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VE, cybersocial occult investigator
about 5 hours ago
Another thing people don’t like hearing is that all attempts to regulate and safeguard the internet, top-to-bottom, rely on increasing the amount of surveillance (including building elaborate bottom-up networks of mass citizen peer-surveillance)
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Eric Michael Garcia
2 days ago
Moral of the story? Congressional oversight matters. Congress should do it more.
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steven
2 days ago
that tv show, west wing, really fucked up the way democrats view politics "how it should be" not as it is. nostalgia is not an effective strategy
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this is neither here nor there but what kind of name is markwayne
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Senator Ron Wyden
2 days ago
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
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Pennsylvania's Megaphone
2 days ago
Our taxes could be invested in our children’s futures instead of ICE. Pittsburgher Stephanie shares how she’d rather see the funding spent on education, housing, and common-sense needs.
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Conor Lamb
3 days ago
If the preliminary Pentagon estimate holds, that this war costs $1 billion per day, it will mean in one month we could have given $25k to everyone who dropped ACA coverage or built a nuclear power plant.
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Congressman Chris Deluzio
3 days ago
The Trump Administration’s position: Billions of dollars for deadly, regime change war with Iran, but massive cuts to healthcare, the VA, and food stamps.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
3 days ago
On this day in 2023, we lost Judy Heumann, a pioneering disability rights activist. Her legacy is one we look to and continue to learn from.
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Pennsylvania's Megaphone
4 days ago
Tanisha from Pittsburgh believes that our tax dollars should be spent caring for our neighbors and making communities safer, not funding agencies like ICE to terrorize our communities and neighbors.
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All About PA
5 days ago
While Pennsylvanians struggle to make ends meet, Trump is again spending our tax dollars to fuel an illegal war. Pennsylvanians are facing an affordability crisis — enough is enough.
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Eric Michael Garcia
5 days ago
I am once again asking everyone to be normal about Jamelle Bouie.
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key-lime pie
6 days ago
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here:
eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announces-plan-to-fell-oregons
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Vituperative Erb
6 days ago
The two options at this point are (1) that Platner is a straight up Nazi, (2) he is the dumbest motherfucker in the state of Maine, the second is arguably better in some abstract sense but both are disqualifying
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I walked the neighborhood getting signatures for my committee petition today & spoke to one woman who told me she gets all her news from substack
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Ian Boudreau
7 days ago
Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting
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Louis
7 days ago
every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
7 days ago
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
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U.S. Representative Al Green
7 days ago
Congressman Al Green Calls for Reconvening of Congress to Take Up War Powers Resolution Sponsored by Khanna and Massie. Click here to read the letter:
algreen.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Rep. Summer Lee
7 days ago
Trump’s words make it clear he doesn’t care about the safety of Americans and his actions make clear he doesn't care about the safety of the Iranian people. If he did, he wouldn’t be risking the lives of American troops for the sake of another endless war or trying to turn Iran into a war zone.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸
7 days ago
this is a deeply sick country.
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Tim Onion
7 days ago
I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
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Congressman Chris Deluzio
7 days ago
Once again, an American President is sending brave Americans to fight and bleed in a Middle East regime change war. Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is ordering other people’s kids to risk their lives in an unauthorized war the Congress and the American people have not approved.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
7 days ago
what if we did 2003 again but with even stupider people in charge of everything
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8 days ago
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
8 days ago
I do think we should probably make Jamelle Bouie be president tbh
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Kashana
9 days ago
People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws
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Eric Michael Garcia
9 days ago
Statement from Rahman's attorney: "After standing up in silence during the speech, Aliya was quickly taken away and arrested for "unlawful conduct" and released just before 4 am today. There is nothing unlawful about standing in silence and this is a blatant abuse of power."
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vote.pa
9 days ago
You can take care of all your voting business, like checking and updating your registration and even requesting your mail ballot, right from your phone at vote.pa!
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton
10 days ago
Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.
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Pennsylvania's Megaphone
10 days ago
Speaking at a watch party for Rep. Summer Lee’s Working Families Party SOTU response, Calvin from Pittsburgh explained why he believes Pennsylvanians deserve a refund from Trump’s overturned tariffs.
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www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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Trump Humiliated During His Big Speech With Republican Losses
Democrats extended their winning streak in state-level special elections.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-humiliated-during-state-of-the-union-with-republican-losses/
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Pennsylvania's Megaphone
11 days ago
HAPPENING NOW: Progressive neighbors are gathered in Pittsburgh to watch Rep. Summer Lee deliver the working people’s response to tonight’s
#SOTU
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Prisonculture
11 days ago
A snowball fight is not a crime. White people please be serious.
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Sara Luterman
11 days ago
#JournoRequest
: I’m looking to interview Black women with Tourette syndrome about specific difficulties they face, diagnostic disparities and feeling unseen — And yes, also the BAFTA incident. Email me at sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM if interested.
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vote.pa
11 days ago
If you live in House District 22 or 42, make your plan to vote and remind a friend!
#PASpecialElections
Your voice matters — show up and be heard.
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Pennsylvania's Megaphone
11 days ago
Pennsylvanians like Wadria have felt the effects of the chaos of the Trump economy on both their personal and professional lives. From funding cuts to higher grocery costs, the affordability crisis is reaching every corner of our lives.
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happy special Election Day!
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11 days ago
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wouldn’t have happened without the newly-elected democratic majority on town council! suburbs are libbing out
www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...
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McCandless approves resolution to keep local police from working with ICE
The vote followed more than two hours of public comment, mostly from speakers opposed to the ban. But council members said they'd heard from many supporters before the vote, and that the ban would all...
https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2026-02-24/mccandless-approves-resolution-to-keep-local-police-from-working-with-ice
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Pennsylvania's Megaphone
12 days ago
Together, we can join together to build a better future for all Pennsylvanians. We’re seeing it happen when progressive organizers and local governments work together to prevent ICE from buying warehouses in counties across PA.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑
13 days ago
As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
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after spending a weekend with it, I think I can say prizefighter is m&s’s best
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Ron Filipkowski
13 days ago
The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
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Tim Onion
13 days ago
You don't have to stop posting but you do have to stop posting THERE. It is a uniquely, fundamentally detrimental website to you as a person. It incentivizes racism, violence and — the worst crime of all — vagueposting. You are living in a permanent teaser ad for the 11 o'clock news.
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Hypervisible
13 days ago
“For every aspect of a student’s life, there’s a tech company trying to digitize it.“
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Modern parenting means apps for sports, school and more. What this means for data privacy
For every aspect of a student's life, there's a tech company trying to digitize it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/modern-parenting-means-apps-sports-110000013.html
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April Glick Pulito
13 days ago
A list of all the ways being a server and bartender prepares you for politics, direct from my role model for my own journey.
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Prisonculture
13 days ago
You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.
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