Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"All mimsy were the borogoves..." Avid reader, occasional world traveler, raises chickens in Texas.
Interested in #Books #SFF #Photography #Travel #Nature #Science #Journalism #News #USPolitics #USPol #Ukraine #Etymology and other things.

I create threads of news articles I find interesting, and occasionally share a #GiftArticle #GiftLink so those without subscriptions can read the whole article.

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2026-01-21 06:38:41 UTC

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@nprofile…9rzs
The rich are afraid of what will happen if all of the people who actually work for a living realize how badly the rich have been screwing them over.
So the rich are constantly manipulating working class people into turning against one another based on lies that provoke fear and distrust.
"Other" working class people are NOT the reason your life sucks. The rich corporate owners are the ones making your life miserable.
#Meme #Inequality #Politics
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2025-09-06 19:24:51 UTC

Will this be exhibit 1 during Trump's 3rd impeachment? (Or if they ever invoke the 25th Amendment on him?)
"The president of the United States, a Vietnam draft dodger, declaring war on an American city (with AI slop implying that he will burn it with napalm)"
-Ben Raderstorf
https://bsky.app/profile/raders.bsky.social/post/3ly6pa6dpv22g
#Trump #GOP #Republicans #SocialMedia #DonaldTrump #War #Chicago #Illinois #USA #Meme #Memes #US #USPol #Politics #UnitedStates
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2025-09-04 18:47:35 UTC

"That small boat was attacked off the coast of #Venezuela which is over a 1000 nautical miles away from here. The #UnitedStates was obviously well out of range of that boat...
This civilian, non-military #boat was not struck in self-defense... they just summarily killed everybody on board...
extrajudicial murder...
Whatever pretext this admn may claim, this looks for all the world like a flagrant violation of #US & international #law”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyNxeMIIF94
#Trump #Hegseth #Politics #News

2025-09-04 01:17:12 UTC

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Trump arranged for US military jets to do flyovers during the Epstein survivors' press conference. He was trying to drown out the survivors' voices. Trump failed. His attempt only showed how desperate he is to distract from the #EpsteinFiles.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/operation-squirrel
#Trump #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinSurvivors #Press #Media #News #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #US #USA #UnitedStates #GOP #MAGA #Republicans
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2025-08-21 07:11:23 UTC

"We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover."
-Marisa Kabas
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lwutywcay22g
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #UnitedStates #America #US #USA
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2025-08-20 05:26:24 UTC

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"Many of these #Americans don’t even trust their own experience—at least not first and foremost... How do they get their sense of what’s what out there?... by scrolling their #apps and soaking in the #algorithm...
Why do #Republicans think #America in general—and its cities in particular—have a massive raging #crime problem? Because their scroll surfaces them a parade of crime content... and a barrage of right-wing influencers"
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-wants-cop-violence-in-your-feed
#Trump #Politics #SocialMedia #News #US
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2025-08-20 03:20:56 UTC

"In case it's not obvious, Republicans aren't satisfied with red-state National Guards: Pirro is rolling out the red carpet for white nationalist militias to come to Washington DC and patrol the city."
- @nprofile…rkcx
https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net/post/3lwsf7g6vtk2a
#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #WhiteNationalism #USPol #Politics #DC #WashingtonDC #JeaninePirro #News #Press #Media #US #USA
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2025-08-17 02:29:03 UTC

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@nprofile…efkj
"Federal Agent in D.C.: “Proud Boys? They’re great guys. They love the United States.”"
You cannot claim to "love the United States" when you fear and hate half of the people who make up the United States.
White nationalists are NOT patriots. They are cowards who hate the idea of equality, liberty and justice for all that the USA stands for.
Racists are not patriots, they are simply fear-filled bigots.
#Memes #Quotes #Racism #Bigotry #ICE #Trump
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2025-08-14 21:46:03 UTC

"Although the notion that #Trump is making colossal sums off the Presidency has become commonplace, nobody could tell me how much he’s made. Norm Eisen, a #government ethics lawyer... said, “We don’t know the full amounts.”
...
A more considered accounting seemed in order. I decided to attempt to tally up just how much Trump and his immediate family have pocketed off his time in the #WhiteHouse."
https://archive.ph/Z9rQ1#selection-567.0-571.170
#Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #USPol #News #Press #US #USA
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2025-07-30 12:28:40 UTC

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"Whether our mother was there in body or not - we are all second, third & fourth generation to victims of #starvation & extermination. And the one commandment the victims left us, all of us, is simple: #NeverAgain
...
But in 2025, the #Israeli army, on orders from the political echelon, is destroying #Gaza & exterminating its population...
Gaza's besieged population has also been deliberately & systematically starved."
https://robertreich.substack.com/i/169603272/silence-in-the-face-of-gazas-starvation-is-absolute-betrayal-of-holocaust-victims
#Israel #WarCrimes #Politics #News #WorldNews
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2025-07-30 12:16:40 UTC

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"The #Nazi regime reduced the ghetto's boundaries & squeezed its residents, whose numbers dwindled daily, into increasingly smaller areas...
My mother somehow survived the starvation & the #war, but the Mintzer children who wasted away before her eyes remained with her always...
80 years after they were starved to death, my country, the #Jewish state, would decree... the #starvation & extermination of tens of thousands of #children like them... children in #Gaza"
#Israel #Palestine #News
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2025-07-22 02:23:34 UTC

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@nprofile…r5mx
“... in America, we were richer, safer, more powerful, better defended, better fed, more entertained than any civilization had ever been in the history of the world.
And we were willing to burn it all down so we could be mean to people again.”
-Heidi Cuda
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-complying-in-advance-to
#Meme #Memes #Quote #Quotes #Trump #MAGA #GOP #USPol #Politics #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
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2025-07-01 17:43:27 UTC

from @nprofile…h54n
Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.
If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.
#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA
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2025-06-21 22:27:35 UTC

"The “echo chamber” critique of #SocialMedia has been thoroughly debunked by researchers, who have consistently found the opposite to be true: people *not* on social media live in more sheltered #information environments than those who are...
social media essentially breaks down the echo chambers... exposing us to a lot of things that we’re not exposed in our everyday lives."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/community-and-choice-are-not-bubbles/
#Research #Tech #News #USA #World #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #Meta #Facebook
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2025-06-11 20:50:31 UTC

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@nprofile…49cc
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist.
...
Then they came for me, and there was no one left
To speak out for me.
-Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), Lutheran minister and early Nazi supporter, who was later imprisoned for opposing Hitler’s regime.
It's not a very long poem, people.
No one is safe in an authoritarian regime. The regime will always need new "enemies" to throw to the masses.
#Trump #Fascism #USA #Politics #Meme
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2025-06-01 23:12:25 UTC

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@nprofile…vkcf
Being unable to keep track of time in a linear fashion is one of the symptoms of dementia.

2025-06-01 22:48:46 UTC

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"When financial regulators are picked for ideology rather than expertise, markets fail... When disease researchers must pledge fealty to political positions, public #health suffers. The consequences won't be abstract—they'll be measured in lives lost and futures destroyed.
For 142 years, the merit-based civil service survived because both parties recognized that functional #government requires professional expertise. That consensus is dead."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USA
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2025-06-01 22:40:54 UTC

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"While 19th-century patronage was transparently transactional— #jobs for political support—this iteration comes wrapped in #Orwellian language about "merit."
The contradictions are glaring. Applicants must explain their "commitment to the #Constitution" while pledging to "advance the President's Executive Orders"—but what happens when those orders violate the Constitution? The structure makes clear which loyalty matters more."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA
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2025-06-01 22:17:55 UTC

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"Under this plan, every federal #job applicant... must now write essays explaining how they would "advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities."
...The hiring reforms aims to complete the systematic takeover of the federal #government as outlined in #Project2025 taken directly from the #Authoritarian playbook... A merit-based civil service that took generations to build is being dismantled via memo."
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-a-democracy-one
#Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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2025-05-07 02:16:51 UTC

Jim Bakker who scammed hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billion$) from gullible followers over the years is saying he'll be out on the street if he isn't given $1000 from 1000 people soon.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3s6y66t4asr2jsijpj3fslnv/post/3lojfu3swas23
Another scam? Or will this conman soon be homeless?
The comments are the best part.
"Stop buying avocado toast for your dolls"
#Religion #Lies #Politics #Humor
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2025-04-29 19:54:03 UTC

"You’ve likely seen this by now, and you have probably seen people discussing this in the context of Martial Law. You may have questions. As a lawyer, I wanted to take a moment to explain some of the things in this #ExecutiveOrder in as neutral and calm terms as possible. Buckle up. 🧵"
https://www.threads.com/@jpatrickhanley/post/DJBUtGFumux
#Trump #GOP #MartialLaw #EO #Military #Law #LawEnforcement #DueProcess #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Thread #Threads
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2025-03-16 02:28:04 UTC

"historian and author Kevin Kruse...
“I want to stress how far off the rails this is in terms of not just our norms & our expectations but our laws,” Kruse said. “There’s a lot that’s deeply unconstitutional here. I get that they’re trying to flood the zone & overwhelm the opposition, but the opposition shouldn’t let itself be overwhelmed. It shouldn’t accept this as the new normal, which is what the administration wants us to do.”"
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kevin-kruse-interview-trump-second-term
#Trump #GOP #Musk #USPol #News #US

2025-03-05 17:40:41 UTC

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Fight fascism & Elon Musk by taking down Tesla
https://micahflee.com/fight-fascism-and-elon-musk-by-taking-down-tesla/
"On paper, #ElonMusk is the richest person in the world, but his money... resides in his stake in #Tesla, a wildly overvalued publicly traded company...
movement against Tesla... knocking billions of dollars off Musk's net worth and potentially even causing his #wealth – which honestly is a house of cards built on top of #fraud & over-hyped Tesla stock – to collapse."
#Resist #Resistance #Musk #Coup #USPol #News #US #USA
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2025-02-26 09:09:18 UTC

"Trump’s decision to fire senior military leaders without cause is foolish & a disgrace. It politicizes our professional #military in a dangerous & debilitating way. What frightens me even more is the removal of three judge advocates general, the most senior uniformed #legal authorities in the #Defense Department. Their removal is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of #law, & an especially disturbing part."
#GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/opinion/trump-hegseth-cq-brown-pentagon-firings-jag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk4.xGt0.VQTtps801Xnq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump #Corruption #News
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2025-02-23 09:20:18 UTC

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Trump is firing federal workers who are not funded by taxpayers
https://archive.is/Sg9Td#selection-1099.0-1099.63
"Elon Musk's #DOGE team has slashed hundreds of #jobs paid for by fees from banks, medical device companies and other forms of funding rather than taxpayer dollars, raising the question of whether the cuts will render hoped for savings...
"The #FDIC is funded through fees paid by banks, so cutting the FDIC's expenses does nothing to reduce the federal budget""
#Musk #Trump #Coup #Politics #News #USA #US
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2025-02-23 09:03:55 UTC

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US FDA asks fired scientists to return, including some reviewing Musk’s Neuralink
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-asks-fired-scientists-return-including-some-reviewing-musks-neuralink-2025-02-22/
"The #FDA plans to rehire around 300 people in total...
The FDA firings last week included about 20 people in its office of neurological and physical #medicine devices, several of whom worked on #Neuralink... It is not known if all of the fired workers reviewing Neuralink have received the return offer."
#Musk #Corruption #Business #Politics #Science #Health #News #USA #US #USNews
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2025-02-18 03:18:35 UTC

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X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages
Signal has recently become a popular organizing tool among #government workers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages/
"links to Signal.me, a domain that offers a way to connect directly to #Signal users, are blocked on public posts, direct messages, & profile pages...
Signal.me links that were already posted... now show a "Warning: this link may be unsafe" interstitial page rather than opening the link directly."
#Musk #SocialMedia #News #USA
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2025-02-14 20:18:25 UTC

An un-elected South African immigrant is illegally taking control over US #government agencies:
#ElonMusk is undermining the US Constitution's separation of powers and its system of checks & balances.
This is the beginning of 5th Elon Musk thread.
Here are links to previous threads:
1st thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113934284003400421
2nd thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113951618453636625
3rd thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113963233763918473
4th thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113980599958766875
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Crime #Trump #Politics #US #News #USA
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2025-02-13 23:06:14 UTC

"a list of individuals & opposition groups in #Russia who received money from #USAID...
#DonaldTrump has made it more than clear that he’s not opposed to giving in to every one of Russia’s demands...
#Russian govt, which is not only historically hostile to the #US, but takes extreme measures to stamp out dissent within its borders.
But this US administration is so far notably less hostile to autocrats, and practically uninterested in #democracy."
https://newrepublic.com/post/191504/russia-elon-musk-opposition-figures-intelligence
#Musk #Trump #News
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2025-02-13 01:56:11 UTC

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"Let the scams roll": Elon Musk exploits culture wars to turn MAGA against consumer protections
How to sell MAGA men a pro-scam agenda? Tell them a woman founded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/12/let-the-scams-roll-elon-musk-exploits-culture-to-turn-maga-against-consumer-protections/
"The #CFPB has restored $21 billion to consumers exploited by banks, lenders & payment apps... it has protected our #economy & kept money in the pockets of ordinary working people.
So of course #ElonMusk & #DonaldTrump hate it."
#Musk #Coup #Misogyny #Trump #News #US
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2025-02-11 19:39:29 UTC

Elon Musk, backed by #Trump and his Republican enablers, is illegally accessing and changing #government data, systems, and entire agencies. It is a violation of #privacy, #security, and other laws.
Here are links to #threads I created with articles about Musk's actions.
First thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113934284003400421
Second thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113951618453636625
Third thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113963233763918473
Fourth thread: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/113980599958766875
#ElonMusk #Coup #Musk #Tech #Data #GOP #Politics #US #USA #Thread
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2025-02-07 15:09:04 UTC

Here is the beginning of the 3rd #thread on Elon Musk's takeover of the US government:
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
"Musk’s team, known as the Dept of Govt Efficiency, has already thrown entire swaths of the federal #government & its programs into disarray — programs that serve millions of #Americans.
#Musk himself has made no secret of his intentions, saying that #DOGE is a “wood chipper for bureaucracy” and that he is “deleting” agencies."
#ElonMusk #Coup #Tech #US
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2025-01-18 05:28:32 UTC

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@nprofile…ypxz
I don't know what you're experiencing, but I wish you the best.
(And here's a virtual hug.)
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2024-10-24 22:12:39 UTC

It is appalling how many Americans have made it obvious that they would have enthusiastically supported Hitler’s rise to power.
"If you took Trump's statements about immigrants and replaced the words for "immigrant" with the words for "Jew", what would you see?"
#Trump #Hitler #Antisemitism #Immigrants #Bigotry #Hate #Intolerance #Meme #Memes #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USA #US
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2024-10-15 16:40:45 UTC

"U.S. warns Israel that arms transfers could halt unless humanitarian situation in Gaza improves"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/15/israel-iran-lebanon-war-news-gaza-hamas/
Finally.
Hopefully, the Biden administration will follow through.
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #Biden #News #US
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2024-10-13 08:49:49 UTC

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"The Long Road to Reconstruction" is an #interactive news article.
I highly recommend that you read/experience it for yourself. You can do so even if without a subscription to the #WashingtonPost by using this #GiftLink:
https://wapo.st/401Kauk
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #Infrastructure #Press #Media #News #WorldNews
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2024-10-13 08:41:13 UTC

"After the war’s detritus is cleared, the real work of rebuilding can finally begin...
A vast amount of building material would have to be brought in through Gaza’s heavily controlled border crossings. In the past, #Israel put restrictions on key materials...
If the pace of reconstruction mirrors previous conflicts, the #UN estimates it will take 80 years to rebuild all of Gaza’s destroyed homes."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/401Kauk
#Gaza #Palestine #War #News #WorldNews
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2024-10-12 20:13:13 UTC

"I worked as a trauma surgeon in #Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in #Ukraine & #Haiti, and ... I’ve seen #violence & worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a #hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young #child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total."
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk4.sPpq.UsM_P_52hC_i&smid=url-sharev
#Palestine #Israel #War #Children #News
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2024-10-04 03:53:16 UTC

This editorial cartoon by Ann Telnaes seems appropriate right now.
Donald Trump’s unfinished business
By Ann Telnaes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/28/ann-telnaes-cartoon-donald-trump-jack-smith-indictment/
#JackSmith #Trump #TrumpTrial #Indictment #Crime #Jan6 #Chutkan #JudgeChutkan #USPol #US #USA #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #Humor #funny #Meme
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2024-02-06 17:24:04 UTC

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@npub1xj8…egqe
Stealing children and "re-educating" them is a form of #genocide.
#Russia is attempting genocide against the people of #Ukraine
#Meme
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2023-08-23 22:46:42 UTC

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@npub1tra…npqw
"Willis indictment... is not only a grand narrative of what Smith characterizes as an attempt to defraud the #USA. It is also the tale of a frame-up, a grotesque travesty of justice in which the power of government was used to traduce and attempt to destroy an innocent and defenseless citizen.
As such, it tells us not just what #Trump did to try to hold onto power, but also what he will do if he ever gets hold of it again."
https://archive.is/XPbcf
#TrumpIndictment #USPol #News
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2023-08-10 17:32:36 UTC

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I would post a meme of an LBJ quote, but my instance can't post images lately. (Annoying) So here's the quote in text form.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/
#Racism #Poverty #Politics #GOP #Republicans #USA #Quote

2023-08-09 15:16:08 UTC

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"He’d been disciplined by medical boards in over a dozen states, lost privileges in multiple hospitals and settled federal allegations of fraud, admitting that his company had performed procedures without any documented need....
And yet, after all of that, McGuckin is still seeing patients today, still adding to the nearly $50 million he has earned in the past decade in federal insurance reimbursements."
~@npub16nx…rj8k
https://www.propublica.org/article/pennsylvania-doctor-investigated-at-every-level-why-is-he-still-practicing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Health #Healthcare #Fraud #Crime #USA #News

2023-08-03 11:44:10 UTC

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@npub1jk5…9uth @npub1we6…3uct
"Describing the origins of these flash mobs of rage will do more to serve audiences than merely repeating the lies told by propagandists, even to debunk them. People don’t just need to know that something they’ve shared isn’t true.
They need to know who had an interest in showing it to them in the first place. Who wanted them to be mad about it, and who’s getting something out of that anger."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/07/18/manufactured-outrage-is-big-business/
#LGBTQ #Bigotry #Journalism #Politics #News
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