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New from @candicequestions: Former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French is running a 'fossil fascist' campaign for Railroad Commissioner, blaming the sins of the oil and gas industry on scapegoats and racist conspiracies. https://www.texasobserver.org/bo-french-blood-and-oil-railroad-commissioner/
#Republicans #Texas #midterms #politics #USpol #news #fascism #OilAndGas #environment #ClimateChange
The first words of the top headline on The Guardian US homepage right now:
“‘This is a coup’”
The White House (WH) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) quietly took down a website required by law.
The website let the public view “approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws.” In 2022, Congress mandated this information be posted on the WH’s website.
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~ White House scraps public spending database ~
https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/
If you organize or participate in #TeslaTakeDown protests you may have gotten an email from @indivisibleteam about fashy “counterprotesters” showing up at these events! If you are new to protesting or organizing, this may be very alarming, but here are some things you can do to help keep everyone safe.
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They want to thin the herd. Who the fuck asked them?!? Palantir MUST BE DESTROYED!
Palantir Wants To Bring Back the Draft
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/palantir-wants-to-bring-back-the-draft/
Newsletter: As the president’s family’s shady dealings continue to mount, SEC enforcement actions have collapsed to twenty-year lows. The CFTC says it doesn’t need staff when it has AI.
Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis is often framed as a political or law-enforcement story. It is also, unavoidably, a software story.
This article looks at how familiar technical patterns - API access, identity resolution, data enrichment, and permissive authorization models -enable surveillance and intimidation at scale. Not through exotic technology, but through ordinary, well-designed systems doing exactly what they were built to do.
https://netapinotes.com/accountability-apis-and-the-united-states-of-surveillance/ #APIs #uspol #minneapolis #msp
NEW: For The Barbed Wire, I spent weeks talking to current and former students, faculty, nonprofits and others, documenting LGBTQ+ life at #Texas' public universities, where in the last two years students have lost access to health care, advisors, safe spaces, funding for #queer and #trans student orgs and much more.
If there's hope, it's that some communities have stepped up to support the students and what they've lost.. https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/05/communities-ripped-apart-on-texas-college-campuses-lgbtq-services-have-been-completely-decimated/
A musician friend notes, "I guess now we have an answer to the burning question, "How terrible does an elected leader have to be to warrant a public rebuke from the decidedly non-political Musicians' Union?" "
“Whether you liked Ms. Harris or not, this last election was a choice, a very simple one. You had the choice between the Constitution and the criminal. And this country chose the criminal. You put a criminal at the top of America. A convicted felon.”
— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura
#TrumpMustGo #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Folks, if you don’t want a huge concentration camp in your neighborhood, DO NOT VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS!
Representative Raskin cited my analysis in his letter investigating Trump’s memecoin dinner
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-dinner-guests/
The Guardian: US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN
Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets
Trump offered to unfreeze funding for NYC tunnel (money that was already appropriated by Congress)
IF Dulles airport and train New York Penn train station are renamed after him...
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So it's not just extortion, but super petty extortion.
Where are the emperor's clothes again?
#MyThoughts
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Good news: "FEMA must "immediately comply" with an order to disburse federal funding to 22 states and Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled.
Judge McConnell finds the agency's "manual review" of grant payments violates his injunction."
-A Klasfeld
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.58912/gov.uscourts.rid.58912.175.0_4.pdf
#kleptocracy & #corruption on full display:
Exclusive: #SpaceX, #ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar #Pentagon launch contract
#ElonMusk's SpaceX & United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a #US #SpaceForce rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive #satellites into #space, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the procurement decision.
#law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-ula-expected-clinch-multibillion-dollar-contract-key-pentagon-launch-2025-04-04/
Palantir has issued a far-right, racist manifesto denouncing "dysfunctional" & "regressive" cultures & critticising "attempts to hound wealthy figures out of public life by scrutinising their behaviour."
It also called for "the expansion of AI weaponry."
Palantir shares fell immediately.
Palantir "has accelerated Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza", & yet the British govt has granted it access to the NHS.
That seems to make sense for what he is
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre
#TrumpKillsUsAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #FightFascism #USPol
#Trump is a disgusting racist wannabe dictator
Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnR7CpH_aaI
"Lyin' and Spinnin' (and Cheatin' and Hidin') - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody"
#RandyRainbow #Parody #Music #Video #USPol #Comedy