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#Resistance #VoteBlue💙 #NotMyPresident Civil Rights Women’s Rights Common Sense Gun Laws GOP has to go Vote them out MAGA’s will be blocked, I guess I wasn’t clear enough MAGA’s WILL BE BLOCKED!!

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Jeff-Palmer Report Reader @milamjeff.bsky.social · Apr 28

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 5h

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 6h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Jeff-Palmer Report Reader @milamjeff.bsky.social · 5h

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 damn right

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Civil & Human Rights Activist “Bad” Brad Berkwitt @badbrad2024.bsky.social · 1d

All. Of. This.

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of @1goodtern.bsky.social, via X -

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 Ukrainian OSINT channels write that it was at the site of the strike in Donetsk that the Russians set up their own workshop for the production of FPV drones, Molniya-1/Molniya-2 attack drones, and loitering munitions.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

What does this mean? One thing is that, in addition to stopping their ludicrous validation of fascist lies, Democrats and mainstream news must also attempt to make clear how this process works, and how it will transform daily life for essentially everyone in our society.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

When this ends, we enter a period of the total, corrupt weaponization of state power for vigilante purposes, which then can lead to total repression through anticipatory regression into private spheres because any public articulation of decency is corruptly and publicly crushed.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

As I wrote in The Punishment Bureaucracy, in some sense this is always how the legal system has functioned, but there have traditionally been checks on this power and an ability to use the system's own need for legitimacy to force people in power to abide by some of their stated values.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

Much more generally, on a variety of fronts, we are seeing the attempted wholesale conversion of the coercive power of the state into a tool for extremely small, organized groups of people to command obedience (bullies, universities, schools, businesses, etc.).

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone knows witnesses won't come forward, people will suffer in silence, etc. The scope of this harm is hard to overstate--nothing short of millions of people enduring grotesque physical and sexual harm.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

And this leads to one thing, among many, that scares me a lot now: Things were already very bad on this front, but the unhinged gestapo tactics of ICE grant enormous power to predators across society in positions of power to prey upon vulnerable people: employers, abusers, etc.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

But when you realize that most violence is not by strangers (hence police violence being large %), you see why it's vital for cops to obscure it: no one believes more $$ for punishment bureaucracy is a solution to the reasons people **in some kind of relationship with each other** hurt each other.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

A simple answer is that the news makes people extremely scared of strangers--the person next to you at CVS, the person walking down the street, the unhoused person in a tent, the anonymous burglar, etc. These are the kinds of crimes associated with surveillance, policing, etc.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 9h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14h

DO NOT LOOK AWAY!!!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

China is getting the headlines it wanted — ahead of Monday’s market open.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 11h

Our tax dollars are being wasted so the spoiled wealthy white dude can try to get revenge for being caught for his absolute wrong doings.

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🦋 ᕈᕼi 🦋 @thephi.blue · 1d

I miss Joe. I miss Obama. They were quiet, didn't make flashy headlines, didn't terrorize us with masked lawless militias, they just worked for us in silence. They used to care about ALL Americans.
Still daydreaming about what our country could have been like today if Kamala were our president. 😥

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 10h

Truth. 😳👇

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