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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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In a scathing opinion, Judge Ana Reyes concludes that the Trump admin. had settled on a plan to turn East Potomac Park into the elite golf course Trump has been wanting to see built in D.C., all while DOJ represented in court that nothing happening, including DOI felling 400+ trees, was related.
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I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.
I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.
DANCING INTO THE WEEK WITH THE RHYTHM OF BRASILIA
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Hebron is under full Israeli siege, mayor says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hebron-under-full-israeli-siege-mayor-says
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Replying to @sanho.bsky.social
Google’s data center brings wolves. “We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” 53-year-old Otanmäki resident Anni Ranta told the Guardian. “They fled.”
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Voting times extended by two hours in Salvador as the Labour Party tries to get extensions in more affected cities. The party is urging people to vote but the truth is that this criminal transport interference will have caused a massive loss in voting among the largely pro-Lula working class.
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We have never seen anything like it before. Proven Meta and U.S. interference in the first round; now this criminal voter suppression in the second round. The far-right loves calling corruption when they themselves are against democracy when it benefits their side. This is torturous to watch.
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There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.
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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.
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good lord, things in brazil rn, with lula lodging allegations of serious voter suppression folha.com/h1vgnw6l
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Replying to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I’m sure folks know this but you don’t need to know about dual cooling systems to know that you don’t want or need a data center in your community. Additionally, no, we don’t need a Black-owned data center in the name of a “seat at the table.” just to get out ahead on that foolishness.
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Oh dear. I bet Alexander thinks he's "one of the good ones" too for exercising some merciful discretion over a power he never should have been wielding in the first place.
But the weight of what Alexander was doing started to settle on him late last year. He said he gets flashbacks about a specific traffic stop, when he handed ICE the husband of a woman he knew. It was between Christmas and New Year’s. She was less than 2 weeks postpartum.
*sigh* They always find a way to rationalize and absolve themselves smh
Alexander says it isn’t his fault when drivers break traffic laws, and that he’s just doing his job when he stops them. He says it isn’t his fault that some drivers end up being people who had entered the country illegally. But he still grapples often with the fallout.
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This is horrific. And unsurprisingly the work of a "conservative" multimillionaire. Other adjectives might include creepy, prurient, dictatorial and abusive, not to mention, of course, transphobic. Once more with feeling: we need to get the money out of politics. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Now that it's stuck in my head, you're gonna get stuck in with me. I keep humming this to myself except the lyrics are "I'm just a SCOOP machine and I don't work for nobody but me" while imagining @marisakabas.bsky.social typing up 🔥 at her laptop
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Out today: People with no vote in the white primaries that decided Texas elections of the time, no seat on the boards that ran their schools, and no authority over public education, built 527 public buildings and made the state keep them. Nothing they used was given to them.=
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Voters in Missouri, Idaho, Virginia, and Nevada will decide the fate of abortion rights in their states.
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