ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

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idk seems kinda hard to "move on" when there's an active right-wing campaign afoot to free Chauvin and pretend Floyd wasn't murdered

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ln72v57ivz2g46uqf4xxqiuh/post/3lpukkgubb22l
NPR (@npr.org)

Five years after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, the future of the intersection where it happened is uncertain. Today, a memorial is set up in the partially blocked street. But some want to move on. By @meganders.bsky.social https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5282100/george-floyd-square-future

Bluesky Social

I missed this a few days ago - US grocery giant Kroger is actively selling its customer loyalty data and customer profiles to data brokers and to other companies.

Editing: Folks, I get this is “known” to those paying attention. The point here isn’t surprise, but direct verification thanks to a new Oregon law.

https://therecord.media/kroger-using-loyalty-program-to-sell-customer-data

#privacy

Consumer Reports: Kroger using loyalty program to package, sell customer data

A consumer watchdog said Tuesday that one of the country’s largest grocery chains allegedly used data collected from loyalty shoppers to build often incorrect secret profiles of them and sell their information to other companies.

Children with special needs in England may lose legal right to school support

Exclusive: Schools minister declines to rule out replacing EHCP documents as part of plans to change Send system

The Guardian
I keep hearing comments like “I plan to ignore it for the next four years”. This Billionaire Bill shuts down democracy. Look away at your peril.

Another Israeli politician is acknowledging what is going on in Gaza is genocide.

In a May 22 oped for the Hebrew Haaretz, former PM Ehud Olmert (long-time member of Likud, youth member of Beitar, son of Irgun members), writes that he can no longer deny to the world that Israel is committing war crimes.

Here is a link to the original: https://archive.ph/3vvOi

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel

"We in Gaza have seen PR exercises masked as “humanitarian action” before. We remember the airdrops that were killing more people than they were feeding. We remember the $230m pier that barely got 500 truckfuls of aid into Gaza from the sea: a feat that could have been accomplished in half a day via an open land crossing.

We in Gaza are hungry, but we are no fools."

#Palestine #Gaza #genocide #starvation

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/19/cheer-up-people-of-gaza-youll-get-killed-on-a-full-stomach

Cheer up, people of Gaza! You’ll get killed on a full stomach

The new US humanitarian plan will ‘save us’, just like the previous ones did.

Al Jazeera
Judge blocks Trump regime effort to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/23/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration-ban-foreign-students
Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on Harvard accepting international students

Ivy League school filed suit accusing White House of unconstitutional retaliation for defying its demands

The Guardian
Walmart is laying off workers — while raising prices, hitting record profits, and making the Walton family even richer. Classic corporate greed.
The fact corporations occasionally prefer making money over fascist shit doesn't mean they don't support fascism overall.
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I keep hearing comments like “I plan to ignore it for the next four years”. This Billionaire Bill shuts down democracy. Look away at your peril.

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social #AltText #Alt4U

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An image of white text against a black background. It is one image, but alt text is broken into three posts due to character limits. It says:

To those of you who don't know what's buried in this Big Bogus Bill... Prepare yourself for what's coming.

If the Senate passes the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Trump signs it, that's it.
It becomes law. And here's what that really means:
• He can delay or cancel elections-legally.

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• He can ignore Supreme Court rulings for a year or more.
• He can fire government workers for political disloyalty.
• Judges can't enforce their own orders.
• Protests can be tracked and criminalized.
• LGBTQ+ rights, education, health care, and media?
Gutted.
• Your VPN? Tracked. Your vote? Suppressed. Your speech? Flagged.

This bill doesn't break the law. It rewrites the law so Trump never has to break it again.

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We don't need to wonder what would happen if authoritarianism came to America.
It's here-in 1,100 pages, dressed up as "freedom."

If you've ever said, "It won't be that bad" or "The courts will stop him,"
just know: this bill makes it so they can't.

Share this. Speak up. Show up. Now.

Because if this passes, the next vote might be the last one that matters.

TikTok user @egdufehttahw

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social above anything else I am a proud American, I love my constitution and my freedoms. This bill spits right in the god damn face of em. Fight it.
I’m not looking away. Not for a second.
@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social You need to storm the White House now!

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social Too be bluntly honest, as a senior citizen who was assigned female at birth, my only plans are to "hang with Elisa Shupe" using the methods described in the popular motion picture "Nomadland" by Swankie Wheels portraying a fictionalized version of herself.

I have no intention whatsoever of shutting the fuck up about my feelings or lived experiences or asking younger community members how I can help either.

Thank you for having the courage to say the truth.

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social Bill or no bill, the US is fucked. It’s fucked not just because of one dumb person in office, but because of the US people and culture, who will keep reproducing this kind of person, and voting them into office. The problem runs deep in the core of what the US is. It shouldn’t have surprised anyone, but it did.

@luhmann @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

Yep. Trump is a symptom but not the disease.

And it's why a civil war/secession seems inevitable unless a sizable portion of the GOP side decides democracy is actually better for them. I'm not hopeful

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

As Hitler said - "If there is a law you don't like - get to the top and change it" ....🤨

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social I would love to have the source and actual text for this to pass on. Do you have it?
@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social where in the bill is the part about elections?
@DoNotPunchDown @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social I also found that article. The full text is also available, but I'm sure it's a lot to parse.

@seigea @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

Yeah, I'm old and not going to read through 1,000 pages on how they're going to kill us. But I'll read some.

In my younger days, i read everything, including the entire ACA. LoL. Getting old sucks.

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social It’s all just a little bit of history repeating… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Enabling Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social I keep hearing people say "They're going to get trashed in the midterms." Dear delusional person, there aren't going to be midterms - much less another presidential election.

@Minentromax @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

And even if there are, the Democrats will lose. They are useless. Absolutely fucking useless

@DoNotPunchDown @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social I like AOC and Bernie. The party as a whole I go do without. They are as you say, fucking useless. Worse than useless - actively hindering.

@Minentromax @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

Agree completely. Useless is actually generous. They are complicit

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

Does it seriously allow him to cancel elections? I'm trying to find a link to that but haven't been able to.

This is some seriously fucked up shit.

Call your senators

@DoNotPunchDown @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social I think this post is bullshit. I've seen people who have actually read the bill rip it apart, and they haven't brought up a single one of these things.

@farbel @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social

I've been trying to find anything that verifies this post. Some of it is accurate and some is exaggeration. I just posted this.

This bill must fail

https://mastodon.social/@DoNotPunchDown/114565874022889254