Kempo50 @kempo50.bsky.social · 1hI'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: National Guard Out Now Rally + Pack the Court. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/pack-...actionnetwork.orgNational Guard Out Now Rally + Pack the CourtLast 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 ... 000
Reposted by Kempo50Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 11/10/2026On 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 11511
Reposted by Kempo50Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 23hPublic 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:blog.ucs.orgNew UCS Analysis Shows Progress and Significant Gaps in Meaningful Engagement in State Air PermittingThe 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 ... 192
Reposted by Kempo50Union 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. 🧵ucs.orgCommunity Access to Clean Air DecisionmakingMembers 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. 12516
Reposted by Kempo50Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 12/10/20261. 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.vote411.orgVOTE411Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund. 11811
Reposted by Kempo50Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18hNot 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. 552175
Reposted by Kempo50Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18hGOP launches investigation into the 1st, 5th, and 6th amendments 171021256
Reposted by Kempo50Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I 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-...spitfirenews.comWhat the 4-hour Elon Musk documentary revealsPlus, a post-screening Q&A with Ashley St. Clair. 31818153
Reposted by Kempo50Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I 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. 261743241
Reposted by Kempo50Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21hY’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. 14843571142
Reposted by Kempo50Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/10/2026For 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. 16845301
Reposted by Kempo50Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026BREAKING: 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... 05712
Reposted by Kempo50Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 16hThis 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. 6040211157
Reposted by Kempo50Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 21hNEW: 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...motherjones.comDrone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe ItA viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online. 261001400
Reposted by Kempo50Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Guess 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...motherjones.comElon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation riskThe world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns. 9356132
Reposted by Kempo50David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My 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. 26428184
Reposted by Kempo50The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 21hToday’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... 032
Reposted by Kempo50Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/10/2026To 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. 451383422
Reposted by Kempo50Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Now 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. 14611178
Reposted by Kempo50Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 22hRacist 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. 15578207
Reposted by Kempo50Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I stand with Major Jason Watson and the first amendment. #USDemocracy 25123
Reposted by Kempo50Martin Napier @mnapier76.bsky.social · 12/10/2026www.military.com/air-force-ma... #contextmilitary.comAir Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s ImpeachmentMaj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle. 21413
Reposted by Kempo50Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Trump 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. 718929
Reposted by Kempo50Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Scandals 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. 5434381037
Reposted by Kempo50Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21hVance 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. 971853327
Reposted by Kempo50Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22hPete Hegseth wasn't lying about us getting to see someone die on live TV. 74082321824
Reposted by Kempo50Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Watching a data center burn to the ground might be the highlight of our year 531146702778
Reposted by Kempo50Martin Napier @mnapier76.bsky.social · 11/10/2026thehill.com/homenews/613... #contextthehill.comKelly calls to remove Hegseth ‘immediately’ over public execution planSen. 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 … 357181404453
Reposted by Kempo50Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot. 406104693493
Reposted by Kempo50Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The 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. 281060357
Reposted by Kempo50Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No 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. 12588172094
Reposted by Kempo50Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The 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/stripes.com‘A significant impact’: National Guard wraps up first year of deployment to DCMore 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. 4259101
Reposted by Kempo50Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We are creating an invasive digital species with the ability to reproduce. Surely nothing could go wrong. 38613
Reposted by Kempo50Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Whoa: 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”anthropic.comAI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenterSmall 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. 2310245
Reposted by Kempo50Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My little warrior baby wishes you a Happy Indigenous Peoples Day. 582177541366
Reposted by Kempo50Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I 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. 12682932024
Reposted by Kempo50Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So, 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? 2355240033594
Reposted by Kempo50Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm with Carl Sagan on this: 24679632759
Reposted by Kempo50Marzimello 🇨🇦 @marzimello.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Disinformation is not random, it is 100% planned. Great post breaking it down and what we can do 0188