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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

This is an absolutely fascinating conversation on Lawfare Media: overcast.fm AAvh1qGK94Q

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 8h

We shouldn’t have to care what this Quisling weasel thinks about anything

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 9h

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 19h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 17h

I wish that Rome, Open City wasn't such an urgently necessary film at this very moment, but also, it's a reminder that the solution to the current crisis is known and documented and it is moral clarity and courage which while scarcer than we'd like are not as rare as the fascists wish it was

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 18h

Rossellini and screenwriter Sergio Amidei rolling HARD in Rome, Open City “I am a Catholic priest. I believe that anyone fighting for justice and liberty walks in the way of the Lord and the ways of the Lord are infinite”

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 19h

This week's #FilmspottingMadness homework feels particularly apropos because it's about fighting fascists - it's ROME OPEN CITY

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 19h

yes. Nature is not a checklist.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 19h

I am occasionally guilty of searching for "the best x of y" as well, so I get it, but I know that there is excellence and joy in places that are not labelled by others as the best, the highest, the most or whatever and that keeps me happy and ALIVE

newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 19h

People need to learn to love mountains and not "the highest peak of x."

Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 19h

People. You don't need to climb it.

FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 20h

Mount Everest rescue: all hikers now safe after days stranded in powerful blizzard (Reuters)
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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 19h

Not really dodging the dementia assertions, are they?

CNN @cnn.com · 22h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 19h

Slow Horses is so good, I think I'm going to read all of the books just to have the experience again in a different way

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 22h

I’m certain most of the ICE/CBP crew aren’t Christian nationalists, that’s part of why an altar call won’t do much, but that Christian nationalists support such abhorrent behavior tells you a lot about how heretical their doctrine is. “By their fruits you shall know them”

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 22h

I was thinking about this today in exactly these terms, that the only spiritual message you can offer those in immigration enforcement right now is Jesus’s OG: Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near, that’s how beyond the pale their behavior is. And, well, this how some react

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see this letter from House ranking members on the nat'l security committees asking for the administration's list of "designated terrorist organizations" and the OLC legal memo blessing lethal strikes in the Caribbean.

Executive branch has issued itself a license to kill secret enemies.

However, your Administration has not identified any of the specific organizations you
have determined to be included as designated terrorist organizations, nor the criteria or process
used for making such determinations. You have also failed to specify the authority under which
the Administration is able to designate affiliates of certain drug trafficking organizations as
enemy combatants for the purpose of undertaking lethal strikes. We request that you immediately
provide a list of all designated terrorist organizations to Congress, along with the associated
determination criteria or methodologies used. In addition, you have not provided Congress with
details regarding the intelligence associated with these strikes.
Finally, the Administration has not provided significant details with respect to the legal
justification for these strikes beyond vague assertions of Article II powers. The President’s
Article II powers are significant, but they are not limitless. It is our understanding that the
Department of Defense has determined strikes against designated terrorist organizations are legal
on the basis of a legal opinion produced by the Department of Justice. We ask that you provide
that legal opinion to Congress immediately.
We look forward to receiving the list of designated terrorist organizations and the
Department of Justice legal opinion. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 23h

Reservoir Dogs as stage play would be fascinating because the presence of the performers would completely eliminate Tarantino’s ironic distance and any sense of cool he wants the story to have would be completely destroyed

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 23h

The “Stuck in the Middle” sequence would be absolutely harrowing to watch live, in person.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t surprising that this would be happening with a 79-year-old man. The crazy and dangerous part is that there’s an entire political movement and media ecosystem that rationalizes, justifies, and tries to retroactively validate every synapse misfire that escapes his mouth.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 23h

Couldn’t watch Barcelona play Bayern today because it was on Disney+ and I don’t pay for that anymore, but maybe that’s not all bad because Barça stomped on Bayern, 7-1. Yeesh

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You guys remember when it was revealed that the current head of Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown was literally filmed taking a $50,000 cash bribe in a bag like a mob movie extra and then nothing happened and he’s still basically running the national secret police?

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re not a million years old like me, here’s that clip from SNATCH (bonus delivery of the “Nemesis” speech also included): m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLsW...

Pigs | Snatch (2000)

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newmethos @newmethos.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the most important real takeaway fron the Guy Ritchie joint, SNATCH as well, but this thread is significantly more factual

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

<taps sign> The idea that you can win a Democratic primary - where all the voters are Democrats - by pretending to be a Republican is, in fact, very stupid.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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