Just to be clear. MAGAs are gutting:
•Medicaid—which 60M Americans rely on to survive
•SNAP—which 42M Americans rely on to eat
•School Lunch—which 30M kids rely on daily
•Housing Assistance—which 5M families rely on to live
ALL to cut $4.5T in taxes for 800 Billionaires
This Is Barbaric.
Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Chrome’s sucking your data like a vampire with the flu.
Microsoft’s force-feeding Edge down your throat,
Harvesting your data while you desperately delete their bloat.
Your tabs are rotting like corpses, while your RAM rots from within,
Big Tech’s collecting everything, soon they’ll be wearing your skin.
But Vivaldi’s the motherf*cking exorcist, the stake, the end!
Don’t be Big Tech’s b*tch, comment “YES” and ascend.
@QasimRashid Can we do this with federal taxes too?
Even if it's not allowed, I'm not sure what could be done to combat 7 million + people.
It is the moral, ethical, and yes legally right for Democratic States and Cities to engage in Soft Secession by withholding federal taxes—and instead spend those funds on their own residents.
This would not violate the Supremacy Clause, has immense precedent in American history, and the time to act is NOW. The real question is given the Federal government's complete failure—what are Democratic leaders waiting for?
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/blue-states-it-is-time-for-soft-secession
Speed-running themes from the French Revolution worked out well for those involved.
Ask Caesar, Nero, and the Praetorian Guard.
found on bsky found on tumblr
i checked mine and yep. check yours.
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
It might be time for businesses with the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason to do so with any federal politicians while the #Shutdown (#TrumpShutdown ) is still happening.
Republican controlled Senate and Congress should negotiate seriously with Democrats, and Mike Johnson should swear in Adelita Grijalva.
#NoGovNoService #uspol #uspolitics
@jeffjarvis
Has anyone reported who the contractor is destroying American history?
It's also ironic that he isn't willing to tough out the tariffs (#TACO) yet is expecting everyone else to do so.
I think there's consensus that we all should call it the Epstein Ballroom. And I propose renaming the rest the Gold House.
When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/science-must-decentralize
https://ground.news/interest/ronald-reagan
News links around the issue.
