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Lisa Gets Politik
@lisagetspolitik@union.place
mastodon 4.7.3Academic and union leader interested in how games can help change the world. Twitter sucks. We can and must do better for our earth. Oh, and it must be said: I love Doctor Who.
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Joined November 18, 2022
Over 100 data centers have been proposed on or next to Tribal lands.
Data centers use up, evaporate, and poison hundreds of billions of gallons of drinking water -- and they’re often in drought-prone regions where Tribes already face water scarcity.
Big Tech companies are endangering native communities by targeting Tribal lands and building racist biases into AI programs. Zam DeShields (Chickasaw Nation), calls this “an extension of colonialism.”
#indigenous #datacenter
Married women: our right to vote is at risk if you took your husband's name.
Weirdly, I'd say this is going to encourage newly married women to keep their maiden names.
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Thinking of kindred spirit, Douglas Adams, on the 25th anniversary of his death.
“I love deadlines,” he quipped. “I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
#DouglasAdams
“If Republicans ever used their power to help Georgians, they wouldn’t have to waste time and money redrawing the maps every few years to keep their majorities."
- Georgia Senate minority leader Harold Jones II
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The situation with the reflecting pool is such a symbol of the utter lack of understanding of ecological systems by the Trump administration.
The reflecting pool is a public transparent example: they are making these kinds of decisions EVERYWHERE. Decisions that are equally horrifying, just not as visible or well known.
For example, did you know that they are BOMBING the national forests with RoundUp?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/roundup-glyphosate-spraying-forests-monsanto-science-retraction-cancer-health-concerns-maha-trump-executive-order-supreme-court-bayer-lawsuits/#MONSANTO #NationalParks #Pool
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If Die Hard is a Christmas Movie, then Fugitive is a St. Patrick's Day movie.
You know I'm right about this.
#StPatricksDay
The grift is in full display: Supreme Court lifts spending limits on candidates and political parties.
Money rules the day, people don't matter.
It's not democracy if you can buy a ballot.
#Corruption #SupremeCourt #USPOL
Even the Endless Screaming Bot has had enough screaming for the day.
Trump denies disaster aid to four blue states after approving aid to six red states. Even as the White House tells the public that “there is no politicization to the president’s decisions on disaster relief,” Trump has literally connected campaign endorsements to his approvals for aid requests, a move that has no precedent in American history.
Our disaster relief should no be politcially based. We are all Americans, regardless of political orientation.
#USPOL #trump #disasteraid
To all the people who signed NDA’s agreeing not to disclose that #MitchisDead - the Republican Party is illegally defrauding the country, destroying democracy, and you are accomplices in that crime.
Speak up, the NDA won’t protect you.
#kentuckydeservesrepresentation#MitchMcConnell #McConnell #MitchIsACorpse
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Trump was politically educated in the 1970s and 1980s by Roy Cohn, the New York fixer who taught him how to attack, never apologize and turn every accusation back on his accuser. But before Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor, he was Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel and one of the most notorious figures of the Red Scare, the movement that destroyed careers, blacklisted Americans, and turned the word “communist” into a weapon that could be used against almost anyone.
#USPOL #Trump
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"Yesterday [Trump] signed two proclamations. One will shrink Bears Ears National Monument by 91%, and the other will shrink Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument by about 90%. Together, they remove nearly three million acres (1.2 million hectares) from monument protection." - Heather Cox Richardson
They want to repeal the Antiquities Act - the act that protected the Grand Canyon from development.
#GrandStaircaseEscalanteMonument #BearsEars #Trump #USPOL
They bombed a girls school.
Then they sent another missle to finish the job.
No consequences.
No hearings.
No investigations.
How much outrage was there over Benghazi? This is so much worse than Benghazi.
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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca Google has moved the location on my phone - it's under settings two places:
--- data privacy -- then you turn off smart features, report additional diagnostics
-- google workspace smart features.
I also suggest resetting your "Google Usage ID" so that they can't track your use of Google products.
BREAKING: I have seen pre-released images of the upcoming Trump conspiracy presser.
It looks vaguely familiar, I think I've seen this movie before.
#VisforVendetta #Trump #USPOL
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The government prosecuted nine of the ICE protesters at the July 4, 2025 Prairieland Detention Center. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor sentenced eight of the Prairieland protesters to between 30 and 100 years in prison.
In contrast, Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes were sentenced to 18 and 22 years of prison for their roles in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump pardoned and commuted those sentences, releasing both from prison.
#Antifa
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@Professor_Stevens @aral even if they are using people as human shields, since when do we use that as justification to execute the human shields?!
If someone takes a child hostage we don’t execute the child and say “well, they were using the child as a shield, so it was justified.”
They are MONSTERS.
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Pew’s new 36-country survey put numbers to the freefall. A median of 23% express confidence in Trump’s handling of world affairs — below Putin, below Xi. Seventy-four percent disapprove of his handling of Iran. In Canada, the share calling the U.S. a reliable partner fell from 83% in 2022 to 35% today; in Germany, “considers our interests” cratered from 60% to 23%.
The world will not trust America “for generations,” because America is the country that elected this twice.
- ZEV SHALEV
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“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals...We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
In other news: the US House just passed $1.15 trillion #military budget.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-115-trillion-defense-spending-bill/ar-AA28ty0A
Two DOGE twenty-something’s with no experience or expertise walked into the National Endowment for the Humanities in March 2025.
Neither had ever administered a grant. Neither had read a humanities proposal. Neither knew what the Administrative Procedures Act was. They were just two guys from Elon Musk’s world armed with ChatGPT and six weeks to gut a federal agency. By April 1st, $100 million in grants was gone. Sixty-five percent of the staff was fired.
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Trump has stolen $8 billion in oil from Venezuela, with no oversight. He has just taken it and sold it, when oil prices are high because of his Iran war.
He is such a grifter, and no one is stopping him.
#Trump #Venezuela
Tell Congress to Say No to Warrantless AI Mass Surveillance
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-congress-say-no-warrantless-ai-mass-surveillance
The President of the United States is building a UFC arena on the front lawn while gasoline averages $4.39 a gallon and every American household has paid $5,000 toward this senseless war.
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Trump has redirected taxpayer money from national parks around the country to his own projects, leaving the parks unable to make needed repairs or hire staff. Expected funding for more than 900 Park Service projects never arrived—including $424,000 to replace a guardrail on the edge of a cliff in Colorado’s Gunnison National Park that National Park Service employees identified as “a significant safety hazard for visitors.”
(Courtesy of #HeatherCoxRichardson )
#NationalParks #Trump #USPOL
"The United States, which has nuclear weapons, threatens to use those nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous."
@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party
According to Judd at Popular Information, “Coachella is run by Anschutz Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation, which is owned by right-wing billionaire Philip Anschutz. Money from The Anschutz Corporation’s treasury, which includes the profits from Coachella, is funneled directly to right-wing organizations that support key politicians funding ICE, undermining LGBTQ rights, and restricting abortion.”
Chat GPT strikes again!
The last line of a student submission reads:
"If your instructor prefers a more personal, student-style response, this version should sound natural while still earning full credit."
My response: "The reflection would be stronger if it did not acknowledge in the last sentence that you did not write it yourself based on your own analysis."
#CHATGPT #student #LLM
WHO SUPPORTS ICE?
SpaceX, xAI’s Grok chatbot, and the X social media platform: ALL ELON MUSK.
SpaceX’s corporate PAC donated $589,000 to 63 members of Congress who sponsored or co-sponsored legislation expanding ICE’s power.
Other consumer brands near the top of the list include Home Depot ($536,500 to 77 members), Walmart ($308,000 to 88 members), Toyota ($262,500 to 75 members), and Google ($257,500 to 48 members).
#Boycott #MELTICE #USPOL
Trump: "we can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all the things."
Meanwhile, we're spending 1 billion dollars a day in a senseless war.
Reminder: 1 Billion Dollars could buy multiple private Islands in the Bahamas or 27 years in the MOST expensive hotel in New York City.
#WhatTrumpCan'tDo
#YouareonYourOwn
#Trump
#Medicare #Medicaid #Daycare #USPOL
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@mttaggart I love how you put it - the metaphysical fabric of human existence. People are selling their soul when they use AI - it's a soul snatcher.
If Republicans ever used their power to help Georgians, they wouldn’t have to waste time and money redrawing the maps every few years to keep their majorities."
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@Petr90@mamutovo.cz Yes. Exactly. This country is not recognizable.
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@catbrainz@retro.pizza @clayote@peoplemaking.games @arisummerland@beige.party @senj@surf.cyberspace.club
Catbrainz, consider yourself lucky for not knowing who infowars is. They (and Alex Jones) were really evil.
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@anthk@neopaquita.es
If you think the Onion is "competing" with mainstream news you're completely missing the point.
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"There is a season for everything. You must live in the present... find your eternity in each moment." - Henry David Thoreau
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@sloanlance@mastodon.social Thanks for confirming that people read Alt Text. I always try to put Alt Text messages but often wonder if anyone is reading them.
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@tafnn@universeodon.com KARMA!!!
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@overholt@glammr.us “Ancestors of today’s message boards” 😂😂😂
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@rodaina85@mastodon.social Maybe the International Rescue Committee could help https://www.rescue.org/country/occupied-palestinian-territory-opt https://www.rescue.org/contact-irc
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@newsbeep@newsbeep.org "Commenting on social media, Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian member of the Israeli parliament, wrote pointedly: “We’ll wait to hear the police spokesperson claim that ‘the soldier felt threatened by Jesus’.” - Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/19/outrage-after-photo-shows-israeli-soldier-smashing-jesus-statue-in-lebanon
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@cpr320@frontrange.co Yes, I do, however I live in Massachusetts, so my Senators are already voting the right way.
On Thursday, April 30, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on whether to stand with pesticide victims or with Bayer-Monsanto, the company that poisoned them.
Call the House Switchboard to be connected with your Member of Congress: (202) 224-3121.
Ask them to support Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)’s Amendment #301, which would strip all of the harmful pesticide provisions from the Farm Bill.
#ISpokeWithMitchMcConnellToday and I am excited to share that his corpse has officially been granted a featured role in the new reality TV show "The Walking Dead: Congress Edition" co-starring Jordan Klepper. They travel around the country, filming McConnell with his death stare as Jordan uses poorly disguised ventriloquism to pretend McConnell is "interviewing" prominent figures and celebrities.
#mitchMcConnell #DingDongTheMitchIsDead #McConnell
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@rodaina85@mastodon.social I would go to their website and fill out their contact form.