Nora Stephens
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Nerd, mom of GenZers, IND #class war #solidarity 🌹 Rest and joy ARE resistance
Meta paid its lowest effective federal tax rate in company history last year while raking in record profits. Earlier this year, Meta began laying off 8,000 workers as it ramps up AI investment. Zuckerberg is now worth $190 billion. The irony of a Big Tech King buying a castle is not lost on me.
Meta’s Zuckerberg buys 19th-century castle in southeast of Ireland
Strancally Castle was built around 1830 on land overlooking the River Blackwater and underwent extensive renovation in 2
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Husted: "I want to tell you why electricity prices are rising -- because Obama and Biden ... "
Mortgage rates are way up. Home construction is down. Rents are astronomical. All of this is worse since Trump took power, because of the tariffs and the Iran War.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 6h agoVance claims "we are finally seeing that American dream of homeownership become accessible to our young people"
Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
"The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..." apnews.com/article/usai...
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Every dollar billionaire JK Rowling makes is a dollar she will spend on destroying the lives of trans people - a scapegoating driven by Epstein-class billionaires to distract us from the ultra-rich draining our wealth, killing our planet, sabotaging social cohesion, and destroying dissent.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2d agoI've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
Tyson Foods just settled a price-fixing lawsuit and has almost doubled its profits this year compared to last. Its CEO makes $34.5M — 798x more than his median employee. Remember this as it closes plants in Illinois and Utah, laying off 3,200 with little notice.
Joslin workers describe tears, chaos after learning Tyson plant shutting down permanently
Tyson Foods is permanently closing its Joslin, Illinois beef plant, leaving more than 2,500 workers without jobs. The f
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NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls. with @washingtonpost.com
This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?
Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.
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ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.
NEW: Hegseth hid the fact that our main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed. newrepublic.com/post/214510/...
Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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Excited to share the first piece of our partnership with @gillianbrockell.com. This covers a new entrant in Trump's list of third country removal sites: Liberia, where the first flight just touched down today. prospect.org/2026/08/20/l...
Liberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network - The American Prospect
The African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.
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Today, an ICE Air flight arrived in Paraguay at 8:30am local time, marking the 6th third country transfer flight there since April. The flight originated in El Paso, TX, connected in Alexandria, LA, & made deportation stops in Colombia & Brazil prior to landing in Asunción.
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What precautions you should take if your garden flooded
Floodwaters may contain contaminants ranging from pesticides to E. coli, so veggies may not be safe to eat.
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NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
i think the big data center backlash has a lot to do with technology getting worse, costing more, building a surveillance state, destroying the environment, owned by a class of wealthy elite that coalesced behind the fascist regime that made clear they’d sacrifice humanity for their own power growth
Instead of fighting senseless wars, we should be fighting climate change. Instead of building data centers, we should be building housing. Instead of corporate welfare give us universal healthcare.
Nah, I can’t be convinced this was death by suicide. Black people do not lynch themselves from trees, and the fact that these cases have been dismissed so quickly without thorough investigation is telling.
Let me get this right? There’s been a massive number of lynchings in the US over the past year and we are not hearing about this from the NYT, WaPo, LA Times, or any other major outlet? Can we get @propublica.org to cover this?
We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The crisis inside Trump’s military appears to be spreading. MeidasTouch obtained text messages from a USS Carl Vinson sailor’s wife saying sailors are being forced to shower in cold water and the ship’s water fountain's have been shut off as they prepare for another deployment.
Text Messages Reveal Carl Vinson Sailors Showering in Cold Water, Water Fountains Shut Off Before Deployment
MeidasTouch has obtained exclusive text messages from a military spouse describing conditions aboard the USS Carl Vinson that paint a troubling picture of
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While his sailors are starving and taking cold showers, the Secretary of Defense is yucking it up in a bar while inappropriately engaging in political campaigning.
it was a generational fumble for the dems to pull back on letting coach tim, our gentle midwestern uncle, stand in front of a mic and express disgust and bewilderment at what an absolute grab bag of misfit freaks this admin is. this is weird! these people are fucking weirdos!!! it’s yucky!
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump aide Natalie Harp spent a summer sleeping in the locker room at Trump's Bedminster golf club to remain close to him after she was denied a room.
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Drain fly larvae. That is what was allegedly found in the shower and drinking water at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center by a detainee. www.ocregister.com/2026/08/06/f...
Fly larvae found in detainee’s water sample from Adelanto ICE facility as contamination claims grow
This news organization obtained the specimens from a detained person who said they collected them from the shower floors of the Adelanto facility.
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One year ago today Camp East Montana officially opened as a detention camp for immigrants. The site is the largest detention center in the U.S. and it's first year has been marked by death, abuses, and a served as a symbol of corruption and mismanagement. Here is my story looking back:
Camp East Montana: A year of deaths, controversy and management woes
Camp East Montana is marking one year of operation on Fort Bliss in El Paso. The year has been marked by criticism and calls for its closure.
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The @404media.co crew is just constantly killing it with this kind of coverage.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4d agoNew: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
A person without any govt position, who has numerous financial conflicts of interest, should not conduct US foreign policy. And that’s before we get to the fact that he uses this role to corruptly solicit money for himself. It’s wrong. Many seem to have accepted it, but I’ll never stop objecting.
Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan
The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
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