I don’t think people realise how hard & fast this is going to hit. Absolutely chilling. - ThreadSky

carolecadwalla.bsky.social • 164 days ago

I don’t think people realise how hard & fast this is going to hit. Absolutely chilling.

CNN reporting that Kash Patel being considered for FBI director.
Last year, Patel said under another Trump administration he would jail journalists. www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...

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midtowndoom.bsky.social•163 days ago

This clown show would be hilarious if it weren’t horrifying.

angelac17.bsky.social•164 days ago

Sounding like Isreal more and more everyday! 😢

faithlessgrace.bsky.social•162 days ago

📌

davidknopfler.bsky.social•164 days ago

What kind of spurious legal allegations can they conceivably make? Writing with their fingers? Doing joined up thinking? Dear god, any Judge with a shred of integrity should refuse to grant a trial surely?

mpmca.bsky.social•162 days ago

What guardrails….

shindayrue.bsky.social•162 days ago

"I never thought they would do the horrible things they told us they would do!" - some of my fellow Americans, apparently??? I'm consistently baffled.

artecon.bsky.social•164 days ago

Carole, I ❤️ your brave insightful reporting. You are a FN beacon on a dire foggy sea

artecon.bsky.social•164 days ago

DC is burning 🔥..but I, I live by the rivver 🎶

technogogo.bsky.social•164 days ago

I feel like the US political systems, checks and balances are going to get the stress test of a lifetime. Let’s hope they hold up. Popcorn at the ready.

mel-33.bsky.social•162 days ago

A lot of folks in denial or are only beginning to process the ramifications of this election.

chrisjustice01.bsky.social•162 days ago

Desperate to cover tracks

almaris.bsky.social•164 days ago

Seems apparent a journalist or journalists will be jailed under the Trump administration for reporting truths, while we can’t control that. It is the duty of the many to push back and prevent such actions from being normalised.

levi3d.bsky.social•164 days ago

Are we getting ready for the mass immigration of US refugees to Europe?

miladylilburn.bsky.social•164 days ago

Wonder if he'll go for the proprietors as well? And given that this SCOTUS has shown it is willing to overturn and ignore "settled law" there isn't much hope that they can be saved.

ceruleanman.bsky.social•164 days ago

Work experience for the unskilled. Would do better with school kids. So unprofessional.

shazziecacao.bsky.social•164 days ago

Hello you ❤️

ceruleanman.bsky.social•163 days ago

Shazzie! Yay! Found you - or at least you found me. How are you darling?

shazziecacao.bsky.social•163 days ago

I’m OK sweetheart. Starting to recover from losing my dog. How are you? ❤️

ceruleanman.bsky.social•163 days ago

Nooooooo. Oh please. Thats what scares me too. How old?

shazziecacao.bsky.social•163 days ago

He was only 8. He died at the vet unexpectedly and I don’t know why. I was expecting another 8 years with him. It’s been the worst year of my life but I am getting better now. How’s your little one? ❤️

paul-brennan.bsky.social•164 days ago

Have you see any signs of an impending exodus?

resultzboxz.bsky.social•162 days ago

Follow for follow!
Let’s build together—I’ll hit that follow back ASAP
Let’s grow our profiles and support each other!

mole9.bsky.social•163 days ago

Interesting times ahead if he keeps this approach up with the Pentagon.

janeharbison.bsky.social•164 days ago

It is chilling and we have to hope our govt will be very careful about sharing information with this administration. It seems as though they think they can do what they want - where are the checks and balances?

rome73.bsky.social•162 days ago

Waiting for the Cubans in Miami (who almost all voted Trump) start to see the connection…..but it will be too late

beingsass.bsky.social•164 days ago

I still haven't figured out what those crimes are. As far as I know, holding Donald Trump and his flying monkeys accountable is not a crime, ...yet.

saruya.bsky.social•163 days ago

If this is going to be a thing, then publications might need to remove bylines and author attribution from their publications, just to keep journalists safe.

bingo46.bsky.social•163 days ago

Good thing right wingers REALLY love free speech and weren't just pretending to all that time.

cameramanjim.bsky.social•164 days ago

They can try, but jailing journalists would involve prosecutions, and prosecutions will fail.
Which laws are journalist actually supposed to have broken?
These guys are all mouth.

frogfall.bsky.social•163 days ago

What makes you think that the rule of law will be followed? The court system is under serious threat too.

cameramanjim.bsky.social•163 days ago

Well perhaps I’m being over optimistic, and I accept the Supreme Court has been stacked. But not all courts, and not all judges will be push-overs, surely?

frogfall.bsky.social•163 days ago

Well perhaps I'm being over pessimistic. But Trump hasn't shown much respect for the law, before now. Judicial independence might not last long under this regime.

cameramanjim.bsky.social•163 days ago

You’re 100% correct.
Worrying times. 🙁

clucksky.bsky.social•163 days ago

Under his eye.

europeanpowell.bsky.social•163 days ago

Corporate governance is replacing social governance, the deregulated zone is here.
Keep in mind that SEZs and Freeports are stepping stones towards charter cities or as Trump calls them ‘Freedom cities’
The City of London got its charter status in the year 1075
https://www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird-freedom-cities-and-the-network-state-cult/

vir2ualvibes.bsky.social•162 days ago

"Freedom Cities," as Trump calls them, created on Federal lands is a new form of giving yourself over to Corporate Overlords by attaching yourself to the land. They once called them serfs. Their new name - serfs.

glenjackson.bsky.social•163 days ago

NBC News reported in February that the archives found classified material among the boxes of White House documents Trump improperly took to Mar-a-Lago.
Patel told "Breitbart" in May that Trump had "declassified the docS' but that their markings were not updated. 🤣
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/doj-grants-immunity-trump-adviser-kash-patel-compel-grand-jury-testimo-rcna55488

glenjackson.bsky.social•163 days ago

KASH PATEL WAS DANGEROUS.
On this both Trump appointees and career officials could agree.
A 40-year-old lawyer with little government experience, he joined the administration in 2019 and rose rapidly. Each new title set off new alarms.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/kash-patel-trump-national-security-council/679566/

glenjackson.bsky.social•163 days ago

Strange that all the journalists will be targeted but not their billionaire owners..

greenjeans2526.bsky.social•164 days ago

These "picks" show just how unhinged Donald is.

j57mehta.bsky.social•163 days ago

Terrifying …

khs21.bsky.social•163 days ago

I'm hoping it's just bluster and bravado - but I fear not

matovueric256.bsky.social•163 days ago

Hello sister Carole warm greetings to you from Africa🌍, Uganda🇺🇬! I hope this message finds you in good health and high spirits.

stevecw.bsky.social•163 days ago

Of course these are nominees not appointments. The US systems of checks and balances will be tested like never before. GOP civil war looms and institutions fighting with exec. Go long on popcorn.

mettehinton.bsky.social•164 days ago

Taking a sledgehammer to the constitution.

lozq76.bsky.social•162 days ago

The much vaunted constitution will be destroyed by those calling themselves patriots

gillmh.bsky.social•163 days ago

All so predicable.

katyevansbush.bsky.social•164 days ago

I think you're right. There's a lot of innocence out there

dotlepkowska.bsky.social•163 days ago

Innocence, or ignorance?

adhddude.bsky.social•163 days ago

Wilful ignorance.

katyevansbush.bsky.social•163 days ago

'Innocence' as in both. They seem like children to me, except children are quicker to get the upshot. In 2016-2020 people were just SHOCKED, over & over, as Trump what he'd *said* he would. The liberal intelligentsia, dear God - all the pearlclutching & fainting - it KEPT itself on the back foot.

susanelizabethcox.bsky.social•163 days ago

Yes. They are wasting no time.

lynndukes.bsky.social•162 days ago

Disheartening with his own criminality and never brought to justice...

denise1155.bsky.social•161 days ago

Russia or China or maybe both will have us under their thumb I say, mid summer. We won’t fall militarily, but our government will collapse. how many incompetent people do you know are successful? I don’t know any.

iainphilpott.bsky.social•163 days ago

Let’s just wait and see how bad this gets - for America. It’s going to get bad.

johnnydee.bsky.social•164 days ago

Clearly, free speech is at risk. Beware the FCC adding internet control to their brief. That will our Blue sky at risk now they have Xitter captured.

staceymiller.bsky.social•164 days ago

Putin getting his wish… USA is becoming Russia 2.0

devoted2mariah.bsky.social•155 days ago

Well, Putin has been working toward this goal for decades. Instead of a wish/hope, he actively attacked/undermined us from within. Sowing distrust and disinformation. To where America is too scared, paranoid, sick to fight back.. That’s what he *actually* wants. So does China/Israel.

staceymiller.bsky.social•155 days ago

Well, yeah, you’ve got a point there!

gabi17.bsky.social•164 days ago

marionettes

sparklerblue2.bsky.social•162 days ago

Everybody just keep monetizing news reports for the clusterfuck it will soon be (already was) because you valued money over your country.
Sheer insanity

acemcspace.bsky.social•163 days ago

Thank god they have Musk onboard to guard and protect free speech, right?

eukiecurr.bsky.social•162 days ago

Totally chilling

ronicats.bsky.social•162 days ago

MSM brought this on with their failure to report on the lies being spewed by the GOP and orange 💩!

eebow.bsky.social•163 days ago

The world is getting scary and our freedoms slowly eroded

robinbrenizer.bsky.social•162 days ago

Headline has to be—Trump Appoints Insurrectionists to Positions of Power.

anneroberts54.bsky.social•163 days ago

I wonder if Trump is doing this deliberately, i.e announcing outrageous appts that he doesn't want, hoping Congress will block, then he'll appoint who he really wants, and who might sound not so shocking so won't get blocked???

hippyniki.bsky.social•161 days ago

Had they reported honestly, Trump would not have won. So I don’t feel sorry for them. @cnn.com @msnbc.com.web.brid.gy
@ABC @NBC

drchrisythomas.bsky.social•163 days ago

Frightening times especially for Americans but has implications for the world

ians.chat•162 days ago

You have half the people who realise what is going on and realise just how bad this is. And you have the other half celebrating it, because they're too dimwitted to see what it means.

martinmcedin.bsky.social•164 days ago

Incredibly scary

aliceevans.bsky.social•164 days ago

Agreed. It's his main goal. It's the first thing he'll do. He's been telling us for years.

Incredibly scary.

nigelstead.bsky.social•162 days ago

Kash Patel🤦🏻‍♂️

sarahmargret.bsky.social•164 days ago

Terrifying.

justj1.bsky.social•163 days ago

Disquieting

irduxbury.bsky.social•164 days ago

I would love to know what the CIA, FBI and Homeland Security are doing at the moment, surely they won’t be sitting at home twiddling their thumbs. They need to get a grip on this impending doom.

thelittlesaint.bsky.social•164 days ago

Then I guess the foreign Press is going to be very important! We’ve already seen the Washington Post, the world famous Washington Post cower into a corner, failing their primary duty.

luciefur.bsky.social•162 days ago

Jailing journalists in the name of free speech...

helensparkles.bsky.social•163 days ago

Seen this?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-woman-told-house-ethics-panel-witnessed-gaetz/story?id=115897603

lesleyak.bsky.social•162 days ago

She didn't witness Gaetz having sex with a minor. She witnessed Gaetz raping a minor. This pussyfooting language needs to stop. You CANNOT have sex with a person too young to consent!!!

neveroffside.bsky.social•164 days ago

Imagine if the Tories won the last election. How emboldened they’d be, following Trumps lead for the next four years.

jayenne.bsky.social•164 days ago

This is bothering me too. What if Rwanda etc etc etc were just the testing ground.
Plus Farridge.

td12212.bsky.social•162 days ago

And when it's too inconvenient to jail journalists they'll send the white vans at night....the journalists disappear...sometimes their headless bodies wash ashore somewhere...I lived in a country where this happened..
Do not think America is immune. The SCOTUS are toothless and bought and paid for.

idalovesearth.bsky.social•164 days ago

Following the Turkish Erdogan role model...

doyley14.bsky.social•163 days ago

There was always a chill that the UK would have a brain-drain after Brexit.
I fear now for the educated people of the US more than ever.

jackmoxley.bsky.social•163 days ago

We had a brain drain of the young. Those of us with families found it impractical, although I probably would have.

doyley14.bsky.social•163 days ago

Totally with you, Jack.

winterbourne15.bsky.social•164 days ago

Carole, could you imagine a world where the FBI would fight back against this appointment? I don't know how or why, but surely the rank and file wouldn't accept someone this unserious.

saruya.bsky.social•163 days ago

That would only empower them to put the worst kind of people in to replace them, which would have a longer-lasting, more insidious effect on the US I feel...

professorshaw.bsky.social•163 days ago

Congress might push back, a few principled people might resign, but the rank and file FBI agents live on government salaries and won't want to lose their government pensions. Plus a good number of them will have voted for him and chose this.

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