Kurt Duerksen

Kurt Duerksen

@darkchallenger.bsky.social

Nature photographer. Associate Librarian. Father. Grandfather. Animal lover.

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Laurie Loves Data@laurelann.bsky.social

Before the Brazilian election where progressive Lula beat right-wing Bolsonaro, Meta is accused of disrupting Lula's Insta and WhatsApp accounts Meta blamed "technical difficulties" That would be more believable if similar incidents had not happened recently in the US Tech billionaires are evil

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

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Agreed

The Liberal BoJack@thelibbojack.bsky.social

I haven't seen too many Democrats standing up for ilhan Omar both Jeffries & Schumer are strangely quiet like they don't understand the seriousness of the situation, the Trump regime is going after their political opponents & Omar isn't the only one

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Tarrant County, Texas just closed 92 Election Day polling places. Before 2013, Texas needed federal sign-off to change how its people vote. John Roberts wrote the ruling that ended that. That’s his fingerprint on every closed door.

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"Almost none of his net worth is held in cash. Nearly all of it is **unrealized equity** in companies he still runs, and he draws no salary. His wealth is not money he extracted and stored. It is the market’s estimate of promises he hasn’t yet kept." fortune.com/2026/06/23/e...

fortune.comElon Musk's trillion dollars aren't real — and that's the point | FortuneHe draws no salary, can't sell his shares without collapsing their value, and his net worth depends on bets that haven't paid off yet.

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Two weeks out, Trump's FCC chair is warning TV stations that polls showing Trump & the GOP losing could count as "News Distortion" The First Amendment has no exception for polls the president doesn't like The poll that matters most is Nov 3, & Carr can't keep that one off the air -TN

reuters.comFCC chair says broadcast networks could violate regulatory obligations by airing 'fake polls'The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday that US broadcast networks could violate their regulatory obligations by airing "entirely fake polls and suppression polls."

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Musk just warned Democrats he'll "come for" anyone who investigates him. Look, that’s not a threat. It's a dare. If Dems win the House and don't hit him hard on Day One, subpoenas in hand, every vote we cast drifts away in fear. He called the bluff. Now they have to call his.

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Less than 12 weeks ago, EA was effectively purchased by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law for $55B in a deal that saddled the company with around $20B in debt. 12 weeks. That's how long it took for them to shutter a decades-old studio in BioWare and deem people surplus to requirements.

Criminy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have been pretty happy with Russia that they have not gotten involved in Iran ... Russia and China have not participated or, participated in a much smaller way than they could have." (Both Russia and China have actively helped Iran fight America.)

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SpaceX got almost $6 BILLION in taxpayer-funded defense contracts last fiscal year. Meanwhile, SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has spent over $360 MILLION in our elections this cycle. This should be illegal — but it isn't. I'll be introducing a bill to close the loophole that allows it.

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A video from rural Romania 🇷🇴 shows an unlikely bond between a young lamb 🐑 and a wolf, 🐺 with the lamb closely following the wild animal across farm fields and dirt mounds.

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Notwithstanding that Walmart has pressed no charges for any form of shoplifting, I don’t care if Kohen Wiley’s mother robbed the goddam safe inside Wal Mart—NOTHING justifies the police shooting and killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. 1/2

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Exactly 10 years ago today: Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin would rather have "a puppet as president of the United States.” She absolutely nailed it. 🔨

Deplorable

Trump Asked CISA To Hack Voting Machines Trump asked the federal agency responsible for defending elections to secretly hack a Voting Machine, then hand the findings to the White House. CISA, the body created to protect voting systems from foreign attacks. www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-appoin...