Most Americans Now Believe Billionaires Are A Threat To Democracy, New Data Shows
The fact that Forbes is reporting this is notable, no?
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Remember that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession
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Being put in a position to explain these technical distinctions and differences is not a winning one.
♲ @libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com:George Niles Mekeel RN:
BREAKING: ICE just tried to deport this woman, but there was just one problem — she was Native American.You read that right: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — the agency supposedly tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants — just tried to deport an Indigenous woman whose ancestors have been here for thousands of years.
Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona’s Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix — but that didn’t stop ICE from trying to ship her “back” to a country she doesn’t even belong to.
Here’s how this jaw-dropping injustice unfolded: Jacobo was sitting in a Polk County, Iowa jail after being booked for allegedly driving with a suspended license — nothing violent, nothing serious.
Her mother, Ericka Burns, was preparing to pick her up and bring her home when jail staff dropped a bombshell: “She’s not being released. ICE is coming to deport her.”
Her mom was stunned. “How can you deport her?” she asked. “She’s Native American!”
But the jail staff shrugged it off. They said they were “just holding her” for ICE. No one — not a single person — could explain how or why this was happening.
Jacobo’s family went into overdrive — calling, emailing, begging officials to stop what was about to become one of the most shameful bureaucratic blunders in modern history. They reached out to tribal leaders, shared pleas on Facebook, and even showed up at the jail with her birth certificate to prove she’s an American citizen.
And still, officials hesitated. Hours ticked by while ICE prepared to take her.
Finally, after an agonizing all-night standoff, she was released around 4:30 a.m. — barely.
And what’s ICE’s excuse? A “clerical error.”
Lt. Mark Chance from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office casually dismissed it as “human error.” Just a little mix-up, they said. The detainer was meant for someone else, and they just happened to attach it to the file of a Native American woman born on U.S. soil.
“We’ll have some meetings about it,” Chance said. “This is silly.”
Silly? This wasn’t “silly.” This was an attempted deportation of a woman whose people are the original inhabitants of this land, by a government agency that has no idea whose land it’s even on.
Let that sink in: the United States government almost deported an Indigenous woman from her own country.
This is what happens when an agency like ICE is given unchecked power — where “clerical errors” can destroy lives, and where systemic racism and dehumanization are written into the paperwork. If her family hadn’t fought like hell, Leticia Jacobo could have been vanished into ICE custody — another name lost in a broken, brutal system.
It’s time to abolish this corrupt and incompetent agency that can’t even tell the difference between an immigrant and an Indigenous citizen.
Because if ICE can come for Native Americans, they can come for anyone. "
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After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD
It’s not hyperbole to say that after decades of hard work and lobbying, companies like AT&T have effectively destroyed whatever was left of federal U.S. consumer protection and corporate …Techdirt
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Petition: Bring Back the Buffalo and Restore America’s Lost Giants onegreenplanet.org/animals/pet…
#green #environment #VSN
Petition: Bring Back the Buffalo and Restore America’s Lost Giants - One Green Planet
North America’s bison are nearly gone, but new research shows restoring them could revive entire ecosystems. Sign the petition now.Nicholas Vincent (One Green Planet)
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Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities - The American Prospect
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Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities
The rule, which went into effect this month, prohibits a wide range of activities, and activists fear the Trump administration will use the regulation to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.Kate Morrissey (The American Prospect)
This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
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@draeh Many do. I have a Steam Deck from Valve running SteamOS (Arch Linux fork). There are very few games that cannot run with the Proton compatibility later. BattleEye, EasyAntiCheat and others work.
Protondb.com also has some great compatibility information. It takes some extra work, learning, and a knack for troubleshooting but divorcing yourself from MS is amazing.
Edit: looking at your profile, you can totally handle it lol.
Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees on Mastodon“Look, this is completely normal. We hold all our meetings in the Situation Room when we’ve reached PEDCON 1.”
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RFK Jr.’s FDA Is Now Also In Turmoil Over Corrupt Drug Regulator
While we’ve talked quite a bit about the horror show that is RFK Jr.’s position as Secretary of HHS, most of the focus of those posts has been around what is happening at the CDC. And f…Techdirt
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Denmark and other EU governments still pursue #chatcontrol.
They still want to permanently legalize client-side scanning but postponed making it mandatory.
They also want to increase age-verification controls which risk to ruin what little is left of privacy in current digital spaces, taken hostage already by US corps.
Ourselves? We double down on providing the most private, reliable and fun messaging experience, with a growing federating #chatmail relay network across the globe.
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Exactly 70 years ago tonight, lightning struck the clock tower at the Hill Valley Courthouse.
10:04 PM, November 12, 1955.
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Someone actually argued, “Desktop Linux can’t take off because Xorg, Wayland, ALSA, PulseAudio…”
With respect, that’s inside-baseball. Most people don’t think about that, and they don’t need to.
What they actually care about is simple: “Can I easily do the thing I want to do?”
I’ve been using SteamOS and now Bazzite for three years. It’s just as straightforward to browse the web, edit an image, write a document, compose music, animate a video—and now play games—as it is on any other OS. In some ways, it’s even smoother.
People aren’t evaluating display servers and audio stacks. They just want an operating system that gets out of the way and lets them do their work. And on that front, Linux is finally delivering.
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like I always say, “No one actually uses an operating system. We use apps. An OS should boot and just get the fuck out of my way.” I have used Steam OS for about 5 years now, before that Ubuntu and Debian for a decade. I barely even touch my own Pipewire except for the VERY niche setup I have as a streamer with a 2 PC setup. Most days I just boot up, record, use KDEnLive to edit, browse, and play games on Steam when not tinkering.
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GitHub - ChiefGyk3D/pipewire_sink: A robust shell script to restart PipeWire and create a combined audio sink that outputs to multiple devices simultaneously. Ideal for streaming, recording, or monitoring audio across multiple outputs (e.g., speakers + HD
A robust shell script to restart PipeWire and create a combined audio sink that outputs to multiple devices simultaneously. Ideal for streaming, recording, or monitoring audio across multiple outpu...GitHub
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"Can you explain this gap in your resume?"
I'm not very good with CSS...
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You really just can't make this shit up.
When I first saw this post, my immediate reaction was that @lowqualityfacts had posted this. I mean, like, how do you even start to satire something like this?
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Trump Administration Still Trying To Send Kilmar Abrego Garcia To Anywhere But Where He Wants To Go
For all its talk about trimming down government spending, an untold amount of money has been blown just to keep one person from getting one over on the Trump administration. That man would be Kilma…Techdirt
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Trans Santa has started posting. It is a great program that helps trans youth in need. You can buy items off their lists. It will be going on all season so check it out along the way and buy things for the youth if you can & tell others about it.
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From a Disabled Albertan:
(Note that AISH recipients were FORCED, at their own expense, by the UCP to apply for the Canada Disability Benefit and pay for the medical papers involved, in order for the UCP to steal this money as a savings to Alberta's budget; as a gift from the Federal government to the UCP instead of a benefit to Canadians living in Alberta. The UCP threatened vulnerable Albertans to make them extort money from the Federal government on their behalf, and are threatening them again to follow through.)
Nothing says ‘we care about the disabled’ like getting a threatening letter from the Alberta Government demanding I pay them $200 because the federal government gave me $200 through the Canada Disability Benefit.
That benefit was meant to lift disabled people out of poverty, not push us deeper into it. But because Alberta was slow to update its cruel clawback system, they failed to deduct it in September and now they’re calling it an overpayment and threatening my benefits and using words like "permanent debt" to scare me.
They are making you drive or get transportation to an Alberta Works location to pay it back to them. Right at Christmas time.
Our payment dates for January to February are the longest stretch as well, making you pinch the hardest.
So they are sending out these letters right now saying if you don't pay it within 30 days you have your benefits clawed back.
All for accepting help that was meant to help us survive.
Tell me again how this isn’t cruelty.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #DisabilityJustice
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in reply to Hammer • •Yes, but the important thing is that Forbes, home of lists like the 500 Richest Men in America, the magazine that pushes that you're failing at life if you don't have more money than god, is reporting this, they're the type to pretend that everyone loves the rich, so them reporting this is rather noteworthy