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Dayton OH. digital émigré to blue sky from twitter via threads. Retired software engineer. NASA, games, USAF. sleeping giant. against fascism

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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Trump keeps doing this: nullifying legitimately passed state and local laws by financial threats (which would violate impoundment control if he carried them out). Pure gangsterism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump signs executive order to eliminate cashless bail in Washington
Move is an escalation in Trump’s efforts to take control of law enforcement in the capital city and beyond
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Commentary: Rents have skyrocketed, homelessness is rising, and home ownership is increasingly unattainable. One culprit stands out: classic Wall Street greed. In Cleveland, nearly 24% of homes have now been purchased by investors. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/w...
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Wall Street is killing the housing market • Ohio Capital Journal
Rents have skyrocketed, homelessness is rising, and home ownership is increasingly unattainable. One culprit stands out: classic Wall Street greed. In Cleveland, nearly 24% of homes have now been…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
First announcement of genocide plans, October 28, 2023. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Intent in the genocide case against Israel is not hard to prove
A database of 500 statements showing Israeli incitement to genocide provides ample evidence of genocidal intent.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/08/2025
The FTC continues to amplify Musk's conspiracy theory that sharing brand safety standards harms competition in the ad industry.
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Is it illegal to not buy ads on X? Experts explain the FTC’s bizarre ad fight.
Here’s the “least silly way” to wrap your head around the FTC’s war over X ads.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
After being kidnapped, trafficked overseas, and spending 160 days away from his family, Kilmar Abrego Garcia—who just finally reunited with family—was taken into ICE custody after his immigration check-in. The Trump regime is a white supremacist terrorist organization posing as the U.S. government.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody at appointment
Abrego, who was just released from federal custody on Friday, now faces deportation to Uganda.
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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Note unvaccinated vs. vaccinated Covid mortality rates at the height of the pandemic:
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
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Trump and RFK Jr. to Ban Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Within Months’
A close associate of the HHS secretary claims the U.S. government will soon pull COVID-19 mRNA jabs from the market.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Help! I live in a repressive, violently authoritarian country enforcing primitive, anti-science, murderous health policies!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/08/2025
The Second Amendment wasn’t written for executive orders and barbed wire around the Capitol—it was written to ensure a well-regulated militia that answers to the people and their states. Today, that balance is being pulled apart. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/who-really...
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Who Really Controls the National Guard? The Second Amendment Debate We’ve Ignored
America’s state militias were meant as a check on tyranny. Now they can be federalized at will.
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White House Watchdog @whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
President Trump aims to revoke federal funding from jurisdictions with cashless bail systems, intensifying the national debate on criminal justice reform.
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Trump to sign orders aimed at ending cashless bail policies
President Trump aims to revoke federal funding from jurisdictions with cashless bail systems, intensifying the national debate on criminal justice reform.
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 25/08/2025
We asked DHS for records — including texts — regarding the June deployment of the National Guard to LA. DHS told us it can no longer search for text messages. And that it hasn’t maintained that data since April. This is alarming and unlawful. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
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Homeland Security Tells Watchdog It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
The agency’s response to public records requests indicated potential violations of federal records laws, experts said.
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Michael Edwards @eggwards.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Is the money from the Chips Act that was going to intel to build a factory not paying for this?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Mmmmmmmno
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
They folded. We're fighting. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
1. DC murders and other violent crimes are way down from the recent peak (2023). 2. They are way up from the recent low (2011-14). 3. Point 1 is evidence against Trump's claim of an emergency requiring a federal takeover. 4. Point 2 is evidence for more work to lower DC crime.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Kash Patel is refocussing FBI operations away from "complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security" -- unless the alleged perpetrator is on his "enemies list."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him. 2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him. 3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
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Kimberley @kims-sky.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Venezuela responds to Trump’s $50m bounty on Maduro – with $50m reward for unreleased Epstein files
Far-right US president Donald Trump appears to have thought he was being clever by increasing the US reward on the head of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from $25M TO $50M, but it soon backfir…
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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Let’s be clear: the National Guard troops, federal law enforcement, and D.C. police cannot violate the Constitution or the D.C. Home Rule Act. Understanding your rights can help you make the best decision for yourself if approached by law enforcement.
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Uncle_Wolf @demiurg.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Back to Russia being pushed back. If Ukraine can slowly continue to do this without expending soldiers stupidly, the war will be over in roughly 6 months. Giving a span of 6 to 15 months remaining, regardless of what Russia does. 19/24
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🚨The DOJ's new denaturalization policy allows the government to revoke U.S. citizenship from naturalized immigrants via civil court. Experts warn it threatens due process, risks statelessness, and could create a second-tier class of American citizens. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
As @MarshaBlackburn praises Trump for attacking solar as payback for Big Oil donating big bucks to his campaign — keep this in mind as your electricity bills continue to skyrocket. We’d say ask her about it at a town hall, but… well, you know. 🐔 www.cnbc.com/2025/08/24/s...
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Dominic Meagher @dom-ma.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
If Tulsi Gabbard is cutting the Five Eyes out of the loop, the only rationale I can think of is that she wants to cover up what the intelligence actually says www.politico.eu/article/tuls...
politico.eu
Trump’s intel chief freezes out Five Eyes allies on Ukraine
The intelligence alliance of the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well as the U.S. is one of the closest in the world.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
My team at OSTP helped craft and implement the Biden administration’s scientific integrity policies to help keep politics out of government science. Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration has rolled back these safeguards for independent science. It’s an open invitation to political interference.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
ICE has cut Spanish-language requirements for its new recruits because it doesn’t want them to understand what people are saying as they’re being terrorized.
Caleb Vitello, who runs training for ICE, says it has cut Spanish-language requirements to reduce training by five weeks, and he’s been looking for ways to streamline the training and have recruits do more at the field offices where they’re assigned.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
❗️🇺🇦Ukraine and 🇨🇦Canada have signed an action plan on security cooperation It covers military training, cyber defense, intelligence sharing, and counterterrorism.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Fuck the Texas GOP.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I looked at some of those pentagon offers to go work for ICE/CBP. They’re quite bleak. You will basically be assigned to a single detention facility for six months and you’ll help run that pop up jail for ICE. They’re slotted as “logistics” but it’s just running the place.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Gov. Pritzker: "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the U.S. federalizing the Illinois National Guard." "Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."
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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Today only - the entire UPLIFT STORM TRILOGY (e-books) is on-sale for $4.99. That's a trio of great adventures across five galaxies, with wildly original aliens... and dolphins... and 'illegal refugees'... and Big Ideas. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-uplift...
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The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach|eBook
The award-winning author's complete second trilogy of the Uplift Saga, featuring a planet of refugees, a fugitive Earthling ship, and her dolphin/human crew.Brightness Reef Six outcast races hunke...
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Ohio Gov. DeWine won’t make endorsement for successor as new candidates debate run ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/19/o...
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Ohio Gov. DeWine won't make endorsement for successor as new candidates debate run • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine still won't endorse a successor, having consistently said that there is plenty of time for more candidates to get into the race.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
www.huffpost.com/entry/climat... The work is 80% completed.
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Trump Halts Work On New England Offshore Wind Project That's Nearly Complete
The Trump administration has halted construction on an offshore wind project near Rhode Island that is 80% complete.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
“Uncooperative federalism,” Heather Gerken’s phrase, is quite good. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
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It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/08/2025
“The president’s ventures have so far been a disaster for investors who were slightly late to buy into them.” @jmackin2.bsky.social for @wsj.com
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The Trump Family Cashes In on ‘the Infinite Money Glitch’ — The Wall Street Journal
What’s not to like about infinite free money? Well, several things, writes James Mackintosh
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
(I mean this as a high compliment) As a community it took pride in its storied indifference to the underwhelming achievements of its college football team (not bothering to even field a team between 1939 and 1969) -- and given that college athletics is one of the cancers eating away at 9/
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Did you know that soldiers have constitutional protection to NOT obey orders that violate their oath to the Constitution? A group is working to educate soldiers in advance of the possibility of martial law. Learn how you can get involved in this webinar: 📅 8/24 ⏰ 5 - 6:15pm ET 📍 bit.ly/oath0824
DO NOT TURN ON US

Did you know that soldiers have constitutional protection to NOT obey orders that violate their oath to the constitution?

A small group of individuals are working to educate the soldiers in advance of the possibility of martial law.

Want to get involved in informing soldiers?

Learn how at our upcoming webinar!

Sunday, August 24 5:00-6:15 EST

Register here:
bit.ly/oath0824
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2025
Schiff on the investigation into him: "Mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics ... the common denominator is they will manufacture anything to go after their critics ... it's free rein with the corrupt leadership at the Justice Department."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2025
Schiff on the release of the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript: "I don't think it will satisfy anyone. They go and they do this interview without the presence of a prosecutor who actually knows the facts, because they fired her. James Comey's daughter ... it all stinks to high heaven."
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
the times objectively thinks bribery by the staff of the current mayor is less urgently newsworthy than the admissions application for a mayoral candidate to a college he didn't get into.
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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I really need my fellow Americans to pay attention to this, especially considering how small businesses abroad are suspending shipments to the US.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
“.. perverting the justice system to serve their political interests .. Americans long had reason to trust that federal officials would not target people for investigations without evidence. .. “.. that assumption is disappearing.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/08/2025
BREAKING: We're suing to challenge Florida's authority to detain people at "Alligator Alcatraz." It is unprecedented and illegal for a state to go around federal laws to operate its own immigration jail.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/08/2025
2/2 Experts believe it could be a powerful surveillance system designed to intercept communications and military signals across Europe. This suggests Moscow is complementing its military actions with intelligence-gathering efforts targeting NATO.
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