to turn Trump's allies into his own allies, hence constantly kissing the assess of the worst people in the country, like this gift for the Ellisons. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how the Dem base likes that.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 5d agowhen it comes down to it - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social bends the knee to big money and billionaires. This time he is bending the knee to billionaire monopolists - pushing for a media merger helping the right wing media project.
