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Kempo50

@kempo50.bsky.social
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American who supports human rights, freedom & democracy not only abroad but in the United States. Loves reading, music, theater, history, science, being outdoors.

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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Kempo50 @kempo50.bsky.social · 1h
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: National Guard Out Now Rally + Pack the Court. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/pack-...
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National Guard Out Now Rally + Pack the Court
Last year, the DC Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit to stop Trump's illegal deployment of National Guard troops in DC. The federal courts ruled in our favor, but the Trump Administration ...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 11/10/2026
On Wednesday 10/14, hear from former PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, a leading elections expert with deep experience in election processes & safeguards. She led the state's 2020 elections and will share what gives her hope & optimism as we move toward the midterms. RSVP: act.ucs.org/4zl4xB1
Graphic promoting a Science Rising National Call titled “The Midterms: What to Watch For, What to Expect,” on Wednesday, October 14, from 1:00–2:00 p.m. ET. The event features Kathy Boockvar, former Pennsylvania Secretary of State; Skye Perryman, President & CEO of Democracy Forward; and Jennifer Jones, Director of the UCS Center for Science and Democracy. The graphic says the discussion will cover what news to focus on before, during, and after Election Day and how to take action to protect democracy. Logos for the Union of Concerned Scientists and Democracy Forward appear at the bottom.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 23h
Public participation isn't just a box to check. When communities are shut out of decisions about air pollution, both public health and democracy are at stake. 🔍UCS researcher Darya Minovi explains why meaningful engagement matters and how states can improve it. Read more:
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New UCS Analysis Shows Progress and Significant Gaps in Meaningful Engagement in State Air Permitting
The permitting process that allows polluting facilities to operate doesn’t just exist for show. It’s designed to make sure that people are protected from potential hazards like air pollution. But too ...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 23h
📢 NEW REPORT: People deserve a say in decisions that affect the air they breathe. But a new UCS analysis of Title V air permits for major polluters like power plants and refineries finds significant gaps in how states engage communities. Here's what we found. 🧵
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Community Access to Clean Air Decisionmaking
Members of the public shouldn’t just be given an opportunity to comment – they should be able to understand the process, participate meaningfully, and see whether their input made a difference.
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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
1. Check your voter registration at vote411.org 2. Vote early & in person! Find early voting dates in your state & track your ballot at vote.org 3. Help your community vote! Check their registration and help them make a plan to vote early, in person.
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VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18h
Not only do jurors and grand jurors have a right to nullify, individual citizens also have a right to advocate for nullification to the public. This investigation is unlawful retaliation against the exercise of core constitutional rights.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18h
GOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I saw an early screening of the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary, and he's calling it a "hit piece" because it's a damning compendium of some of his most egregious manipulation and cruelty. My question is whether the Ellisons will spike it before it ever gets to HBO. spitfirenews.com/p/elon-musk-...
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What the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary reveals
Plus, a post-screening Q&A with Ashley St. Clair.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I left X almost exactly two years ago because of the violent, celebrated rape culture that was dominating the platform. Two years later, I’m undeniably better off, and the culture around sexual violence at large is arguably worse. I believe X has played a serious role in that.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21h
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/10/2026
For a decade, Trump has targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar with grotesque, racist rhetoric that has fueled threats against her. This federal raid on her home is a dangerous escalation. Rep. Omar has done nothing to warrant this kind of intimidation.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
BREAKING: my ongoing campaign to inject the 2014 Swedish film Force Majeure into the discourse gets a major boost from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
Quote from Kristol substack: 
Yesterday I remarked that “seeing support for President Trump collapse among the public—with very little help from our pitifully complacent and fearful elites—is heartening. Even inspiring.”

I didn’t go into any detail to justify my swipe at our elites. I don’t really think much justification is needed. But I thought I might mention here one of the most helpful characterizations I’ve heard of their behavior. It came from Leah Greenberg, co-founder of the grassroots activist organization Indivisible and a key organizer of the No Kings demonstrations, in a conversation we had under the auspices of the New Haven Democracy Project.

I was lamenting the performance of our elites, and asked Leah what she thought of them. Her reply:

So there’s a 2014 Swedish dark comedy called Force Majeure in which a family goes to a ski lodge. It’s a husband and a wife and their two small children, and there is an optical illusion of a controlled avalanche that makes them think that an avalanche is coming at the ski lodge. And the husband just books it. He grabs his phone and he runs and he leaves the wife and their two small children. You know, the wife is desperately trying to shield the children from what they think is an oncoming avalanche. And it turns out it was an optical illusion. Everyone’s safe. It’s fine.

But now they have to live with what that moment has revealed about the fact that the husband will flee and save himself at the drop of a hat. That is kind of how I feel about elites in American society right now. That’s the best metaphor that I’ve been able to come up with for what we have experienced over the last year and a half, which is to say that I think we’ve got a lot of really revealing data about when the chips are down, what people will do, how much they will fold . . . to save themselves, how much they will risk to push back. And, you know, it’s a lot faster to make a list of the people who did push back in early 2025 than the peop…
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 16h
This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 21h
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Guess who was one of the biggest spreaders of that bogus claim about Talarico supposedly disappearing to Ohio? As @annamerlan.bsky.social reports, "The biggest election disinformation risk in the next few weeks is Elon Musk." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation risk
The world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My new book—HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Fight for America—is now out. It's the full story of Putin's decade-long clandestine attack on the US to aid Trump & Trump's complicity in this assault. See this video narrated by Nick Offerman. Learn more & order at HowRussiaWon.com.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 21h
Today’s Opening Statement is packed with links covering the holiday weekend, including new details on immigration enforcement operations and the controversial federal raid of a Democratic congresswoman’s Washington, D.C. home. mailchi.mp/themarshallp...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
To be clear, the orange felon has always been a criminal, he’s always been a fascist, he’s always been a racist, he’s always been a rapist, he’s always been in bed with Russia, he’s always been a traitor and the American state media have always normalized him. Wake TF up before it’s too late.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Now you can understand why President Biden had to issue pardons to certain people including his own son in regards to the political white supremacist retribution Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been dealing with. Weaponizing the federal govt should be considered treason.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 22h
Racist crook Ken Paxton was caught partying in Dubai with a woman who isn’t his wife and two literal fugitives from US justice. This is the same scumbag who was under criminal indictment in Texas for nearly 10 years and fascist republicans allowed him to remain the office of AG anyway.
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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
R.E.S.P.E.C.T 🇺🇸
Caricature of Major Jason Watson against the US flag:

HIS COURAGE. * HIS SACRIFICE. * OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
MAJOR JASON WATSON
HE SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER.
WE KEEP IT ALIVE.
GOOD TROUBLE SQUADRON
Love Over Hate. Trouble Worth Making
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I stand with Major Jason Watson and the first amendment. #USDemocracy
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Martin Napier @mnapier76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.military.com/air-force-ma... #context
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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump did not direct the raid on Rep. Omar's house because there is any reasonable cause. It's because he thinks his base will turn out for xenophobia and knows they aren't turning out for his Iran war, price spikes or grift. It's gross authoritarianism - nothing more.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Scandals this week in the Texas senate race: Ken Paxton on video with his latest mistress partying in Dubai with a wanted fugitive who committed over $300 million in health care fraud and gave $190K to Paxton. James Talarico stayed home to recover from the flu.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
Vance certainly has gay acquaintances. Most obviously his mentor and most important political booster, Peter Thiel, is gay. But his mental model of Texas voters is that they are a bunch of redneck rubes, so a insinuating a straight candidate is gay will work.
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Kempo50 @kempo50.bsky.social · 21h
#IllhanOmar. Profile in courage.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h
Pete Hegseth wasn't lying about us getting to see someone die on live TV.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Watching a data center burn to the ground might be the highlight of our year
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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𝓒𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 @anondananda.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Truth 💥
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Martin Napier @mnapier76.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
thehill.com/homenews/613... #context
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Kelly calls to remove Hegseth ‘immediately’ over public execution plan
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called on the Trump administration to remove Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his post “immediately” over the Pentagon chief’s plan to livestream the …
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.
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#AmIsraelChai🇮🇱 @oreo59.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The raid on Rep. Omar is a FIVE ALARM FIRE. Trump is weaponizing the federal government to go after an opposition leader and escalate his viciously racist campaign against Somali Americans. We stand with Ilhan.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No amount of hate, fear, or bigotry can stop our movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.
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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The only reporting of Phase 2 I’ve seen was buried in a Stars and Stripes story: “Troops will . . begin transitioning to the next phase. Though few details were shared, the next step includes transitioning into neighborhoods such as Anacostia and Trinidad.” www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... 10/
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‘A significant impact’: National Guard wraps up first year of deployment to DC
More than 9,700 troops have deployed to the city for the past year as part of an effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We are creating an invasive digital species with the ability to reproduce. Surely nothing could go wrong.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Whoa: AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter “Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT [Internet of Things] devices”
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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My little warrior baby wishes you a Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I feel deep, deep gratitude toward every single person who takes a couple hours out of their busy lives to be a part of this movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Marzimello 🇨🇦 @marzimello.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Disinformation is not random, it is 100% planned. Great post breaking it down and what we can do
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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