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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10h

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

lol man you're not supposed to just say that

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h

I knew something was up with seasonings

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 10h

Somebody's grandpa watched that and fell for all of it and I hate that for us.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 10h

His words are hollow.

He has the resources to do a massive nationwide media campaign with his money, to gum up the works legally, to sue every single ice officer caught violating the law on camera, etc etc lol

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

A person is not guilty just because they are detained or arrested. A person is not guilty just because they are charged or incarcerated awaiting trial. A person is not guilty until the government proves they are. Full fucking stop.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

As soon as we start accepting "proving innocence" into our vernacular, we start normalizing really insidious and dangerous shit, especially now when that is the language being used by this administration to racially profile people.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
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Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 9h

Most of these fancasts of questions the white house press corps *should* ask have missed the memo that the only outlets that get to ask questions at these things are plants from Der Sturmer and The Blaze and shit

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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I'm living proof that you can recover from TDS. I had strong Trump Derangement Syndrome for 8 years. It's much better to not have TDS...I was one of you. I was a mainstream reporter in Seattle for 10 yrs. When I saw after all those years that the media wouldn't be honest about what was happening, that Democrat politicians would not be honest about what was happening, I thought, 'If they're not being honest about that, maybe they're not being honest about President Trump either.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Sad Dad Urbanist @theeferringer.bsky.social · 9h

Someone has to bait him into saying he's proud to be fascist

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 10h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia with her hair up, wearing a white poofy coat.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 10h

Geopolitics as told by a dim toddler.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago. He called, he said, 'I can't believe it. Everybody is liking me now,' meaning him. I said, 'more importantly they are loving Israel again.'"

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 10h

me rn carrying an anti-fascist protest sign home from downtown Chicago:

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

If I get extrajudicially got because I did research and writing about fascism being bad, you all need to scream from the rooftops that who they got was a mom of young kids who volunteers at a preschool.

I will haunt each and every one of you if you do not

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 10h

i first became aware of him as a "pizzagate" proliferator, which means one of Trumpworld's current most prominent mouthpieces got his first big break by inciting violence against innocent people

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government.

Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 10h

i first became aware of him as a "pizzagate" proliferator, which means one of Trumpworld's current most prominent mouthpieces got his first big break by inciting violence against innocent people

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government.

Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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