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ruthAnneofKingston

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WIRED @wired.com · 11/04/2025
Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders refrained from making public statements while their companies collectively lost trillions. Their silence was both deafening and strategic.
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Where Were Big Tech’s CEOs on Tariffs?
Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders refrained from making public statements while their companies collectively lost trillions. Their silence was both deafening and strategic.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 11/04/2025
In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of people who seem incapable of understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment
Stanley Milgram would have understood this morally cretinous moment all too well.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11/04/2025
Estonian authorities detained and boarded a ship in the Baltic Sea that belongs to Russia’s shadow fleet, Prime Minister Kristen Michal said today.
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Estonia seizes Russian shadow tanker in Baltic Sea
The ghost vessel was “quite clearly” part of Moscow’s dark fleet, says one official.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 11/04/2025
🇳🇴 Norway officially joins Ukraine drone coalition
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Norway officially joins Ukraine drone coalition
Norway has officially joined the Ukraine drone coalition led by the United Kingdom and Latvia.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 11/04/2025
White House refuses to provide list of countries it claims reached out with tariff deal. "They all want to negotiate. The only problem is ... you can only do so many at one time," Trump said.
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White House refuses to provide list of countries it says reached out with tariff deal
‘They all want to negotiate. The only problem is ... you can only do so many at one time,’ president says
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired a space base commander in Greenland after she dared distance herself from the VP's comments. She had written in an email: “The concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base."
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Greenland Base Commander Fired After Email Slamming JD Vance
The Pentagon has fired a space base commander in Greenland after she dared criticize the vice president after his recent visit to the territory.
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/04/2025
A federal judge said that she will prevent the Trump administration from ordering hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status to leave the country later this month.
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Judge will halt Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from four countries | CNN Politics
A federal judge said Thursday that she will prevent the Trump administration from ordering hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status to leave t...
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 11/04/2025
⚡️ The Kremlin published a video of Vladimir Putin greeting Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff ahead of their meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday. Read more: www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/11/t...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11/04/2025
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Trump moves to 'dismantle key civil rights' by replacing election figure: report
In an attempt to propel his agenda, President Donald Trump is attempting to remove the Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, according to a Politico Report. Current chair, Rochelle Garza, is a...
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Alabama Political Reporter @alreporter.com · 11/04/2025
The Founders were acutely aware of the destructive outcomes of intertwining religion and politics.
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Opinion | Church and state must remain separate
The Founders were acutely aware of the destructive outcomes of intertwining religion and politics.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 11/04/2025
Trump himself said his tariffs and other policies were bringing back jobs for manly men, writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social. Men, apparently, require the curative power of factory labor to purge the estrogen created by "fake email jobs." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump’s Tariff Pause Sets Back the “Make Men Manly Again” Movement
Parts of the online “manosphere” welcomed Trump’s tariffs as a way to bring back men’s work.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 11/04/2025
A plane has crashed in Florida as it approached Boca Raton airport.
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Plane crashes in Boca Raton, Florida
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 11/04/2025
Accreditors expect to be among the next targets of the administration’s efforts to reshape higher education. chroni.cl/3XXlfGx
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Accreditor Urges Academe to ‘Rage’ Against Challenges to Higher Ed. It’s Also Revising Its DEI Standards.
With President Trump expected to take aim at accreditation, one group pondered how to adapt at its annual meeting this week.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 11/04/2025
Trump's Tariffs Sent U.S. Airline Bookings Into A Tailspin, New Data Show
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Trump's Tariffs Sent U.S. Airline Bookings Into A Tailspin, New Data Show
Airline bookings dropped immediately after Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs announcement.
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ruthAnneofKingston @annedf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-united...
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'The United States is Your Enemy'
A conversation about fascism as Europe faces the darkness in the west
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The 👏 point 👏 of 👏 vaccination 👏 is 👏 that 👏 we 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 to 👏 urgently 👏 treat 👏 severely 👏 ill 👏 children
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Women shouldn't have to or opt to change their name during the marriage process, especially within the US where locking them out of essential documentation is a common practice and a form of repression. Refuse to change it.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
RFK Jr. is an active danger to America's children. Fuck everyone who allowed this man to come to power.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Oh good, we have troops deployed to take “back” the Panama Canal from the Chinese who don’t actually control the Panama Canal. Because the Panamanians do. Just another day of “winning” in the upside-fucking-down.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/04/2025
there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Make no mistake, the so-called “Save Act” is yet another attack in the never ending Republican war against women.
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Amanda Weinstein @profweinstein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ohioans should know exactly who this out-of-state billionaire is - bankrolling extremist policies that undermine our democracy, one fat check at a time. perfectunion.us/illinois-bil...
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Illinois Billionaire Spends Millions to End Majority Rule in Ohio
Issue 1, which will come before voters in a special election on August 8, would increase the voter approval threshold for new constitutional amendments to 60 percent.
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Voices Against Trump @voicesagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Uline isn’t just selling packing tape—they’re bankrolling far-right politics with every shipment. When billionaires quietly pour their fortunes into hate and authoritarianism, it’s up to us to follow the money—and push back. Buy consciously. Resist loudly. #DefundExtremism #UlineFundsHate
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2025
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/04/2025
Republicans just passed a budget that guts Medicaid, SNAP, veterans’ benefits, and free school lunches. They swore they'd fix the economy—but this sure as hell ain’t it.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
THIS IS MARKET MANIPULATION UNLIKE ANYTHING EVER SEEN BEFORE!
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Calling out a reporter 👏👏👏 vm.tiktok.com/ZMB44WHRy/
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I left the snows of Timmins early this morning and now flying into the Comox Valley on beautiful Vancouver Island. The resistance tour is in Cumberland tonight. Thanks to my dear friend @gordjohns.bsky.social for making the arrangements. The event is at No. 6 Mine Park from 7-8 pm. #elbowsup
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I don't think I could be a real political correspondent or reporter because I genuinely cannot listen to Poilievre speak for more than five seconds without wanting to barf out the contents of my stomach like a threatened sea cucumber
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ruthAnneofKingston @annedf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
FFS!
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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A Trump-appointed judge ruled the Trump admin violated AP’s 1st Amendment rights by revoking access over refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." The judge’s ruling includes a jab at Trump, calling him a “tyrant... demagogue.” Popok explains below! 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2pC...
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Jef with one f @monhegan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As Trump’s tariffs wrecked the market, Marjorie Taylor Greene bought up tanking stocks like RH, Dell & Amazon—then cheered the chaos as “protecting national interests.” RH rebounded 30% after she bought in. Congress still refuses to ban its members from cashing in.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought stocks hit hard by Trump tariffs during the market meltdown
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought some high profile stocks last week as other investors were bailing out of the market.
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ruthAnneofKingston @annedf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Rep. Al Green Condemns Trump's 'Art of the Steal' Tariffs and Calls for Impeachment
YouTube video by Rep. Al Green
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ruthAnneofKingston @annedf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Oh nothing. Just another airplane incident in D.C. I guess gutting air traffic controllers and the FAA was a bad idea? Bonus, Trumpers under the news comment sections are still blaming "D.E.I." It's a cult.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The stupid... it b-u-r-n-s...!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Jef with one f @monhegan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, is doubling down on its shady business, using Trump ties to push for a return to US markets. After being blacklisted, they’re lobbying hard with figures linked to Trump's inner circle. If they succeed, it’s a win for surveillance tech & a threat to our security
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Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America
The Israeli spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Department’s “blacklist,” has hired a new lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration, a WIRED investigation has found.
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Joseph Joyal @joescuba54.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
They stop making the Pinto because of fires they stopped making the Corvair over a non existing problem but TESLAs are still on the road with far worse saftey records
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Joseph Joyal @joescuba54.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
theres a bill in congress that would stop congress from being able to stop these tariffs
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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
What did Marjorie Taylor Greene know about the tariff announcements and what stock trades did she make? We need answers.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump admin attack on law continues. Per leaked memo, Department of Justice just told staff it won't fund or allow official engagement with the American Bar Association—which sets law standards & rates court picks. DOJ must "represent all Americans regardless of ideology or political preferences…"
MEMORANDUM FOR ALL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES FROM:
THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
SUBJECT:
Engagement with the American Bar Association
INTRODUCTION
From time to time, the American Bar Association ('ABA'*) has taken positions on contentious legal, policy, and social issues. Although those positions frequently have not aligned with the positions advanced by the Department of Justice (*the Department", the Department has chosen to engage in an exchange of ideas with ABA officials and members. Recently, however, the ABA filed a lawsuit against the United States.' As a result, the Department is actively litigating against the ABA, yet the Department continues to expend taxpayer dollars on ABA events, the ABA continues to use the participation of Department personnel to attract attendance to those events, and the ABA continues to use Department-engagement to legitimize positions it advances that are contrary to the federal government's policies.
The ABA is free to litigate in support of activist causes, including by inserting itself into pending litigation as an amicus curiae. But "[plublic service is a public trust." The Department of Justice must, consistent with the Constitution, be careful stewards of the public fisc, represent all Americans regardless of ideology or political preferences, and defend the policies chosen by America's democratically elected leadership as reflected in Congressionally enacted statutes and Presidential policy choices. Moreover, Department employees must conduct themselves in amanner that does not undermine or appear to undermine the Department's core mission of administering justice in a fair, effective, and even-handed manner. Put simply, the Department's own speech-which includes employce speaking engagements and written publications that rely upon taxpayer-funded resources must be focused on achieving the Department's core Constitutional mission and advancing the legitimate and lawful statutory and policy decisions made by the political branches of our government.
POLICY
The Department of Justice will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for any travel to or engagement with ABA events. Additionally, Department employees may not, when acting in their official capacities, speak at, attend, or otherwise participate in events hosted by the ABA. Because one of the largest expenditures in the Department's budget is employee time, Department personnel may not participate in ABA-sponsored events on official time. Further, and consistent with longstanding policy, personnel may not use or permit the use of their Department of Justice title in a manner that could reasonably be construed to imply that the Department endorses or sanctions their personal views or the views of the ABA.*
For those who serve in policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating positions
"Policy Employees"),' any participation in ABA events requires specific approval by their
any Parent oval from the Deputy Attorney General. Further,The Department of Justice will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for any travel to or engagement with ABA events. Additionally, Department employees may not, when acting in their official capacities, speak at, attend, or otherwise participate in events hosted by the ABA. Because one of the largest expenditures in the Department's budget is employee time, Department personnel may not participate in ABA-sponsored events on official time. Further, and consistent with longstanding policy, personnel may not use or permit the use of their Department of Justice title in a manner that could reasonably be construed to imply that the Department endorses or sanctions their personal views or the views of the ABA.*
For those who serve in policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating positions
("Policy Employees"),$
any participation in ABA events requires specific approval by their
component head followed by specific approval from the Deputy Attorney General. Further, employees who serve as Policy Employees may not write, speak, or otherwise publish materials in ABA-sponsored media of any kind, absent specific approval by their component head followed by specific approval from the Deputy Attorney General. Policy Employees are directed not to hold leadership positions in the ABA or renew any existing memberships.
Career staff who do not serve in policy-determining, policymaking, or policy-advocating positions ("Non-policy Employees") may attend ABA events and maintain ABA membership with the understanding that the Department will not cover the cost of their participation. Non-policy Employees who choose to write, speak, or otherwise publish materials in ABA-sponsored media do not require additional permissions beyond those required by existing policies. But they must do so off-duty and without using government resources. ABA-related activities shall not qualif under the de minimis personal use exception for the use of Department property or resources.IMPLEMENTATION
Accordingly, by April 30, 2025, each component head will certify to the Justice Management Division that appropriate steps have been taken to effectuate this policy for all component personnel.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Billionaire says out loud that he and his Pharma CEO wife have way more access to a Republican White House than a Democratic one
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Plainclothes agents. Trying to question elementary-aged kids. And lying that they had parents permission to do so.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We are literally being led by the dumbest people alive
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Harper knows what is going on. He endorsed PP Monday. I would never vote for these lying sneaks. I guess we will see April 28 if Canadians care about morals anymore. I think we do.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
There was no lost Liberal decade. The Trudeau government spent 5 years fixing the damage Harper left, then 5 more navigating COVID and global inflation. That's called leadership. Canada isn't broken-it's still standing because they didn't walk away when it got hard.
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ruthAnneofKingston @annedf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi... THIS
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‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers - Healthy Debate
Let’s start protecting people in health-care settings as that’s where people should have the best understanding of a viral threat.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
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Bruce Fanjoy @brucefanjoy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In this election, residents in Carleton know we have an important role to play in the fight to stop Poilievre. Minister Wilkinson came by to lend us a hand and talk to voters about Mark Carney. #FanjoyVsPoilievre #TogetherWeCan
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