Voting: Done!
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Naked Trump Statute Goes on Display in European Parliament
Trump says he is not keen on a deal with Iran as U.S. reportedly prepares for 'massive bombing'
The U.S. president and his national security team have discussed possibly resuming large-scale U.S. military operations in the coming weeks, NBC News reported.
Trump Ominously Says 'Project 2025' Author Has 'Big Surprises' In The Next Few Weeks
President Donald Trump issued a foreboding proclamation during a speech in Maryland on Tuesday, just hours after he predicted a “Midterm Surprise!” in a Truth Social post.
“Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought, who’s fantastic, he’s on a job, we have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks. Right, Russ?” Trump said. “He’s gonna be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion. He’s got some great things happening.”
Trump did not expand on what these so-called “surprises” would be.
Outside his role in the Trump administration, Vought is the primary architect of Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump term.
While not mentioned specifically by Trump, many critics online speculated that Trump was referring to some sort of plan to interfere in the midterm elections.
“Between this and his ‘midterm surprise,’ the time to prepare for him to try to steal an election is now,” Fox News host Jessica Tarlov wrote on X.
Other commenters suggested that Vought could use his official capacity to interfere with the elections.
“I know nothing about Project 2025”
-Trump, 2024
#KristiNoem said "Ice was exactly trained" to do what they did yesterday to Renée Nicole Good
They were trained to kill an innocent person
WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND THAT
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#Resistance #Resist #ICE #Epstein #Venezuela
#January6th #Epstein #Greenland
Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?
Trump doubles down on California comments: ‘Let them hit San Diego, let them hit Los Angeles’
Kimmel says he'll report Trump to the FCC after Iran, San Diego comments
Paxton admits Trump’s Iran war and US gas prices are plaguing Republicans in leaked audio
Samuel Alito blames marriage equality for America’s ‘decisive’ turn ‘against religious liberty’
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide marked “perhaps the decisive point” in America’s turn “against religious liberty.”
In his new book So Ordered, Alito focuses on Obergefell v. Hodges. The 5-4 decision was a landmark in civil rights, establishing a constitutional right for same-sex couples to marry nationwide. But Alito, who dissented from the 2015 ruling, portrays it as a turning point against religious freedom.
Alito points to disputes involving LGBTQ+ rights as evidence that “support for religious liberty has cratered.” He cites cases involving businesses seeking religious exemptions from requirements governing services for same-sex couples or employee health coverage, including those that refuse to provide wedding services to gay couples or seek to limit health care for employees based on religious beliefs.
Tom Morello Clarifies He Votes, But Not For “Corporate Democrats”
Some people out there seem to be confused, but I always vote in every local and every national election for every office and every ballot initiative since I was 18 years old. Some of my greatest civil rights heroes have fought and died so that we can all vote and I honor their memory in the ballot box every single time.
To some of us, especially those of us like myself who have been scheduling secretaries for US senators, it often seems like a morally reprehensible choice between compromised corporate Democrats and fascist-minded Republicans. Where I live in California, I have the luxury of voting my conscience for president for third-party candidates that better align with my ideas of justice and equality.
But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch. So vote your ass off, but don’t just exercise your right to vote. Exercise your right to fight for, organize for, struggle for, and manifest the kind of world you’d like to really see without compromise and without apologies before, during, and after election day. And let’s stop the fascists every which way we can. Power the people.
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
It was just after 2 a.m. on a pitch-black Friday morning when Bernadette Greene-Placentia’s life changed. The Democratic candidate for Congressional District 8 strolled across a parking lot to repair a damaged campaign sign. It was a routine she’d followed all summer. This time, she only made it a few yards.
An attacker smashed her over the head. She blacked out. She woke up to find a strange man on top of her.
Greene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her.
She heard him mumble something like, “-ic bitch, not a very good fuck,” which her mind filled in as “Democratic bitch,” she recalled. She wasn’t sure that was exactly what he said.
One leg was out of her jean capris. She wore brand-new tennis shoes and a campaign t-shirt. Another man came over. Greene-Placentia felt his weight nudging her left leg further apart. She began swinging her foot at him. “Not even worth it,” she heard the man say as he moved away. He wore black boots and had small feet, she recalled.
The two men left Greene-Placentia face down in the parking lot. The hatch of her silver Jeep Grand Cherokee was still open. The car was still running. She heard music.
She doesn’t remember pulling up her pants or picking herself off the asphalt parking lot. She doesn’t remember closing her Jeep’s hatch and putting her foot on the gas. She doesn’t remember pulling her car into the driveway and collapsing into her bed.
“It’s just these little tiny flashes of things that I do remember,” Greene-Placentia said in an interview with Phoenix New Times. “As much as I don’t want to remember, I’ve tried very, very hard to remember more stuff. But that’s where I’m at.”
Scientists warn that polar oceans are being left out of climate protection plans https://www.earth.com/climate/scientists-warn-that-polar-oceans-are-being-left-out-of-climate-protection-plans/
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World leaders urged to 'course correct' as UN nature goals fall short https://phys.org/news/2026-10-world-leaders-urged-nature-goals.html
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Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego
At a rally in Nebraska Tuesday night, President Trump told his supporters exactly what he thinks about the well-being of the American people.
Trump first said that the price of goods and services, which have gone up thanks to his ill-advised Iran war and tariff policies, were “just a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe—keeping our country safe.
“They can take out a city. Let them take, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay,” Trump said. “And it’s going to be over with very soon. It’s essentially almost over with.”
Conservative activists have argued that Trump didn’t really mean that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay,” but that he was referring to high gas prices. In that generous interpretation, Trump was arguing that his war, which has killed scores of civilians in the Middle East and an estimated 23 U.S. soldiers, is preventing Iran from waging large scale attacks on American cities. But Iran’s targets during the war have been U.S. installations in the Middle East, and it wasn’t targeting American cities before the war either.
California leaders, however, have taken his words at face-value.
Advocating for the mass death of his own citizens?
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For a long time we have made our selves gradually more and more dependent on Big Tech. This applies when it comes to operating system, to browsers, to various services, to storage and now when it comes to AI.
More and more are realizing this was and is wrong.
You can take the first steps to be independent as a person or company. Obviously, given that you are here, you have already taken some steps. Here are some suggestions:
- Switch browser... to Vivaldi. :)
- Switch desktop OS. Personally I have switched to Linux. Currently running Kubuntu, Ubuntu and Zorin on different computers.
- Switch mail service. Proton and Fastmail are good services, but there are others. Choose one that allows use of a mail client.
- Switch calendar service. Most mail services also offer a calendar service.
- Switch office package. Personally I use LibreOffice.
- Switch Web conferencing software. Personally I use Whereby.
- Switch search. Startpage, Ecosia, Qwant and DDG are great alternatives.
There are a lot of other great choices. The point is to start taking those steps away from Big Tech and Silicon Valley.
#Windows #Linux #Apple #MacOS #BigTech #Politics #Technology #Vivaldi
The reality of Trump’s comments on Iran nuking Los Angeles and San Diego | CNN Politics
The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
Trump suffers another legal blow as judge freezes $36 billion 'punitive' fine machine
A federal judge has put the brakes on the Trump administration’s revived program of massive civil fines against immigrants, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security likely broke the law by slapping people with enormous penalties without checking whether they actually did anything to deserve them.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr., an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, granted a stay Wednesday against a June 2025 rule that let DHS rush out fines for failing to leave the country, along with ICE’s practice of issuing them in bulk.
The agency has reportedly handed out more than 65,000 penalties worth roughly $36 billion.
