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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Yep. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
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Introducing the Director of Homeland Security | South Park
YouTube video by South Park Studios
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Too good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xR...
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Relax, Guy
YouTube video by South Park Studios
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The only "emergency" here is America's slide into authoritarianism. This Court's partisanship and corruption repeatedly corrode America's democratic fundamentals. The purpose of its existence is to act as bastion defending them. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Yet More Commissioners Without Cause
Read more here.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“To have armored vehicles deployed on the streets of our city, to federalize the National Guard, to have the U.S. Marines who are trained to kill abroad, deployed to our city — all of this is outrageous and it is un-American,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced in the wake of the joint ICE-
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The Military Occupied LA for 40 Days and All They Did Was Detain One Guy
Sent over the objections of California officials, the military has detained one man who was rushing to an appointment in a federal building, not protesting.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/07/2025
“…and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
CBS, may you never be allowed to slink away from this: www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
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Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' run will come to an end next year as CBS cancels franchise
The decision "is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount," the network said.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 18/07/2025
This is what integrity looks like.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
DOGE kid commits colossal fuckup, granted access to databases at Social Security Administration, Department of Justice, Treasury and Homeland Security: krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge...
krebsonsecurity.com
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury an...
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Amen. It's fascism.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
It’s absolutely impossible to think this is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
72% of people swept up in Trump’s immigration raids have no criminal record. That includes at least 250 people detained in deplorable conditions in his “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida. This was never about targeting criminals. It was always about terrorizing immigrants.
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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
On Saturday at Disneyland JD Eyeliner & family visited the "Tiana’s Bayou" ride, which used to be called "Splash Mountain". For an authentic bayou and splash experience, he could have done his job and gone to Texas...
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Political purge. Authoritarian playbook, chapter and verse. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
seattletimes.com
Justice Dept. fires more prosecutors, support staff involved in Trump prosecutions, AP sources say
The Justice Department has fired additional lawyers and support staff who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President Donald Trump.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Political purge. Authoritarian playbook, chapter and verse. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
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State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change
The firings of nearly a dozen people in the State Department’s Office of Global Change include the last U.S. climate negotiators.
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Nananastee 🇺🇦🍷📚 @nananastee.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Well this is the winner of the Post of the Day for Saturday, for sure! 👇👇👇🏆🏆🏆
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Actually, orcas offering to share with humans is a real thing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
These orcas have been trying to feed people, new research shows
Orcas in four oceans have been documented offering food to people, according to new research.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 13/07/2025
There is no bottom to this barrel.
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ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Guy's just obviously corrupt and, I assume, doing the bidding of his benefactors. Impeach, remove.
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Old Hippie @oldhippie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins should show everyone how easy it is to work in the fields by working one full day in the fields! ✌️😀💙🌈🇲🇽
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PHL SportsNut @ispw8842.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
That DOES say a lot!
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Boycotting Google search would probably be tough, but boycotting their thermostats ought to be easy.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 10/07/2025
We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Trump is pledging full support to Texas after its deadly floods – and rightfully so. But California has yet to receive $40 billion in aid to rebuild from January’s devastating wildfires. A president is supposed to govern for all Americans – not just those who voted for him.
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Chronicles of Vatastan @vatastan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) major and putin-awarded war criminal Volkov Aleksandr Alekseevich (Волков Александр Алексеевич) was killed in a missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Polohy.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
An AI owned by a man who gave two Nazi salutes on inauguration day for a President whose campaign he donated $288B to and who had Kanye West and Nick Fuentes over for dinner and said Hitler did good things created anti-Semitic posts. Please your Tesla and your stock. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
nbcnews.com
Elon Musk's AI chatbot churns out antisemitic posts days after update
In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Democracy Docket's timeline of DOJ's campaign against voters' rights: www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...
democracydocket.com
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long worked to protect voting rights. But since President Donald Trump returned to office, the DOJ’s voting section has done a dramatic 180. Today, rather than...
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Local dad @twrudolph.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Spotted on my walk to the office #Seattle
A painting on a column for the Seattle monorail track depicting a masked ICE officer arresting Jesus.
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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the YOUNGER side."
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Far right voter-suppression activist groups now have the power of the Department of Justice. Authoritarian Move of the Day: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ Demands Access to Minnesota’s Voter Rolls
Read more here.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We don't just need to call out the coalition of unAmerican weirdos who enable Trump. We need to call out the weak liberals who appeased him, including Joe Biden, and through their appeasement enabled him: prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org
Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
Having evaded accountability when he was out of power, he’s running amok today.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Gross. People just need to knock it off.
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
gonna watch gop margins in rural areas decline by 4% after he took away their healthcare, deported their workforce, lost them market access for their biggest exports, crushed their budding green energy sector, and gutted their infrastructure projects
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
And loudly shout down the liberals whose weak impulses appeased, then enabled Donald Trump, as any one who hears history's echoes could have predicted: prospect.org/politics/202...
prospect.org
Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
Having evaded accountability when he was out of power, he’s running amok today.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Huh. An American press outlet conducting a detailed investigation of possible U.S. government spying on citizens. Who knew? san.com/cc/exclusive...
san.com
Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
According to a new report, defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon have raked in over HALF of Pentagon spending since 2020. Trump's new $1 trillion annual DoD budget will pad their pockets even further as he cuts the social safety net. War is a racket.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
He should resign.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Not just pundits. Reporters. The quality of the press has fallen terribly while we weren't watching.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/07/2025
The audacity and depravity of slashing funding for emergency services while handing out tax breaks to billionaires is absolutely staggering.
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In Texas flood response, FEMA slowed by Noem’s cost controls | CNN Politics
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and li...
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
On a $10 billion annual budget, ICE treated L.A. like Fallujah and took similar actions in other cities. That budget looks about to quadruple, thanks to the Republican budget bill. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/an-i...
seattletimes.com
An ICE force on steroids with another $100 billion in coffers
The real work of comprehensive immigration reform, so desperately needed, will once again go undone despite this historic level of funding.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"'What are these people afraid of?'" "So you have enforcers cosplaying as criminals, and criminals cosplaying as enforcers." Authoritarian Move of the Day: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
The masks couldn’t hide the folly of White Center ICE raid
The South End community is abuzz about a recent masked raid. If ICE agents can't show their faces when enforcing immigration policy, that says something about the policy.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 08/07/2025
Agreed. And the funds should be rolled out on autopilot at, say, $25 billion a month to Ukraine so Putin feels the pressure and inevitability if he doesn’t come to terms.
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Europe must act now to seize Russia’s frozen assets
Using Moscow’s immobilised holdings in Belgium to bolster Ukraine’s economy and defence is both legal and necessary
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Authoritarian Move of the Day: www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
seattletimes.com
Troops and federal agents briefly descend on LA’s MacArthur Park in largely immigrant neighborhood
Dozens of federal officers in tactical gear roamed a mostly empty park in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a large immigrant population for about an hour before clearing out.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Democracies do not use their military to try and intimidate their own citizens with “shows of presence”. This is fascism.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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davidrboone.bsky.social @davidrboone.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Ever hear of Flock Safety? Me, either. They are helping ICE track immigrants, local law enforcement chase abortion patients and very possibly providing data about any of us to our authoritarian government: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe
Two recent statements from the surveillance company reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled down on th...
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