Rick Vecchio
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“We know it’s a tough time to be a journalist, but I think what strengthens all of us is that there is probably no better time to be a journalist because this is when we live our values and we live our mission.”
— Maria Ressa

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bklynsoutham.bsky.social
I wish this interview was published in English so more folks in the U.S. would read it.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
I am reading the Antifa Handbook.
I'm stuck on one passage though about Trump supporters and goals for the future. I gotta say, I couldn't disagree with you more, not when you wrote it then, or especially now.
Most who voted for Trump didn't sign up for this shit.
It's ALL hands on deck time.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
A reader replied
"Let me get this straight:
Immigration enforcement eliminates the labor supply.
Tariffs kill demand for American products.
White House response is delayed by shutdown.
Sounds like a well thought out plan to destroy the American economy."
PROJECT 2025 IN ACTION!
Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices
U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.
www.washingtonpost.com
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
You mean Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize? Awww... Come on! What screams "Peace" like extrajudicial murder on the high seas, incoherently berating the assembled leaders at the UN or giving security guarantees for Qataris who gifted you a $400 million luxury jet?
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
Fun zayn shreklekhн kleyn moyl tsu gots oyer.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
What plan? Do they mean *this* old plan?

TrumpCare 2017

"an analysis of the measure, from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, found that the bill would cause about 24 million people to lose coverage over the next decade..."
TrumpCare 2017

"an analysis of the measure, from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, found that the bill would cause about 24 million people to lose coverage over the next decade..."
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-promises-236021
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
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h3dgehog.bsky.social
I’m pretty sure Habeas Corpus is cousins with Prima Facie, who used to date Mens Rae.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
One thing ChatGPT is good for in these troubled times:

A chart mapping Ernst Fraenkel’s Dual State theory (1941) and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent against the Supreme Court majority's facilitation of the Project 2025 agenda.
A chart mapping Ernst Fraenkel’s Dual State theory (1941) and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent against the Supreme Court majority's facilitation of the Project 2025 agenda.
(Generated with ChatGPT)
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
I don't have to agree with Mark Bray's conclusions to recognize that our GOP leaders and Supreme Court majority have zero interest in bringing the country together. They are embracing Fascism.
Briefing chart comparing the U.S. climate around academic freedom (Mark Bray) with 1920s–30s European fascism—key parallels, differences, and red lines. (Generated using ChatGPT
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme"
— Mark Twain.

"Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats"
“Since my family and I do not feel safe in our home at the moment, we are moving for the year to Europe,” Bray said in an email to students. 

Washington Post "Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats" 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/10/08/rutgers-mark-bray-antifa/
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sanho.bsky.social
Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
“This is how fascism begins. It never says its name. It creeps, it floats. When it reaches the tips of people’s noses, they say: ‘Is this it? You think? Don’t exaggerate!’ And then one day it smacks them in the mouth, and it is too late to get rid of it.”
— Françoise Giroud
It's not too late for us.
Trump says Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should be jailed for response to ICE
Trump, providing no evidence, said Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker should go to jail, accusing the two Democrats of “failing to protect” immigration agents.
www.washingtonpost.com
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thebulwark.com
Schiff: "You were asked whether you were firing career prosecutors just because they worked on January 6 investigations. You refused to answer that question."
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
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.
johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
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.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
I canceled my Amazon Prime account on January 20, 2025.
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Donald Trump: “We’re going after the worst of the worst.”

ICE arrests two men at a Chicago area bakery. Workers, not criminals. And this is why they need the National Guard?
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
Says the dude whose son gets an alert on his cell phone every time "dad" watches porn, and vice versa. So f#cking creepy.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
Once it was Bruno Mars I couldn't keep out of my head... sang his song in the shower 'til my kids made fun of me. Now it's a new song:
"I failed the academy
The cops weren't having me.
The Army didn't sound that fun.
So I found myself a paramilitary organization that was keen to hand me a gun."
An ICE agent, unprovoked by any legal standard, menaces a civilian with a firearm. Keep filming them.
bklynsoutham.bsky.social
Only in Trump's America:

ICE agent fires pepper spray into the breathing vent of a protester's frog costume.
ICE agent fires pepper spray into the breathing vent of a protester's frog costume.