AdamOnDemand
NYC community stuff, Columbia U LGBTQ+ Alumni PRIDE, QUO orchestra, synesthesia concerts & popups entrepreneur, and more...
Xitter emigre/refugee
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandThe United States Secretary of Health and Human Services has spoken. 🤡 @rollingstone.com @usatoday.com @vanityfair.com
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandHow we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
- Tune in for the latest round of the game intoxicating the nation, SCHMUCK SCMUCK DOUCHE! www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
- Backhanded thanks, Bezos: Now everyone knows tariff cost breakouts from prices are possible, and wants them! Why not also shop-arounds (esp from Amazon), source and product alternatives - and more! Standalone or features added to already popular comparative shopping app? Would be hugely popular!
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandPritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.
- "Blame MAGA" works as the new name and lyrics for "Blame Canada", which, with very few changes, makes far more sense than the original. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame_C...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandIn the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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- Reposted by AdamOnDemandso, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.
- How strangely nontoxic bsky seems. As users and usage grows, I find more of interest, use, delight, and productive concern from those I follow, and well curated suggestions. Not algorithmed to rage, paranoia, envy, exhaustion, despondancy, submission. Hmmm. Can it last? What next?
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandAround 90% of my conversations with friends play out this way — and I am perfectly fine with that.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandPeople trying to obey the law abducted by masked men in unmarked van. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandExclusive: The Pentagon will resume gender-affirming care for transgender service members, according to a memo we obtained.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandThis should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandBluesky is collegial and interesting, the way Twitter used to be. Bonus: most people can spell.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandThe FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandI call 🐂 💩.....
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandONE IF BY LAND TWO IF BY D.C. the north end church in boston it’s 250 years today @northendpage.bsky.social
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandFor those interested in a nerdy deep dive: a university's endowment is actually dozens to hundreds of funds, each one guided by a restrictive agreement on its use. Hard to unwind, and hard to reallocate. Kevin Elliott brings the receipts:
- Reposted by AdamOnDemand"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
- "the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandIt’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandOur federal judiciary remains a vital check on tyrannical threats to liberty. Join the April 15 nationwide rally for justice speakupforjustice.law
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandTrump orders U.S. government to stop tracking "super gonorrhea" that is resistant to most antibiotics: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandWishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandI support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandMAGA be like "he has a plan, he's playing chess not checkers" and the whole time he's literally just playing golf.
- Shakedown, ruination, corruption day. "I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with @realDonaldTrump . The first to negotiate will win - the last will absolutely lose. I have seen this movie my entire life…" Eric Trump on Xitter.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandI find it outrageous as well.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandThis is what happens when people speak up.
- Tariffs are taxes, designed to make imports more costly. Except, of course, for smuggled goods... which avoid tariffs. Yet again, His Highness Kayfabe I is utterly clueless about how tariffs work and what they do.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandThe Department of Government Efficiency, for example
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandAmericans, watch and learn.
- Elon: humanity was just a necessary precursor for AI. Now that we have AI... the existence (e.g., life of) most of the population is just inefficient and no longer needed. Any government by, of, and for them, must die (as well).
- Good news: Ukrainian humor slayvas!! Ukrainians found the ideal use for those old Lenin statues taking up space: slap on gold paint, a Trump head, a seig heil, put them in areas at high-risk for bombing, facing Russia! Just wait to see Trump sieg-heil Putin's forces as they blow him up!
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandHey folks! If you're in Florida and Wisconsin today, GET OUT AND VOTE!
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- Reposted by AdamOnDemandThis weekend, the so-called "Tesla Shield" came out to defend Elon Musk and counter the #TeslaTakedown protests. Among those taking part: • MAGA • Proud Boys • Armed Militias • And a guy dressed as Hitler www.wired.com/story/proud-...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandWall Street Journal editorial board: "Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true..." www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
- Great summary of all the laws broken by SignalGate. www.publicnotice.co/p/signalgate...
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- More of this! youtube.com/shorts/d0s0x...
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- Reposted by AdamOnDemandUnidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- Reposted by AdamOnDemand"Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online" www.spiegel.de/internationa...
- Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.
- Signal as standard procedure for US NatSec Principals means they're evading US security protections and documentation, among other policies. Like they own it, not the American people. No rules, nor beneficiaries, but their own - not America. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
- "If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary." Timothy Snyder
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- Reposted by AdamOnDemandButtigieg: "I know this -- in my experience both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system."
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandMan, if we make it through the next four years, it will prove Bismarck was right when he said “There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandWhy can’t you play hide and seek with a Pokemon? They always Pikachu. Not very good, I know. I’ll show myself out.
- Reposted by AdamOnDemandRead this, and think about the fact that without Section 230 your access to free opinion will diminish dramatically. Call your Representative or Senator to oppose repeal. It doesn't have a bill number yet so you have to just say you oppose the Durbin/Graham repeal of Section 230. 202-224-3121.
- Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
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