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#EU #europe #W #socialNetwork #identityVerification #surveillance #privacy #humanRights #democracy #data @lain lain.com/objects/aaa7d9d6-331b…
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guys they are finally making a social network for total losers https://wsocial.news/lain.com
The administration calls it a "little detour." One hundred seventy-four civilians dead. Twenty-five billion dollars. Zero congressional votes. When the past RNC chair calls it war crimes, you're not reading partisan screed—you're reading a smoke alarm. The land is keeping score. It always has.
#Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+
What Survives the Morning: The Burning, Laughing, Rotting Corpse
Support the National Audubon Society and receive award-winning conservation stories delivered quarterly. Protect birds and their habitats while building a sanctuary for wildlife.Wendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)
“Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” directed $6 billion toward AI-integrated surveillance towers at the border… recently announced plans to install 1,500 more towers over the next few years”
You. You’re the target of mass #surveillance towers, not illegal immigrants or asylum seekers and refugees.
They track your movements, your contacts, and your communications. They make it too dangerous to speak dissent or form community. It’s #fascism.
🤩 Now available online: @_elena ’s wonderful keynote speech at the #2MR festival:
„I have a dream“ – A view of the Open Social Web in 5 years
👉 watch.2mr.social/w/k3ngQ8Xr3AN…
> To me, the #Fediverse is the best, most empowering #SocialMedia experience that I have ever had.
About #2MR: 2mr.social/
#SaveSocial #DiDay # #FOSS #Floss #Mastodon #democracy #digitalindependence #digitalsovereignty #media #danmarkskifter #DigitalRights
"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Louis Brandeis
#newbrandeis #antitrust #democracy #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #wealth #wealthconcentration #politics #politicaltheory #autocracy #corporatism #corporatismisfascism #fascism #supremecourt #hipsterantitrust #ftc #regulation #regulatorycapture
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German parties leaving, collectively, is more than a symbolic exit. It is a chance to reassess how and where political communication happens.
A platform’s relevance is not inherent. It is constructed through user behavior. And when influential users walk, the relevance begins to erode.
#WirVerlassenX #socialmedia #democracy #journalism
There are many problems with #USA #democracy
Like the stupid #ElectoralCollege
Gore beat Bush in 2000, Clinton beat Trump in 2016. In the popular vote. The EC erased it
Well here's another reason for you to #vote in the #primaries and the general #election:
The #Democrats, if they win enough in November, can kill the EC
It's been a 20 year effort of states agreeing to void the EC if enough agree: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
vox.com/politics/487766/nation…
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A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off
A Democratic wave in 2026 could deliver the key remaining states needed for a popular vote system, under this proposalAndrew Prokop (Vox)
Call your reps every day! So let's check in our list today. (thanks to 5calls.org/ )
* Oppose the ICE and CBP Budget Reconciliation Funding Bill
* Reform FISA Section 702 to Stop Government Surveillance
* Support Impeachment/resignation of Trump, Hegseth, and Patel.
* NO Public Funding of Trump's Ballroom.
* Support a war powers resolution to stop the Iran war.
* No Internet Age Verification Mandates.
* (Federal and State) Publicly investigate the figures in the Epstein files
Find your rep: house.gov/representatives/find…
Senators:
Schiff: 202-224-3841
Padilla: 202-224-3553 (Fresno 559-497-5109 and Sacramento 916-448-2787)
Governor Newsom: 916-445-2841
#politics #democrats #democracy #California #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
The right-wing owned Supreme Court are helping to dismantle voting rights because they know that if/when Democrats retake the White House the Supreme Court will be expanded and the Republican bought members of SCOTUS will no longer have enough sway to further degrade the Constitution.
#scotus #republicans #democrats #ExpandTheCourt #democracy #votingrights #vote #Midterms #constitution #politics #trump #elections #epstein #news #worldnews
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
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#voting #democracy #uspol #scotus #vra
Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander - Democracy Docket
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of …Democracy Docket
"For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act."
~ Jay Willis
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
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The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections
The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.Jay Willis (Balls & Strikes)
#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights
The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.
#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/poli…
So.... why is it nobody in Congress understands that rather than cutting all good things for "We the People" for war & profit costs, there IS an option to (further) cutting costs, and that is to bring in some revenue from those bursting in excess money?
#Economics 101 - #Taxation w/o #Representation #TaxTheRich #Equity #Justice #democracy #TrumpVirus #oligarchy #GQP
“Today’s decision strikes a blow at the fragile infrastructure of our democracy. It casts aside the precious and noble actions undertaken by countless generations of activists, lawyers, and legislators, who worked to bring this country closer to becoming a true multi-racial democracy.”
#VRA #VotingRights #democracy #civilrigjts #scotus #SherrilynIfill
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights ActSherrilyn Ifill (Sherrilyn’s Newsletter)
One of the parties in the Swedish parliament has twice the frequency of convicted criminals on their tickets for the September elections compared to the other parties.
Yes, it's the Fascists. Yes, they present themselves as tough on crime. Yes, it's the party of small-town men with short education. Yes, they're currently polling at 19% for parliament. Yay, #democracy .
In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice.
How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today.
These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other.
Some seriously kerazy — & for once literal — #irony
250 years ago the #UnitedStates declared its #independence from a monarchy.
Today, that very #monarchy, is warning the #US of making a #king of its #illiberal #ExecutiveBranch.
#NoKings #US #Constitution #democracy #independence #ForThePeopleByThePeople #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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"Purge Palantir" is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm
And how I got permanently banned from XGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
Robert Reich:
"I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him. "
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> The supreme court justice recently condemned an entire philosophy of government. How can we believe in his impartiality?
#SCOTUS #Thomas #Project2025 #TrumpVirus #corruption #justice #democracy #history #oligarchy
It's only going to get worse.
In Germany it got to the point where someone planted a bomb at such an event to get Hitler, and I've never heard anyone say that it was wrong of him to injure and kill other people that did get hit by the explosion.
#fascism #Trump #Hitler #nazis #antifa #democracy #freedom #resistance
Purge Palantir is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-…
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm
And how I got permanently banned from XGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
»When Peter #Thiel said, “I no longer believe that #freedom and #democracy are compatible,” he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist.«
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.Noah Hawley (The Atlantic)
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Newsweek:
Amanda Ungaro Says Melania Trump Knows She Saw ‘Compromising Interactions’
"... while she did not threaten me directly, she knows that I witnessed highly compromising interactions over the course of 20 years," Ungaro said. "She does not know the full extent of what I know—for I lived with Paolo for 20 years."
newsweek.com/amanda-ungaro-say…
#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
Amanda Ungaro Says Melania Trump Knows She Saw ‘Compromising Interactions’
Amanda Ungaro was deported to Brazil in 2025 and has since become very vocal about Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.Peter Aitken (Newsweek)
"The political earthquake that #Hungary experienced on Monday, when the party opposing #Orbán won two-thirds of the seats in Parliament, was unimaginable a year and a half ago, but there had been smaller, almost imperceptible rumblings of the kind that usually portend profound political change. Across rural Hungary—the source of Orbán’s base—small civic groups were forming in places where civil society had all but disappeared."
#trump
#authoritarianism
#democracy
theatlantic.com/culture/2026/0…
The Clubs in Hungary That Helped Lead to Orbán's Defeat
Among the many reasons for Viktor Orbán’s defeat was the rural clubs where citizens relearned democratic habits.Gal Beckerman (The Atlantic)
European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company.
Investors across the continent have already put more than $27 billion into this leader in military-grade AI that has been accused of numerous human rights violations.
mediafaro.org/article/20260411…
#Palantir #Tech #HumanRights #AI #Investing #AssetManagement #Banking #Politics #Business #Europe #OECD #EU #Democracy #PeterThiel
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