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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2m

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 2m

^ Did you mean to misspell him "Jeffery" up here? If you want interested people to find your post, maybe repost?

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15m

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

but GWOT-brainers are afraid that if they expose Rs for it, Rs will accuse them next, *or* it'll turn out to be the one time there really is a wolf.

TL;DR: "We can't support Mamdani; what if this turns out to be the one time Dick Cheney isn't lying?"

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

It can sort of be boiled down to something I've asserted elsewhere: "centrist Dem campaign consultants are afraid of media; media is afraid of Republicans."

But with GWOT brain it's not as simple, since there *is* real terrorism out there, too. It's more—public knows R accusations = crying wolf, >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

Thread:

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

The GWOT era may mostly be over, but a surviving element of it is center-right TV pundits treating any public figure as politically/socially "dead" if a Republican accuses them of being (A) a terrorist sympathizer or (B) "anti-Israel" in any way—often just criticizing Netanyahu is enough. >

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

everyday voters realize Repub accusations are horseshit, so they aren't moving the needle. The only people scared are TV pundits and Dem consultants.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

It's the root of the Mamdani situation, isn't it?

The centrist Dems who are afraid to endorse him are often afraid *because* they've still got this form of GWOT brain. They expect Repub accusations to sink Mamdani any minute and take anyone who endorses him with him.

Whereas in reality, >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

and Republicans whom TV pundits fear, you've still got this GWOT-holdover mood.

Dem campaign consultants still think the GWOT mood holds because it holds among these pundits. But there's a total disconnect with Dem voters, most of whom don't take Repub accusations seriously at all anymore.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

In truth, Republicans have falsely accused so many of being these things by now that it's lost its effect on much of the public. But TV pundits still take it seriously—so centrist Dem campaign consultants do, too.

So for this circle of Dem consultants, and TV pundits whom Dem consultants fear, >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 10h

The GWOT era may mostly be over, but a surviving element of it is center-right TV pundits treating any public figure as politically/socially "dead" if a Republican accuses them of being (A) a terrorist sympathizer or (B) "anti-Israel" in any way—often just criticizing Netanyahu is enough. >

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 12h

@joshtpm.bsky.social, it's an absolute disaster—see below.

Ideal short-term solution would be for @govpritzker.illinois.gov or similar to reestablish equivalent work for these scientists in their state. At this point saving them from RFK is as important as preserving their work.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 12h

I'm disappointed with @governor.ca.gov over his stance on some LGBTQ issues—but yes, California too.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 12h

^ @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 12h

If there were any justice, @jbpritzker.bsky.social would immediately hire them to produce an equivalent publication out of Illinois.
CC @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13h

One of the best distillations of this moment I have come across www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDhSBVc/

“I was socialised through misogyny, like most boys. I still remember as an eight-year-old, nine-year-old, that our socialisation process as boys revolved around hating girls.” Economist Yanis Varoufak...

TikTok video by Novara Media

www.tiktok.com

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 14h

Problem with dark money, too: it ifs providers are requesting Dems performatively support rightwingers abroad (Netanyahu) or lend themselves to unpopular causes (unrestricted AI), is it even worth taking the money?
I'd say no.

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The President of the United States is a TV addict who thinks Fox News B roll footage is real. This is a crisis.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 17h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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vociferously rambunctious emination @dubyapeigh.bsky.social · 6d

Marc Benioff used to pretend to be one of the good ones

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 18h

(Rightwing) Ellison media capture.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 18h

It would be just like Trumpist feds to dodge a plastic cup of water or soda thrown at them by protestor A, then jump protestor B and blame her for it with no idea whatsoever of what really happened.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 18h

This—sadly, in the bad place—was the first I ever saw of Johnson, last year. He's openly bloodthirsty, to a degree where he needs to be confronted with it any time he dares call progressives violent (as he is now doing constantly):

Republicans against Trump on X: "Mike Davis, a leading candidate for the Trump administration's AG: “We're going to deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." (2023) https://t.co/YpjjmL2K4V" / X

Mike Davis, a leading candidate for the Trump administration's AG: “We're going to deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." (2023) https://t.co/YpjjmL2K4V

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 19h

Good grief—somehow, Bluesky displayed @mariopro.bsky.social's reply as the top of the thread. I didn't even see that she was already replying to... er, the same item I erroneously posted.

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Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 19h

And while I'm at it, here's Miller openly describing himself as running the government:

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”