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@lorleed.bsky.social

English prof, forest explorer, and clarity seeker.

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Alex Karp is using Palantir’s website to promote his white supremacist manifesto. This is the company selling surveillance tools to ICE. The moment a sane person is in power in this country, Palantir & the entire fascist-techbro collaborationist sphere must be dismantled.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.

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Judge Menendez denies Minnesota plaintiffs’ request to end Operation Metro Surge because they don’t meet the high bar set by the 10th Amendment, but she also points to what she doesn’t decide, including the legality of what ICE is doing on the ground.

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This is a dangerous slope. When you damage the trust in elections, you damage the success of democracy. People need to trust that their voice is heard. Check out my full recap in my Weekend Video available at the Substack link in my reply.

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Dreading doing your taxes? Billionaires aren’t. While Trump does nothing to lower the cost of living for you, he's making it even easier for billionaires to get away with cheating on their taxes.

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Lawyer for Epstein Survivors: It's consistent with what we've been seeing from the Department of Justice for quite some time now. It's an incompetent coverup. They're trying to cover up documents, to withhold documents, to keep things from the public, but worse, they're not good at it.

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“Internal Slack messages reviewed by WIRED reveal growing frustration within Palantir over its relationship with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and in particular, ICE’s enforcement and investigations teams” www.wired.com/story/palant...

wired.comPalantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

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Just a quick note about Bovino being moved and the other aesthetic politicoplasty the Trump administration is undertaking: Don't be fooled. Don't get all Susan Collins-y about it. Trump hasn't learned his lesson. He never will.

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This International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 81st anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation. We honor the 6 million Jews murdered in one of history’s darkest moments and stand with the 196,600 Jewish survivors alive today.

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United's CEO is the highest paid CEO in the industry, while their flight attendants are paid the least – by far. That's not right. No CEO should make 1,173 TIMES what a first year flight attendant makes. I'm standing with @afacwa.org. They deserve a fair contract now.

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Replying to @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The fact that other Ford autoworkers insulted Obama and faced zero consequences should be enough for the union to cry foul. Should be pretty open and shut, just like Ford's imaginary "investigation" (what's to investigate? what he said was true.) Ford bent the knee to King Puppet. #BoycottFord

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Bless the Ford worker who called Donald Trump a pedophile protector to his face today, which made President Pedo Protector throw up his tiny middle finger.

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Bravo to the Ford employee who shouted "pedophile protector" at the Chief Pedophile Protector of the United States, Donald Trump 👏👏👏👏👏

BNO News@bnonews.com

WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ

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Replying to @gtconway.bsky.social

"'As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,' Sabula said, though he added that he is concerned about the future of his job and believes he has been 'targeted for political retribution' for 'embarrassing Trump in front of his friends.'" wapo.st/4sG38CD

wapo.stTrump makes obscene gesture, mouths expletive at Detroit factory hecklerA cellphone video captured Trump twice mouthing “f--- you” and raising his middle finger toward a line worker shouting at him inside the Ford factory.

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Replying to @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

2/What’s really happening is that Trump has managed to take the spotlight off of DOJ‘s failure to comply with the Epstein files transparency act. Let’s not let him get away with that.

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We must ban members of Congress from buying, owning and selling stocks. But House Republicans' new bill fails to do that — lawmakers can continue to own and sell stocks. It’s absurd and an insult to people’s intelligence. Stop playing games. Ban congressional stock trading.

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The shift from miserable childless cat ladies who are unhappy with their lives & choices to Antifa terrorist wine moms was faster than 3 warp speed Scaramuccis.

Julie K. Brown@jkbjournalist.bsky.social

ORGANIZED GANGS OF WINE MOMS??? WTF

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Trump and Epstein were best friends Trump and Epstein both plead the 5th when asked about each other Trump has invaded a sovereign country to draw attention away from Epstein Trump is still breaking the law, covering up the files 25 days after they were meant to be released

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When Trump first took office, he took a wrecking ball to our government and pushed the bounds of executive authority past the breaking point. Few knew how to deal effectively with all of it. A year later, he’s attempting the same, but the Resistance has learned and was prepared. Write-up below.

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With $50k bonuses and ridiculous quotas, it is not a surprise that ICE's hiring process under @Sec_Noem is haphazard and dangerous. Maybe this is what she meant by getting “the worst of the worst.”

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I am saddened to hear of the passing of a civil rights leader and former constituent, Claudette Colvin. At just 15, she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, serving as a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of segregation. Rest in power, Claudette🕊️