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The Unified Principles Movement @the-upm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Term Limits For All. Months out of office. Months. #TermLimits #MitchMcConnell #Politics

A picture of a decrepit Mitch McConnell in a wheelchair, 44 years of being in office showing in his atrophied body, and the words "term limits"

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The Unified Principles Movement @the-upm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remove the money from politics. Candidates who only ask you for your donations but never ask you for your needs are why nothing gets done. #RemoveMoneyFromPolitics #ItsKindaChic #UnifiedPrinciples #PeopleOverPACs #Politics #campaign

A groovy 70s esq woman with a big beautiful afro holds up a peace sign with the words "Remove Money From Politics, For the people. By the people" and at the bottom it says "It's kinda chic" and The Unified Principles Movement.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fixed it... Some day all of these names will be changed back. #GulfOfMexico #LakeOntario

A screenshot of the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps. -I added a label since Google decided it's complicit in everything.

A screenshot of Lake Ontario on Google Maps.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Devastating footage coming from the Nepal-China border right now. Absolutely heartbreaking. 💔 Bridge, Houses Gone In Seconds: Videos Capture Horror Of Nepal Flash Floods www.ndtv.com/world-news/n... #NepalChinaFlood

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Stop giving your money to politicians.

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The Unified Principles Movement @the-upm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You guys can stop paying political candidates now... they just pocket that and you get nothing in return. Hope this helps.

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The Unified Principles Movement @the-upm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In 2024 alone, 1,684 Congressional candidates spent months (or years) fundraising millions of dollars, only to be eliminated in primary or general elections. 🚫 Fundraising Millions of dollars that will get wasted on marketing and consulting. ✅️ Listening to Millions of people to build better policy.

This visual highlights the central takeaway for UPM: while candidate interest grew modestly, the money required to compete expanded exponentially.

Key Takeaways Illustrated
Massive Financial Escalation (+313%): Federal election spending quadrupled in ten years—jumping from $3.85 Billion in 2014 to nearly $16 Billion in 2024.

Moderate Candidate Growth (+28.2%): Congressional candidate filings rose from 1,678 in 2014 to a peak of 2,656 in 2022, settling at 2,152 in 2024.

The Core Problem: The willingness of people to step up and run isn't the bottleneck—it is the financial capital required to enter and stay in the race.

To understand how many candidates run versus how many actually make it into office, we look at the mathematical reality of fixed federal seats in the U.S. Congress:

Fixed Seats Available: In any standard federal election, there are 435 House seats and roughly 33 or 34 Senate seats up for election—making a maximum total of ~468 available seats.

The Attrition Rate: Because only one candidate can win per seat, every additional candidate beyond that baseline ratio is lost in primary battles or general election defeats.

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The Unified Principles Movement @the-upm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

People over PAC's. Removing the money in campaigning = removing the candidates who are just there for their donors. 🚫 Calls and door knocks asking for money ✅️ Town Hall listening sessions 🚫 Taking money from corporations and businesses with self-serving agendas ✅️ Getting to know your voters' needs

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/07/2026

At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.

Mayor Mamdani holds up bananas with a 30% off sticker on them.

Shelves of produce and canned goods, all with 30% off stickers on them.

New Yorkers clap at the press conference announcing the 30% discount for municipal grocery stores.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Today, I submitted my formal comment to the Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in opposition to Docket No. OP-1878. Phew, that's a mouthful. I’ve been digging into the trajectory of our financial system, and what I’m seeing is deeply concerning. 👇

July 16, 2026
Benjamin W. McDonough, Secretary Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System 20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20551
Re: Public Comment on Proposed Revisions to the Federal Reserve Policy on Payment System Risk and the Guidelines for Account and Services Requests, Docket No. OP-1878
Dear Secretary McDonough,
I am writing to express my strong and unequivocal opposition to the proposed revisions under Docket No. OP-1878 (Federal Reserve System, 2026). The Board of Governors must not establish a framework for "Payment Accounts" designed to grant direct core ledger clearing and settlement access—specifically through Fedwire, FedNow, and the National Settlement Service—to non-depository, non-federally insured Tier 3 financial institutions, fintech platforms, and digital asset or stablecoin issuers (Federal Reserve System, 2026). Rather than adjusting payment system risk policies to accommodate these structurally volatile entities, the Board must maintain an absolute and unbreakable firewall. Bypassing heavily supervised commercial bank intermediaries exposes the nation's core financial rails to severe systemic run contagion, cyber exploitation, and catastrophic compliance gaps. This opposition is not aimed at shielding legacy commercial banks from market competition or technological progress. Innovation in financial services must occur within the established, legally authorized charter frameworks that protect the public. If fintech platforms and digital asset issuers wish to innovate and settle payments directly at the central bank, they are entirely free to apply for a commercial bank or credit union charter, accept comprehensive federal supervision, and compete on a level playing
field.

The catastrophic collapse of the fintech middleware provider Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc. serves as a stark warning. When Synapse collapsed, its poorly managed and unreconciled internal payment ledgers left more than 100,000
retail consumers locked out of approximately $265 million in funds. Bankruptcy trustee Jelena McWilliams and partnering banks subsequently identified a staggering shortfall of between $60 million and $90 million between what partner banks held and what Synapse's internal ledger expected. This structural disaster, which prompted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to file a Stipulated Final Judgment and Complaint (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 2025) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to initiate formal enforcement actions against former executives for total failure of cash management supervision (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority,
2025), proves that non-depository fintech firms systematically lack the basic ledger
integrity, capital reserves, and crisis-management structures necessary to guarantee the safety of user deposits. Granting similarly structured, non-federally insured entities direct access to the Federal Reserve's real-time settlement rails is a recipe for
automated consumer ruin.

Parent organizations remain contractually and reputationally exposed to their nonbank affiliates, maintaining implicit liabilities to rescue them in times of distress (Cetorelli & Kundu, 2026). Under severe stress simulations calibrated to 2008-scale shocks, four to six percent of bank holding companies would completely exhaust their entire capital buffers attempting to recapitalize their failing nonbank subsidiaries (Cetorelli & Kundu, 2026). Allowing these fragile nonbank platforms direct access to the central bank ledger would enable rapid, automated liquidity runs that bypass depository firewalls and dump systemic liabilities directly onto the Federal Reserve's balance sheet (Cetorelli & Kundu, 2026).
The Board may argue that its proposed guardrails within OP-1878, such as denying intraday and overnight overdraft capacity, offering zero interest, and banning participation in Excess Balance Accounts, are sufficient to mitigate these dangers (Federal Reserve System, 2026). Consequently, payment flows will be
compressed entirely into ultra-high-velocity rails like FedNow and Fedwire, accelerating
run speeds. While these parameters limit credit and liquidity risk for the Reserve Banks themselves, they leave the broader financial system completely exposed to catastrophic operational and fraud risks (Association for Financial Professionals, 2026). A state-sponsored hacker or automated fraud syndicate does not care about a one billion dollar balance cap; they can still use a single compromised fintech endpoint to execute hundreds of rapid-velocity payments that drain downstream participants instantly before operators can manually intervene.

A ninety-calendar-day timeline is structurally and operationally insufficient to perform comprehensive Anti-Money
Laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and operational resilience diligence on complex, opaque Tier 3 entities. The Board's belief that its due diligence framework can filter out bad
actors within such a rushed timeframe ignores the stark operational realities of the nonbank sector. As the Financial Stability Board detailed in its latest monitoring reports, the Non-Bank Financial Intermediation sector expanded by nine and four-tenths percent
in 2024, growing at double the pace of traditional banking, and now represents fifty-one percent of global financial assets (Financial Stability Board, 2025).
Despite its massive scale, the nonbank financial sector is plagued by critical data gaps (Financial Stability Board, 2025). Regulators currently lack the high-quality,
standardized data necessary to monitor nonbank leverage, asset positions, and
systemic exposures (Financial Stability Board, 2025). The vulnerabilities are so acute that the Financial Stability Board has had to establish a specialized Nonbank Data Task Force to conduct pilot studies just to begin to understand leveraged trading strategies in these markets (Financial Stability Board, 2025). It is operationally impossible for the
Federal Reserve to perform rigorous, proactive due diligence within ninety days onentities whose underlying portfolios and transaction flows are fundamentally
unmonitored, opaque, and prone to extreme data gaps (Financial Stability Board, 2025). Connecting these opaque platforms to 24/7 instant clearing networks also creates an intolerable national security threat. Hostile nation-state actors and cybercriminal
syndicates systematically target nonbank edge networks because they lack robust, enterprise-grade perimeter defenses.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. (Published April)

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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

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God @thegodshow.com · 10/07/2026

The reason Trump screamed “RIGGED!” about the 2020 election was so that he could cheat and rig the 2024 election as much as he wanted. Because if anyone says the word ‘rigged’ now, even if it is, you sound like him. This is an old Nazi tactic.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo!

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is America. Thank you to @tadstoermer.bsky.social for putting this amazing collection of historic moments together. #America250th #aResistanceHistoryOfTheUnitedStates #Books

A picture of the book "A Resistance History of the United States" by Tad Stoermer sets upon a night stand with the book "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design" by Kat Holmes behind it.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

History is littered with autocrats who believed they were playing a multi-dimensional chess match against the future, only to be completely dismantled by their own psychological decay or the unquantifiable whim of nature. #wealth #fallacy #musk

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Breaking the Myth of Musk: The Social Construct of Wealth

Wealth as an Abstract Narrative

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

NEW: DOD is probing the leak of information about an active intelligence officer involved with Peter Thiel's Dialog club. The officer is said to work for a special missions unit. The White House also claims details about another top intelligence official are restricted on national security grounds.

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The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Exposed records from the private group included the personal information of a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Remember, there are always more of us than there are of them. They even said it themselves.

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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

To Don Lemon: The 2024 Election Was Stolen—It's NOT the Tabulators The attack vector in the stolen 2024 election was a vote bank operating upstream from the precincts, and we've been reporting on it since November 2025. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/06/2026

NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.

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Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes

One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is bombshell stuff.

Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.

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Adam “Azrael” Zarnowski @azraeltengu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Huh, where have I seen these names before? #Jormungandr

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

NEW: "It's literally the gulag." A Meta engineer describes their job in the new 6,500-person "Applied AI" unit, where highly-paid Silicon Valley talent are now "draftees" forced to write puzzle problems to feed the beast. WIRED's inside the morale collapse:

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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta's chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

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CosmicFirePeace @cosmicfirepeace.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Newly unmasked evidence shows who put Trump in the White House | Opinion msn.com/en-ca/news/p... ths investigative report .. shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has basically owned Donald Trump for years, even before Trump ran for president in 2016.

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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Merrick Garland and “The Octopus" Recirculating this long but worthy article with the hope that folks will understand we're in the end stage of a long-game laid out by the criminally minded during the Eisenhower administration. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I need everyone to watch this and catch up because we do not have time. The data behind it explains everything in detail about what is about to happen. @thedreydossier.bsky.social @thiswillhold.bsky.social #viral #news #privacy #data #global youtu.be/J1yRurGLbH8?...

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Trump built a new passport.gov website

YouTube video by The Drey Dossier

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If I could get the world to understand one thing about #SocialMedia , #DigitalMedia , #Marketing , and modern-day #Journalism it's that 80% of it is fluff. Most social media accounts are drowning in bots, #ai has ruined organic marketing, and the field of marketing in general is filled with cons.⬇️

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

No place trolls better than San Francisco.

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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Tech Whistleblower: The UAE Colluded With Elon Musk to Interfere In the 2024 Election The program is "Aleria," an advisor to Tulsi Gabbard was informed—and we have the receipts. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

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Tech Whistleblower: The UAE Colluded With Elon Musk to Interfere In the 2024 Election

The program is "Aleria" and we have the receipts.

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This Will Hold @thiswillhold.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Musk’s Direct-to-Cell constellation and the U.S. election. Background: This began in 2022 as “digging,” when Musk launched his bid to purchase Twitter at $20B over value, just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine. A convo re NATO considering Article 5 over Cyber attacks prompted the original post.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

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Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It's a long but necessary read. A lot has changed since I wrote this in November (I would add more parallels) Beyond the Bubble: The Parallels to the 1920s We Can’t Ignore medium.com/@ccadaptivec...

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Beyond the Bubble: The Parallels to the 1920s We Can’t Ignore

By Caitlin Conner — November 4, 2025

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/03/2026

In a new TIME interview, Trump casually acknowledged Americans could face retaliatory attacks at home due to his escalating war with Iran. “I guess,” he said when asked about the risk, adding: “When you go to war, some people will die.” time.com/7382697/trum...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...

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ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Anyone else notice how absolutely horrible Meta and TikTok are now? Just deleted TikTok 🪦 There's no coming back from this now. #DeleteTikTok #DeleteMeta #Tiktok

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I'm heartbroken to share the news of Alice Wong's passing. We have lost a titan. I envision her now hanging out with the other greats we've lost, like Judith Heumann, Ed Roberts, and Brad Lomax. Alice is but another disabled ancestor joining a powerful lineage.

A screenshot of a tweet from Alice Wong (@SFdirewolf), posted at 11:32 PM on November 14, 2025. The tweet contains a message in black text on a yellow background, introduced by her friend.

The text reads:

"This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.

Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things might work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

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C Conner @caitlinconner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I'm not sure anyone in the world will even see this, but if you're in Boulder and in the #Disability realm, you're invited Be More Adaptive®: Boulder Disability Community Social Hour www.eventbrite.com/e/be-more-ad...

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Be More Adaptive®: Boulder Disability Community Social Hour

Join Be More Adaptive® for a relaxed, social gathering to connect across the disability community in the Boulder and surrounding areas.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/10/2025

Reminder: Trump's Argentina bailout only benefits one American; a $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The case before the Supreme Court is called Louisiana v. Callais, a redistricting dispute that has become a major test of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the landmark civil rights law designed to protect Black Americans and other minorities from being shut out of political representation.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2025

a russ vought special

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