Alice Hope

Alice Hope

@starfall14.bsky.social

Activist for our Democracy

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anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC

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Can anybody else see that sleep paralysis demon in the background?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

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Replying to @propublica.org

Collectively, the cases we’ve documented show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, it has run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens, too, and on a scale not seen in generations. Read our full story:

projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…

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The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

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ICE is trying to award a $5 million contract to create a national voter database. Not only is that not a good use of funds—it's illegal. Administering elections is the states' job. Not the federal government and certainly not ICE.

wired.comICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting DatabaseAs part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.

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Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project (TPP) say they have discovered hundreds of new disturbing ads containing child sexual abuse material, after a previous similar incident. This time, they were able to identify images of real children.

wired.comMeta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real KidsImages of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

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NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

nytimes.comFor Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept. (Gift Article)The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.

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Homeland Security Investigations awarded a $96 million contract Thursday to Cellebrite Inc., the American arm of Israeli digital-forensics firm Cellebrite. The tools unlock phones and extract their data. The tools are promoted for use by military, law enforcement, and corporate investigators.

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Seriously, they just told Grok to make the imperial officer uniforms from Star Wars but “more Hitlery.”

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Weeks after Trump budget chief Russell Vought told Congress that fintech startup Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.

propublica.orgThe Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...

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⚠️ NEWS: Iran’s IRGC Navy says it retaliated against U.S. strikes by targeting three tankers accused of using unauthorized routes and three additional U.S.-linked vessels, after U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.

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Next week, billionaire donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to toast their own corruption. In the shadow of this Billionaire Ball, we’ll be collecting food to help Texans struggling with rising grocery prices. JOIN: bit.ly/GroceryDriveTX

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🤔Yikes— Trump’s guy Witkoff (+ Kushner) bending the knee in Russia: “President Putin, thank you so much for having us… We were sitting outside talking about when we retire how we’ll have all these incredible memories, and yours will be right at the top.”😍🤷🏼

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“It’s f*cked up to be boasting like that and trying to embarrass Trump.” @JulianAndreone asks Republicans in Congress about Netanyahu bragging about dragging 🇺🇸 to war. (From @DropSiteNews)

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It's amazing what nations can do when they're not focused on destroying each other.

SANTA CLAUS@santaclausalaska.bsky.social

FUN FACT: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY “France has just launched the world’s very first solar powered desalination ship that sails to water-scarce communities and turns ocean water into fresh drinking water using only sunlight." ELECT LEGISLATORS WHO EXPLORE AND IMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOLUTIONS :-)}

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Striking an embassy in an act of war under international law. The use of armed force against a foreign embassy is an act of aggression. Medvedev's post is evidence Russia is prepared to make such strikes.

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Your voices are being heard. Communities across the country have been pushing back hard against unchecked AI data centers (the noise, the water usage, the power grid, the backroom deals) and today, even Trump took a step back.

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From #Kyiv in three days to #Russia on the verge of economic collapse. So many years preparing, building a war machine, saving up for war and the restoration of the Russian empire, all seems lost. Refineries burning, Moscow no safe haven anymore, there is no internet, cash machines don't work.

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"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...

nbcnewyork.comDHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detentionThe Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol...

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MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT. Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth. This is even WORSE than Benghazi.