@vantazach
Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3
Super weird that people whose only crime was crossing an imaginary line are being sent to concentration camps while Ghislaine Maxwell is being sent to posh prison.
https://youtube.com/shorts/pOu7MZv-aVI?si=ju90R2-hXNTLwtUn
Tell me again how the Right is about law and order and concerned about protecting children from pedophiles.
The folks in charge of the US right now DO NOT want people asking asking these questions. Because they just low key made slavery great again.
They're desperate to turn it around.
That's why if you dare to ask "Who will pick the crops?" the folks who just re-legalized slavery… call you pro-crime.
Democratic Rep. Greg Casar is introducing legislation to ban "surveillance pricing," whereby companies use personal data to charge consumers different prices for the same products.
Why hasn't this made more national news? I only see articles in Vermont media?
"A gay Vermont school superintendent says he was detained, separated from his husband, and subjected to hours of abusive questioning in Texas by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers while returning from a trip to Nicaragua "
“They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no constitutional rights at a point of entry"
https://www.advocate.com/news/vermont-gay-citizen-detained-cbp
AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
L: https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770250
posted on 2025.08.02 at 14:49:17 (c=1, p=9)
“It’s the best depression any country has ever had. No one has ever seen such a Great Depression. In fact, I just came up with that term, Great Depression. No one’s ever done that before. ” - Donald Trump, probably one year from now.
https://www.europesays.com/2296873/ Mounting criticism surrounds Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth over leadership missteps #analytics #Azerbaijan #AzerNews #Baku #BreakingNews #BusinessNews #CompanyNews #Død #Economy #FinancialNews #OilAndGasNews #pentagon #PeteHegseth #Politics #SecretaryOfDefense #SOCAR #Turkey #WorldNews
"In just six months of operation, #DOGE wasted more than $21 billion."
To come to the US legally? Farm workers are supposed to get an H-2A visa.
In theory, H-2A visas are fine. They're supposed to work like a temp agency/worker-to-workplace matching service.
But in reality? So many H-2A workers are abused, extorted, cheated, raped, & held prisoner on the job.
Here's a brief piece on how over 100 people who went through the entire proper H-2A documentation process to enter the US legally, still wound up in slavery.
And you know what Trump just did?
He just overturned all those updates. Back in June 2025.
Now, the system for *legal* farm immigration is back to the free-for-all that let people build a $200M slavery business in Georgia- with a license from the federal government.
I came up as a farm worker. So I've been pretty open about how Americans absolutely DO take farm jobs- when they're worth having.
I would know! That's what I did.
If you want to know how that works, I talk about it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZfYMIv3iM&t=1s
Rep. Greenfield is asking exactly the right questions.
If the US is going to feed itself, there are farm jobs that have to be done. So how are we gonna do it?
No, really! How?
Who's going to do the work? What will their lives be like?
Pastor Indicted For Cryptocurrency Scam He Claims God Told Him To Do
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveweisman/2025/08/02/pastor-indicted-for-cryptocurrency-scam-he-claims-god-told-him-to-do/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Finance @finance-forbes
Laverne Cox leads first-ever all-trans ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ team - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/laverne-cox-leads-first-ever-all-trans-celebrity-family-feud-team/
Defendants in Virginia often face an impossible choice: go to trial, or accept a plea deal in which they agree to waive their Fourth Amendment rights — sometimes for years. Glenn Youngkin last year vetoed a bill to change this situation.
https://boltsmag.org/fourth-amendment-waiver-virginia-police-traffic-stops/
Democrats need to deliver real, substantive improvements to people’s lives—and fast. But Texas is showing us exactly what happens when you pursue progress without regard for real-world costs. The Abundance framework is a clever, friendlier rebrand of something much older and more dangerous: market fundamentalism. It asks us to embrace deregulation, privatization, and weak governance, but does nothing to seriously account for corporate capture, inequality, the failures of laissez-faire policymaking, or lack of public infrastructure investments. In short, it prizes speed and efficiency over equity, safety, and accountability. It also just misses the point. Americans don’t simply need more things, they need relief from an affordability crisis fueled by corporate greed that is pricing them out of the freedom to thrive—not just as workers and consumers, but as human beings. https://open.substack.com/pub/chartingthewayforward/p/abundance-is-a-trojan-horse?r=bwff&utm_medium=ios
Trump is working hard to normalize arresting political opponents
"They were wrong about everything. Catastrophically, obviously wrong. Trump is implementing exactly the policies he promised, wreaking exactly the havoc any sentient observer could have predicted. ...
Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. And the people who told you Trump would moderate, who assured you his corruption was competence, who promised his authoritarianism was strategy, were wrong about everything.