Janet Carter
Retired academic librarian who fights for our democracy and civil rights, and fighting against voter suppression. 😎 I am actively opposing MAGA & Fascism. 💖 Substack. I also enjoy reading mysteries, old movies, and listening to jazz.
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- Reposted by Janet CarterThe Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
- Reposted by Janet CarterNEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
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- Reposted by Janet CarterThese Silicon Valley bros will kill us all. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
- Reposted by Janet CarterTONIGHT: @reecejones.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
- I wrote about the long history of Border Patrol racism and violence for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
- OK WI- a major protest strategy opportunity!
- SCOOP: ICE has done more than 60 secret flights on Air Wisconsin since mid-January, according to @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social. I watched one load this afternoon. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/air-wisconsi...
- Reposted by Janet CarterLuttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
- Reposted by Janet CarterHappening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto
- Reposted by Janet CarterWhoa. Cooked through. They clearly don't intend on covering the news. This isn't some opinion piece, this is from the media desk
- Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C
- Reposted by Janet CarterThis is big news. Peter Thiel and US billionaires are all over Epstein and global actors. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Janet CarterGOP Rep Lauren Boebert is again claiming credit for spending projects in her district after voting against them. In 2024, she told me she'd vote no even if she was the deciding vote.
- Reposted by Janet CarterThe rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)
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- Reposted by Janet Carter‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by Janet CarterMy story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
- Reposted by Janet CarterWaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- Reposted by Janet CarterThe White House's trade policy has "opened the door to corruption," according to a letter from Ron Wyden and Chris Van Hollen. n.pr/4qgSrEo
- Reposted by Janet CarterTear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
- Reposted by Janet CarterIn less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
- Reposted by Janet CarterThe ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
- Reposted by Janet CarterI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Janet CarterBREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by Janet CarterBREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.
- Reposted by Janet CarterSilicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
- Reposted by Janet CarterJesus Ochoa is a Border Patrol agent who joined CBP in 2018. Raymundo Gutierrez joined in 2014 and works for CBP’s Office of Field Operations. Records show both men are from South Texas.
- Reposted by Janet CarterI want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
- Reposted by Janet Carter#AlexPretti is dead. Federal agents Jesus Ochoa & Raymundo Gutierrez fired the shots now ruled a homicide. Names shouldn't be buried, & neither should accountability. If this ends in silence, remember who pulled the trigger & who protected them…
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- Reposted by Janet CarterThree rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
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- Reposted by Janet CarterLaw & Order: In 2022, Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board members. Now the board's legal counsel is subpoenaing the full, unredacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report to verify claims Trump made were "defamatory." Oops! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
- Reposted by Janet CarterPeter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
