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Van Halen is the best music to lift/workout to. Irresistible to mosquitoes. Currently trapped in the DoD machine.
republicans take food stamps away from 82,000 Indiana residents www.newsfromthestates.com/article/thou...
Thousands of Hoosiers removed from food assistance
Eighty-two thousand fewer Hoosiers are receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect last October.The l...
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You can now search which businesses in your area are collaborating with ICE, thanks to a new project from @theappeal.org 🔗 theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
Some people are so universally beloved that I think we shouldn’t be told when they die. Let us figure it out eventually but never receive confirmation. We should always be able to idly speculate that somehow there’s a chance they *could* still be alive
"Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted and another 338 data collections have been modified..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
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We should start running dystopian tours. You can stroll past clusters of armed soldiers loitering and giant banners of the Dear Leader’s face on your way to the tarp-shrouded ghost of the Kennedy Center.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last mo.I was thinking the other day how those not in DC (I'm not) aren't hit as clearly with how Trump has turned the White House grounds into something between construction site and waste dump. Genuinely upsetting. Far from the worst thing he's done but among the most tangible and graphic.
THE U.S. HAS DEPLETED NEARLY 80% OF ITS THAAD INTERCEPTORS, ABOUT HALF OF ITS PATRIOT MISSILES AND SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF OTHER PRECISION MUNITIONS DURING THE IRAN CONFLICT, PROMPTING SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDERS TO WARN THAT KEY STOCKPILES ARE DANGEROUSLY LOW. - CNN
2025–early 2026: Lockheed Martin donates over $10 million for Trump's ballroom and Freedom 250 events June 2026: The Trump administration awards Lockheed a contract worth up to $35 billion
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3mo agoX owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
The U.S. tax agency’s top attorney was forced from his role in recent days after refusing White House demands to participate in tax audits, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Top US tax lawyer forced out after White House clash over tax audits
The U.S. tax agency’s top attorney was forced from his role in recent days after refusing White House demands to participate in tax audits, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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People are dunking on this saying that it's communism when it is pretty straightforwardly racketeering
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 2mo agoThe White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.
make a wish theory of this admin is undefeated
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo agoA dispute among Cabinet officials over who could ride in fighter jets flying over D.C. on July Fourth escalated to President Trump, who gave the go-ahead to acting attorney general Todd Blanche despite objections from Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy.
A wave of military aircraft every 10 minutes for eight hours feels less like a party and more like psychological warfare.
Imagine Vice President Lyndon Johnson going on Meet the Press to assure the nation that a civil rights bill was coming out soon because he'd spoken with the president's brother-in-law Sargent Shriver and *he* thought it was going to happen
Idiocracy was not supposed to be a documentary!!
60 Minutes confirms Iran is bypassing the US blockade and exporting 100,000 more barrels of oil per day than before the war. Most of it is reportedly going to China.
Class warfare doesn’t get more unhinged than this. trib.al/06DG9g9
How the Tech World Turned Evil
Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.
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WATCH — @tedlieu.bsky.social : “Trump and his family have made over $9 Billion in his presidency.”
This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.
Meenu Batra is the only Punjabi, Hindi, and Urdu court interpreter in Texas. She had spent most of her life in Texas, working and raising her kids. ICE detained her despite having humanitarian protection.
Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · 5mo agoNew from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: “It’s not targeting criminals, it’s not targeting dangerous people, it’s targeting individuals who are members of our community, who have a lot to offer and continue to offer a lot of positive things for our entire country and our society.”
I’m really struggling with this for my dual professions - legal & military. Am I just watching shockingly fast institutional erosion, or was the whole edifice a joke all along & it just took me decades to hear the punchline?
Guy Hamilton-Smith@guyhamiltonsmith.com · 5mo agoI wonder if, in my lifetime, DOJ will ever recover the integrity that it once held, to whatever extent it held it.
