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This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

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Kevin Carson @kevincarson1.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

https://zeteo.com/p/this-family-made-billions-on-trump

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 7h

Note this is also similar to pasta e fagioli aka "fazool" as they call it in NJ.

I just got confirmation from my brother he's been calling it pizza beans since around 2002, which matches my memory. I also just remembered that even prior to that, he'd sometimes make me add sauce when I made […]

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 7h

Oh yeah I even have a blog post from 2020. Not quite as old as the other sources, but he even notes in the post that it's something he's been making for awhile and evolved from family recipes (not just from the Italian side of the family; the shell-a-roni is from our Dutch-American paternal […]

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 8h

Haha, I just found out Luigi Mangione prefers "pizza beans" as a prison meal, which allegedly comes from a recent cookbook.

Every Italian-American has independently invented pizza beans! My brother was calling it that years before the cookbook or the blog post. It has its roots in many […]

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 11h

It's international coming out day! Do what you think is right for you but also keep in mind that the closet and coming out are not real. It's may be considerably less dramatic than you were imagining because for everyone to know, you'll actually have to tell everyone.

Some people might have […]

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 11h

@brighidb.bsky.social I think that includes norcal to some degree. The northern foothills of The Sierra have some notorious figures.

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 12h

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social when I saw that, I thought of the MOVE bombing. They're going to bomb some random person they decided to designate as the "founder" of antifa in order to make their fairy tales of cities being war zones come true.

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 12h

@brighidb.bsky.social but yeah I seem to recall those cops having literal white power gang members in their ranks. Like even more blatantly than usual.

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 12h

@brighidb.bsky.social maybe it's just a conflict between the rival gangs over turf?

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Brighid @brighidb.bsky.social · 12h

It's admittedly been about a decade since I got bounced out of PDX by stomp-clap-hey gentrification but I'm having a HARD time putting any stock into the "PDX cops are turning against ICE" rumor mill. Those cops were everything I feared about the CPD & LAPD but cooked down into a smaller concentrate

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 22h

@nberlat.bsky.social everyone is "libertarian" towards themself. Stalin was just as libertarian as this "libertarian theocrat"

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 1d

The true opponents of dictators aren't people who want to be in that same position, but people who fight against such concentration of power even being possible. You could even say the logic of the Nobel peace prize is hierarchical and destined to reward the scum that rose to the top to […]

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 1d

Ugh, LinkedIn is full of white collar people railing against H1B visas. I hate these people. I've literally been hired by people who are here on an H1B. Engineers should not be xenophobic but also they should know better than to believe folk economics bullshit.

The real problem with visas is […]

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 1d

Knowing Trump, he'll sabotage whatever minor good he did in the ceasefire out of anger over not getting a peace prize for doing the bare minimum any US president would have done.

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 1d

@nberlat.bsky.social huh. I knew that a lot of fashy people like him, but didn't realize he was Nazi himself, what the hell.

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 1d

@JessTheUnstill that's an even smaller town than where I'm from. I love how one of them has bat wings. Just perfect.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

We're excited to announce that @altstore has joined the fediverse! Their innovative implementation of ActivityPub allows you to follow updates from your favorite apps, demonstrating a new way to bring more apps to the open social web.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude for their generous […]

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 2d

Reading that thread in the Framework community reminded me how much reactionaries latch onto "changing minds" rhetoric. See also Crowder's schtick. And Ezra Klein's narrative, for that matter.

No buddy, I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm warning people about you. You relinquished your use […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 2d

My kid who's obsessed with laptops and phones was looking over my shoulder while I was reading about the Framework drama. He's very disappointed. Reactionaries are actively trying to inject their politics into tech and laughably trying to act like they're doing the opposite, because everything […]

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 2d

And nerds can be weirdly meritocratic too. Like many of us will admire someone, anyone, who's done something impressive technologically. And this again is that same double-edged sword. They may put their bigotry aside in order to admire someone, but alas they may also put their anti-bigotry or […]

𝚝𝚓𝚠 @thomaswebb.net · 2d

The double-edged sword in tech is companies and most users don't care if a communist trans woman made the thing but they also don't care if someone who wants to kill her made the thing.

The demographic inertia thing I've been talking about for well over a decade (if your club, however innocuous […]