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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 11d

Apparently he missed that they returned that ICE agent in NYC to duty.
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ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 11d

Unfortunately any effort to stop this is going to be undercut by the fact that nobody cared when we raised this issue when Obama was doing it. That was the time to stop it and put guardrails up.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Feeling unable to rely on the existing professional police forces, the NSDAP created the Geheime Staatspolizei immediately after coming to power. It immediately made it a serious crime against the state to criticize the Gestapo, publicly disclose its members or their residences, or to protest them.

The Nazi Party and its Violence Against the Jews, 1933-1939: Violence as a Historiographical Concept

In his masterpiece, Behemoth, first published in 1942, Franz Neumann referred to violence as “not just one unimportant phenomenon in the structure of National Socialist society.” Violence, Neumann argued, “is the very basis upon which the [Nazi] society rests.”1 He regarded violence as a technique of dominating the masses from above, and the ministerial bureaucracy, the armed forces, the industrial and agrarian leadership and the Nazi party all aimed to dominate German society by using violence

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 15d

For clarity I definitely wasn't trying to make a statement about every faith tradition but rather the Baptist one that seemed to be the context.

Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 16d

Prohibition of graven images is against attempting to create a physical representation of God himself; not statues/pictures/etc generally.
But also something that happens pretty much every Sunday in nearly every Baptist church.

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 16d

But also... I'm not sure what you mean by "southern Baptist version". Do you maybe mean Independent Fundamentalist Baptist? SBC to my knowledge typically uses the ESV, NIV, etc. It's usually more "fundy" baptist churches focused on the KJV.

Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 16d

Of course the messengers also wanted to root out sexual abuse and hold leaders accountable and we all know how that went.

Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · 16d

I will point out that just last year the messengers of the SBC reaffirmed their alleged commitment to religious liberty reflected in their confession (Baptist faith and message, article XVII) with an adopted resolution that ended:

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 19d

Keep in mind there's nothing preventing the US from doing nonlethal searches and seizures. The Coast Guard and sometimes Navy often does this. In the time between the 1st and 3rd deadly US strike, sailors from the USS Jason Dunham stopped and searched a ship. The strikes are a deliberate choice.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19d

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean.

As with the others:
-in area US military operates freely
-where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value
-no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one
-blatant violation of international law
-no evidence US knew who they hit

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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Grapie Deltaco @grapiedeltaco.bsky.social · Nov 19

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 28d

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · Sep 7

a man in a suit and tie is looking at a woman in front of a videoshop sign

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at a woman in front of a videoshop sign

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · Sep 7

"when you say that darling" is what our president just said to a reporter

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 7

Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you're talking about the 321 thing don't bother. That's really only for the crowd that thinks mushy "McRib" style outcomes are desirable.

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Sean Woods @seanwoods.bsky.social · Sep 6

READ @radleybalko.bsky.social: Trump’s Most Dangerous Executive Order www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Most Dangerous Executive Order

Trump has always wanted his own muscle he can deploy to silence critics and intimidate his enemies. His new executive order could create just that.

www.rollingstone.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm not saying Donald Trump is a Soviet asset.

I'm just wondering: if he *was*, what would he be doing differently?

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Sep 5

In another nod to Putin, Trump administration officials inform European diplomats that the US will no longer fund programs that train and equip militaries in eastern European countries that would be on the frontline of any conflict with Russia. www.ft.com/content/0157...

US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia

Move comes as Washington pushes Nato allies to pay more towards their own defence

www.ft.com

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · Aug 26

If only. Unfortunately police unions ensure that's nearly impossible.

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · Aug 24

But Maxwell never saw him do anything inappropriate and the charges against him were manufactured. Right.

Elizabeth May/Katrina Kendrick @elizabethmay.bsky.social · Aug 23

Me five minutes ago: I'm not going to read the Prince Andrew biography, so I'll just read this article about it

Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD

Here follows some claims Lownie makes about Andrew, backed up by testimony from people who knew the prince: He had a member of the royal staff moved from his job for wearing a nylon tie, and another because he had a mole on his face. He had 40 women brought to his hotel room in Thailand over a 5-day visit. Aged 26, he had dozens of stuffed animals on his bed, one of which wore a vest that read “It’s tough being a prince.” He missed his daughter’s 12th birthday party to hang out with Epstein at his Miami beach house. He ran up a bill of £325,000 on helicopters and planes in 2005 alone. He let a Libyan gun smuggler pay for a holiday he took to Tunisia and accepted a present of a bugged MacBook Pro from an attractive woman who turned out to be a Russian spy; he later tried to get himself a free Fabergé egg on an official Kremlin tour. In his role as a special representative for the United Kingdom, he earned, in the diplomatic community, the nickname “His Buffoon Highness” by refusing to follow his briefs and perhaps even read them in the first place. Once, driving his £80,000 Range Rover to Royal Lodge in Great Windsor Park, he found that the gates’ sensor was broken, so, rather than taking a 1-mile detour, he rammed them open, causing thousands of pounds’ worth of damage.

Name an undesirable trait a person might have, and this book will demonstrate Andrew having it. He is, in addition to being a sex offender, cruel, easily enraged, stupid, boring, naive, attention-seeking, unfunny, childish, arrogant, and out of touch, as well as a misogynist, a liar, a thief, a bully, a pervert, a bad lover, a bad husband, a bad father, a brat as a child, a brat as a teenager, and a brat as an adult. Just when you’re thinking every possible slight has been leveled at the prince, and that there can surely be no greater depth to which your opinion of him can sink, Lownie relates that staff at Buckingham Palace used to have to clear away collections of “soiled tissues” in his bedroom.

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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.social · Aug 23

The inventor of the Venn diagram has died. He touched many lives, some more than others.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Aug 24

A man who was just getting names and badges for officers was wrongfully detained in D.C.

He then yelled, “AFTER THE TRIALS ARE HELD, YOU WILL ALL BE IN JAIL.” 🔥
#FreeDC

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Mark @mbainter.bsky.social · Aug 24

And then there's the whole problem of how search itself has been ruined (and how a small part of that is because of how "ai" companies have behaved)