Donna M. Medrek

Donna M. Medrek

@restlessdna.bsky.social

Legal Tech Enthusiast | Proud Boy & Furbaby Mom | Mentor | First & Next-Gen Advocate 🇵🇱 | Avid Non-Fiction Reader #LegalTech #WomenEmpowerment #Chicago #ChildAdvocate #WildLife

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Replying to @koltai.bsky.social

It's infuriating how the definition and legal consequences for #NCII (non-consensual intimate imagery) and sexual cyber harassment vary dramatically across the globe. I look forward to promoting awareness and making a positive impact on this important issue. #Deepfake #LegalIssues #Women #AI 🚺

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Sean Duffy: “I have a hard time believing in the government anymore.” Rachel Campos-Duffy: “We don't trust the government.” Katie Miller: “I'm still distrustful of the government.” Plot twist: They ARE the government.

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7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.

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Replying to @thayden.bsky.social

In the meantime let’s get the internet busy sharing their pics & names to every woman & girl between ages of 12 - 40 These are the guys who drugged & gang raped a woman at Cornell All members of #ChiPhiFrat #Cornell supported 7 rapists rather than the victim of the 7 men

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I was a rape crisis counselor for many years. The Cornell story is not just Cornell. It’s all colleges and universities. And it reminds me why I am so relieved that my own daughter is done with college.

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Shameful behavior by the Cornell administration. Again.

Andi Zeisler@andizeisler.bsky.social

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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These privileged frat bros gang raped a girl and invited others to join in for SEVEN HOURS. The story was buried, only two were expelled, and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing. Cornell, the police, and the system protected them. The Cornell Seven:

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"Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us."

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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1. BREAKING The government of Greenland and the Danish Prime Minister’s office have released a joint statement on an agreement with the United States. Unsurprisingly, the statement does not match the sweeping nature of Trump’s post on Truth Social.

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Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Increase in productivity since 1979: 93% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 34% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

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Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use union-busting laws to further exploit workers 5) Rinse and repeat How we break this cycle? Build back a powerful labor movement.

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For the second time in a year, a federal judge has found that Google is an illegal monopoly — but stopped short of breaking it up. As former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains, monopolies like Google are a direct threat to our freedom.

youtube.comThe Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For

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Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

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After Trump gutted the IRS workforce — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires — the agency's annual audit revenue plunged by 35%. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the wealthy and powerful to skirt what they owe.

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Kroger, which wants to buy yet ANOTHER grocery chain: -Ranks among the largest companies with employees dependent on Medicaid & SNAP -Paid its CEO $14M last year, 417x its median worker's pay of just $34,552 -Spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 This is what corporate greed looks like.

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An ICE whistleblower says the agency is bypassing the standard vetting process for new hires, posing “grave national security risks.” This is what Trump and Republicans are spending $200B+ on: putting unvetted, violent masked thugs on the streets with carte blanche to round up anyone they want.

nytimes.comICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower SaysAn official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.

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The top website for the Republican convention in Dallas redirects users directly to the Justice Department's Epstein files dump. This is expert level trolling. We the people want to know who and what is in those Epstein Pedo-Files. 🤔😠

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a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them

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Democrats can’t spend four years calling out Trump’s corruption while ignoring it in their own ranks. Progressive groups just declared war on one of the Senate’s most powerful Democrats over crypto. This fight is about to get ugly. 👇 bit.ly/4gOYXRH

bit.lyScoop: Progressives scorch Gillibrand over cryptoThe blistering — and deeply personal — attack from three groups complicates already delicate negotiations over the CLARITY Act.

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Privacy advocates who criticized Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition surveillance in the press (including an article I co-wrote at The Times) got dossiers of their own. Soooooo Knicks fan Ben Wizner was right not to talk to me for that story. www.404media.co/madison-squa...

404media.coMadison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial RecognitionThe document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

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Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

nytimes.comMeta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of BacklashUsers and Hollywood agencies raised privacy and copyright concerns about the new tool, Muse Image.
Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social

OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

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Schatz has the same pathology as Newsom: a need to show "I'm just like you" to awful people with bad values. It's not even cynicism; it yields no additional votes. Destroying USAID was an illegal act by white nationalists with genocidal intent and it has killed people. That's more than just "bad."

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Three congressional Democrats say that as much as $21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by Trump is now missing or has been spent without explanation and requested a full accounting from the foundation building his presidential library.

ms.nowDemocrats push Trump library to account for millions in lawsuit settlement fundsSens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Melanie Stansbury are calling for answers after they noted discrepancies in the president’s financial disclosures.