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Ray Anselmo

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Current "community associate," former tech de-escalator, onetime writer-editor, longtime father, flag designer, football supporter, cat servant. Outside the camp with Jesus.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · Jan 20

20 January 2025
FAIR WARNING (thread):

It's already bad. Starting today, it's going to get much, much worse. And based on historical precedent, it's probably going to be an absolute disaster before it starts getting better.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

Fact: REALITY is contrary to whatever Speaker Johnson said today. Or any day.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 12h

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 16h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

See, Time Magazine?

they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 4h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

LOOK LIKE a playoff contender. Not BE a playoff contender. For a day, they did some playoff-contender cosplay.

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

If you voted for Trump, you voted for this.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10h

It's insanity, and it's real.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 14h

You know who hates America

The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans

The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA

Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities

That’s Mike Johnson

HE hates America

NO KINGS
OCT 18

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

Time Magazine is going to look so stupid when this ceasefire is broken by Netanyahu in a week or so. WHEN.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

What’s the word for an adulterous relationship involving a man, a woman and a federal department? nymag.com/press/articl...

On the Cover: Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and Trump’s Police State

Washington correspondent Ben Terris writes the definitive account of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Noem.

nymag.com

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 10h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

Gonna share this every time it shows up in my feed. This is what's going on. This is who the NSGOP are. If you voted for Trump, this IS what you voted for.

Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 12h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 11h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 14h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

Exception: Jennifer Garner in the Capitol One ads. Because Jennifer Garner is the pumpkin pie spice of acting - she makes almost anything better.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 11h

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

Because a) he supports it, and b) he knows most people don't. So he lies.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

God has spoken.

idreamofgenie.bsky.social @idreamofgenie.bsky.social · 11h

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13h

WHCA where u at?

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14h

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

By "criminals posing as ICE," do you mean "criminals pretending to be members of ICE," or "criminals who happen to be members of ICE"? Since both are already happening.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

How many scripts are floating around Hollywood right now with "criminals posing as ICE" as the basic premise?

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 19h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 1h

Amend needs to recognize and lean into his second career as a political cartoonist, because he is truly nailing it.

Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 12h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

Ray Anselmo @rayanselmo.bsky.social · 14h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5D...

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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