mkandle :toad:

🇺🇸 💙💛 🇺🇦 Blue dot in a red state. Perpetual student of life. LGBTQ+ ally. Can usually be found trying to herd cats or some other variety of domesticated animals.
#animals - all kinds!
#science
#history
#medicine
#politics
#ProDemocracy
#Memes because laughter is the best medicine, and we sure do need it.
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Angry Florida ManAngryFloridaMan
2025-07-06

100% this. It is a concentration camp. This administration has opened a concentration camp. Just like Nazi Germany did. And they plan on opening more concentration camps.

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

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2025-07-04

Trump: "We're delivering no tax on Social Security." (This was not in the bill that was approved by Congress today.)

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Christopher Mimsmimsical
2025-07-04

Help a journalist out? I'm looking to talk to researchers, engineers, students or entrepreneurs who are considering leaving the U.S. because they lost funding or are worried about visas or anything like that. I'm at mimsical.94 on Signal

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2025-07-04

Dictatorship By Any Other Name

With ICE goons, Trump bypasses Pentagon professionals reluctant to deploy troops against civilians. DHS has tricked out ICE for war, so it’s like deploying soldiers w/o that bothersome UCMJ or the restrictions of Posse Comitatus.

Now to render elections meaningless.
digbysblog.net/2025/07/03/dict

“For sale, one of the CIA’s extraordinary rendition torture-jets” Boing-Boing, Apr 7, 2017.
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2025-07-04

You know those guys from school who seemed like they’d make a really awful cop? Those guys are about to get paid by you to get grossly inadequate training, get kitted out in body armor you paid for, and then turned loose on you with no oversight. SCOTUS has ruled you can’t sue the agents themselves, and the guy running the show is immune from prosecution and most judicial review.

Protests are gonna get sporty very quickly.

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2025-07-02

 When Donald Trump is doing an opening for a chain of concentration camps, one thing you can never say: you haven't been told.

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www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... New approach — so far introduced in Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin — would essentially allow states to withhold federal payments if lawmakers determine the federal government is delinquent in funding owed to them.

To fight Trump's funding freez...

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Still the best ever and most #relevant #Meme.

#SlavaUkraini #Ukraine #UkraineWillWin

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2025-07-01

"...affordability is a freedom issue, because you're not truly free when you can't afford to live."

Run on Vision, Not Just Resistance: Mamdani's NYC strategy

"Mamdani didn't just offer policies. He offered hope and vision wrapped in specifics."

theframelab.org/run-on-vision-

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:luckytran@med-mastodon.com
2025-07-01

BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.

To: Administrator Zeldin,   CC: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Members of Congress  Declaration of Dissent In solidarity with other federal organizations across the country, civil servants throughout the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) join in dissent of this administration's policies -- policies that undermine EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet. The mission of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment. Since the Agency's founding in 1970, we at EPA have accomplished our mission by leveraging science, funding, and expert staff in service to the American people. Today we stand together in dissent of the current administration's counterproductive focus on excessive deregulation, blatant partisanship, and mischaracterization of Agency decisions under past administrations.
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Dave SpectorDhmspector
2025-07-01

In 1934 the Nazis ended birthright citizen ship in Germany.

Jews, Roma, Black Germans, communists, trade unionists, and others were stripped of citizenship entirely. Their assets stolen and they were rounded up, they were thrown into vans by government agents and disappeared.

Seems familiar somehow. Remind me — what happened next?

Meanwhile, right now, in America….

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-54453

mkandle :toad: boosted:
2025-07-01

"In 7+ major depts/agencies DOGE secured power to view records that contain competitors’ trade secrets, nonpub details abt govt contracts, sensitive reg actions or other info..no evidence DOGE viewed/misused govt info to benefit #Musk ..But competitors alarmed" washingtonpost.com/investigati

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2025-06-30

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

propublica.org/article/kristi-

#News #KristiNoem #DHS #Ethics #USPolitics #Government #Nonprofit

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2025-06-30
mkandle :toad:mkandle@toad.social
2025-06-30

@countablenewt @christowski lmao confused South Carolinian here 😆

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Carolyn Barber, MDcbarbermd@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-30

FAKE FEDERAL AGENT: Parked in a handicapped spot, armed, fake DHS docs & CBP radio codes — busted posing as immigration police. This is exactly why we need laws to stop masked raids & fake badges. If you’ve got real authority, prove it.

latimes.com/california/story/2 #press

mkandle :toad:mkandle@toad.social
2025-06-30

@thestrangelet @Gargron yep, 32 here in South Carolina today. I would die without air conditioning 🥵

mkandle :toad:mkandle@toad.social
2025-06-30

@ShredderFeeder 😂😂😂

mkandle :toad:mkandle@toad.social
2025-06-30

@TheRealPomax @mcnado I thought the CFPB passed a rule earlier this year that removed medical debt from credit reports. Although since Trump wants to get rid of the CFPB I wouldn’t be surprised if they rolled it back.

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2025-06-30

America is the only country in the world that could bring in fascism and end up with worse trains

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