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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah if Pritzker is trying to engineer a conflict between the local/state police and the feds to secure their loyalty in an expanded conflict then that’s an actual strategy at least.

deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah and I don’t want to live in a world with global warming and pollution but because we fucking do I act accordingly. Get your head out of the sand and lock in.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

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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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 4h

I’m so tired of this fuckin helicopter

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Just thinking for no reason about the time years ago I was asked by a Rabbi not to return to a synagogue because they were having an Israeli speaker and having a trans person there made the Israelis "uncomfortable."

Since Israel is so welcoming to queer people and all

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 11h

Reminder of the time the Red & Black Cafe kicked out a cop and FOX tried to make national discourse about "racism against cops" for weeks. They literally did an interview with the cop where he cried about the racism against "blue lives."

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 11h

If he believes that the police are disloyal and he’s doing nothing to build an internal unit to purge them or a separate unit loyal to them then he’s just an absolute moron. If he does believe they’re loyal but won’t use them, then he’s a coward.

deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 11h

They know that and that’s why they like it. They would rather have us dead or psychologically lobotomized than be queer.

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · Feb 10

The trick that is played is to obscure what this flavour of Conservative feels a 'person' is and what they feel 'hurting anyone else' means.

Children are the property of their parents, not people - a state of affairs that lasts far beyond the age of 18.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

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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Dee @dee.lol · 12h

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𝖛𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖈𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖓 @novatoreanhovvl.bsky.social · 13h

why do people keep saying the fash are "looking for excuses" as a way to tone police?

it's like getting beaten by an abuser and spectators saying "don't fight back, that'll only piss him off more"

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

Is there any line a politician could cross that would prevent you from supporting them if the Republicans were worse?

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

Maggots owned lmao

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah and Gandhi and his movement weren’t the only reason India became independent. The INC was quite diverse and Gandhi was a bit of an outsider.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely don’t think guys like Barack Obama want America to look like Argentina in the 20th century

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

That makes sense. I guess we’re talking about two different things.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone name a country that’s gotten out of that cycle? A lot of countries rn are on the liberal 20-30 years but they’ve had those before and those liberal democracies fell.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

So no one has a real plan on what to do to pull out of the Latin America-style spiral into the cycle of authoritarianism-liberalization-crisis-authoritarianism do they?

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t need violence to happen to send the Marines into LA or the NG into DC.

deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

Why do you think they “clearly” want our violence? They seem devastated by the assassination of Charlie Kirk. If Trump was assassinated the whole MAGA movement would likely fall into disarray and lose focus.

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deny defend depose destroy @sthelen.bsky.social · 1d

This post completely dismisses the idea that some media can be reactionary. Plenty of stuff is made by uncritical reactionaries. Popular stuff, too!

Meza @meza.bsky.social · 1d

Villains

#MezaTellonym

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