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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
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No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Another key point here is about "natural order."

Fascists believe that in an uncorrupted world, those they view as superior (white Christian men) would "naturally" rise to the top of national hierarchies.

The fact that this hasn't happened proves that an enemy within has corrupted things.

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blpdc.bsky.social @blpdc.bsky.social · 5h

ChatGPT just scored Thiel at 20-25 out of 100. With 0 being drivel and 100 being profound, and I kind of trust the drivel machine to identify drivel.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
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Purge, Merge, and Surge

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

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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 8h

Urban Institute predicts that 267,000 fellow veterans will lose health coverage if the ACA healthcare tax credits expire.

Those are the stakes in this fight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Rose Melody @lithiumrose.bsky.social · 9h

I've been kicking around a theory for a while that one casual factor in... everything... is a generation or three being emotionally neglected in childhood and them making the resultant trauma everyone else's problem

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Jenna Hollan @jennahollan.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a real abuser narrative: “I can be as unpleasant as I want, but it’s your responsibility to stay here and endure, because it’s your moral responsibility to fix my behaviour.” It’s delusional. Unless they happen to be my underage child, that is not my responsibility at all.

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 1d

The GOP controls the House, Senate, and White House. And they love to remind us when it’s convenient for them. So it's on them to fund the government. If they want our votes, they have to come talk to us.

They know what we want: extend the ACA tax credits so the healthcare system doesn't collapse.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5h

“‘We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof, and it was deeply disturbing,’ the Rev. David Black of Chicago told CNN earlier this week in his first interview.” people.com/pastor-claim...

Pastor Claims He Was Praying When ‘Laughing’ ICE Agents Shot Him in the Head with Pepper Ball During Protest

A pastor, who was captured on video being allegedly shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents during a protest, claimed that the officers were laughing and were indiscriminate in their use of ...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The constant lies to steal power and money . . .

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re unfamiliar, I suggest reading about abandoned battery manufacturing towns across Mexico and Latin America where battery manufacturing has left the rivers unpotable and the soil and air full of lead and mercury. Once enough people start dying, companies abandon them and rebuild elsewhere.

Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 1d

The data centres being built now will be derelict by 2030.

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

“I had previously assumed a 10-year depreciation curve, which I now recognize as quite unrealistic...Based on my conversations over the past month, the physical data centers last for three to ten years, at most.” futurism.com/future-socie...

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · Jun 12

The things that have happened this week across the country have, at other times and in other places, each been singular catalysts for regime change. Occupying cities. Firing on peaceful protesters. Suspending fundamental liberties. Arresting elected officials. Each of these has toppled governments.

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Cathy 🖤 💀 🧡 @coco.sheshed.rocks · 7h

Good Sunday Morning ✌🏽🩷

A friendly reminder to all the Christians out there………….

#SheShed 🩷

@coco.sheshed.rocks
"PEOPLE WERE CREATED TO BE LOVED. THINGS WERE CREATED TO BE USED. THE REASON WHY THE WORLD IS IN CHAOS IS BECAUSE THINGS ARE BEING LOVED AND PEOPLE ARE BEING USED."
~ DALAT LAMA ~

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 19h

and to @kenwhite.bsky.social who agreed to rep be pro bono on the spot. bc I was shared shitless that ICE fucked w/ my ring cam.

i used to think there were a bunch of lawyers like Ken across the political spectrum. but sadly he’s one of the few real ones left

Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 19h

and shoutout to @radleybalko.bsky.social for warning people months ago that this was only gonna get worse

Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 20h

that lawyer was me.

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jacob mouradian @jacobjmouradian.bsky.social · Apr 25

Not the main takeaway from the article – a sidenote, really – but this is why the Internet of Things concept terrifies me.

Black text on white background reading:

Ordinary American citizens are also feeling pressure from immigration officials for helping immigrants. Investigative journalist Radley Balko reported earlier this week about a lawyer in Texas who was asked for legal help by an immigrant family. Two days after he spoke with them, two men in civilian clothes—who never identified which, if any, law enforcement agency they worked for—knocked on the lawyer’s front door and questioned him about his assistance. The lawyer’s internet access briefly went offline while the agents were present, and they refused to give him their names or badge numbers. [light purple highlight] (As the lawyer told Balko, the suspicious timing of his internet outage ensured that the Ring camera on his front door could not capture the exchange.)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“These poor women.”

Marge making even more sense with Tim Dillon on Congress failing to address the cost of living/health care prices… and the truth about what’s really in the Epstein files. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DPsYFQ-...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

The Daily’s credulous/willfully ignorant/deliberately misleading portrait of Vought matters because it is indicative of a much broader tendency to normalize the assault on the constitutional order - to sanitize those who are responsible for it and the extremist ideas that are animating them.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8h

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 8h

Vought is a key figure in the world of Trumpism, with a rare – and dangerous – combination of ideological zeal and operative competence, a fully committed extremist causing massive harm to millions of people.

But if you only listened to The Daily, you wouldn’t get any of that.

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