Concerned Citizen
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I made this protest sign yesterday, in honor of the Migra Watch training I was attending. After the training, I saw the news out of Camarillo, CA and am more convinced than ever of the necessity of using front-line, non-violent tactics to protect our neighbors against militarized secret police.
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There's been a shooting with “multiple” victims at the Bite of Seattle food festival, according to the Seattle Police Department
Mass shooting reported at Seattle Center
Police and ambulances were responding to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.
www.seattletimes.com
July 27, 2026 at 1:56 AM
There's been a shooting with “multiple” victims at the Bite of Seattle food festival, according to the Seattle Police Department
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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
www.cbsnews.com
July 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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little fascists everywhere www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...
United employee at SFO threatens to call ICE on Mexican American passenger: ‘You don’t act like a citizen’
A viral video shows a United Airlines employee invoking ICE during an escalating confrontation with a passenger over a ticketing problem at SFO.
www.sfchronicle.com
July 18, 2026 at 2:21 PM
little fascists everywhere www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...
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Kudos to the advocates who helped win this landmark Supreme Court victory for data privacy. 🗽
A Kentucky city is tearing out its surveillance cameras. Two weeks ago, @NACDL.org helped win a Supreme Court ruling that pulling people's digital location data is a search under the Fourth Amendment. Newport read that decision and pulled the plug. 🧵
July 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Kudos to the advocates who helped win this landmark Supreme Court victory for data privacy. 🗽
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We can't go numb to this. We can't let this become normal.
July 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
We can't go numb to this. We can't let this become normal.
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i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:
Live updates: ICE agents involved in deadly shooting in Biddeford
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
www.pressherald.com
July 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:
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I left mine: I simply noted that four different executive orders (three of which have been determined to be viewpoint discrimination) do not provide the basis for ignoring over forty different statutory frameworks enacted by Congress to provide grants.
Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc.
Please leave a comment opposing this change.
Please leave a comment opposing this change.
TOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.
July 13, 2026 at 4:35 AM
I left mine: I simply noted that four different executive orders (three of which have been determined to be viewpoint discrimination) do not provide the basis for ignoring over forty different statutory frameworks enacted by Congress to provide grants.
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Before J6, Lindsey Graham called the governor of Georgia and pressured him to steal the election for Trump. He was a traitor. Nothing else about him matters after that.
This is a very fitting tribute to the late senator.
Trump on Lindsey Graham: "He had one bad moment in the January 6 thing when he stood up -- 'alright, now I've had it, that's it, I can't do it anymore' -- then he called me about 40 minutes later and said, 'Did I really said that? I can't believe it.' And he took it back."
July 13, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Before J6, Lindsey Graham called the governor of Georgia and pressured him to steal the election for Trump. He was a traitor. Nothing else about him matters after that.
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Corporate Media presents US a fantasy world (where are institutions are holding and MAGA Republicans represent the views of "Real Americans") that is completely disconnected from both reality and their consumers.
July 13, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Corporate Media presents US a fantasy world (where are institutions are holding and MAGA Republicans represent the views of "Real Americans") that is completely disconnected from both reality and their consumers.
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Look, if one side is openly pro corruption, and the truth is somewhere in the middle, this is what you get bsky.app/profile/pbum...
This framing, from one of the better-read political newsletters, reads like a parody of cronyism. But it isn’t.
July 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Look, if one side is openly pro corruption, and the truth is somewhere in the middle, this is what you get bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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this is just getting comical, we're witnessing innovations on the frontiers of journalistic absurdity
July 13, 2026 at 6:49 AM
this is just getting comical, we're witnessing innovations on the frontiers of journalistic absurdity
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Mark Zuckerberg hates Climate Change, unless he is causing it with his $300m Yacht that uses as much Diesel as 2000 cars.
July 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Mark Zuckerberg hates Climate Change, unless he is causing it with his $300m Yacht that uses as much Diesel as 2000 cars.
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A bridge to fascism.
Just stop.
Just stop.
When Lindsey Graham died, the country lost its sturdiest bridge between the White House and Congress.
Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter.
Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter.
Lindsey Graham Was More Than a Senator. He Was a Bridge.
Plus, Kevin Warsh faces a decision on interest rates, and Mitch McConnell provides an update on his health.
on.wsj.com
July 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
A bridge to fascism.
Just stop.
Just stop.
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You can’t keep saying the Republicans are an existential threat to democracy and two seconds later pen an ode to Lindsey Grahams corpse and think people will believe you are honest
July 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
You can’t keep saying the Republicans are an existential threat to democracy and two seconds later pen an ode to Lindsey Grahams corpse and think people will believe you are honest
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So relatable: "Good men...seem relics of better times..., not emulated because they're not in fashion. The misfortune of your century, that virtue is taken as unusual and malice as the norm!"
Baltasar Gracián describing today, but nearly four hundred years ago.
July 13, 2026 at 12:36 PM
So relatable: "Good men...seem relics of better times..., not emulated because they're not in fashion. The misfortune of your century, that virtue is taken as unusual and malice as the norm!"
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Houstonians marched through the streets of Downtown demanding: ICE OUT OF HOUSTON, ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!
JUSTICE FOR LORENZO!
JUSTICE FOR LORENZO!
July 12, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Houstonians marched through the streets of Downtown demanding: ICE OUT OF HOUSTON, ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!
JUSTICE FOR LORENZO!
JUSTICE FOR LORENZO!
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🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out!
There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
July 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out!
There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding.
Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY
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This week in Palestine:
- Israeli settlers demolished a Palestinian elementary school
- Israeli strikes hit a Gaza hospital
- Israeli forces turned a Palestinian home into a military post
Read Zeteo’s weekly roundup as Israel enforces violent crackdowns across Palestine — zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
- Israeli settlers demolished a Palestinian elementary school
- Israeli strikes hit a Gaza hospital
- Israeli forces turned a Palestinian home into a military post
Read Zeteo’s weekly roundup as Israel enforces violent crackdowns across Palestine — zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
July 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This week in Palestine:
- Israeli settlers demolished a Palestinian elementary school
- Israeli strikes hit a Gaza hospital
- Israeli forces turned a Palestinian home into a military post
Read Zeteo’s weekly roundup as Israel enforces violent crackdowns across Palestine — zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
- Israeli settlers demolished a Palestinian elementary school
- Israeli strikes hit a Gaza hospital
- Israeli forces turned a Palestinian home into a military post
Read Zeteo’s weekly roundup as Israel enforces violent crackdowns across Palestine — zeteo.com/p/palestine-...
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From a 2017 article I wrote on Graham and Trump: "Graham may be remembered as the Republican who once saw the light -- and then decided to extinguish it."
www.fastcompany.com/40507354/wit...
www.fastcompany.com/40507354/wit...
With Trump, The GOP Is Playing A Game Of Diminishing Returns
An expert on authoritarian regimes thinks Lindsey Graham's recent tweet promoting Trump's golf business is a bad sign of things to come.
www.fastcompany.com
July 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
From a 2017 article I wrote on Graham and Trump: "Graham may be remembered as the Republican who once saw the light -- and then decided to extinguish it."
www.fastcompany.com/40507354/wit...
www.fastcompany.com/40507354/wit...
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Sanctuary laws help clarify that police and prosecutors seek to protect the safety of all residents. A Brennan Center friend-of-the-court brief shared that perspective from a group of former law enforcement officials.
bit.ly/4eRniF0
bit.ly/4eRniF0
Court Says Local Police Can’t Be Forced to Spend Resources on Federal Immigration Enforcement
A friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Brennan Center argued that Boston’s policy, which describes where and when city officials will work with ICE, makes cities safer.
www.brennancenter.org
July 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Sanctuary laws help clarify that police and prosecutors seek to protect the safety of all residents. A Brennan Center friend-of-the-court brief shared that perspective from a group of former law enforcement officials.
bit.ly/4eRniF0
bit.ly/4eRniF0
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Lindsey Graham’s obituary—written while he was very much alive by @saletan.bsky.social
July 12, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Lindsey Graham’s obituary—written while he was very much alive by @saletan.bsky.social
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
www.theatlantic.com
July 12, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Live your life in such a way that no one you are close to mourns the death of fascists.
July 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Live your life in such a way that no one you are close to mourns the death of fascists.
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Okay, after much deliberation since about 75% of what I draw has patterns of one kind or another, I have chosen this Wyandotte chicken because I don't think I've reposted it as much as some of the others I was considering and also I just love it
#ArtRepostJuly
The theme is #pattern!
#ArtRepostJuly
The theme is #pattern!
July 12, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Okay, after much deliberation since about 75% of what I draw has patterns of one kind or another, I have chosen this Wyandotte chicken because I don't think I've reposted it as much as some of the others I was considering and also I just love it
#ArtRepostJuly
The theme is #pattern!
#ArtRepostJuly
The theme is #pattern!