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aka Brian Gygi, corporeal presence lost in cyberspace

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Unilever: Stop silencing Ben & Jerry’s ice cream NOW! When we sold Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever in 2000, the corporation set up an independent board so Ben & Jerry’s could continue its political statements and social justice work without corporate i...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

16.11.2025 01:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CREDO Donations Every month, CREDO donates to the progressive causes you care about most.

I just voted to help @credomobile.bsky.social decide how to distribute its monthly funding to progressive nonprofits. You can vote, too! It's free and takes less than a minute. Vote here: bit.ly/3hA7arP

14.11.2025 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NO KINGS Berkeley · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Berkeley” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

18.10.2025 00:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Cut Funding to 16 Dem States. Can States Cut His? Within 72 hours of the October 1st government shutdown, the Trump administration weaponized federal funding against Democratic states with surgical precision.

Trump Cut Funding to 16 Dem States. Can States Cut His?
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

02.10.2025 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, it’s not every day one gets a notice like this from Lyft:

Thanks for riding with Jesus!

18.09.2025 23:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t suppose today, with the Charlie Kirk shooting as well as the Colorado student shooting, will go down as a “teaching moment.”

10.09.2025 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An amusing tidbit to take our minds off all the terrible things going on right now. I was in the dentist office with a friend and they had scratch pads to make sure patients’ pens work. I was surprised anyone uses pens anymore, but they were pretty funny, especially the little drawing of the tooth.

10.09.2025 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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YES on PROP 50 PHONEBANK · California Democratic Party Join our virtual phonebanks and help stop the Trump / MAGA agenda. Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections and passing Prop 50 is the best chance we have of taking back Congress next year. We'l...

I'm attending California Democratic Party's event, “YES on PROP 50 PHONEBANK” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/cadems/event...

10.09.2025 20:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the Petition for SB 42, the California Fair Elections Act! Sign the petition to fight Big Money in politics by passing SB 42 to put the California Fair Elections Act on the ballot to allow public financing of campaigns everywhere in California.

SIGN THE PETITION for #SB42 the California Fair Elections Act to empower voters and fight Big Money by allowing public financing of campaigns anywhere in California!

SIGN HERE: bit.ly/sign-sb42-co...

03.09.2025 22:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello my friend. I read it too and was severely depressed. What to do? Interestingly, the only place that did moderately well fighting back was Finland!

OK, I hope you and the family are well. Are you preparing your sailboat to go live on when our global order collapses?

26.08.2025 04:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. Once they win elections, it's already too late.

Wow, this is absolutely terrifying. And worse, it doesn't offer any easy solutions.
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

25.08.2025 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shared Message — NEWS: Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Quietly Removed From Government Website

Holy crap, it should be major news on every outlet. And we need an explanation from why this happened.

mobile.mail.yahoo.com/apps/emailSh...

06.08.2025 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump's new AI policies keep culture war focus on tech companies A new executive order instructs tech companies to address what the White House sees as "woke AI." Receiving future federal contracts could hinge on whether AI firms respond.

This is utterly absurd. There is no such thing as "woke AI"! How are they going to test whether AI agents have a "liberal bias"? I can't believe the AI industry is going along with this.
www.npr.org/2025/07/23/n...

24.07.2025 19:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76 The singer, who later became famous on reality TV show The Osbournes, dies less than three weeks after retirement concert

Wow, I thought that if biting the heads off of doves didn't kill him, nothing would.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

22.07.2025 20:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive | Republican’s Life-Threatening Pregnancy Collided With Florida’s Abortion Politics Due in August with her first child, Rep. Kat Cammack says doctors last year hesitated to treat her ectopic pregnancy.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This is astounding. A lawmaker who doesn’t seem to understand that, yes, if you break the law, you will face criminal charges. And she’s blaming the left for telling doctors this. This is so far from rational it’s absolutely staggering.

23.06.2025 02:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you, Senator Padilla Senator Padilla of California was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed today for doing his job: Asking a question of Kristi Noem, the Trump administration's Secretary of Homeland Security.

Senator Padilla of California was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed today for doing his job: Asking a question of Kristi Noem, the Trump administration's Secretary of Homeland Security. sign.moveon.org/petitions/th...

15.06.2025 02:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thank you, Senator Padilla Senator Padilla of California was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed today for doing his job: Asking a question of Kristi Noem, the Trump administration's Secretary of Homeland Security.

Senator Padilla of California was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed today for doing his job: Asking a question of Kristi Noem, the Trump administration's Secretary of Homeland Security. sign.moveon.org/petitions/th...

13.06.2025 22:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Supreme Court has a pro-Trump double standard—here’s how we fix it Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, recently dropped a must-read on one of the most galling features of today’s Supreme Court: the shadow docket. It’s the legal equivalent of fast-tracking a d...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This is one of the best pieces I’ve seen about how the problem isn’t that the Democrats aren’t centrist enough. It’s that the whole system is rigged against them, starting with the Supreme Court. And until that’s addressed, no progress is going to happen.

13.06.2025 17:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If You Lie With DOGE You Get Fleeced Yes, Musk is a fraud. A total fraud.

If You Lie With DOGE You Get Fleeced
The headline says it all. I guess the only consolation is that Musk was busy wrecking things for a relatively short period of time.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

11.06.2025 16:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
RFK Jr. Is Wrong. Trump Is for the Oligarchs.
RFK Jr. Is Wrong. Trump Is for the Oligarchs. YouTube video by Robert Reich

youtu.be/1J7CHRRBnGs

14.05.2025 01:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think no one’s eating the dogs and cats anymore because they ate them all already.

08.05.2025 03:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Smokey Robinson accused of assault by former housekeepers The Motown legend is being sued for $50m by four women who accuse him of sexual assault and rape.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh Smokey, not you! You were the person that made me really believe romance was possible.

07.05.2025 22:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Omega block” sounds like prescription drug.

02.05.2025 15:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BREAKING: Migrants at Texas Detention Facility Signal SOS to Drones Overhead I wish I were writing under better circumstances, but what’s happening in Texas right now is deeply disturbing—and it’s not getting nearly the attention it deserves.

Crap, it just gets worse and worse

open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

30.04.2025 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily suspends Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan after arrest The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan after she was arrested by the FBI and charged last week for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evad...

Jesus Christ - this is having exactly the effect ICE wanted it to have - it's going to intimidate judges from following the law. I really can't believe the WI Supreme Court did this. Where can we complain?
www.yahoo.com/news/wiscons...

30.04.2025 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BREAKING: Troubling Information Released About Arrest of Wisconsin Judge We’re getting some more troubling information right now.

This needs to be seen by everyone, especially folks in Wisconsin. If they are arresting judges (without a warrant) we are in a full-blown fascist state.

open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

25.04.2025 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Should We Think About the Economics of AI? A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson

This is one of the most remarkable discussions I've read recently, because it was on two subjects - economics and AI - that I know shockingly little about, and understand even less. But I understood this! Thank you Paul!
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-should...

02.04.2025 05:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Protest on Trial: A Series for Democracy · Greenpeace USA 🌍✊Our right to protest is under attack—and we’re fighting back.✊🌍 Greenpeace USA is facing a $660 million SLAPP lawsuit from the oil giant behind the Dakota Access Pipeline – an attack to silence us a...

The judgment against Greenpeace was not only unjust, it was absurd ($660 million!!). Join the meeting to discuss how Greenpeace is going to address this.
mobilize.us/s/tjnaS9

27.03.2025 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Caption contest: what does “R&S” stand for?

18.03.2025 19:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have a strong urge to punch my screen when I see his face on it

05.03.2025 02:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0