orangepants.bsky.social

orangepants.bsky.social

@orangepants.bsky.social

Trying to be a decent human being is all. Calling out injustice as and where I see it, with no motive but humanity and (by extension) a fair and democratic society. (My name reflects a favorite pair of faded orange bell bottoms I owned in the early 1970s.)

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Good Lord!

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

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EL-SAYED: "I get that the President of the United States takes personal offense to my first name - he doesn't mind as much when it's a shared name from the Saudis that are funding his son in laws private equity. Mercado Media

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That’s right, America! You can get a little money out of AI data centers! ! Don’t worry about the fact that you can’t breathe, sleep or drink your water! Breathing is overrated anyway!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "As far as data centers, we don't want to get controversial. The community that they're been built -- they're great, they give you a lot of money -- ask for a lot of money. Tell them to pay you $10,000, $15,000, $20k for everybody who lives in the community. They'll do it! You just gotta ask"

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Racism has always been at the core of MAGA orthodoxy. The depressing part-77 million Americans in 2024 either agree with this because they’re racists themselves; knew but didn’t care because “gas prices”; or are too ignorant to understand The result is the same either way. Immigrants will suffer

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Take note. We can expect the same.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

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Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

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Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

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They have nothing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

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The regime’s sham “investigation” of Rep. Ilhan Omar has dangerous implications for every Member of Congress and our democracy itself. We’re glad to see so many voices speak out against this egregious attack — from Hakeem Jeffries to President Obama. 🧵

politico.comThe House GOP’s imminent decision on the Omar raidSpeaker Mike Johnson has yet to weigh in on the speech-or-debate implications of the raid, though the House has sometimes taken weeks to articulate a position in other investigations.

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“Copping a squat” redefined

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.