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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 4h

This is really informative; I have not thought enough about Miller's theory of things and it's good to see it laid out as well as Pritzker and Newsom's counter.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 22h

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 4h

Forget reading sci-fi and thinking it's good, these guys read about how IBM counting machines helped facilitate the Holocaust and thought "and look, 80 years later it's still a major profitable corporation!"

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 5h

They’ve gone from regularly printing lies in the newspapers to putting an incompetent, anti-woke propagandist in charge of CBS News. Lean in on supporting independent media with your dollars everyone.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 5h

a woman wearing a black turtleneck and gold hoop earrings is sitting in front of a red table talk logo

ALT: a woman wearing a black turtleneck and gold hoop earrings is sitting in front of a red table talk logo

media.tenor.com

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GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 7h

Same.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 8h

This part... I am in the pre-existing conditions group.

GenXJamerican🇯🇲🇺🇸 @genxjamerican.blacksky.app · 19h

If they succeed in killing the ACA before another pandemic hits full force, we’d be facing that thing with no vaccines thanks to RFK Jr. Those of us who managed to survive would be uninsurable afterwards if insurers didn’t have to cover our pre-existing conditions.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

Historically, the Insurrection Act has only been used in response to genuine emergencies. Some experts believe that if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act simply as a pretext for a military invasion and occupation of multiple blue cities, it would represent a possible violation of norms.

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 17h

FFS

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 22h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

Jefferson Davis Vance wants you to forget all about JD.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

The Constitution did not foresee the position of presidential chief of staff, so it’s hard to see what legitimate constraints could prevent Stephen Miller from becoming an all-powerful dictator.

by Jonathan Turley

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SpiritWuClanTangHaLOLweenStore @yevkras.bsky.social · 16h

Those working for ICE now will get eaten too.

Salacious B Crumb @salbcrumb.bsky.social · 18d

Justice may never be on time, but it comes eventually if we have the will.

Former Nazi camp guard, now 100, can face trial, German court rules
The man is accused of "aiding and abetting" 3,322 murders at the Sachsenhausen death camp.

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Ike55 @ike55.bsky.social · 15h

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

Cops are great

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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🫧Mari Targaryen ™️ @chimchamri.bsky.social · 19h

Lmao “I was NOT snoring!”
Him: how you gone tell me?!

MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 19h

It's also fun to make her snore after you put her through the headboard and adjacent plumbing and drywall. Filth Apnea.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 19h

our(AI)boros

anthony restaino @anthonycr.bsky.social · 19h

UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections.

Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs