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[?]Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧 » 🌐
@f800gecko@mastodon.online

How long until Trump goes to the Supreme Court to have Congress itself neutered and dissolved for acting 'unconstitutionally'?

    [?]Nando161 » 🌐
    @nando161@partyon.xyz

    [?]Wokebloke for Democracy » 🌐
    @dougiec3@libretooth.gr

    Ann Telnaes!

    open.substack.com/pub/borowitz
    &Epstein &Trump

    cartoon depiction of JD Vance wearing a bowler hat and after being struck in the face with a tomato

    Alt...cartoon depiction of JD Vance wearing a bowler hat and after being struck in the face with a tomato

      [?]Wokebloke for Democracy » 🌐
      @dougiec3@libretooth.gr

      Anderson!
      patreon.com/posts/epstein-vict
      &Eptein &Trump &Eptein &Trump &Eptein &Trump

      cartoon showing five rape victims of Jeffrey Epstein holding signs that say "We are not a hoax" as Trump's limo speeds by with Trump telling the driver "Faster!"

      Alt...cartoon showing five rape victims of Jeffrey Epstein holding signs that say "We are not a hoax" as Trump's limo speeds by with Trump telling the driver "Faster!"

        [?]Wokebloke for Democracy » 🌐
        @dougiec3@libretooth.gr

        "Given this... the Court respectfully submits that it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for 'defy[ing]' the Supreme Court when they are working to find the right answer in a rapidly evolving doctrinal landscape, where they must grapple with both existing precedent and interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set that precedent aside without much explanation or consensus."
        arstechnica.com/science/2025/0
        &Epstein &Trump

          [?]Church of Jeff » 🌐
          @jeffowski@mastodon.world

          jbixdesign

Next time you think art doesn't matter; just
think about how scared, in 2025, the fascists
are of sidewalk chalk.

          Alt...jbixdesign Next time you think art doesn't matter; just think about how scared, in 2025, the fascists are of sidewalk chalk.

            [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
            @kkarhan@infosec.space

            @Nonilex how does this not violate ?

            • Explain to me like I'm 5 years old


              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              grilled on policy in
              combative hearing

              In a contentious hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his tenure as ** secretary, as joined in questioning his moves to discredit & limit access to .


              apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                , appearing on Thursday before a panel, offered a combative defense of his approach to & his record as ’s ** secretary, while actually blaming the for the number of deaths during the -19 .

                “The people at CDC who oversaw that process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving,” Kennedy said in his initial remarks.

                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                  The hearing also focused on , with members of both parties grilling him on whether he misled them in his confirmation hearings in January.

                  When appeared before the Finance Cmte in Jan, he repeatedly
                  promised to “do nothing as secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking” .

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    Since then, has installed skeptics to guide policy, restricted access to -19 , canceled & contracts for vaccine development & given a begrudging endorsement of the vaccine.

                    Senator , Republican of Louisiana & a who voted to confirm RFKJr on the condition he wouldn’t disrupt access to vaccines, said that Kennedy was in fact doing so through his actions as secretary.

                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                      @Nonilex@masto.ai

                      “We’re denying people ,” said as he concluded his line of questioning.

                      responded: “You’re wrong.”

                      In an exchange w/ Mark Warner (D-VA), RFKJr said he DIDN’T EVEN KNOW how many people died of & whether the vaccines prevented Covid because “they didn’t have the data.â€đŸ€Ż

                      In fact, hundreds of reports have tracked the efficacy of the vaccines, finding that the shots have saved millions of lives in the & elsewhere.

                        [?]JustBob đŸȘ–đŸ‡șđŸ‡žâ™’ïž » 🌐
                        @bob@beamship.mpaq.org

                        @GottaLaff

                        When targeted people in DC with his EO and the guards jumped in without hesitation, no one seems to care.

                        After almost 14 years on the streets AND being a , I swore to defend the US Constitution in 1990 and haven't stopped. No one else is standing up for homeless people but we now have the biggest target on our backs as ever. Every day, I wait to be shot for simply not having a "house".
                        beamship.mpaq.org/@bob/1151421

                          [?]Nando161 » 🌐
                          @nando161@partyon.xyz

                          Don’t let the cover up of ’s deteriorating health distract you from Trump’s coverup of him being in the files.

                          Don’t let the cover up of Trump’s deteriorating health distract you from Trump’s coverup of him being in the Epstein files.

Blue grey slate background with inset red border, broken at the top with 5 white 5 pointed sold stars
Text in White reads "Don't let the cover up of Trump's deteriorating health distract you" in all capital letters
Followed by text in light red " from Trump's cover up of him being in the Epstein files."
In smaller grey white text below "@DARRIGOMELIANE"
In the fore-ground is a black and white picture of Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein superimposed over the red border.
On the bottom left, there is a Rainbow colored icon of the Statue of liberty with "# The Resistance" in white text next to the icon. 
Inside the icon, which is, from left to right, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, there is a small white text reading The Resistance in all capital letters.

                          Alt...Don’t let the cover up of Trump’s deteriorating health distract you from Trump’s coverup of him being in the Epstein files. Blue grey slate background with inset red border, broken at the top with 5 white 5 pointed sold stars Text in White reads "Don't let the cover up of Trump's deteriorating health distract you" in all capital letters Followed by text in light red " from Trump's cover up of him being in the Epstein files." In smaller grey white text below "@DARRIGOMELIANE" In the fore-ground is a black and white picture of Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein superimposed over the red border. On the bottom left, there is a Rainbow colored icon of the Statue of liberty with "# The Resistance" in white text next to the icon. Inside the icon, which is, from left to right, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, there is a small white text reading The Resistance in all capital letters.

                            [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
                            @kkarhan@infosec.space

                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                            @Nonilex@masto.ai

                            The has approved the use of a base on the outskirts of as a staging ground from which the admin can [purportedly] launch operations against undocumented immigrants
.

                            will serve as a hub in upcoming operations overseen by 
.
                            
It could also potentially be used as a place to house or active-duty , if orders a surge of to the city, as he did in & .

                              [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
                              @kkarhan@infosec.space

                              @andiwaffeln Leute die was gutes abgewinnen können sind echt todeslost!

                                [?]RememberUsAlways » 🌐
                                @RememberUsAlways@newsie.social

                                Thursday September 4 2025.
                                Day 462 of as a
                                .


                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                  "We have each had the honor and privilege of serving as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, either in a permanent or an acting capacity, dating back to 1977. Collectively, we spent more than 100 years working at the C.D.C., the world’s pre-eminent public health agency."

                                  ~ William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky, and Mandy K. Cohen


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                                  nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion

                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                    "What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago — is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced."


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                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                      "Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakened programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more. Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, he’s focused on unproven treatments while downplaying vaccines."


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                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                        "He canceled investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill prepared for future health emergencies. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views. He announced the end of U.S. support for global vaccination programs that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe, citing flawed research and making inaccurate statements."


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                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                          "How do we understand and talk about the unprecedented holistic design by the Trump administration to seemingly inflict harm on American business, health, knowledge production, science, and everything else that made us 'the envy of the world,' to quote an October 2024 essay in the Economist?

                                          The classic autocratic goal of consolidating power is part of it."

                                          ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat


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                                          lucid.substack.com/p/saboteurs

                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                            "If you intend to rely less on elections to stay in power, you are not afraid to slash funding for disaster relief, child cancer, or basic social assistance. ...

                                            But domestic power consolidation is only half of it. The most shocking and tragic part is that this sabotage of America by a sitting U.S. president is also designed to benefit America’s adversaries —countries that for years have sought to displace America as a global military and economic power."


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                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                              Dean Obeidallah thinks that if "people die due to Kennedy’s rejection of science to make the MAGA political base happy, Kennedy must be charged with manslaughter or even murder. Trump might be above the law thanks to the corrupt GOP Supreme Court, but no one else is. And they must be held accountable."


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                                              deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/

                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                “Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of our country and the world. He abused not only me but countless others, and everyone seemed to look away. The truth is, Epstein had a free pass. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually.”

                                                ~ Epstein abuse survivor Chauntae Davis


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                                                newrepublic.com/post/199950/ep

                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                  "[The survivors who spoke today] all knew Ghislaine Maxwell. She, in many cases, groomed them. In some cases, abused them herself. And, of course, brought them to Epstein. They don't understand why the DOJ, why the Trump administration would move her to essentially a country club prison.

                                                  And we are in a position now asking these tough questions. Who made that call?"

                                                  ~ Rep. Robert Garcia


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                                                  contrarian.substack.com/p/epst

                                                    [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
                                                    @HamonWry@mastodon.world

                                                    Trump is the oldest person to be elected to the White House.

                                                    With one foot in the grave he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the future of the country or the future of the world. He only cares about himself and the next news cycle.

                                                    The more you know.

                                                      [?]#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag » 🌐
                                                      @freeschool@qoto.org

                                                      The Answer is NOT JUST MASTODON either... it's emotional intelligence & incrementing art of friendship at the same time... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                      @openrightsgroup @jim GOOD VIDEO...

                                                      SHORT VERSION REPLY

                                                      The is building another "society" ON TOP OF - rather than just develop more tech.

                                                      We're mostly just developing tech and not developing people

                                                      (and then complaining about and people falling for the same traps used by tech ).

                                                      Without organised or dedicated IN MASTODON (on any or ) people do not know how to be nice / what to consider / what to look out for that's normal in new relationships / what do if this or that... / how to do it WITH someone there / where to go regularly...

                                                      Ok some chat happens... but is that it for Mastodon as a ? ❓
                                                      Such a lack of depth...

                                                      Without some training, we're lost / undirected online. Sorry.

                                                      And let chat (positive ending / action needed).

                                                      ===============
                                                      LONGER VERSION:
                                                      ===============

                                                      Rather than using social media for mostly or fearing things ( etc)... build our own society or just increment friendships and trust (must be a way).

                                                      Develop better people AT THE SAME TIME. Not just develop tech...

                                                      Time to invest in people.
                                                      Time invested in people gives back in ways to [opportunity, work, listening, tutoring/teaching, other coincidental help / better examples / daily place to go to].

                                                      Developing people is the solution now we have the ....
                                                      âžĄïž (i.e. + is ENOUGH to heal / speak / listen / send / receive))

                                                      OR = TEXT / PIC
                                                      + = AUDIO / VIDEO
                                                      + = FILES

                                                      Develop caring CIRCLES OF people and everything else will come better with it. Might seem a long investment but we have to do the long work anyway because cutting corners and is cutting ourselves off with .

                                                      Need to be dedicate to people PERSONAL IN .
                                                      ⭕ ↔ 🔁

                                                      The Answer is NOT JUST MASTODON and leaving people to their quite poor levels of friendliness and own fear... !
                                                      (that's why scratching the surface you can find people are JUST LIKE ON sometimes once we get deeper in and ).

                                                      it's emotional intelligence & incrementing the of and ... at the same time as having Mastodon... CIRCLES. ⭕ ↔ 🔁

                                                      ( using Jitsi rooms for example jitsi.freifunk-duesseldorf.de/ )

                                                      Building + Friendships
                                                      = People
                                                      =

                                                      ANYONE?

                                                      People need to come ( or not that's the aim!)

                                                      ===================
                                                      P.S # JITSI CHAT = INSTANT!

                                                      2 CLICKS, NO INSTALL, NO REG, NO GOOGLE ACC, NO ZOOM INSTALL, ANY PLATFORM!

                                                      AUDIO OR VIDEO CHATTING!
                                                      TEST IT ALONE - EXAMPLE HERE...

                                                      jitsi.freifunk-duesseldorf.de/

                                                        [?]Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 » 🌐
                                                        @Lazarou@mastodon.social

                                                        Compare the dignity of the Epstein Victims to the American President.

                                                          [?]Police State UK » 🌐
                                                          @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk

                                                          "Alas, is still alive, but there is a consolation prize for those who were holding vigil: He and the White House reacted with over-the-top defensiveness, removing all doubt that the infamous narcissist was feeling deeply embarrassed by the gleeful speculation of his demise."

                                                          salon.com/2025/09/03/trumps-lo

                                                            Beachbum boosted

                                                            [?]Police State UK » 🌐
                                                            @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk

                                                            "While himself is tired, lazy and erratic, his underlings are not. National Guard troops are on the streets for no legitimate reason, ICE agents are doing their best to turn into an American Gestapo, Robert Kennedy is gutting public health and a trade war continues to threaten the ability of Americans to afford everyday goods. This is all very bad, and it also helps to explain why so many people reacted so warmly to the wild speculation of Trump’s death."

                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                              @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                              again calls case a ‘hoax’ as demand

                                                              Trump decried the scandal as a "Democrat hoax" on Wednesday, saying, "Really, I think it's enough."

                                                              Trump said that "thousands & thousands of documents" had been released but that the "Democratic hoax" would continue.

                                                              "No matter what you do it's going to keep going," Trump said, adding, "Really, I think it's enough."


                                                              pbs.org/newshour/politics/watc

                                                                [?]Voting is Your POWER » 🌐
                                                                @digyoursoul@universeodon.com

                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                "The flyover that Trump ordered to mute the survivors speaking out now on Capitol Hill just happened. Make note of the time 11:27 AM... what a piece of shit!"

                                                                ~ Teresa Garcia Giron


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                                                                  [?]JustBob đŸȘ–đŸ‡șđŸ‡žâ™’ïž » 🌐
                                                                  @bob@beamship.mpaq.org

                                                                  The Silence Continues (Just Bob 538 @ venmo.com/code?user_id=3063551)

                                                                  The silence is deafning. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for people.

                                                                  (Amendment I) Sorry, you don't have the right to assemble in public space even in protest because your homeless.

                                                                  (Amendment IV) Sorry, you don't have the right to be served a search warrant when we steal your only way to stay warm and dry.

                                                                  (Amendment VIII) Sorry, your under arrest for trying to survive in public spaces in the middle of winter/heatwave after the city/state/federal has taken everything from you and there is absolutely no place to go to get out of the weather.

                                                                  A short time ago, decided that 770,000 people have no US Constitution rights when he declared it across the entire country. Not only do we now have to be on the lookout for city cops, shariffs, state cops, National Guards that also forgot the oath we say when joining the US Military, we have to be looking for every day haters who won't hesitate to kill us for simply not having paid for place to live.

                                                                  But the silence continues.

                                                                    [?]Erik Jonker » 🌐
                                                                    @ErikJonker@mastodon.social

                                                                    I am wondering when the moment will arrive that state police forces in states like Illinois will clash with ICE or is that unthinkable? Shouldn't the police protect the people against masked men doing illegal actions?

                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                      “Around 14 percent of the US population, nearly 50 million people, identify themselves as white evangelical Protestants. ‘Though [white evangelicals] make up just 14% of Americans overall, they remain the largest single religious group among Republican voters with the power to sway party priorities,’ noted reporter Becky Sullivan on NPR's Morning Edition."

                                                                      ~ Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (NY: Legacy, 2024), p. 15


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                                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                        "The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative. Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracy” (p. 15, quoting Becky Sullivan, “The Proportion of White Christians in the US Has Stopped Shrinking, Study Finds,” NPR, July 8th, 2021).


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