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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

Someone just asked me what this might look like. Well, I suggest Dems could go into these cultural spaces and say, "Look, we have an alternative. We don't have to live this way. All of you chafing under this jackbooted thuggery have an ally in us." Like this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h

I think we need to talk more about entitlement in the “do fascists feel shame?” debate.

Fascists aren’t ashamed of oppressing people. But they do feel entitled to adoration for their oppression.

When we reject them, they act like an abusive parent, mortified that their kids don’t really love them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 21h

Fuck ICE forever

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h

Trump ICE regime troops assaulted and abducted a 15 year old American girl and two other US teens, a 250+ pound regime agent set his knee on her neck during the violent attack.

"They were telling them they were U.S. citizens, and they didn't care."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 21h

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

"When our member was kidnapped off the streets by ICE, we knew about it before anybody did." This is how unions can play a crucial role in standing up to Trump's war against immigrants.

"We Have a Common Enemy--And It's Not Your Immigrant Neighbor"

The SEIU's Dave Foley and Dr. A. Naomi Paik on how worker solidarity can overcome Trump's war on immigrants.

www.thenation.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 22h

The only actual response to ice at this point is to call for immediate destruction, and the arresting imprisonment of everyone involved with this fascist domestic army waging war against the civilians of this country.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

This is the same Speaker who has repeatedly refused to put up the congressionally-mandated plaque honoring the Capitol Police members who were viciously assaulted by MAGA goons on January 6th.

We've seen your deeds, you oily liar.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 22h

This woman is new to me and I am in awe of her.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 22h

Abolish ICE.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22h

again, what I constantly think about is what is happening in rural Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, etc whenever I see the open brutality they're currently executing in our blue urban corridors. It's what we aren't seeing that is the real terror.

collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 22h

There will be ICE mobs beating protestors in red states this weekend. They won’t try it in SF/LA/NYC where they’re outnumbered 100:1, but they’ll take out their anger on people in Louisville, Memphis, and El Paso.

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 23h

I know what will endear AI to consumers: let's use it to write better spam

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 1d

So let me get this straight, we borrowed $20 billion from our kids just to hand it to Argentina so they could steal our soybean market, and now we’re borrowing another $30 billion to pay off our own farmers?

These people couldn’t run a lemonade stand.

MAGA: Make Argentina Great Again.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 1d

Ya know, I just don’t think the data center blanket across America is gonna go unchallenged by Americans. We’re already rejecting them.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

"The deal with Broadcom would use as much power as 8 million US households.

A 2024 Department of Energy report on data center energy usage found that data centers are expected to consume about 6.7% to 12% of total US electricity by 2028."

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Abolish ICE.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 1d

They tortured them. And it's only a small measure of what Palestinians have endured - or at least those who've been able to endure.

Still, I'm in awe of the defiant laughter in this testimony. And that somehow Greta managed to synchronize w the frog rebellion.

And then I put on my frog hat. When I'm about to get off the boat, there are a bunch of police officers waiting for me. They grab me, pull me to the ground, and throw an Israeli flag over me.

Then they ripped off my frog hat, threw it on the ground, stomped and kicked it, and kind of threw a tantrum.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

A government that targets citizens against fascism and dictatorships, isn’t a government worth keeping.

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Amanda Mattos @akmattos.bsky.social · 1d

I Just Did Something I Specifically Told a Child Not To: An Amanda Mattos Story

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Scott @smadin.net · 1d

it's so fun how "originalism" means the text of the Constitution can only ever mean what its authors would have understood it to mean in the context of their time, except if that text was written between 1864 and 1870.

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Rubicon1313 💕Safe 4 LGTBQ💕Vets @rubicon1313.bsky.social · 1d

Now, he’s just STEALING our money from the Fed Treasury.
That’s okay. We don’t need it, right. It’s not like we have any debt

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Trump’s Wag The Dog Moment - CIP

If you want to break up a drug cartel, blowing up a boat does little to accomplish that, unless you believe cartels only own one boat.

internationalpolicy.org

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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