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Livio De La Cruz

@livio.me
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Interim Co-Executive Director of Legal Services at communities-rise.org where we help nonprofits and small businesses thrive. Activist, former indie game developer, dad. Active in my local UCC congregation. Seattle, WA, USA. All opinions are my own

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 10/09/2026
gonna start a conspiracy theory that it's actually linear algebra itself that makes people start believing head-slappingly cockamamie pseudo-religious nonsense, like people think studying the nature of infinity makes you lose it wait'll you hear about positive semidefinite matrices
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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The horrifying realization that Coyote Vs Acme delighted me as a 90s style legal thriller for the same reason Roger Rabbit delighted old people as a 50s noir.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration “misappropriated” $10 million meant to provide health insurance for poor children. Part of a “sophisticated scheme to fund political activities,” the money was funneled through multiple organizations before reaching two PACs and the Florida GOP.
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026
I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 30/07/2026
"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
theguardian.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jimmy Kimmel nailed another one. Enjoy.
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state song thread guy @statesongxprt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
i had no idea this would become so literal
tweet https://x.com/patdubois/status/1590006089541914624?lang=en
from @patdubois
reads "as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days"
along with an image reading 50.1% "Everyone Gets A Puppy" vs 49.9% "Diarrhea Forever"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.
“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026
Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
They're plundering the national treasury.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
you guys, I think I might have figured out the problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
Times Exclusive

Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool
A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services, the business owned by a trust led by John J. Cafaro. 

Highlighted text: Greenwater Services
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Livio De La Cruz @livio.me · 12/06/2026
Everyday, the president announces he’s got a peace deal done with Iran. Every day Fox News triumphantly praises him for it. Everyday, their audience doesn’t question the fact that they’ve been lied to every day prior. (There’s still isn’t a peace deal, this useless war rages on)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“.. Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense,” she wrote in her comment, according to Reuters. @variety.com variety.com/2026/music/n...
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Cartoon showing a man on a branch. He is cutting it off with a saw, and will fall down with it. A sign reads Brexit reenactment, 10th anniversary celebration.
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ItWillGetWorse @blackkettle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Corporation: We made $5 billion but spent $4.9 billion to keep going, so our net taxable income is $100 million. Gov’t: That’s right. Worker: I made $50,000 but spent $45,000 to keep going, so my net taxable income is $5,000. Gov’t: That’s wrong.
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Nicholas Sideras ☃️ @nicholas.sideras.net · 08/06/2026
Last year for my son’s 8th birthday party, we loaded up my dad’s truck with snacks, drinks, sports equipment, cake, etc for an afternoon of soccer and kickball at the park with ~35 people. This year we did the same party but I thought we could do better on the transportation #CarryShitOlympics
A Tern GSD loaded with snacks and a cooler. Next to it is two Burley bike trailers with soccer nets and a folding tableMy son on his bike, pulling one of the Burley trailers. A large bag of various sports balls is hanging out from the top.Me on the GSD, pulling the trailer with the soccer nets. I have the cooler on the back and a Riverwest 24 sticker on my helmet. Two neighbor kids are riding bikes behind me.The two bikes and their respective trailers on the grass at the park, fully loaded with everything for a party.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
oh but it does
4 frame comic. a different adult is saying something in each frame, and Stephie replies to each of them. The first says : I just don't want my children to learn about trans people. it doesn't make a transphobe. Stephie replies : actually, it does! the second says : men cannot be women. it's simple biology. saying this doesn't mean I'm a transphobe. Stephie says : oh, but it does! the third says : I'm fine with trans people, but I don't think kids should be allowed to transition. does that make me the villain? Stephie says : it most certainly does! The last one says : trans people shouldn't be allowed to teach children. it's just common sense. that doesn't make me a tran- Stephie, up close, interrupts him: guess what!!
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Melisa @melisa23.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We would have had a much more Bicentennial-like celebration if Trump wasn't such a scumbag. America250 had been planning for 10+ years. Trump did his own thing (Freedom 250) because A250 had rules and regs (set up under Obama, so). F250 means he keeps the money and shits all over the celebration.
nbcnews.com
One birthday, two party planners: Freedom 250 vs. America250, explained
Confusion about the difference between the two groups swirled this week after some of the artists who were billed as performing at Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair backed out.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
nytimes.com
The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...
muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: I’m Suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to stop the $1.8B Slush Fund
In establishing the “anti-weaponization” fund, the government failed to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), so I'm suing to set the fund aside.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...
404media.co
Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags
Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
nytimes.com
Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/05/2026
“This is a break glass emergency moment.” Melissa Murray says the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is using “colorblindness” to turn the Voting Rights Act on its head: treating states that try to remedy racial gerrymandering as if they’re the ones discriminating.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The final results are in and the winner of the Iran War is... The oil companies.
Headline: Shell profits surge as Iran War drives oil prices higher.
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Eri!!! :03 ΘΔ @mandateofheaven.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I can't stop thinking about this video since I saw it last night
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Livio De La Cruz @livio.me · 04/05/2026
So much of the chatter about this shooting, whether it’s from the White House or from people online, has been genuinely dumb. This segment is one of the few looks at the incident that wasn’t idiotic.
youtu.be
New video of Correspondents’ Dinner shooting raises questions about presidential security
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Using AI to write the laws regulating AI only to find out the AI hallucinated the citations is *chef’s kiss* 🧑‍🍳 🤏 💋
reuters.com
South Africa withdraws AI policy due to fake AI-generated sources
South Africa has withdrawn its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it ​contained fictitious sources in its reference list ‌which appeared to have been AI-generated.
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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“In my 25 years as a federal judge, I’ve never seen the type of brutality shown by the agents involved in Midway Blitz” chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...
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Accountability panel to urge criminal charges for federal agent misconduct during Operation Midway Blitz
Judge Rubén Castillo, chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission, made the call to action during his remarks at the commission's final hearing Tuesday. The commission was tasked with examining th...
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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
An Egyptian family was detained, released, etc. The family was arrested after the estranged father was charged with hate crimes related to a 2025 Colorado anti-Jewish attack & believed to be the longest at Dilley. Latest, attorneys say, in Trump v judiciary www.texastribune.org/2026/04/25/e...
texastribune.org
ICE frees El Gamal family after re-arresting mother, 5 children
A plane carrying the family to Michigan was reportedly on its way back to Colorado after a Texas federal judge ordered a halt to their deportation following his ruling that they be released.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Well said @jonfavs.bsky.social
source: https://x.com/MichaelEMann/status/2048515159170158955
text: Sincere question: do Trump supporters who genuinely want to reduce political violence actually think that lobbing transparently hypocritical accusations about the left's rhetoric is in any way effective? 

Are we really gonna go through another cycle where MAGA folks point out incendiary rhetoric on the left without ever acknowledging that some of the most violent and incendiary rhetoric in America comes from the President and his supporters? Do you not think the rest of the country has eyes and ears?

It's truly awful that President Trump has been the target of political violence. It's also truly awful how he's frequently talked about his political opponents: accusing them of treason, amplifying calls for their execution, publicly celebrating their death, calling them scum, garbage, vermin, animals. It was like 3 weeks ago that he threatened the annihilation of an entire civilization! It was just a few months ago that he and his White House knowingly smeared two Americans who'd been killed by federal agents as domestic terrorists! 

I hate political violence. I hate what happened last night. Probably 99% of Americans agree. But let's not insult everyone's intelligence by pretending that the most powerful person in the world isn't a huge part of the problem here.
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Livio De La Cruz @livio.me · 26/04/2026
The White House response to last night’s shooting is to double down on the ballroom construction project. “[A]ttempted murder as an after-the-fact justification for a home renovation?”
theatlantic.com
MAGA’s Strange Quiet After the Shooting
Instead of a crackdown on his enemies, Trump wants his ballroom.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026
While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break
planetary.org
Your Guide to NASA's Budget
How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…
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Livio De La Cruz @livio.me · 23/04/2026
The very smart advertising algorithms have determined that I, a married man with a baby, need to get all the dating app ads because I watched a PBS Newshour report this morning on the gender divide of Gen Z, which mentioned their dating struggles. What a waste of advertiser money.
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My dad to the dog while making a snack, “I know you're excited, so am I. But there is no need to bark. I'm not barking. No one else here is barking”
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I've never been in a position where I'm literally clock watching for an impending theoretical civilization bombing. it is true madness
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
American troops have the right not to commit war crimes, in fact they are obligated not to
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
yup, this is it
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Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
By my count, there are now over 50 House Democrats, along with two Senate Democrats, who have called for Trump to be impeached or removed via the 25th Amendment for his post on Iran. More here: www.axios.com/2026/04/07/t...
House
1. Ansari
2. Omar
3. Pocan
4. Tlaib
5. DeGette
6. Thanedar
7. Stansbury
8. Khanna
9. Frost
10. Julie Johnson
11. Olszewski
12. Ramirez
13. Nikema Williams
14. Moulton
15. Pressley
16. Summer Lee
17. Magaziner
18. McBride
19. McCollum
20. Swalwell
21. Liccardo
22. Dexter
23. Ocasio-Cortez
24. Robert Garcia
25. Menendez
26. Castro
27. McClain Delaney
28. Fletcher
29. Simon
30. Watson Coleman
31. Mike Thompson
32. Hayes
33. Foushee
34. Ritchie Torres
35. Sylvia Garcia36. Leger Fernandez
37. Pingree
38. Tonko
39. Lofgren
40. McGarvey
41. Dan Goldman
42. Espaillat
43. DeSaulnier
44. Schakowsky
45. Cohen
46. Jacobs
47. Trahan
48. Gomez
49. Grijalva
50. Sanchez
51. Matsui
52. Tokuda
53. Bonamici
54. Jayapal
55. Min

Senate
1. Markey
2. Wyden
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