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Tech geek. Trekkie. Whovian. Lover of sci-fi and all things unapologetically Black. Navigating the multiverse of tech and justice one keystroke at a time. #BlerdLife

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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

04.02.2026 20:58 👍 9913 🔁 3029 💬 143 📌 124
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ICE wants us to cower. The moment requires us to fight back! On January 23, all around the country we stand in strength, love and solidarity against ICE's campaign of violence and fear. #ICEOUT

23.01.2026 21:30 👍 6719 🔁 1690 💬 143 📌 56

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

21.01.2026 22:00 👍 27090 🔁 16055 💬 1138 📌 1634
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Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

16.01.2026 03:43 👍 8859 🔁 4110 💬 187 📌 358

A good way to honor January 6th is just to reshare a bunch of the video from it so you can experience again the immediate visceral reaction to an attack on America.

06.01.2026 18:28 👍 126 🔁 72 💬 1 📌 2

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

10.12.2025 20:52 👍 1670 🔁 433 💬 21 📌 20

I mean...we all knew it was going to take a "dreary" turn. The darker parts of the story are all in the second part. It was still quite enjoyable.

23.11.2025 14:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

16.11.2025 23:43 👍 59618 🔁 36452 💬 1308 📌 2906
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Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care.

And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

04.11.2025 23:54 👍 17475 🔁 6881 💬 345 📌 267

THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.
THE SHUTDOWN IS INTENTIONAL.

29.10.2025 23:58 👍 996 🔁 280 💬 32 📌 17
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Government Shutdown Update

With the federal government currently shut down, eligible Navy Federal members impacted by paycheck disruptions can now enroll in the credit union’s Paycheck Assistance Program.

Screenshot from Navy Federal Credit Union website: Government Shutdown Assistance Government Shutdown Update With the federal government currently shut down, eligible Navy Federal members impacted by paycheck disruptions can now enroll in the credit union’s Paycheck Assistance Program.

With the federal government currently shut down, eligible Navy Federal members impacted by paycheck disruptions can now enroll in the credit union’s Paycheck Assistance Program.

www.navyfederal.org/about/govern...

24.10.2025 20:42 👍 10 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

21.10.2025 15:22 👍 14197 🔁 4901 💬 271 📌 425
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An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

16.10.2025 13:21 👍 14646 🔁 3368 💬 477 📌 605
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LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

13.10.2025 00:43 👍 639 🔁 243 💬 2 📌 2
Screenshot of a headline from Jacobin magazine. It reads:

"Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale

by Zohran Mamdani

At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here."

Screenshot of a headline from Jacobin magazine. It reads: "Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale by Zohran Mamdani At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here."

Screenshot of a NYTimes headline that reads:

"Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat

Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering to support former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.”

There's a photo of Andrew Cuomo and another man entering a building.

Screenshot of a NYTimes headline that reads: "Wealthy New York Developers Hold Meeting to Plot Mamdani’s Defeat Some of New York’s biggest business leaders convened on Tuesday morning for an urgent gathering to support former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, saying the “time to act is now.” There's a photo of Andrew Cuomo and another man entering a building.

Choose your fighter.

09.09.2025 15:01 👍 6541 🔁 1361 💬 121 📌 46
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. 1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

06.09.2025 19:40 👍 28596 🔁 11976 💬 851 📌 477
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Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

06.09.2025 02:59 👍 17873 🔁 5336 💬 310 📌 246
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I am once again asking you to knock on doors to win a city we can afford.

zohranfornyc.com/events

15.08.2025 17:05 👍 9799 🔁 2078 💬 178 📌 85
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Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not.

He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.

15.08.2025 02:26 👍 27209 🔁 8079 💬 578 📌 383
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Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.

BIG crowd of people shouting at police.

"Fuck you!"

"What is wrong with you!"

"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

14.08.2025 01:45 👍 14387 🔁 4942 💬 691 📌 529
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#ReleaseTheCuomoList

12.08.2025 17:46 👍 34781 🔁 8840 💬 1059 📌 2135
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10.08.2025 00:37 👍 1163 🔁 453 💬 41 📌 26
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NOAA HAS CONFIRMED THAT A POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT #TSUNAMI IS HEADING TOWARDS HAWAII! GET TO HIGHER GROUND NOW, THIS IS A POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION!
#WxSky #weather #Hawaii

30.07.2025 01:32 👍 114 🔁 98 💬 2 📌 6

Call the DC office of Nancy Mace

2022253176

Migrants are allowed due process
We will not tolerate racism and terrorism
Fuck that pick me bitch

28.07.2025 18:22 👍 138 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 2

LADIES, run background checks on all men you meet. Here’s some free or low cost tools:

1. PIMeyes: basically an easy reverse image search & will find their face ANYWHERE on the internet (useful if they give a fake name)
2. Cyber Background Checks: will find their criminal records
3. BlackBookOnline

15.06.2025 11:59 👍 457 🔁 146 💬 22 📌 11
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If you attend a No Kings protest tomorrow in Texas, Washington, or New York, and you are arrested, please call or text 432.279.0411 with your name, location, and the phrase 1A911.

13.06.2025 20:20 👍 769 🔁 551 💬 21 📌 17

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

11.06.2025 12:34 👍 32505 🔁 9833 💬 91 📌 194

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

09.06.2025 17:54 👍 13436 🔁 5305 💬 194 📌 230

USA! USA! USA!

09.06.2025 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is our neighborhood and ICE is clearly not welcome. This is the scene outside Buona Forchetta last night after the ICE raid. The crowd chants SHAME after being hit with flash bangs.

31.05.2025 15:35 👍 7895 🔁 2312 💬 449 📌 180