Another quiet week in the news, with nothing much to report… But if you do want to follow the very little, totally inconsequential stuff that's happening, here’s a thread of news- and politics-related #CustomFeeds that have been created using Surf, plus a video on how to build a feed using our Starter Sets.
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well, well, well.... 40% if those arrested last years summer (anti-migrant) riots were known to the police in relation to domestic violence/abuse & in some cases an even high proportion had been arrested for violent offences.
These are not people with legitimate concerns (see earlier post this morning) these are violent thugs being deployed by the hard right to cause terror.... so Yvette Cooper, how about proscribing these anti-migrant (real) terrorists?
They always would rather punch left than punch Nazis
This repugnant tax bill that the GOP is trying to push through will hopefully be the end of the GOP.
Hey everyone,
In regards to ICE agents masking:
The upper partials of someone’s speaking voice are like a fingerprint. If you want to save evidence for future prosecution, record their voices.
(I am a professional who works in music and sound.)
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #ICE #corruption #trump #rights #MaskedThugs #CivilRights #justice
Daily Beast:
Gabbard Is Lying About Obama and Russian Intel: Top CIA Officer
“The director of national intelligence and the White House are lying again,” said CIA veteran Susan Miller. “We definitely had the intel to show with high probability that the specific goal of the Russians was to get Trump elected..."
After the assessment, “We could determine that, 100 percent, the Russians were trying to influence the election..."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-report-author-shreds-tulsis-obama-conspiracy-claims/
“The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings.”
From Sandy West in our magazine: In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, adoptions are on the rise in #Texas. But some private foster care and adoption agencies may have crossed serious ethical lines. https://www.texasobserver.org/private-adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/
#RoeVWade #children #HumanRights #politics #USpol #Texas #adoption #news
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Rep. Katherine Clark: "Senate Democrats have offered amendments to stop rural hospitals from closing. To keep labor and delivery units open. To keep Planned Parenthood funded. To prevent millions of Americans from losing out on health coverage. The GOP voted against every single one of them."
#BigUglyBill #greed #recklessness #politics
Call your Republican Senators RIGHT NOW.
Not later; not tonight; RIGHT NOW. Pick up the phone and dial the switchboard if you don’t know their office’s direct number:
(202) 224-3121
Tell your Republican Senator or Senators that you demand they vote AGAINST the Big Ugly Bill that transfers wealth to the billionaire class at a scale not seen in decades if ever, while ballooning the debt to unimaginable levels.
(They'll pretend to care more about that second part, so include it.)
They’re still going through amendments. There is still time, if you call RIGHT. NOW.
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from @rubenbolling
Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.
If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.
#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA
Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international #politics and natural resources, and much more.
Become a member of the Texas Observer and get the best of our journalism, starting at just $3/month: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/join
#journalism #Texas #nonprofit #culture #news #USpol #environment #water #children
We shouldn't call it #AlligatorAlcatraz because that was a prison meant for people who committed horrific crimes.
Those migrants have not.
It's a concentration camp.
It's Alligator Auschwitz.
Also #auschwitz started with 2000 people capacity.
The Alligator version is twice as big.
Just published from my archives, an interview with KD Drackert, a local Long #Covid activist, #LGBTQIA+ performance artist and all-around fab person. They are a founder of our mask bloc/air filter lending library, Clear the Air ATX.
Read it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lefts-forgotten-132515558
(Free! No Patreon login/membership necessary)
(📷Kit O'Connell, January 2024 at the @TexasObserver office)
#LongCovid #health #HumanRights #activism #Texas #Austin #politics #USpol #RFKJr #Trump #CovidIsNotOver #MutualAid
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New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
MSNBC: After helping GOP-led Texas, Trump admin denies FEMA aid to another Democratic-led state
The denial of federal money to assist Maryland’s flood recovery continues a trend of spurning devastated residents in states with Democratic governors.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/maryland-fema-aid-flooding-texas-trump-wes-moore-rcna220869
What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"
#Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #Politics #DEI #SiliconValley
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Since Republicans insist banning #trans people from bathrooms and locker rooms is necessary to protect #women, on Tuesday, a group of mostly cisgender women rallied at the Texas Capitol to oppose the latest iteration of the "bathroom bill."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tu-lucha-es-mi-134939910
The Scottish Greens have renewed their call for Scotland to seek an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) to investigate Trump’s businesses.
A UWO is a 'power held by the Scottish Government to investigate the finances of politically active individuals who have gained wealth through suspicious means'!
It may be quixotic but who wouldn't love to see Trump's finances properly scrutinised?
https://greens.scot/news/scotland-must-investigate-finances-of-convicted-criminal-trump
Pay attention. It's not just for clamping down on illegal immigrants. Happy 4th of July. #politics
Kindness isn't weakness.
Grace isn't surrender.
What does real strength look like, and how do we keep going without becoming what we're fighting?
Answers to #Newsweek's questions about #UBI that were never used
"the income distribution system called jobs is not designed for the world we live in today
No one pays higher marginal tax rates in the US than the poorest who are receiving benefits
UBI is more than just money, it’s more power to the People, and to then engage in the level of civic mobilization that won women’s suffrage and civil rights"
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☣️ Apagão Digital Sionista:
O G1 tomou a decisão de deletar algumas matérias relacionadas à Flotilha da Liberdade e os ativistas Greta Thunberg e Thiago Ávila.
A Flotilha da Liberdade buscava romper o bloqueio de Gaza e levar ajuda humanitária. A remoção das reportagens pode ser uma tentativa de moldar a percepção pública.
#politics #brasil #bunkerdaesquerda @bunkerdaesquerda
you know what to do, my peeps
#cartoon #FreeSpeech #FristAmendment #fired #politics #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #nazis
Abin | Governo trabalha em um substituto para o Whatsapp e Telegram
A Abin está testando um "ZapZap estatal" pra aposentar o WhatsApp e o Telegram no governo. O novo app, criptografado, quer garantir soberania digital e segurança nas comunicações oficiais.
A mudança responde a falhas da gestão Bolsonaro, que adotou plataformas privadas como WhatsApp e Telegram na comunicação interna. Essa escolha gerou falhas críticas, como no 8 de janeiro de 2023, quando alertas de inteligência foram enviados por esses apps, sem eficácia.
O app está sendo desenvolvido em parceria com o Serpro e a Universidade Federal do Ceará. Inicialmente, será voltado ao Sisbin, sistema que integra órgãos de inteligência, mas pode ser expandido para toda a administração federal.
📰 Folha de SP
#politics #bunkerdaesquerda @bunkerdaesquerda #softwarelivre
🇺🇲 Senador é detido por se expressar contra a repressão:
Filho de imigrantes mexicanos e primeiro senador latino da Califórnia, Alex Padilha confrontou a Secretária de Segurança Interna, Kristi Noem sobre a repressão da força nacional contra os imigrantes em Los Angeles e foi imediatamente algemado esse é o país da democracia e da liberdade.
#politics #eua #alexpadilla #losangeles #bunkerdaesquerda @bunkerdaesquerda