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THAT’S WHITE PRIVILEGE … Facts on Facts 💯 #KylaLacey
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Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing.
They don't care about you, or the country.
Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it.
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BREAKING: Senate Democrats just introduced a bill that will give every American the right to sue Trump and his family, including Jared Kushner, to recover funds obtained through corruption. Every person who wins gets 10% of the money, which could be millions of dollars
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Perhaps the greatest celebrity story ever here, about ROGER MOORE. Give yourself a treat if you've not read it.
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One of Dolly Parton’s most cross cultural collaborations was Peace Train her 1996 recording with South African choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo
The more that I see about this remarkable woman,the more impressed I am
What a huge loss her passing is to the world,she gave so much 🥺🥺
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This is profoundly insightful. One of the best explanations of love languages I’ve ever encountered. So beautifully articulated.
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A US senator walked up to an airport checkpoint and refused to have his face scanned.
His name is Jeff Merkley. He is the senator from Oregon. He has spent three years trying to get the TSA to tell travelers something the TSA already admits on its own website.
The face scan at the checkpoint is optional. Almost nobody is told.
There is one sentence that stops it. Here is the sentence, and everything the TSA does not want you to know about saying it.
First, the TSA's own words. From the TSA website:
"Travelers who do not wish to participate in the facial recognition technology process may decline the optional photo, without recourse, in favor of an alternative identity verification process, which does not use facial recognition technology to verify their identity."
Optional photo. Without recourse. Those are their words, not mine.
The TSA also says this on the same page:
"Travelers will not lose their place in line for security screening."
And using the alternative method "does not take longer."
So the two things a TSA agent might tell you at the checkpoint, that you will hold up the line or take longer, are ruled out by the TSA's own website.
Now the sentence. When you get to the checkpoint, before the scan, say this:
"I do not consent to the scan and would like to have my ID manually verified."
That is it.
The officer will take your physical ID, either a driver's license or a passport, and check the photo against your face the way they did for the last twenty years. Merkley has documented himself doing this on flights between DC and Portland.
Here is why almost no one knows.
Senator Merkley has been pushing this since July 2023. He went to Reagan Washington National Airport that summer to publicly demonstrate the opt-out and to challenge the TSA on how the program is being run. The Washington Post covered it.
In May 2025, Merkley introduced the Traveler Privacy Protection Act with Senators John Kennedy of Louisiana, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and Roger Marshall of Kansas. Two Republicans, two Democrats. The bill is endorsed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Public Citizen, and three other watchdog groups.
Merkley's own words from that press release:
"Folks don't want a national surveillance state, but that's exactly what the TSA's unchecked expansion of facial recognition technology is leading us to."
And:
"Americans have the right to opt out of using TSA's facial recognition at the airport, and we need to protect that right. Our Traveler Privacy Protection Act safeguards the freedoms and privacy of all Americans by making sure no one is required to have their face scanned to travel."
Here is what the TSA is planning.
Facial recognition is currently at more than 84 US airports. The TSA plans to expand it to more than 430. That is nearly every commercial airport in the country. And per the bill's findings, the TSA is "eventually planning to make this technology mandatory for all travelers."
Right now it is optional. That window is closing.
The TSA says the technology is not being abused. Their exact wording:
"Biometrics are not used for surveillance. Facial recognition technology is solely used to automate the current manual ID credential checking process and will not be used for surveillance or any law enforcement purpose."
Take them at their word. The point is not that the TSA is doing something illegal. The point is you get to choose.
Here is the 5-minute action you can take tonight, before your next flight.
- Memorize the sentence: "I do not consent to the scan and would like to have my ID manually verified."
- Have your physical ID out and ready. Driver's license or passport. Not a screenshot on your phone.
- When you get to the podium, hand the agent your ID and say the sentence in a normal tone. Do not apologize.
- If the agent pushes back or tells you it will take longer, calmly repeat the sentence. If they still refuse, ask for a supervisor.
- This applies to TSA checkpoints only. International arrivals into the US go through Customs and Border Protection, which is a different agency with different rules. For most US domestic flights, the sentence above is what you need.
Here is the last thing.
The TSA already admits, on its own website, that this is optional. A sitting US senator has spent three years asking them to put that in plain sight at the checkpoint. They have not. The signs at the podium do not tell you. The agents often do not tell you. The airline app does not tell you.
Congress is being lobbied by the airlines to keep it that way. Reuters reported in July 2025 that the airline industry publicly opposed Merkley's bill.
Right now, before the 430 airport rollout, you still have a one-sentence way out.
Say the sentence. Show your ID. Walk through.
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I make absolutely zero apologies for the ADHD-fueled weirdness I bring to this page.
I spent YEARS trying to hide it. Trying to tone myself down, make myself more digestible, act a little more “normal,” and shove every strange thought back into the overcrowded filing cabinet that is my brain.
And you know what?
I was fucking miserable.
So I will forever embrace the weird, chaotic little brain I was given. The random thoughts. The unhinged stories. The sudden hyperfixations. The questionable trains of thought that somehow leave the station, derail immediately, catch fire, and still arrive at a destination.
I know I’m not everyone’s cup of tea.
Good thing I don't live my life trying to be liked by everyone.
Those who get it, get it. You’re my people. 🖤
Those who don’t?
My beloved, you are holding a tiny rectangular device containing the collective knowledge of humanity and you have been blessed with opposable thumbs.
Use one and fucking scroll.
Nobody forced you to read the weird shit I write.
I spent too many years hiding pieces of myself to make other people comfortable.
I’m not doing it anymore.
Welcome to the chaos. 🖤
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BREAKING: Reports indicate ICE agents have been told the FBI will no longer investigate certain confrontations involving ICE personnel.
The move would reduce independent federal oversight of immigration enforcement at a time when the agency is already under intense scrutiny following recent deadly incidents involving ICE agents.
If true, this raises serious questions about accountability. No federal law enforcement agency should be beyond independent investigation.
Enough is enough.
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Dato: Tras derrota de Noruega con Inglaterra,
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I pray a debt collector goes silent on me
Every time they fail to respond to my validation letter within 30 days, they legally kill their own debt. I don't argue with them. I don't negotiate. I make them prove it, and when they can't, their silence becomes the weapon that deletes everything
Last month one went quiet on a $4,200 balance. I sent two letters. Deleted in 3 weeks. They had nothing because there was nothing to have
Here's the mechanism that makes this work, and it's the single most underused tool in consumer law
When you stop paying a credit card, the bank doesn't chase you forever. After about 180 days they give up, write the balance off, take a tax deduction, and sell your account in a massive bundle to a debt buyer for 2 to 4 cents on the dollar. That debt buyer gets a SPREADSHEET. A row in a CSV file with your name, a number, and a balance. They do NOT get the original signed credit card agreement. They do NOT get the complete payment history. They do NOT get the documented chain of title proving the debt legally transferred to them. They get a spreadsheet and the right to try and collect
So when you demand they PROVE the debt is real, prove they own it, prove you owe it, prove the amount is accurate, most of them physically cannot do it. They don't have the documents because the documents were never part of the sale. And instead of admitting "we have nothing," they go silent and hope you get scared and forget
That silence is not them being strategic. It's them having nothing. And you turn their nothing into your deletion
Here's the exact sequence, step by step:
Step 1: the SECOND a collector contacts you, do NOT pay a single dollar, do NOT admit the debt is yours, do NOT agree to a payment plan, do NOT confirm your identity beyond what's necessary. Any of those can waive your rights or restart a clock. Everything from this point forward happens in writing, by certified mail, with a return receipt so you have proof of every date
Step 2: send a written debt validation request within 30 days of their first contact. Use this exact language: "I am requesting validation of this alleged debt pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 USC 1692g. Provide the following: the original signed agreement between me and the original creditor, the complete payment history from the original creditor showing every transaction, the name and address of the original creditor, proof of your legal ownership or assignment of this specific account, and a copy of your state collection license. Until you provide full validation, cease all collection activity and communication"
Step 3: they are now legally required to STOP all collection activity until they validate. No calls, no letters, no reporting. If they keep collecting without validating, every contact after your letter is a fresh FDCPA violation worth up to $1,000. Document any contact they make after your letter, it's money
Step 4: wait 30 days. If they respond with a generic computer-printed statement showing a balance, that is NOT validation. A statement is not a signed agreement. A balance printout is not proof of ownership. Reply: "Your response does not satisfy the validation requirements of 15 USC 1692g. You have provided no original signed agreement, no complete payment history from the original creditor, and no proof of ownership. I consider this debt disputed and unvalidated. Cease collection and delete from all credit reporting"
Step 5: if they go completely silent and don't respond at all within 30 days, send the estoppel letter: "You have failed to validate this alleged debt within a reasonable time as required under the FDCPA. Your failure to respond after a proper validation request constitutes your tacit agreement that this debt is invalid, unverifiable, and uncollectable. I demand immediate deletion of this account from Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion, and permanent cessation of all collection activity. Any further attempt to collect or report will be treated as a willful violation and I will pursue all available remedies"
Step 6: dispute the item directly with all three credit bureaus, noting that the collector failed to validate after a formal written request. Include a copy of your validation letter and the certified mail receipt proving they received it. An unverified debt that a collector has gone silent on cannot survive a properly documented dispute
Step 7: keep EVERYTHING in a physical folder. Every letter you sent, every green return receipt card, every response (or non-response documented by date), every dispute confirmation from the bureaus. This paper trail is your proof if they ever try to bring the debt back, sell it to another collector, or re-report it
A guy I know got contacted on a $4,200 collection that had been sold twice. The current holder was a bottom-tier debt buyer running an operation out of a strip mall. He sent the validation letter on day one, certified mail, return receipt. Got nothing back for 40 days. Sent the estoppel letter. Disputed with all three bureaus citing the failure to validate. Deleted from all three in under 3 weeks, because the buyer never had a single document connecting them to his specific account
Read that again. Their silence didn't make the debt stronger. It's the exact thing that made it disappear, because silence is what people do when they have nothing, and the law says nothing means deleted
The entire collections industry runs on one bet: that you'll be too scared or confused to make them prove it. Most people pay debts they don't even legally owe anymore because the phone call was scary. You don't have to out-yell a collector. You have to make them prove it on paper, and most of them are holding a spreadsheet and a prayer lmfaooo
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Nilatpal Basu posted this on FB:
At the #WorldCup on Tuesday — a man in a red suit stood completely still for 90 minutes in the stands. Then he covered his mouth and pointed a gun to his head.
FIFA’s cameras cut away immediately.
His name is Michel Kuka Mboladinga — known as “Lumumba Vea,” which means “Lumumba Lives.” For more than a decade he has stood motionless at every DR Congo match — suit and tie, arm raised — as a living tribute to Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
Patrice Lumumba gave a stunning Independence Day speech on June 30, 1960 — standing before King Baudouin of Belgium — excoriating Belgian colonialism. Malcolm X called him “the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent.”
Six months after independence, Belgian officers and soldiers captured Lumumba, tortured him, and executed him by firing squad. His body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. The only known remnant was a gold tooth kept by the Belgian officer responsible for 39 years until his death.
That is what Lumumba Vea stands in tribute to. Every single match. In a suit. Motionless. For 90 minutes.
On Tuesday against Colombia — he added something new. He covered his mouth and mimicked a gun to his head. A silent, devastating protest against the world’s silence over eastern DR Congo — one of the globe’s most severe yet least-covered humanitarian crises, which has displaced millions and claimed countless lives through violence and massacres.
Lumumba Vea went viral this week — covered by USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CNN and the BBC. Every outlet explained the Patrice Lumumba connection. Not one mentioned the link between Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination, the Western strategy to destabilize an independent Congo, and the current humanitarian catastrophe in eastern DRC today.
That connection is not a footnote. It is the entire story.
The same Western powers that assassinated Lumumba in 1961 — because he wanted Congo’s mineral wealth to benefit Congolese people — have spent 65 years ensuring the DRC remains destabilized, its cobalt and coltan flowing to Western technology companies while its people are massacred in the east.
FIFA cut the cameras. The mainstream media covered the gesture without the history. And a man in a red suit stood in the stands and said — without words — what the world refuses to hear.
Lumumba Lives.
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I think it was just hate.
By Sincerely, American:
"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'
Fair enough. Let’s take a look.
The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.
General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.
While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.
Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.
Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.
He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.
His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.
He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.
For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.
Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.
All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.
While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.
He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.
Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.
Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.
Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”
Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........
He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.
He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?
If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."
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BREAKING: Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello just BURIED Trump’s Freedom 250 concerts under an avalanche of rock legends.
Donald Trump's Great American State Fair — his big musical celebration of America's 250th birthday — features Vanilla Ice, a version of Milli Vanilli whose original member died in 1998, and Bret Michaels of Poison. Artists have been fleeing it since the day it was announced.
Tom Morello just answered with the Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Dropkick Murphys, Jack Black, System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard, Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels, and Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron.
The contrast could not be more devastating.
Morello's Power to the People Festival will take place on October 3rd at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland — exactly one month before the midterm elections — with any of a dozen acts on the bill capable of selling out the venue by themselves. Springsteen, who just finished his protest-heavy Land of Hope and Dreams Tour under FBI protection due to death threats from Trump supporters, announced the festival from the stage at Nationals Park on the tour's closing night.
The festival will include a "Freedom Village" — an immersive space for civic engagement, grassroots organizing, mutual aid, and social impact initiatives. A portion of ticket proceeds, and 100 percent of VIP ticket sales, go directly to pro-democracy organizations VoteRiders and HeadCount.
Trump's concert was paid for by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, and Royal Caribbean — companies regulated by his own cabinet. Morello's festival is funding voter registration.
Trump's lineup includes an act whose original member died in 1998, a rapper whose last hit was in 1990, and a Celebrity Apprentice winner. Morello's lineup includes living legends who are actively touring, recording, and selling out arenas worldwide.
Young MC fled Trump's concert because nobody told him it was political. C+C Music Factory's frontman stayed while saying on camera that he doesn't "f--- with Trump." Morris Day simply posted, "It's a no from me."
Meanwhile, Springsteen announced his participation in the Power to the People event from a sold-out stadium in Washington DC during his “Land Of Hope & Dreams” tour.
This is what the resistance sounds like. And it sounds a whole lot better than "Ice Ice Baby."
Tickets for the Power to the People Festival go on sale on May 30 at 10AM ET, but you can sign up for pre-sale access on May 29 at 10AM ET via sign-up on the Power to the People website.
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