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Anti fascist who loves history & tries to keep the bad history from repeating itself. he/him/his

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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now
Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
USPS spokesperson told 404 Media that the agency “is conducting a limited pilot to assess whether vehicle-mounted cameras can help identify roadway conditions and support community safety.” Suuuure it is: gizmodo.com/usps-is-putt...
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USPS Is Putting Dashcams in Mail Trucks to Keep an Eye on 'Community Safety'
The number of roving surveillance machines is growing by the day.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 1934, American oligarchs planned a 'Wall Street Putsch' to stop Roosevelt’s New Deal. What would today’s capitalists do if their power was under threat? www.currentaffairs.org/news/lessons...
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Lessons from the Business Plot
In 1934, American oligarchs planned a 'Wall Street Putsch' to stop Roosevelt’s New Deal. What would today’s capitalists do if their power was under threat?
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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Novel reading is the ruin of modern women. 😔
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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are only 45 days until this next election, so please talk to your local party about ways you can get involved too. Get in your ✨resisting fascists era.✨ Speaking of which, shirt by @circusat1600
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan surpassed a record 100,000 this year, the latest government figures show, underscoring the country’s rapidly aging and declining population. apnews.com/article/japa...
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Centenarians living in Japan exceed 100,000 for the first time
The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan has surpassed a record 100,000 this year. The latest figures from Japan's government underscore the country’s rapid aging and population decrease.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Haha
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Do not use the space nazi elon musk's vote safe site, it just gathers all your personal info, avoid it like like the plague. electionlawblog.org/2026/the-hid...
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"The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org" #ELB
Popular Information: With the midterm elections approaching, it’s a good idea to make sure you are registered. Each state has a tool to do so, and the federal government has set up a page that directs...
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Space nazi and twitter owner Elon Musk wasn't happy with destroying the US, he wants to take down the EU one country at a time www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just a reminder of why fascist republicans want to keep millions of Americans from voting, It's the only way they can stay in power as they know they have nothing to offer US but lies and fear youtu.be/8GBAsFwPglw
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Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)
YouTube video by peoplefor
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Attacking socialists didn't work, labeling us communists didn't work so now fascist republicans are attacking vegans www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is 'vegan' suddenly being used as a slur? | Emma Beddington
US republicans are tarnishing their plant-eating opponents at every opportunity. Yet vegans are perfectly suited to hold power – let me count the ways, writes Emma Beddington
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘It’s therapy by stealth’: the adult fans helping Lego build its billions in sales A growing number of people are rediscovering their love of plastic bricks in later life and boosting the Danish company’s bottom line www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
theguardian.com
‘It’s therapy by stealth’: the adult fans helping Lego build its billions in sales
A growing number of people are rediscovering their love of plastic bricks in later life and boosting the Danish company’s bottom line
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration is shuttering ⁠two of the three US Department of Agriculture research projects studying cyclospora after the foodborne parasite has ⁠sickened tens of thousands of Americans during the summer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USDA reportedly shelves cyclospora research amid relocations and fund cuts
Trump officials shuttering three projects on foodborne parasite, two defunded by Congress, Politico reports
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think the experiment of letting a spoiled petulant toddler run the country has run its course.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you live in a red state check your registration because this is going on in all of those states: More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state’s Voter Suspense list ahead of the fall’s midterm elections —many don't even know their voter registration is suspended. www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...
sacurrent.com
More than 1.2 million Texans' voter registrations are suspended
Some voters dropped from Texas voting rolls may not be aware until they show up to cast a ballot. More than 1.2 million Texans are on the state's Voter
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Steve Drove the Entire Las Vegas Boulevard Sidetrack Adventures youtu.be/FmmOMdLnLBg
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I Drove the Entire Las Vegas Boulevard
YouTube video by Sidetrack Adventures
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
R.I.P. Tim Curry, my favorite IT.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh Oh, time to start stocking up on TP, again: Wiped out: The US imported $328m worth of toilet paper from Canada in 2024, according to the World Bank, making it by far the largest exporter of the product to the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A team of scientists and Aboriginal rangers have uncovered a submerged landscape beneath Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, mapping rivers, lakes, estuaries, and beaches in great detail. The hidden coastal plain was where First Nations people once lived gizmodo.com/scientists-u...
gizmodo.com
Scientists Uncover Prehistoric Landscape Hidden Beneath the Great Barrier Reef
The submerged landscape was once home to First Nations people thousands of years ago.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A new report from the Center for American Progress highlights 15 election subversion tactics being used or threatened by the fascist trump regime to interfere with the election process so it can entrench power and escape accountability. www.americanprogress.org/press/releas...
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RELEASE: How the Trump Administration Is Interfering in the Midterm Elections To Entrench the Imperial Presidency
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bear VS Yellowjackets youtu.be/49gtBAGka0Y
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Bear Digs Up Yellowjacket Wasp Nest Gets Attacked and Stung!
YouTube video by Wilson Forest Lands
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The US hit the landmark 40 trillion dollar debt level this week, most of it was used for the filthy rich tax cuts, you are paying 3 billion in interest each day so those economic royalists can buy more castles www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg buys 440-acre Strancally castle estate in Ireland
Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Soldiers at a Georgia combat engineer unit can get official time off to play the new “Grand Theft Auto” game when it drops this fall — if, and only if, they sign up for more years of service. taskandpurpose.com/news/army-re...
taskandpurpose.com
Army unit offers soldiers time off to play new 'Grand Theft Auto' if they reenlist
In an unorthodox retention offer, an Army battalion in Georgia is giving soldiers who re-up time off to play GTA 6 as soon as it comes out.
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Brooke from Let’s Not Date @letsnotdate.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Make America Learn History Again 😏 In 1952 Charlotta Bass became the first Black woman to run for Vice President, bringing issues onto the ballot that America preferred to ignore.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“These forests offer critical habitat for wildlife, provide clean, fresh air and water for millions and contain vast swathes of the last remaining old-growth forests in the country,” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests
Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Applications from people around the world seeking Canadian citizenship certificates have been rising rapidly in recent months, fuelled by thousands of applications from the United States, CBC News has learned. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Demand for Canadian Citizenship Certificates soaring, fuelled by Americans | CBC News
Applications from people around the world seeking Canadian citizenship certificates have been rising rapidly, fuelled by thousands from the United States, CBC News has learned. So many people have app...
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It's true crime Sunday: A time when we had real journalists in the USA that actually cared about what they did. The Alabama hand in the trunk incident. youtu.be/vOOQm5_MdWw
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The Hand In The Trunk Incident (1979)
YouTube video by The Raven's Eye
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their data. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders
Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
While digging a ditch an 18 yr old Belgian student finds gold hoard, which includes gold coins, nuggets and numbered bullion bars, stashed in a bag in a bricked-in cellar wall beneath a grand villa originally built in the late 19th century. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging a new sewer
Kobe, 18, who made discovery on site of former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, at first thought trove was €1 coins
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
At least 97,000 permanent housing residents nationwide would lose their homes. HUD also just announced that it will be giving 4 billion dollars to christofascist churches. bribing religious nuts for the Nov. election www.wilx.com/2026/08/10/m...
wilx.com
Michigan AG Nessel wins lawsuit blocking HUD funding cuts aimed at homeless programs
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and 20 other states have successfully blocked a federal housing policy change that officials say could have forced thousands of Michigan residents onto the street...
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Before he became the dictator of third world usa trump made most of his money via money laundering: Trump Admin Permanently Guts Law ‘Designed to Stop Criminals from Laundering Money’ After Push From Elon Musk www.commondreams.org/news/trump-m...
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Trump Admin Permanently Guts Law 'Designed to Stop Criminals from Laundering Money' After Push From Elon Musk | Common Dreams
“Trump is making it easier for cartels, criminals, and US adversaries to abuse our financial system, said Sen. Andy Kim. "Because he’s in the pocket of billionaires like Elon Musk, who’d potentially b...
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Americans are finding that the quality of many once-beloved name brands are declining. Big conglomerates and private equity were buying up “trusted brands and riding that reputation out until it was a husk of what it was”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse
Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New fascist head of the CDC says that monitoring abortions is her focus: “Her confirmation cements an anti-abortion agenda at the center of the CDC’s work, rather than containing outbreaks and keeping the public safe,” Well,another win for enemies of the US www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...
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Trump’s New CDC Head Made Egregious Claim About Blue States
There is no evidence that states are purposefully misclassifying abortion data to the CDC.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Because the fascist trump republican regime takes massive bribes from big oil and hates everything good in this country they are spending 1.22 billion of your tax dollars to stop another offshore wind lease and they have spent billions before this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The russian inspired terrorist republican party wants to lock up a hero who helped save millions of American lives, The sniveling little Senator Rand Paul may try to send it straight to the Department of Justice, bypass full Senate vote which would fail: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
theguardian.com
Senate committee holds Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress – live
Republican majority voted to hold the retired health official in contempt after hearing where he repeatedly invoked the fifth amendment
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Eat the rich!!!
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I like to Shinrin-yoku at least a few times a week 🌳🍃
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In the latest rebuke to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as HS, on Wednesday a worm who dined in the candidate’s brain posted a brutal review on Yelp. The worm’s review began on a discouraging note, claiming that Kennedy’s brain was “almost impossible to find. www.borowitzreport.com/p/worm-leave...
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Worm Leaves Scathing Yelp Review of RFK Jr.’s Brain
The worm’s review began on a discouraging note, claiming that Kennedy’s brain was “almost impossible to find.”
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Eight of the biggest oil companies, “cashing in on human misery” amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
theguardian.com
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ Uber promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy. NYT archive: archive.ph/mqsBS#select... or www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
nytimes.com
Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’
The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
While Americans are struggling to pay for food and rent trumps buddy, Tim Cook, got a $2.2 billion tariff refund this quarter. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...
finance.yahoo.com
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund this quarter
It's a one-time windfall, but what a windfall.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you use bike lanes trump thinks you're a commie: Trump's fascist regime plans to stymie and defund bike lane plans in the US, on the unusual basis that they are DEI tools, will hurt efforts to improve roadway safety, non-motorized transportation advocates say. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates say
Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streets
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The 2026 El Niño could be the strongest we’ve ever seen. And to understand its potential impacts, we’ll take a trip back in time to 1877. That El Niño triggered one of the most devastating natural disasters in human history. youtu.be/69o-8Mtd3Kc
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A SUPER El Niño Triggered History’s DEADLIEST Disaster. THIS One Might Be Worse.
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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Shiver ASMR 🖤 @shivermetingles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New #ASMR Video! youtu.be/iATTXKTDEh4
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Federal prosecutors in Atlanta are bringing an obstruction charge against a U.S. citizen who gave customs officers what is known as a duress passcode, which activated software that erased the contents of his phone. he was targeted because of his political activism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
nytimes.com
A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In their 2021 lawsuit filed in Boston federal court, the Steiners said that ebay engaged in a conspiracy to “intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them” in order to “stifle their reporting on eBay.” apnews.com/article/ebay...
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eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask
eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to Massachusetts journalists David and Ina Steiner under a newly finalized settlement resolving a lawsuit over a 2019 cyberstalking campaign carried out by former...
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Erik Davis was driving to a medical appointment in St Paul, Minnesota, on 16 June when federal agents surrounded his car. Arresting him on the spot on charges of being part of a “conspiracy” to “impede or injure” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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SlimPickins @slimpickins73.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yes, there is a road in NSW Australia named Tit Wobble Lane because it is rather bumpy.
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