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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 34m

Salvation Army has always been an insidious fascist organization.

You need no more proof than this

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 1h

Hillbilly ass freikorp

Doris F.🐶💙🌺🇺🇦🇩🇪 @lovedogs8.bsky.social · 15h

So police thought a bottle of Opium perfume was Opium. The incompetency is dumbfounding.
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

www.nbcnews.com

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 2h

The pahlavist monarchist right didn’t have plantations but they had station

And they fell deeply entitled to it

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 2h

This is also true for Iran and the Pahlavist right

Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 3h

This is in fact why they don't remove it. The Miami comprador types don't want regime change to come from within. Those folks won't give them their plantations back.

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 2h

Wondering if your median moron lib will
Now get why defund was the moderate position

lol no they won’t whom am I kidding

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 3h

LoL

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 15h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 10h

The South has been run by authoritarians since we abandoned reconstruction for the sake of "unity"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 10h

I would say Enrique Tarrio is both a
White Supremacist leading a white supremacist gang while also self identifying as an Afro Latin Cuban

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 10h

This is correct. My take is you don’t have to be white to be a white supremacist.

You just have to accept white supremacy or the supremacy of white Christian men.

If you do you’ll get a place in the racial hierarchy w the promise of dominating those below you.

But you can never be on top.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

I think for Vivek the combination of skin color/ethnicity/religion *and* the fact that he wants to be in an executive leadership position rather than a content creator or even a legislator is a bridge too far for a lot of these bigots.

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11h

My man! his is how it’s done.

This is going to inspire people versus
Triangulation bullshit that abandons our comrades

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11h

IQ is a completely bullshit, rescue science adjacent scam?

You’re telling me this for the first time

PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 12h

Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research

A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different as those between complete strangers.

www.psypost.org

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11h

I’m used to having them running AWAY from me ….
Lmfao

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

Fred Willard talking about a dog show in Best of Show (2000) is Donald Trump or any of his surrogates talking about any subject of public importance in 2025. (Autism and Tylenol, war ravaged Portland, tariffs, Trump’s Nobel Prize, etc etc)
youtu.be/-GaJPgI3jh4

Best in Show (7/11) Movie CLIP - Judging the Hounds (2000) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

youtu.be

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 13h

Well well if it isn’t the
Boomerangs in the sky

Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19d

oh.

Screenshot of notification from Apple News, Los Angeles Times, “Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance”

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

In one of the least surprising of all developments

Putin’s a fan as well

Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 18h

This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner was an apt choice. An islamophobic Zionist who rubs shoulders with Europe's far-right including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen and who has expressed support for a renewed Reconquista. Europe's direction of travel encapsulated.

RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

What’s an old half literate man doing on a college campus I wonder ?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

This is literally the strategy Lincoln used after Dredd Scott

Repeat after me Democrats:

This is a corrupt, illegitimate institution and we are not bound by it

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 15h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

The federal government has also cut food bank supplies from the USDA due to the shutdown. Snap benefit cuts are also putting pressure on food bank supplies

Good luck gettin these guys to shoot us

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

Counterpoint
No

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

50k is the price evil corp had to pay to sterilize women

50k is 10k roughly in today’s dineros
That’s the price of doing business
Wow

Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 14h

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 1d

As a straight young white man who covers Christian nationalism, I would perhaps have asked Doug Wilson some follow ups on this if it were running it in the NYT as part of his 10K-word defense of Christian nationalism.

For example:

“That really happen?”
“You sure about that??”
“But did it tho?????”

Wilson: No, I grant the point in principle. I don't believe that classical liberalism gets everything wrong. I really don't believe that.
And I enjoyed very much the country I grew up in, and I received many benefits from that era. So that point's granted.

But on the dank right, I believe that the liberal treatment of young white males has been one of the causes for this recoil and eruption. What you had was a toxic combination of a bad economy of young men being told repeatedly that they are the cancer of the planet, that their masculinity is toxic, that their skin is the blight of the world, and their heterosexuality is a hate crime.

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