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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 18h

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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ersatzmossback.bsky.social @ersatzmossback.bsky.social · 19h

Some men will literally call in the national guard rather than going to rehab.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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ersatzmossback.bsky.social @ersatzmossback.bsky.social · 22h

He knows he can just go to rehab, right?

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Valerie Halla @valeriehalla.dicot.moe · 2d

model the behavior of someone who hasn't even heard of the *concept* of being against trans rights. take trans existence as a given. treat anyone who concedes to anti-trans talking points like an amoral freak, and don't give them an ounce of your public attention. say what is right with authority

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ersatzmossback.bsky.social @ersatzmossback.bsky.social · 3d

I'm actually really heartened by the # of normie Democrat voters who understand that AND understand that our job in the next 6-12 months is to make that inescapable for electeds.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

Might feel like an inversion of the Civil War, but less than you might think. The federal government was thoroughly in the hands of the Slave Power in the 1850s. States resisted the Fugitive Slave Act; Dred Scott was SCOTUS. Secession happened b/c they wouldn't accept losing that control in 1860.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 4d

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities
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Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5d

Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering a security guard in Oakland in 2020.

He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. The right loves framing the left for violence.

They are always trying to set Reichstag fires.

41-year sentence for Ex-Air Force sergeant who killed guard

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the “boogaloo” extremist movement was sentenced to 41 years in prison Friday for the fatal shooting of a federal sec...

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5d

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5d

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

In a very real and practical sense, the elimination of USAID occurred because a) civil servants who followed the law were pushed out, b) unaccountable amoral people were given power, and c) SCOTUS let it all happen.
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In addition to mass firing of public servants, Musk's team executed a takeover of the Treasury payment system. David Lebryk, the civil servant who was acting Treasury Secretary, pushed back against the Musk official, Tom Krause, who demanded control over the payment system and specifically to pause USAID payments. Lebryk informed Krause that Treasury could not legally stop payments, and recommended to work through USAID instead. Krause then threatened Lebryk: “I would also recommend you consider an equal alternative liability.” By the next week Lebryk announced his retirement, and Musk announced he was shutting down the agency.

It was later revealed that the other DOGE official who had sought to take control of Treasury spending, Marko Elez, was a self-avowed racist with a record of making disparaging remarks about foreigners, including “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.” After he resigned, Musk led a successful campaign to bring Elez back into government, even as he pushed out those doing actual life-saving work.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 7d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 7d

As described here these agents seem to have committed a state criminal offense.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 11d

Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 8d

Strange frogs walking down streets and staring down ICE is absolutely a basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 9d

wizard frog is insane

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9d

How exactly is this different from Kristallnacht?

Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 10d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 10d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 10d

first thing i’d do is use civilian city and state services to make the broadview facility impossible to operate out of. sorry, there’s road work in all directions now and we’ve got to get it done before winter. this is a time-tested part of the chicago political playbook, so i know jb knows it

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11d

the bari weiss stuff is enraging because she is a vapid, narcissistic, dilettante dipshit, but it is precisely those qualities that will likely end with her destroying what’s left of cbs news, which may be the best of bad options, considering who owns it going forward

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

They're terrorizing people to create fascist propaganda content to circulate on social media.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11d

The simplest thing is just to remove SCOTUS's appelate jurisdiction & assign it to a new circuit court. They can then implement all the other fixes as well: term limits, ethics rules, a fixed appointment schedule & the vast majority of cases heard by panels ala @elienyc.bsky.social's model.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 11d

FUCK IT UP FRENCHIES

-sings La Marselleises-

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11d

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

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