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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 3d

“Fuck your e pluribus unum” is one hell of a hell of a sentiment to be coming from the secretary of defense of, uh, the United States of America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm. We were still fighting in Afghanistan during Trump’s first term. How come we didn’t win “easy” then? Why did Trump sign a one-sided agreement with the Taliban that allowed them to take over?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine if Obama had said this in front of military personnel about Republicans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

This 'cult of the operator' appears, to me at least, wholly unsuited for modern warfare, in which victory depends primarily on the depth of your political will, the effectiveness of your logistics, the advancement of your technology and most of all the raw quantity of steel you can put in the air.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

'Ultra-elite' units have been mostly aristocratic self-congratulatory nonsense for most of military history, but in this era *in particular* is it is *particularly* nonsense.

And yet it now seems to be the guiding ethos of our military our of masculine insecurity compensation.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

Ya it's ironic as the Obama era was sort of the golden age of the operator military, with the bin laden raid being their crowning achievement bsky.app/profile/nsla...

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 3d

Conservatives were saying that as Obama was massively hyping up and using American SOF! After the Captain Phillips rescue it was widely reported that Obama got really enamored with using SOF.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Raid of church leader’s Florida mansion reveals 57 forced laborers, feds say

The victims, called “armor bearers” by the church, are threatened with damnation if they fail to meet their quotas, federal officials say.

amp.miamiherald.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

genuinely impossible to overstate what the secret police are doing. It is state hooliganism. It is gangsterism as policy. It is the jouissance of the original klan nightriders that followed the civil war. they terrorize minority communities while intentionally paralyzing local governments.

Skyflyer Channel 8 News @skyflyer82.bsky.social · 4d

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

www.cbsnews.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

There it is

Bluesky post:

Kristina Cooke
@kristinacooke.bsky.social
Follow I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and
all her possessions were gone

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

And they’re hiring. Every reel of terror that is released—every video of slamming a woman on concrete, blowing the doors off of the house of a screaming family—is an advertisement to get in on the terror while it’s good.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4d

There it is

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

For every horrific act of fascist abuse you’ve seen video of in recent months, there are hundreds that you’ll never even hear about.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

The body slam seems to be the ICE preferred initial interaction.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 4d

"government money to pay ICE agents larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils

"Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that instantly puts them into middle class
Fulfilling manosphere promise
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2020/aug/04/new-york-police-department-allegations-complaints

NYPD's 10 Most unWanted

DANIEL SBARRA
EARNS $189k
75 ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE

MATHEW REICH
JOSEPH TALLARINE
GARY MESSINA
EARNS $144K
EARNS $188K
EARNS $201k
75 ALLEGATIONS
73 ALLEGATIONS
73 ALLEGATIONS

CHRISTOPHE MCCORMACK
EARNS $248K
72 ALLEGATIONS

WILLIAM TAYLOR
DAVID CHEESEWRIGHT
MIKE CIVIL
EARNS $199K
EARNS $18SK
EARNS $151K
65 ALLEGATIONS
63 ALLEGATIONS
56 ALLEGATIONS

PAUL MCMAHON
EARNS $175K
56 ALLEGATIONS

MICHAEL RASO
EARNS $195K
50 ALLEGATIONS

SOURCES: NYC CIVILIAN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD AND NYC OPEN DATA

Figure 1. The San Francisco Police Department’s rising budget and personnel accompany increasingly
poor performance and worsening crime rates over the last decade, 2010-11 through 2020-2021

Police budget per resident
Up 7%

Police employees per resident
Up 12%

Reported crimes per resident
Up 19%

Police arrests per reported offense
Down 60%

Crimes solved (cleared) by police
Down 33%

The SFPD’s budget and staffing have risen both per city resident (Figure 1) and in absolute numbers (Table 1) amid ever-worsening performance.

The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) remains a liability to the city and a disturbing outlier among California police agencies. The department expends substantial resources while failing to hold itself accountable for vastly disproportionate arrests of Black people,1 plummeting crime-solving efficiency, and uniquely deficient data reporting. Compared to other big-city police agencies, the SFPD solves fewer crimes despite larger staffing per city resident and costs per area patrolled. The department also greatly over-arrests Black people, refuses to record the ethnicity of Latino arrestees, and flagrantly omits offense descriptions for a substantial share of arrests. The SFPD’s manifest failings harm San Franciscans and distort statewide crime information.

https://www.cjcj.org/media/import/documents/san_franciscans_spend_more_get_less_from_their_police_dept.pdf

Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022

The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year.

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Source: GDELT Analysis of Internet Archive caption data

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 4d

"government money to pay ICE agents larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils

"Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that instantly puts them into middle class
Fulfilling manosphere promise
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 4d

Vice President "JD Vance is the ultimate DEl guy. An OSU who they let into Yale Law School and treated like a shaved ape that they taught to drink sparkling water and later paid for a senate seat for.

relaxed admissions criteria for geographically diverse candidates at Yale
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · Sep 6

"among many other topics the political press would normally make a huge deal of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is

his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Aug 28

A sample JD Vance work product: He was on the board of directors for a SPAC "vertical farming" company that was accused of massive labor law violations and has since gone bankrupt and delisted and now trades as a penny stock. Great job JD, I'm sure "most powerful person in the world" will go great!

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 4d

Vice President "JD Vance is the ultimate DEl guy. An OSU who they let into Yale Law School and treated like a shaved ape that they taught to drink sparkling water and later paid for a senate seat for.

relaxed admissions criteria for geographically diverse candidates at Yale
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · Sep 6

"among many other topics the political press would normally make a huge deal of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is

his work experience was a bunch of wingnut welfare conservative sinecures working for twisted billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel"

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Aug 28

A sample JD Vance work product: He was on the board of directors for a SPAC "vertical farming" company that was accused of massive labor law violations and has since gone bankrupt and delisted and now trades as a penny stock. Great job JD, I'm sure "most powerful person in the world" will go great!

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