Interconnector

Interconnector

@interconnector.bsky.social

Connector for nonprofit sector, community vitality, regenerative agriculture, and legit democracy a very good thing

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About 2 million kids have lost SNAP since deep cuts were enacted last year. The ripple effects: Kids losing SNAP also lose automatic enrollment for free meals at school. And as more kids lose SNAP, their schools may be forced to drop Community Eligibility.

washingtonpost.comAs SNAP rolls shrink, free school lunches disappearEnrollment in the nutrition assistance program dropped following last year’s sweeping GOP tax bill. Fewer children and schools now qualify for free school meals.

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When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Dangerous proof our own species is much less evolved than many think

Ryan Hisner@ryanhisner.bsky.social

Massively undercovered story given the serious pandemic risk this H5N1 outbreak in a US mink farm poses. Utterly insane that the public health reaction here is to shrug our shoulders and essentially do nothing. Yet another way the US is a menace to the rest of the world.

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"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

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Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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Ossoff: "At a rally earlier this week in Ohio, the president egged on supports who assaulted a woman demanding the release of the Epstein files. Because if you can count on one thing from this White House, it's their tireless commitment to war, inflation, and covering up sex trafficking."

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Ossoff: "The crisis we must meet is deeper than this presidency. Trump's rise is proof that business as usual has failed, that our politics, sickened by corruption, is failing the American public and compromising our national integrity. And that the hour is late to fix what's broken."

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There was one victory today in Atlanta and it was not the University of Georgia.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "He said he would rename Hormuz the 'Trump Strait.' The draft-dodging president tells jokes while 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded ... they've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing while the crook commander in chief builds a monument to himself."

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Donald Trump and his MAGA movement have spent nearly two years treating the government like a private crime syndicate, operating under the delusion that voters would never hold them accountable. That fantasy expires in less than three weeks.

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On October 9, without federal authorization, the Trump administration officially suspended large portions of the 1934 National Firearms Act to allow for the sale of silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns. The change marks an end to 90 years of regulation under the law.

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Replying to @truthout.org

ICE has already expanded its spying capabilities through facial recognition and mobile phone location software, as well as AI technologies. ICE has also used “zero-click” technology that allows the agency to access encrypted data on an individual’s phone just by sending a link to the user.

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ICE is reportedly fast-tracking an $100 million program designed to expand its domestic surveillance capabilities in dozens of cities. 142 intelligence agents will be placed in at least two dozen cities throughout the country to coordinate with nearby ICE offices and Washington D.C..

buff.lyICE Is Fast-Tracking a Nationwide Domestic Spy Program Across Dozens of CitiesThe agency plans to contract with around 142 agents to take part in domestic spying operations.

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Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.

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What are @wmata.com workers doing here??? Nothing?? WORSE???

Broken Historian@practicalnecromancy.com

One of my former students just witnessed this on Orange Line in the DC Metro - ICE/HSI abducting someone from the platform of Stadium-Armory. She was scared. She didn’t know what to do. She shouted “ICE is here!” to warn others. I’m proud she did that. And she bore witness.

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Tonight, thousands are protesting ICE in NYC after they opened fire in a car with a 5-yr-old in the backseat. ICE fired 7 times, but only hit Oscar Bergal once. A protestor's sign reads: "Get the fuck out. All of them. The rogues & thugs. And the nice ones too." ✊🏼

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Replying to @tinakotek.bsky.social

We’ve added and maintained more than 6,200 shelter beds and helped nearly 26,000 households avoid losing their homes. Many parts of the state are seeing significant declines in unsheltered homelessness.

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I support a moratorium on new data center development in Oregon until they no longer drive up utility rates, undermine clean energy for other users, damage our clean water and air, or shortchange union jobs.

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I’m fighting to make sure Oregon kids are proficient in reading and math, and making sure there’s accountability when schools fall short. Christine Drazan voted against the Student Success Act and against tracking chronic absenteeism so we could find a solution.

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Replying to @drmitchpdx.bsky.social

christine should spend less time worrying about me and more time worrying about whether her friends and donors are in the epstein files. and you should worry about whether christine drazan’s donors are also supporting candidates in the city council races.

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Replying to @northjules.bsky.social

Hungary did it, you can do it to USA. Show the self admitted sexual predator, his enablers in Congress and the billionaires just who they work for. Your vote is your power, please use it!

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US Ambassador Guilfoyle privately met with Romanian Social Democrat leaders. Bolojan’s government resisted a US LNG deal she promoted involving Nova Power & Gas and investigated its nuclear project. Weeks later, the Social Democrats joined far-right AUR to topple his government.

yacnews.comUS ambassador to Greece dined with politicians who joined the far right to topple Romania's governmentUS Ambassador Guilfoyle privately met with Romanian Social Democrat leaders. Bolojan’s government resisted a US LNG deal she promoted involving Nova Power & Gas and investigated its nuclear project. W...

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JD Vance rose to notoriety as the author of Hillbilly Elegy, a critique of poor white Appalachia; he blamed them for Donald Trump’s 2016 election. How was Vance able to completely reverse and rebrand himself into a Trump sycophant and ultimately Trump’s vice president? Money. 2 words: Peter Thiel

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🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comSupreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purgesThe decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.

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NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

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They really should have showed me this shit in my art history classes. They all seemed so disconnected from each other during university

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This is amazing… They gave the Humanitarian Award to an entire state. At the 2026 Hispanic Heritage Awards, the people of Minnesota were honored for how they came together to support their neighbors during the federal immigration crackdown. Congratulations, Minnesota. 👏🏽 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance