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Massive rally in LA today with Bernie Sanders and AOC.
LA Times: At packed L.A. rally, Bernie Sanders says U.S. facing ‘extraordinary danger’
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Judge agrees with Trump and ends sanctuary in house of Christian god.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-churches-immigration-enforcement-82e5d40e8dad512a23732e9185879eeb
AP News · Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship
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I'm starting to see disparaging statements about the #HandsOff protests, suggestive of #COINTELPRO: that they were "permitted", that they had "little effect", that "hundreds of thousands" showed up (actually millions), that we should try to find "other, more effective" approaches — rather than attend #April19th.
That means #HandsOff is working.
Keep it up.
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LDF dumps META over Zuckerberg ending DEI and fact checking.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/11/meta-ldf-dei-policy
#LDF #META #DEI #Zuckerberg #Facebook
The Guardian · Legal Defense Fund exits Meta civil rights advisory group over DEI changes
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RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0z9nmzvdlo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews
www.bbc.comRFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism 'by September'Autism researchers and experts call the effort, which is short on detail, misguided and unrealistic.
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STUDY: "Children and adolescents with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection are at a statistically significant increased risk of various cardiovascular outcomes, including hypertension, ventricular arrhythmias, myocarditis, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrest, thromboembolism, chest pain, and palpitations, compared to uninfected controls." #COVID19
NatureCardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records - Nature CommunicationsPost-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection affecting the cardiovascular system have been reported, but evidence in young people is limited. Here, the authors quantify the incidence of a range of outcomes in children and adolescents using electronic health records from the United States.
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Freedom of the PressNo secret deportation hearingsPlus: Attacks on legal services are attacks on the press
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One of the stranger things about analyzing Downmarket Mussolini's fascist executive orders is the way folks around me are always prepared to write off some of the most dangerous things Der Leader tries to do as mere "petty vindictiveness." Take for example Trump's recent executive orders targeting a law firm that sued Fox News for spreading lies about an electronic voting machine company, and two former members of his previous administration - a DHS official who refuted Trump's blatantly false claims that the 2020 election was rigged for Joe Biden, and a whistleblower he's accusing of Espionage Act violations and has accused of treason in the past. Is this about revenge for our (not so) beloved tangerine tyrant? Of course, but particularly in the first two cases, this is also about establishing Der Führer's "Big Lie" about the 2020 election being rigged against him, as the only officially sanctioned truth the government, and by extension its judiciary branch, should recognize.
First up we have the president signing an executive order designed to punish Susman Godfrey for forcing the Trump regime's quasi-official state news outlet, Fox, to settle with Dominion Voting Systems after they spent literally months openly broadcasting fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election (that Trump lost) being rigged:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-executive-order-fox-news-law-firm
Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit
"Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain a $787.5m settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election.
The order against the firm, Susman Godfrey, marks the latest effort by the president to punish attorneys and firms who have opposed his interests.
The order seeks to harm the firm by limiting its attorneys from accessing government buildings, revoking security clearances and essentially making it impossible for it to represent anyone who has business before the federal government."
Like a lot of Trump's efforts to punish or intimidate law firms, this blatantly unconstitutional executive order is mostly about trying to put Susman Godfrey out of business by denying them access to the federal government, and the courtrooms it controls. What's telling here is that Trump isn't even trying to make the argument that the firm broke any laws, or violated any rules; no reason for the executive order was given, and the president has only said
"there were some very bad things that happened with these law firms,” because Trump hasn't found a valid excuse for this ideological policing and he's not ready to just up and admit he's trying to take out his perceived political enemies for A) disputing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and B) forcing his friends at Fox to pay for its libelous claims about Dominion.
Which then brings us to Trump's blatantly authoritarian use of the DoJ to target two of his political "enemies" that served in his administration, but spoke out against the regime and in Krebs's case, actively debunked "The Big Lie" Trump has been telling about the 2020 election being rigged against him since it happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justice-department-critics
Trump orders DoJ to investigate duo who debunked claims of election fraud
"Donald Trump’s persecution of critics intensified on Wednesday when he ordered the justice department to investigate a whistleblower and a cybersecurity director who refuted unfounded claims of election fraud.
The US president signed memorandums targeting Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, former homeland security officials who served in the first Trump administration."
Look my friends, I'm not expecting you to find much sympathy for a Big Law firm rolling in filthy lucre, or two former fascist collaborators that are now finding out the leopards will indeed eat their faces, but in this situation the "who" of this story, is far less important than the "what." What Trump is doing here is weaponizing the US government to punish folks for contradicting his "enforced unreality" surrounding the 2020 election, and let me assure you that there are a lot of people in the judiciary, legal profession, and media who have gone on record saying that Trump's claims where baseless (fascist) conspiracy theories, so that isn't just a question of the president arguing with the experts about some bullshit he picked up on Fox News. Furthermore, Trumps actions ultimately seek to make his enemies, the enemies of the United States government; this is a classic sign of a state sliding into an authoritarian dictatorship and thus cannot be dismissed as Trump simply being a petulant vengeful manchild.
Smoke em if you got em, because if Trump gets away with this, we're through the looking glass and his every utterance becomes our new reality.
The Guardian · Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit
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The utter ineptitude is stunning.
In the Abrego Garcia El Salvador prison case, update from Chris Geidner:
That motion from DOJ I’ve been discussing was not accepted for filing because it was filed by someone whose name is not on the filing and the attorneys on the filing have not been admitted to practice in Maryland fed courts or been allowed to do so in this case
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John Mastodon's Chosen Ones
Followers of Nicole
in all seriousness, since we don't "Consume" our social media, and instead actively particpate in it like we did in the pre-social media internet, I think we should revive the word "Netizen" since there's more than just the Fediverse occupying the non-corporate social media space.
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THREAD: When Chris Krebs and his workplace, SentinelOne, was singled out by Donald Trump on Wednesday, I thought it was an opportunity to weigh the cybersecurity industry's rhetoric against their real world actions.
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DA Rosen said that #Trump’s intense focus on #Stanford & other #universities played no role in the decision to charge the #crimes as #felonies.
“What the federal administration is doing is what they’re doing. What I’m doing is applying the California Penal Code,” Rosen said.
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UPDATE: DOJ trying to cancel today's Abrego Garcia hearing and delay filing a response to the judge's order until next week.
Kyle Cheney
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 11, 2017 – While discussing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapon attack, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” during World War II.
When reporters reminded Spicer that Hitler used chemical weapons to gas millions of Jews, Spicer replied, “he brought them into the Holocaust centers, I understand that.”
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#politics #kilmarabregogarcia #elsalvador
“Judge orders government to lay out steps for return of wrongly deported man
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis also directed the government to confirm the location of Kilmar Abrego García, who was deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison, by 9:30 a.m. Friday.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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You should read this from @mathewi
Be careful what you say on social media, part 2
#politics #socialmedia
https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/be-careful-what-you-say-on-social-media-part-2/
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It's why it's called "Earning a Living." Under capitalism, we don't have a right to live. We have to "earn" it by generating profits for them.
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It frightens me a lot when intelligent, thoughtful people say “oh, #Trump can’t do that (some awful illegal thing) because ____ won’t allow it”.
Wake the fuck up please. There is no one to stop him. #SCOTUS just allowed this administration to wash their hands of a completely innocent legal immigrant who they mistakenly sent to a foreign concentration facility.
The guardrails are GONE.
Understanding this landscape is crucial to our battle.