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sorry to be swinging from condemning fascist ICE ops to asking you to think of the fact-checkers, times are fucked up, bullshit, contain multitudes, etc

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If you, like Casey Newton, use LLMs for fact-checking, that should be disclosed directly beneath your byline

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maybe it’s because I’ve been watching charismatic Christian content all morning but not only because of that, that I’ll add: “a voice from heaven” that will instruct Trump on Israel is chiming violent Christian nationalism in this context

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Lander is saying the most basic, correct things—“Do you have a judicial warrant? … I will let go when you show me a judicial warrant … you don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens. I am not obstructing”—and yet or maybe because of this he is detained, too.

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spent way too much time on LinkedIn today, also had my first ever LinkedIn jump scare (seeing who else but Matt Shea while searching for background on a guy)

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Great line here: "Considered individually, defendants’ legal arguments are meritless. Considered in the aggregate, they are terrifying."

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

not long after the events portrayed in the video below, this version seemed to have disappeared from the internet. reader: it is back.

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"ICE is not too big to fail. It is too dangerous to continue. We don’t need a gentler deportation force. We need a government that refuses to criminalize protest, weaponize immigration or suppress dissent," writes Omar Suleiman. religionnews.com/2025/06/10/a...

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incredible energy honestly coming from the people who put in the paper they’re terrified zohran might win

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officially ten years since trump’s short trip down his fake gold escalator and into a (presumed stunt) campaign for president, paying people $50 each to cheer (“that is some group of people,” he said, “thousands”) as he said immigrants were “rapists,” that the US was “becoming a third world country”

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all I’ll add is Trump has been consistently scapegoating both immigrants and trans people, from his rallies to his campaign ads to this… whatever this is

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A reminder that 1) the military is doing almost nothing beyond standing around LA 2) ICE is terrorizing people with little ID, including ramming cars in Boyle Heights and 3) the LAPD and LASD has been attacking peaceful demonstrations for the last 9 days.

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the crisis of democracy we were already in long before the crisis of democracy we are (also) in now

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The suspect in the shootings of Democratic lawmakers has ties to the New Apostolic Reformation. Here are @bradleyonishi.bsky.social and @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social with the background on the Christ for the Nations Institute, a significant institution in the independent charismatic Christian world.

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Both Twin Cities local newspapers.

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This is a reference to the iconic, Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride!

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oh right, the vibes: the crowd getting out at 42nd/Bryant Park for No Kings reminded me of the way the Women’s March started basically as soon as you got off the Metro, you’d just get swept into a little march before getting to the rally, only there’s too many people there already so it’s all march

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This day is a vivid reminder that we don't know how the future will unfold. An assassination, a fascist parade, escalating war, detentions. And so many people protesting for democracy for the first time. To quote a sign I saw, "I didn't come out because I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful because we're here."

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wild Cuomo flyer (“L.A.” being “just the start” means what exactly should New Yorkers fear? ICE raids? local cop crackdowns? the National Guard? protestors? Trump?) spotted in a gutter a block away from Brooklyn Pride today

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at Bryant Park, No Kings NYC His rolling out, on both 40th and 42nd street

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

cops likely using a seldom-enforced 1951 Georgia anti-mask law... designed to combat the Klan. saw militarized cops in Newnan, Georgia do this in 2018 to antifascist protesters at a neo-Nazi rally. (they also pointed guns at the antifascists) www.huffpost.com/entry/georgi...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

You can’t ask the regime to condemn what it espouses and foments.

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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

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seeing this this morning reminded me how fortunate I was to come out in a time and a city where the first elders I met offered to teach us to eat fire (“elders” in the 90s meaning they didn’t have to go exclusively to all ages shows lol)

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My mother, who does not attend protests, is going to a No Kings event in her area. She's an older woman with debilitating health problems, so this is a big outing for her. For the people acting like these events might be scary, my 67-year-old mom with arthritis and COPD is attending. You'll be fine.

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