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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 9h

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 11h

Gestapo ass country

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 15h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 13h

What an absurd thing to have to write.

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 14h

The current US Secretary of Heath and Human Services thinks fetuses grow in the placenta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

Was a mistake to drop the "weird" attack

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, how convenient for him that his supporters and their deity can excuse his sexual abuse of a minor.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Today, a question came up with a group of organizers I’m working with, some of whom are also lawyers, and it’s a serious inquiry:

Is anyone undertaking an effort to collect evidence that could eventually be used in a Nuremberg-style set of trials, or for a truth and reconciliation commission?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

They cancelled an Assassin's Creed game where you were a slave and killed KKK members because of the anti-DEI response to Shadows.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

What a missed opportunity.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

Ominous

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

In 2125, some snot says, "We can't use today's moral standards to judge Rubio or Trump for starving children to death."

Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine your child starving to death as they beg you for food. Then imagine watching Marco Rubio say "no one has died" after he snatched food out of their mouth.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for confirming you have no idea what you're talking about. USAID is foreign aid to starving and sick people in other countries.

Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time, free speech warriors were up in arms because comedy was illegal, etc. Now, they're nowhere to be found as western governments strip away a cornerstone of their precious Western Civilization.

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become.

Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Pro-Palestine protester arrested for holding up magazine at train station

A man has been arrested for holding up a magazine cover amid pro-Palestine protests in London.

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 1d

People may not believe it now, but when I was a kid growing up in the late 80's at the tail end of the Cold War, the idea of having to show your papers to some goon was the height of 1984/Stasi/USSR totalitarian nightmare.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 2d

The crying will continue until all the transgender and windmills are gone

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 2d

Guy who's pushing Civil War II: "If we didn't win this election... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Thread 🧵

Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

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Rebel Scum 🏴 @rebelscum5.bsky.social · 3d

Of course they lied. #ACAB ##AbolishICE

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

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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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

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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