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Leesylou #CluckingDisgustedAndThePortlandFrogsIsMyBandName

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Always late…or early. Biospherical Egalitarian. Trying to stay 25 ahead of you crazy folx!

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Impossible to love this more
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2h
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h
NEW: Wisconsin Democrats sued the Trump administration for using $20 million in taxpayer funds to run TV ads seemingly created to boost GOP candidates in the midterms — an initiative the lawsuit argues is unlawful. The ads mark the administration's latest effort to unfairly influence the vote.
democracydocket.com
Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda ads draw third lawsuit
It’s the third lawsuit filed in response to the campaign-style ads, seemingly created to boost GOP candidates as the party registers historically low ratings.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 1h
What are these data centres really for, who is paying for them, who profits, who is accountable, and what happens when the systems inside them cause harm? Claudia Weisenberger #auspol #Firmus michaelwest.com.au/ai-data-cent...
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AI data centre frenzy. Is the Firmus IPO failure a sign of worse to come? - Michael West
Investors baulked at the valuation of aspiring AI data centre darling Firmus, while other data centre builds are facing grassroots opposition.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1h
Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court while simultaneously easing sanctions on Russia which is massacring Ukrainian civilians. A masterclass in criminality and corruption.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
This is as treasonous as it gets
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 1h
Trump and his administration are constantly finding new ways to abuse power to enrich themselves and their friends at the expense of the American people.
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 4h
"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...
thecut.com
I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed
When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h
At least 19 settler attacks recorded across territory on Friday as Israeli forces separately detain 16 Palestinians.
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Israeli settler attacks target Palestinian olive harvest in West Bank
At least 19 settler attacks recorded across territory on Friday as Israeli forces separately detain 16 Palestinians.
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Dave Bailey @dbaile0001.bsky.social · 1h
Europe now needs to look at itself and realise that they need to sanction US officials over this. Time to abandon the dollar as a reserve currency as well.
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ippy51.bsky.social @ippy51.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#FreePalestine
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 3h
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 11h
Why this stage of the climate crisis is good for all of us (RIP Nicolas Cage's house in Malibu) and how talking about climate change is a solution we should all get behind with Climate Curious. @katharinehayhoe.com @bernwoodsplacky.bsky.social @au-cece.bsky.social youtu.be/DoN5D-Mj8p0?...
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VIP climate shocks
YouTube video by Climate Curious Podcast
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 9h
One reason social mobilization resonates at such scale in France is that the symbolism, imaginary and celebration of the revolution is so deeply rooted in the nation's political culture and DNA. And a student mobilization is particularly dangerous because they can stay out there a long time. 🤣
reuters.com
French student protesters vow to keep up their fight after scoring first win
The protests have snowballed into a wider movement, with more university students weighing in to express their anger over what they call a dysfunctional system.
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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 10h
Redacting the signatory might be unprecedented. I've never seen or heard of the like.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h
Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.
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Trump says voter fraud is rampant. The evidence says otherwise.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” conservative activist J. Christian Adams is challenged on his claims of widespread voter fraud in the US. Then he abruptly ends the interview.
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 9h
Ahead of election day, @wuc3.bsky.social reminds us that "states are the primary regulators of elections, and their charters do much of the work to establish and protect the right to vote."
statecourtreport.org
Voting Rights Under State Constitutions, Explained
All but one state constitution affirmatively establishes a right to vote.
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Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social · 9h
ICE and assorted local thugs are hitting LA and San Diego (surprise, surprise) hard right now. If you're in the groups being targeted, please take extra care and caution. If you're not, please check in with your local support orgs to see how you can help. ✊🏾💜
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Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org · 9h
Every person has worth before they have a job. When the system can't employ someone, the system has failed, not the person.
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 9h
Plug-in solar was approved in CA, and it's turning homes into a distributed network of tiny power plants. “It’s really ideal to use renewable electricity exactly where it’s generated.” - @amandadsmith.bsky.social, sr. scientist @mrmattsimon.bsky.social bit.ly/4xSqxCf #cleanenergy
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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants
The state is the biggest to approve solar panels that plug into walls, giving residents a cheaper way to generate their own electricity.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 10h
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Basic Income Earth Network @basicincomeearth.bsky.social · 9h
🧠 Did you know? Part 6. What would basic income do to work? With a secure income floor, people are able to say no to unsafe or exploitative work, wait for a better job, reduce hours when needed, or take risks like education, training or entrepreneurship. Swipe through 👇🏾
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 9h
"What happened to Jane Doe wasn't just the fact that she went to the Chi Phi house and seven men took advantage of her," says 18-year-old Cornell student Saya Taylor. "The entire system of Cornell University failed her."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 10h
A comedian has a pretty good answer for the weird fear that giving people UBI would mean they'd do nothing by harkening back to early covid lockdowns when everyone did stuff to make it more bearable.
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Nobody is doing nothing #standupcomedian #standupspecial #comedyclips #universalbasicincome
YouTube video by Craig Fay
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h
NEW: Big Tech companies reveal to Congress they expect YOU to keep subsidizing their data centers. AND they’ll keep using NDAs to keep the public in the dark. I’m not letting them get away with it.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9h
My MAGA focus group felt betrayed by tariffs, high gas prices, and inflation. I asked if there was any way Republicans could win back their support, and they replied only if they could prove that the pain had fallen harder on Black people.
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Tony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 9h
The rollback of the Inflation Reduction Act and Trump’s war on renewables (which the current bill may or may not meaningfully change) certainly played roles. But the overwhelming reason is the scale and speed of the data center buildout. frontiergroup.org/resources/da...
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Data centers are driving a surge in fossil fuel plants
Burning fossil fuels for electricity harms our air and water and disrupts the climate. But data centers are fueling an explosion of new natural gas plants.
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Tony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 9h
The elephant in the room in this debate is that the speed and scale of the data center buildout itself is unsustainable. And it’s unsustainable any way you might slice it.
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IEEFA North America @ieefa-northamerica.bsky.social · 9h
Phase 1 of LNG Canada was sanctioned by a relatively stable group of strategic investors. However, major partners are now selling their stakes. The motives behind these divestments are unknown, but the shift in ownership raises questions. Learn more: buff.ly/M3N7uxa
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 9h
This was official campaign ad for One Nation in Victoria. In breach of our racial and religious vilification laws. Where was the universal condemnation by our political leaders and mainstream media. Nowhere.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 9h
What's actually shameful is shooting into a car with a 5yr old inside and then calling a press conference to brag about it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
The Fraud Task Force is important bc: 1) It chases peanuts while Trump steals orders of magnitude more on a daily basis 2) It is largely propaganda 3) It was the excuse to destroy white collar policing news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Fraud Division’s Rise Diminishes Premier White Collar Unit
The Justice Department’s corporate crime enforcement hub has lost the bulk of its market manipulation and securities expertise over the past few months, accelerating what former officials call a downg...
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 18h
The Colorado River basin's 2025-26 water year (October-September) was the warmest on record. It was also the least snowy on record. Only 16.8% of the (below average) precipitation fell as snow - shattering the previous record low.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
AOC: “ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency. It does not belong in NYC and should not exist in 🇺🇸. Abolish ICE.”
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 8h
During #HateCrimesAwarenessMonth, we’re raising our voices for the communities most affected and calling for prevention measures that stop hate crimes — before they even occur. Stand up. Speak up. #RefuseHate. Add your name for ways to take action and support our work 📲: bit.ly/4elDsFM
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ACLU @aclu.org · 8h
The Trump administration has removed crucial reporting requirements, making it easier for ICE to try to escape accountability when people die shortly after being released from their custody. No one should die because of ICE's dangerous detention conditions.
aclu.org
Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump
Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 8h
The report draws on a three day forum with 120 people working across libraries, archives, journalism, research, policy, and technology. 📚 Participants called for a shift from emergency rescue to lasting stewardship. #DemocracysLibrary #DigitalPreservation @archive.org
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h
“The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.”
theatlantic.com
The GOP’s Message to Immigrants
Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 8h
Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 8h
People protesting changes to 🇩🇪's Grids package and Renewable Energy Sources Act today are clear: expand, don’t slow down! In Neumünster, BürgerEnergie Nord shows how grid digitalisation delays can stop communities benefiting from rooftop solar & lowering their bills. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdc...
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Germany’s outdated grids are delaying the energy transition
YouTube video by Beyond Fossil Fuels
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h
Also worth noting: Boutros invoked Trump v. US in this case, which AFAIK has only otherwise been invoked in the Jim Comey case. What if Blanche, personally, is more closely involved in this? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/d...
emptywheel.net
DOJ Invokes Trump v. US to Protect Todd Blanche's Fixer, Aakash Singh - emptywheel
In the 18 months that Trump's former defense attorney Todd Blanche has run DOJ, he has yet to rely on Trump v. US, the SCOTUS precedent giving the President unbridled authority to dictate individual p...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h
Here's what W appointed judge Brian Cogan said about Cuni on August 26. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Not long after SDDO Cuni’s declaration was filed, a video of the arrest from a nearby
doorbell camera surfaced, and the footage largely contradicts SDDO Cuni’s declaration.
Although there are many discrepancies, the relevant differences are that (1) SDDO Cuni did not
issue or obtain an arrest warrant (judicial or administrative) before arresting petitioner, and (2)
the entire encounter lasted less than 3 minutes, as opposed to 20. Petitioner’s counsel brought
the video to respondents’ counsel’s attention, and respondents have doubled down. SDDO Cuni
filed a “supplemental” declaration that purports to fill in the gaps but essentially retells the
original story.
As for verifying petitioner’s immigration status before the arrest, SDDO Cuni
backtracked on calling the “Law Enforcement Support Center” as he originally described.
Instead, he recounts having entered petitioner’s name on a smartphone app called “Mobile
Fortify,” which SDDO Cuni states “connects instantly to multiple federal and state databases . . .
including DHS’s biometric systems and passport and visa records.” That query returned no
“records indicating Petitioner had any prior encounters with CBP or ICE,” which, to SDDO
Cuni, “indicated that Petitioner was present in the United States without legal entry.”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h
Here's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).
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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 8h
It's well beyond time that ICE thugs face state and local laws against murder and attempted murder. They are not protected by federal supremacy and immunity. Murder has nothing to do with the execution of immigration law.
theguardian.com
‘Abolish ICE’: Mamdani, AOC and other Democrats urge action after New York shooting
US immigration officer shot man in car where five-year-old child was sitting in the Bronx, sparking fierce protests
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
🔥 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “THIS CITY WANTS ICE OUT. We do not need them to keep us safe. All they do is terrorize our city.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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