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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 3h

Besides staging violence that they blame on opponents, Republicans also run fake leftist candidates to trick people into voting for them.

Here's an earlier piece I wrote on this if you would like to know the *extensive* history flux.community/matthew-shef...

For decades, Republican consultants spent big to promote leftist candidates, now they've started creating fake ones - Flux

Instead of trying to build a majority, the American right has decided to divide and conquer

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 4h

Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering a security guard in Oakland in 2020.

He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. The right loves framing the left for violence.

They are always trying to set Reichstag fires.

41-year sentence for Ex-Air Force sergeant who killed guard

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former U.S. Air Force staff sergeant and alleged member of the “boogaloo” extremist movement was sentenced to 41 years in prison Friday for the fatal shooting of a federal sec...

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26m

Thread on white power dickheads trying to start riots in disguise, because their narrative is empty bullshit.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 4h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3h

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 3h

They’ve adopted something I’d think of as like “entrepreneurial fascism with Mad King characteristics” which, among other downsides, means the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, which is punching the left hand in the dick

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social · 15h

The classic ‘hold my purse, I have to punch someone’ pose. No wonder they think it’s Hera.

Met Museum, info below.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

the president, the sec of state, and a random reporter are casually discussing whether to designate antifa a foreign terrorist organization

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 2h

Just straining to remember what the opposite of antifa is.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 13h

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 32m

Wow! You nailed it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

It is appropriate for Pritzker to defend Illinois by defending the law. He's doing a great job, so is Newsom in his way, to protect peace. Contrast IL electeds with TX electeds. Voters gave GOP ultimate political power. MAGA gets excited about "warrior ethos" & doesn't value peace. I'm glad Dems do.

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, but this is how he gets his MAGA warriors to do violence while he retains deniability. He knows his words incite violence. He gets off on it. And his cronies know he means what he says - offhand, on social media, doesn't matter. Loyalty points demand blood. It's plain to see this is his M.O.

Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

nice!

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 6h

While I’ve since seen SPEED a number of times theatrically, my first time was at home when it premiered on HBO in May of 1995 and nothing could’ve primed me better for it than the old HBO First Look featurette hosted by Dennis Hopper himself.

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Sean Brennan @badgramar.bsky.social · 1d

The fact they think this is a wise strategy, or even a smart bluff, shows who is living in an information bubble and who isn't.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

Reverend David Black, other faith leaders, journalists, and protestors have joined a class action lawsuit alleging ICE violated their First Amendment rights during protests outside a detention center.

The brutality of this regime is on full display.

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 3h

Oversight Democrats have one message for Speaker Johnson: Stop the Shutdown, Release the Files!

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

Because customer service chatbots are famously beloved by all. This definitely won’t devolve into dying people yelling “REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE” and jamming the 0 button

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 12h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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Mike Corgan @mikecorgan.bsky.social · 2h

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

This is massively impractical on many levels. It's also bad strategy.

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

It is appropriate for Pritzker to defend Illinois by defending the law. He's doing a great job, so is Newsom in his way, to protect peace. Contrast IL electeds with TX electeds. Voters gave GOP ultimate political power. MAGA gets excited about "warrior ethos" & doesn't value peace. I'm glad Dems do.

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