Edwin Stark
@dawiseguy2025.bsky.social
Former military, cybersecurity now. Gray hair and full of fire. Kindness counts. We all matter, or none of us do.
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Republican Senator Jon Husted claimed that Americans living in poverty don't know how money works.
September 17, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Republican Senator Jon Husted claimed that Americans living in poverty don't know how money works.
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Very good write-up of the stakes and circumstances of Galeano's detention. Thanks @commondreams.org for covering our coalition fight for his freedom: www.commondreams.org/news/luis-ga...
Free Press Defenders Demand End of 'Horrifying' ICE Detention of Journalist Luis Galeano | Common Dreams
Press freedom advocates demand release of Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano detained by ICE. Concerns raised about potential deportation to face persecution in Nicaragua.
www.commondreams.org
September 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Very good write-up of the stakes and circumstances of Galeano's detention. Thanks @commondreams.org for covering our coalition fight for his freedom: www.commondreams.org/news/luis-ga...
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Re: Somali men told they would be deported to Somalia, but instead ended up in Guantanamo:
These were asylum-seekers with court dates and work authorization.
September 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Re: Somali men told they would be deported to Somalia, but instead ended up in Guantanamo:
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Beaten in the street for being brown 🤬
September 15, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Beaten in the street for being brown 🤬
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Child: It’s the mayor.
Mamdani: *laughs*
Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king.
Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.
Mamdani: *laughs*
Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king.
Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.
August 29, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Child: It’s the mayor.
Mamdani: *laughs*
Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king.
Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.
Mamdani: *laughs*
Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king.
Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.
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Not one word here about how it’s a deal at gunpoint, how kidnapping Maduro was illegal, how this is inevitably corrupt, not one word from a critic, or an environmentalist. Three reporters who should be embarrassed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
Trump Says U.S. Has Deal for Control of Large Share of Venezuela’s Oil
The president said an agreement between the countries involved “a partnership with private business” and more than 65 billion barrels of reserves.
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Not one word here about how it’s a deal at gunpoint, how kidnapping Maduro was illegal, how this is inevitably corrupt, not one word from a critic, or an environmentalist. Three reporters who should be embarrassed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...
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Shortly before 9 p.m. EST, ICE asked contractors to provide them with new turnkey detention prisons in/around Denver, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle. Documents show that together the camps would hold thousands of people.
Sam Acquisition 360
sam.gov
August 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Shortly before 9 p.m. EST, ICE asked contractors to provide them with new turnkey detention prisons in/around Denver, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle. Documents show that together the camps would hold thousands of people.
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Congressman Al Green Stands in Support of U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson Following Latest Detention.
August 20, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Congressman Al Green Stands in Support of U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson Following Latest Detention.
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It’s like he’s micro targeting different outrages for different interest groups.
The Trump administration has been quietly selling thousands of wild mustangs to slaughterhouses for as little as $25 a horse — more than doubling sales since taking office, according to a Times analysis of government records
Trump secretly sends thousands of horses to their deaths: 'Slaughter in plain sight'
Wild horses couldn't keep President Donald Trump away from the chance of making a kill, according to a new report.Under his administration, thousands of wild horses have been rounded up with helicopters, packed into metal trailers, trucked hundreds of miles, and sold off to be slaughtered, the New Y...
bit.ly
August 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM
It’s like he’s micro targeting different outrages for different interest groups.
These deaths and injuries, along with this conflict solely to distract from the Epstein files are a national disgrace of epic proportions… #FuckTheGOP
More than 50 soldiers were mysteriously added to the Pentagon’s "official" Iran casualty database on Wednesday.
And all of this to try to deflect and distract attention from the Epstein files which say Pedolf is a monstrous child rapist
And all of this to try to deflect and distract attention from the Epstein files which say Pedolf is a monstrous child rapist
August 20, 2026 at 8:24 PM
These deaths and injuries, along with this conflict solely to distract from the Epstein files are a national disgrace of epic proportions… #FuckTheGOP
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This is the home of Bassam al-Nawajaa, these are human beings with families who simply wish to live at peace on the land that they belong to. Quiet, unassuming people with the most meager existences, simple, gentle people being terrorized, being marked for death.
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Jewish terrorism | Settlers set on fire a Palestinian home last night in Khirbet al-Fakhit, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Footage: Eid Suleiman
Jewish terrorism | Settlers set on fire a Palestinian home last night in Khirbet al-Fakhit, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Footage: Eid Suleiman
August 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
This is the home of Bassam al-Nawajaa, these are human beings with families who simply wish to live at peace on the land that they belong to. Quiet, unassuming people with the most meager existences, simple, gentle people being terrorized, being marked for death.
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Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
August 20, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴
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The conditions in ICE detention centers are outrageous. Worms. Standing sewage water. Measles outbreaks.
52 people have died so far. No American - no matter what your view is on immigration - should stand for this inhumanity.
52 people have died so far. No American - no matter what your view is on immigration - should stand for this inhumanity.
August 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The conditions in ICE detention centers are outrageous. Worms. Standing sewage water. Measles outbreaks.
52 people have died so far. No American - no matter what your view is on immigration - should stand for this inhumanity.
52 people have died so far. No American - no matter what your view is on immigration - should stand for this inhumanity.
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For the record, she was asking him if Kim Jong-Un had asked him to scale back military exercises with South Korea. It's interesting that it was that question that produced this outsized reaction. I suspect he's been getting a lot of pushback from his own people on his shameful attack on an ally.
August 17, 2026 at 9:22 PM
For the record, she was asking him if Kim Jong-Un had asked him to scale back military exercises with South Korea. It's interesting that it was that question that produced this outsized reaction. I suspect he's been getting a lot of pushback from his own people on his shameful attack on an ally.
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A third of longtime miners in Central Appalachia now have black lung because federal regulators have caved to mining companies fighting the rule to protect workers from deadly dust. Workers are dying without safety protections all in the quest for more profits.
UMWA calls for ‘immediate’ enforcement of silica rule as black lung hits new high in WV, Appalachia • West Virginia Watch
The UMWA made a for the “immediate" enforcement of previously approved policies that would protect coal miners from black lung disease.
westvirginiawatch.com
August 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A third of longtime miners in Central Appalachia now have black lung because federal regulators have caved to mining companies fighting the rule to protect workers from deadly dust. Workers are dying without safety protections all in the quest for more profits.
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to deploy approximately 1,000 Department of Justice election monitors across the country in November, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ readies 1,000 election monitors for midterms
Dhillon offered one of the clearest previews yet of how the department’s Civil Rights Division intends to approach the 2026 midterms.
www.democracydocket.com
August 17, 2026 at 8:18 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration plans to deploy approximately 1,000 Department of Justice election monitors across the country in November, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Israel using settlers to expand ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
August 17, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Israel using settlers to expand ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
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THE BULLDOZERS ARE STILL MOVING INSIDE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK.
DHS and CBP leadership want the American people to believe what they're seeing is simply "surveying and planning."
They are lying 🤥
DHS and CBP leadership want the American people to believe what they're seeing is simply "surveying and planning."
They are lying 🤥
August 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM
THE BULLDOZERS ARE STILL MOVING INSIDE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK.
DHS and CBP leadership want the American people to believe what they're seeing is simply "surveying and planning."
They are lying 🤥
DHS and CBP leadership want the American people to believe what they're seeing is simply "surveying and planning."
They are lying 🤥
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Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
August 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
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With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg... #WeFeedYou
Republicans are trying to ban national heat regulations from ever happening
With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety sta...
act.seiu.org
August 16, 2026 at 10:21 PM
With 100° temps a new norm, Republicans are trying to stop all federal heat safety protection regs, now or in the future. HR 6213 prohibits OSHA from creating or enforcing ANY national heat safety standard. We MUST stop it! act.seiu.org/a/fedheatreg... #WeFeedYou
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Imagine working in triple digit heat. That's the reality for many farm workers and why it is unbelievable that Republicans are pushing HR6213, that would actually prohibit OSHA from creating or enforcing any national heat safety regulations. Help us stop this bill! #WeFeedYou
August 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Imagine working in triple digit heat. That's the reality for many farm workers and why it is unbelievable that Republicans are pushing HR6213, that would actually prohibit OSHA from creating or enforcing any national heat safety regulations. Help us stop this bill! #WeFeedYou
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EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.
"They Were Begging Us to Send Them Extra Pads and Tampons." Family Member Describes Feminine Hygiene Shortage Aboard the USS Boxer
A family member with loved ones serving aboard the USS Boxer reached out to us directly to describe a supply crisis unfolding on the amphibious assault ship,
meidasnews.com
August 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.
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Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
August 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics
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“One school leader recalled attendance dropping as immigrant parents became afraid to send children to school. Looking ahead to the start of the school year, the educator fears another wave of trauma.”
Making Haitians trying to build a better life-or anyone, goddammit-go thru this. It’s abhorrent.
Making Haitians trying to build a better life-or anyone, goddammit-go thru this. It’s abhorrent.
“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS.
As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.”
haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.”
haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
'Should I keep paying my mortgage?' Haitian families confront impossible choices around TPS
Many Haitian TPS holders are beginning to grapple with the potential domino effects of TPS ending, including financial, family and mental health impact due to job loss and potential detention or depor...
haitiantimes.com
July 28, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“One school leader recalled attendance dropping as immigrant parents became afraid to send children to school. Looking ahead to the start of the school year, the educator fears another wave of trauma.”
Making Haitians trying to build a better life-or anyone, goddammit-go thru this. It’s abhorrent.
Making Haitians trying to build a better life-or anyone, goddammit-go thru this. It’s abhorrent.