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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 7m

AHHHHHHHHHHH

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9m

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 52m

Pritzker isn't low-IQ because he's not Black. Only Johnson is low-IQ because he's Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 58m

Trump: "They've had hundreds of people shot and then a guy like Pritzker or this low IQ mayor gets up -- the people are all against him. Beautiful Black women are wearing a MAGA hat last night on TV. And they said, 'We don't care who comes, just stop the crime.' They don't care if it's military."

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 27m

The president of the U.S. is getting lectures about Nazi history on how to be a Nazi from a Nazi.

The full story on the News at never.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 48m

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 39m

"Anti fascists are bad and come from shooting fascists in Spain during the Civil War and we hate that because I'm a fascist" he's just a Nazi, babe, he's not very complicated.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 35m

Claiming that protesters are paid by some shadow entity (usually Jews) is a go-to Putin/Orban tactic for attacking opposition and laying the groundwork to dismantle civil society.

The
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Guardian
Vladimir Putin calls Russia's protesters 'paid agents of the west'
Miriam Elder in Moscow
Thu 15 Dec 2011 10.11 EST
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Hungary's Orban dismisses labour law protests as 'hysterical'
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Issued on: 21/12/2018 - 11:24
He also repeated the government's accusation that the "most aggressive protestors are paid by George Soros," the liberal Hungarian-born
US billionaire and a favoured target of Orban's government.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 53m

This is standard playbook

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12d

Attack Soros, threaten NGOs, claim there are "foreign agents" influencing domestic policy, abuse tax laws to intimidate opponents, prosecute political enemies. All expressly Putin/Orban.

Let us not forget the other piece of the Orban playbook for criminalizing dissent, then.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 13d

In the coming days, expect to see even more character attacks on Soros, like the lie that he survived the Holocaust by betraying other Jews and helping the Nazis. He was a child.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1h

Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro deserve to spend eternity with each other.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1h

Also a history major (once upon a time) and I agree.

And I think we’ll benefit from more of us knowing each other’s history and journey and everything that comes with that.

For some people that might be uncomfortable, but I believe it’s a necessary step to acknowledge the past.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1h

This. This this and more this.
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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 2h

Unless we fight to rebuild the Black and Jewish alliance & fight against the antisemitism & racism in the DEM party. I worry what will happen going forward in the future. We must get all hands on deck to strategize to defeat the extreme Nazism and racism in both parties and take it back from them 1/

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 6h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah this is how👇

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 8d

Loud public demands for future prosecutions of the people who carry out crimes for this admin will be a crucial part of stopping them.

Even the Nazis worried about questions of legality. We know this because they explicitly exempted the Wehrmacht from criminal law in writing and in advance.

II. Treatment of offences committed ageinst inhabitants by
members of the Armed Forces and its employcos.
1. With regerd to offences committed against enemy civ-
ilians by members of the Wehrmacht
and its omployees prosocution is
not obligetory even where the deed is at the same time a militery
crime or offence.

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𝚎𝚖𝚖𝚊 @emmaaa.bsky.social · 17h

pittsburgh anakin be like yinz gonna kill these yuenglings or what

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

If George Orwell was reanimated as a zombie and he saw how the article was written, he’d blow his fucking zombie brains out.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 17h

For the thousandth time, ICE is committing unambiguous felonies every day. They are caught on video.

This should be criminally charged in state court.

Even a few prosecutions will also drive some deterrence.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 20h

Here’s video of the incident

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20h

Princess Marie Bonaparte paid to get Sigmund Freud out of Nazi-occupied Vienna in 1938.

His daughter Anna Freud could have seen The Empire Strikes Back.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20h

The U.S. has never had a president who wasn’t alive at same the same time as people who were or had been enslaved.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20h

No. This is something else, though no better.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 21h

What?! ICE brought out a Blackhawk and zip tied kids and it was an eviction?!

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, of course, but tbh the general themes of this particular issue really should be intuitive to everyone with, like, a basic moral compass?

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

Ditto.

In my fictional scenario he came with his own earpiece so someone could feed him talking points.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, I’m sorry. In California and luckily it was a non-issue to get our daughter her first covid shot at the doctor; I can only imagine how frustrated and upset I would be in your situation.

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

I’d assume someone told him to stfu, but other than the president, who would miller even obey like that?

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

We have our own history of a dual state right here. No need to look to Nazi Germany. Hell they were inspired by the U.S.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

(And I don’t think anyone reading this would think I was kidding, but to be clear, I was not joking. Tough on crime means - at its most gentle - the worst of Jim Crow.)

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 1d

They think we haven’t because they still can see non-white people freely out and about.

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