Ralston Elko
@necho.org
📍Chicago, IL
Stunned cacophony. Will never forget the Texan invasion.
Stunned cacophony. Will never forget the Texan invasion.
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Actual cancel culture
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Actual cancel culture
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No, he has signed an executive order demanding states obey him even though his edict has no legal force. It cannot "block" anything.
Trump has signed an executive order blocking states from making their own guardrails around artificial intelligence
Trump Signs Order Blocking States From Enforcing Their Own AI Guardrails
www.huffpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
No, he has signed an executive order demanding states obey him even though his edict has no legal force. It cannot "block" anything.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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There is an intense pro-enforcing laws turn on the left, and it's good. The Third Reconstruction will require a strong hand and an iron will and a heart hardened against the screeching of fascist traitors that they deserve mercy.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is an intense pro-enforcing laws turn on the left, and it's good. The Third Reconstruction will require a strong hand and an iron will and a heart hardened against the screeching of fascist traitors that they deserve mercy.
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more seriously I think the main problem here is that mass media in general and social media specifically really, really broke the societal pressure valve of allowing the kind of latently prejudiced to sort of passively opt out of change. ragebait is fundamentally corrosive to social cohesion.
December 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
more seriously I think the main problem here is that mass media in general and social media specifically really, really broke the societal pressure valve of allowing the kind of latently prejudiced to sort of passively opt out of change. ragebait is fundamentally corrosive to social cohesion.
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key part of modern american conservatism is people viewing their children as their property imo
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
key part of modern american conservatism is people viewing their children as their property imo
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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it's interesting how little the gop messaging apparatus, from the press secretary to election mailers, deviates from "i know you are but what am i"
LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well
STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people
MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
it's interesting how little the gop messaging apparatus, from the press secretary to election mailers, deviates from "i know you are but what am i"
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Chicago, c. 1910
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Chicago, c. 1910
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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This is your annual reminder, from me, that Facebook launched Groups in 2010, meaning the company has fostered, repeatedly refused to ban, and defended its Holocaust denial groups for 15 years. A generation.
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
December 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This is your annual reminder, from me, that Facebook launched Groups in 2010, meaning the company has fostered, repeatedly refused to ban, and defended its Holocaust denial groups for 15 years. A generation.
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
"When you encourage Holocaust denial, you get a Trump."
www.engadget.com/2017-05-26-t...
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I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I’ve now had multiple sources tell me the UK NHS is removing the CDC from its list of reliable sources.
Welcome to irrelevance.
Welcome to irrelevance.
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This nihilistic country deserves to burn www.wsj.com/articles/ame...
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This nihilistic country deserves to burn www.wsj.com/articles/ame...
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Get that shit outta here, man, Penn Central would never have bought a locomotive that can't take the cold.
December 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Get that shit outta here, man, Penn Central would never have bought a locomotive that can't take the cold.
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Focusing on a single incident makes it resonate with the public more. It doesn't somehow justify the other killings, it illustrates the larger problem.
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
Once the debate centers on whether the 2nd strike was legal, the first 21 strikes have been accepted as baseline. But the murder of the two survivors doesn’t make the other 21 any more legal. Selective outrage, not silence, is how authoritarianism becomes normalized @tadstoermer.bsky.social
The Second Strike on the Caribbean Boat: A Resistance History Lesson in Normalizing Authoritarianism
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
youtu.be/rY-NnBst9Ik
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Focusing on a single incident makes it resonate with the public more. It doesn't somehow justify the other killings, it illustrates the larger problem.
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley.
Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
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among many other things, this now completes the loop. it incentivizes people to stage disruptive geopolitical events for pump and dump schemes
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
among many other things, this now completes the loop. it incentivizes people to stage disruptive geopolitical events for pump and dump schemes
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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Any democrat running for president must commit to removing trump's name from everything or get the fuck out.
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Any democrat running for president must commit to removing trump's name from everything or get the fuck out.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Sitting in my local NoVa bar listening to the evangelicals discuss the end times and how the Antichrist is supposed to be a really really smart guy and that Trump can’t possibly be it because of that
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Sitting in my local NoVa bar listening to the evangelicals discuss the end times and how the Antichrist is supposed to be a really really smart guy and that Trump can’t possibly be it because of that
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It's beyond complicit, the media, along with the courts, are the actual source of Trump's power. The actual administration and his allies in Congress are both flailing and incompetent, the power they have is the media and courts cleaning up their messes behind them
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's beyond complicit, the media, along with the courts, are the actual source of Trump's power. The actual administration and his allies in Congress are both flailing and incompetent, the power they have is the media and courts cleaning up their messes behind them
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Miller obviously fantasizes about himself as Goebbels, clearly practices speeches in the mirror where he gets to order the end of democracy and the roundup of minorities. He’s a warped bigot who is totally unfit to exist in society, much less run the government. Get rid of him, end the crisis.
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Miller obviously fantasizes about himself as Goebbels, clearly practices speeches in the mirror where he gets to order the end of democracy and the roundup of minorities. He’s a warped bigot who is totally unfit to exist in society, much less run the government. Get rid of him, end the crisis.
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I will NOT be pitted against my neighbors
My opposition is to the federal goons who deny our liberties
My opposition is to the federal goons who deny our liberties
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I will NOT be pitted against my neighbors
My opposition is to the federal goons who deny our liberties
My opposition is to the federal goons who deny our liberties