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Circumspect mixologist That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Aldous Huxley Fuck ICE and punch Nazis, always, everywhere

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · Nov 15

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 3h

As long as she toes the billionaire and Trump party lines and churns out the appropriate propaganda she'll be fine.

velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 3h

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 18h

"If this is so, which it is"

a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee

ALT: a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee

media.tenor.com

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 18h

When you live in a fully functioning country.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 22h

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case/lang/veirs - "Atomic Number"

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 1d

...which tells me all I need to know that ICE are ideological monsters, willing to accept personal financial harm because the lure of being a gestapo thug every day is simply too strong.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute hypocrisy of this. Her Nazi husband is giving his boss Putin carte blanche to destroy Ukraine but she's "protecting the children". Right. The only thing being passed from her to Putin are US state secrets.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 1d

Tik Tok will become the biggest and most effective propaganda algorithm manipulation tool of the US fascist regime. And the majority of users who come for dance steps and trending content won't even know it's happening.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 2d

I can't even imagine what mine will be.

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 2d

And Leticia James was just indicted for what?

This fascism is fueled by hypocrisy as much as it is by hate.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 2d

With all of the media capitulation to Trump, the question also becomes what news are people hearing, reading, watching. One increasingly needs to hunt for accurate reporting on this dictatorship.

velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 2d

OK, but more importantly why did they film that interview sitting 1 inch apart in what looks like some sort of storage room lit with a bic lighter?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

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velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 2d

Is anyone really surprised by this from the paper of Maggie Haberman.

velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 3d

Veritable dickheads.

velourazure @velourazure.bsky.social · 3d

Without reading a word of this you can assume what direction this entity leans. I've never seen any organization calling itself Liberty or Patriot that wasn't pure right-wing.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty Vote. n.pr/3Wv0EIt