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"I'm not here because of [Strom's] speech, I am here despite his speech" is an incredible quote

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So weird remembering how from roughly 1998-2022 you could look up stuff on the internet and get useful results.
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"What they're actually doing here is openly declaring for themselves the power to commit "oopsie" deportations and then🚨 *not* rectify them.

The Trump admin just admitted that a Salvadoran man was deported in error. Shockingly, Trump and JD Vance don’t seem to want to fix their mistake"β€”and the implications of that are darkπŸ’”.

#Sadism #Fascism #Deportations #DueProcess #RuleOfLaw #Immigrants #GOPDeathCult #ElSalvador #CECOT #USPol newrepublic.com/article/193442…

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The Lawlessness Is the Point

The Trump administration just admitted that a Salvadoran man was deported in error. Shockingly, Trump and JD Vance don’t seem to want to fix their mistakeβ€”and the implications of that are dark.
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#uspol #fascism #gopdeathcult #ruleoflaw #immigrants #elsalvador #deportations #dueprocess #sadism #CECOT
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It's disgusting how little this country has demonstrated any moral growth past Cotton Mather's sick ravings. Instead of "sinners in the hands of an angry god," we get Roko's Basilisk.

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#Brexit gave UK citizens an education in why being a member of the EU was in fact a good thing. I fear that #Trump and #DOGE are giving US citizens a similar lesson in the benefits of federal government and the rule of law by removing them piece by piece.
#trump #brexit #doge

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A capitalistic organization is simply a microcosm of a fascist nation, that uses soft violence instead of hard violence.
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"The rich are the engine of US consumption. Households in the top 10 per cent of the income distribution accounted for half of consumer spending last year, according to Moody’s Analytics" FT

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Podcaster with Trump ties calls for a "final solution" of mass deporting Jews.

But he didn't criticize Israel for the genocide in Gaza, so I don't think what he said counts as anti-semitic.

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Far-right podcaster with ties to Trump orbit calls for 'final solution' β€” to deport Jews

A far-right conspiracy theorist podcaster and former bounty hunter with ties to several influential figures in President Donald Trump's orbit advocated for a "final solution" to deport all Jews from the United States in a recent episode β€” echoing Naz…
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The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating | The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/193391…

The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating

ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.
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NOT only is it wrong to send an INNOCENT person to the torture CONCENTRATION CAMP, IT’S WRONG TO SEND ANYONE THERE.
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, I think they can't bring the people back from the prison is probably because they never made it to the prison. πŸ˜₯
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Another fucked thing about the whole DOGE destruction of US Federal science, research, regulations, etc. is that a lot of this sort of thing will take a few years for the impacts to be large enough for normies to notice. And by then it will be far too late. The brain drain will be long since finished. It would be a work of a decade and trillions of dollars to even begin to rebuild it all. They're playing Jenga with the country, and trying to time it so the tower falls down only after they've looted all the pieces they want.

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That's the depressing thermodynamics of fascism: destroying societal infra (esp education) is always infinitely easier than (re)building it, and the more you do it, the easier it gets to keep doing it in the ensuing lawless wasteland… 😞
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They’ve done a half century of damage, easily. The sort of Uni departments that will be largely destroyed if they get the new NIH and NSF indirect cost caps are not rebuilt easily or quickly.
We were where practically every scientist in the world wanted to do research for 90 years. Not so much now.
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It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
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The US military base that JD Vance visited in Greenland uses fuel that can only be delivered with the help of Canadian ice breakers.

I noticed he didn't say thank you.

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Democrats take note

Senator Cory Booker is demonstrating remarkable courage, holding the Senate floor overnight in a marathon filibuster speech to protest the current administration’s policies

Join him. All of you.

You can even get out the Dr. Seuss books if you need to

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I left a β€˜thank you’ note on his website (open to all people, not just constituents).

booker.senate.gov/contact/writ…


Write to Cory | U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey
www.booker.senate.gov
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I would call my senator and tell him to join but Cory Booker is my senator. NJ is feeling pretty proud today.
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Reminder: The New York Times and Judith Miller conspired with The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney to fabricate evidence of WMD (aluminum tubes) procurement by Saddam Hussein. We knew it at the time and watched on Meet the Press as Cheney full out lied to Tim Russert. Later we watched as Colin Powell impeached his own reputation and credibility by lying at the UN for the fools who employed him.

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Dear Makers of Lovely and Painful Things,

Thank you for showing us daily the beauty, joy, tenderness, and peace that is possible in this world. Thank you for reflecting the terror, sorrow, horror, and worries that we all share in this world. We need your words, the things you've made, your ideas no matter how small you think they are.

Sometimes you put your music (all of the arts, all of the crafts, all of it) out into the world, and maybe it seems like nobody is listening. You do it anyway and we stumble across it someday and fail to say thank you. We are insecure and don't know how to respond. We have to think about it for a while until it blossoms into something we understand deep in our psyche. You makers rarely hear about it. Yet, you go on making, sharing your ideas with us.

I am saying thank you.

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Oh, this is such a nice toot, and I agree with you.

Thanks to all people who inspire with creativity, no matter what kind.

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Memo to all the corporations, law firms, universities, and so on:

If you capitulate to the Trump regime, we’re gonna remember, and we’re gonna make sure it haunts you forever.

Don’t do it. DON’T FUCKING DO IT.

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I noticed people talking about a Teen Vogue opinion piece that addresses how younger people are alienated by the Democratic Party. The Dems' useless middle of the road politics have left them feeling abandoned by the party.

Yeah, I feel that way too and I'm in my 50s. You aren't alone.

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Chuck Schumer Is Pushing Young People Away From the Democratic Party With His Toothless Leadership

Democratic leaders like Chuck Schumer are clinging to the political center, failing to meet the urgency of the Trump administration and its policies.
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We're in our 60s and feel this same way for decades. Clinton was easy to conservative even tho we welcomed him after Reagan, Bush
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@Donatella Oh, I've felt abandoned by them since the middle of Clinton's first term. By the end of the 1990s, I pretty much despised the party.
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WELP the fascist regime has declared CASE CLOSED on #signalgate

It sure appears that there will be no accountability whatsoever...as many predicted (such as yours truly)

#signalgate

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One of my committee members wants me to cite something from FEMA, some new communications strategies they had started to look at in the white paper stage (this is in the 'future work' section of my dissertation).

He went to go look for the papers.

THEY ARE ALL GONE.

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A billionaire who accuses his adversaries of being paid shills, while simultaneously offering people $1,000 to cast ballots for his preferred candidate, is telling you everything you need to know about how popular he thinks his own views are, and how many people would support them without bribes.
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@briankrebs you can pay some people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.
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He thinks of non-billionaires as NPC's (video game non-player characters), without a will of their own, so he thinks that those who oppose him must be manipulated by some rival billionaire (Soros or someone).
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Every American Jew should take extreme exception to the disingenuousness of the Trump Regime’s purported actions against antisemitism on college campuses.

Articles are starting to show up in the press revealing the regime's "Project Esther".

The existence of this project 2025 partner project makes clear what we already knew, the MAGA cult dors not give a πŸ’© about anti-Semitism or the well-being of Jews.

We are a nice handy excuse for them to use to go after America's universities and colleges.

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if you call it lawfare without making a persuasive, affirmative case for why others whose similar behavior came to public and prosecutorial light wouldn't be pursued, then you are just in favor of elite impunity.

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@Phil We can agree on the claim, "You are probably one of the most credulous people I have ever encountered." But we probably disagree on the referents.
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@Phil maybe it was shady. but it was open. courts could review and perhaps appropriately review the selectiveness. Trump constantly challenged vote counts in urban districts. it's ugly, but not unlawful. meanwhile… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_B…

i wasn't so exercised at the time, but i now agree that Bush v. Gore was the beginning of our long catastrophe.

privately asking a governor to "find votes" is quite a different thing. one of Trump's many novel contributions.


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"People don't have to leave": Under Trump, resistance means promoting trans "visibility and joy"

#CommunitySupport #TrumpEraActivism #PromotingDiversity #TransVisibility #CelebratingPride

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"People don't have to leave": Under Trump, resistance means promoting trans "visibility and joy"

Activists are responding to anti-trans bigotry by redoubling their efforts to provide safe and inclusive spaces
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#transvisibility #communitysupport #trumperaactivism #promotingdiversity #celebratingpride

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β€œ #SCOTUS signaled Monday it is poised to side with Catholic Charities in a dispute over whether religiously affiliated groups are entitled to an exemption from certain state taxes, a decision that could expand the types of groups that would receive a break under the First Amendment”

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#scotus

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I'm not British, but I grew up in the UK and love it dearly. I'm fearful for them that they're not far behind us. searchlightmagazine.com/2025/0…

Birmingham rally makes clear the challenge of Nigel Farage and Reform

By Searchlight’s reporter inside the Birmingham rally Nigel Farage arrived on the stage of the Reform UK rally in the Arena Birmingham on a JCB… Continue reading β†’
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I'd like to set up SSO so that I can self-host resources like nodebb, freshrss, and znc, and share them with friends, without those friends having to manage a separate password for every service. Keycloak seems like a decent place to start but it requires a database, and I've always found those a little abstract, I don't know what I need to type to actually install and use one. Can you recommend me a good "just show me the code" tutorial for e.g. postgres on debian 12?

edit: actually, has anyone else here set up SSO for self-hosting, with or without keycloak?

#programming #selfhost #web

#programming #web #selfhost
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There are no self-made billionaires. We gotta shut that myth down.
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Omg I thought Sam Altman and Sam Bankmann-Fried were the same person.

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New electronic signage at a bus stop at Vermont & 6th in Los Angeles showing arrival times.

I approve. #transit

New electronic sign at bus stop showing arrival times.
#transit

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ENG: I'm not the creator of the flag in the background. Had some fun for #transdayofvisibility
FR: Je ne suis pas le crΓ©ateur du drapeau en fond. Je me suis amusΓ© pour la #journΓ©edevisibilitΓ©trans
#trans #transmasc #transgender #Jewish #queer #transrights #lgbtqia #mogai #transvisibilityday #tdov
FR: une phrase écrite en grand en anglais "aucune quantité de haine n'effacera notre existence" avec en fond un drapeau de fierté progress lgbtqia+ désaturé modifié légèrement pour que la flèche de gauche ait la forme de la Magen David. Fin du texte alternatif. ENG: a large phrase written "no amount of hate will erase our existence" with a desaturated lgbtqia+ progress pride flag in the background, edited slightly so that the left arrow forms the shape of the Magen David. End of alternative text.
#trans #transgender #queer #lgbtqia #transrights #transmasc #jewish #transdayofvisibility #tdov #transvisibilityday #mogai #journeedevisibilitetrans

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How in the HELL did the left become so computer illiterate? β€” In Defense of Anagorism

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A warning to Boomers and even Gen X. If you find yourselves saying these things - stop and think. I look at it like this. When I was looking for work in 2015, my father insisted the best way to do it was to drive to companies, drop off a resume, and wait to see HR. Of course, I just nodded and ignored him, but he was insistent, saying β€œthat’s how I used to do it”.
If you find yourself doing the same -STOP πŸ›‘ dmnews.com/dan-tone-deaf-phras…

7 tone deaf phrases boomers use that make them seem highly self-absorbed to younger people - DMNews

Generational gaps can often lead to misunderstandings. I’ve noticed that some expressions boomers use that can come off…
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One thing I've never done in my entire life is offer anyone advice on how to get a job.
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How much faith do we collectively have that should democrats actually ever be allowed to be the us government again that they will be able to, or even attempt to, reverse the damage done by Elold Trusk? Is a temporary pause in the government actively trying to make you life worse in almost every conceivable way really the best the American voter can hope to democratically achieve?

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I am not American so I cannot comment directly on this. As a Canadian though, I often make fun of people here because I know what their real problem is.

Their real problem isn't that the bad guys are going to sell off public assets and privatize important services.

Their true fear is their knowledge that their "good guys" aren't going to renationalize sweet shit all when they take power.

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Imagine being rich enough that you don't have to watch YouTube videos every time something in your house breaks.

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I just got a scam call from people pretending to be Paypal, went though to a number in Belgium but it was an Indian/Pakistani call center, as soon as it went through I told the guy to fuck himself and that he was a low life scumbag scammer, he started ranting that he would fuck my whole family 'on the highway' ??? I told him I had no family, he seemed confused by this, I left the phone down by my side while he ranted angry swear words for a few minutes, then he went quiet and eventually hung up.

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Not receiving upsells and advertisements is much more beneficial than whatever incremental improvements your program offered since going live with upsells and advertisements.

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There will come a time when Earth will exist as a planetary community, without borders or nations.

  • True (38%, 14 votes)
  • False (61%, 22 votes)
36 voters. Poll end: 20 hours ago

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I voted "no" but I'm actually pretty optimistic about the planetary community part, eventually. I just think that borders and nations will inevitably continue to exist as points of pride and heritage and sports fanaticism. A bit like the EU but more so.
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Fediverse bingo! Which are you?

  • Antifascist (80%, 40 votes)
  • AD(H)D (44%, 22 votes)
  • Trans (12%, 6 votes)
  • Cutie (14%, 7 votes)
  • Autistic (38%, 19 votes)
  • Chronically ill (42%, 21 votes)
  • Furry (6%, 3 votes)
  • Depressed (54%, 27 votes)
  • Artist (32%, 16 votes)
  • Veggie/vegan (12%, 6 votes)
50 voters. Poll end: in 5 days

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I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I've learned from the experience.

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1 Year After Substack

State of the newsletter 2025, a vacation, a new book, and some thoughts upon the 1-year anniversary of moving The Reframe.
A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
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