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"Volunteer Fire Department" A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff Source: TG (Oct 2019)

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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

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www.realtimefascism.com As the president brings tanks and other military equipment to the streets of DC and he nationalizes the national guard of California it is important to recognize this is just one of many steps to the oligarchy taking complete control #fascism

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The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

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"What they want is for people to look at who's rich, who’s important & say, 'That’s just the way things are. That’s the way they're supposed to be.' They don’t want people looking back at the past & saying, “This is because of slavery or Jim Crow or because women were excluded from the workforce.'”

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Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

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A billionaire who profits off the presidency is feuding with another billionaire who bought access to the government to line his own pockets. Neither should have ever been able to amass so much power. What we're witnessing is a failed experiment in billionaire governance.

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Next step arresting union leaders. The Gestapo will go after everyone who resist Don’t let the scripted feud distract you while they destroy universities, take away rights, and kidnap people

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Trump works for Russia. One of Russia’s objectives is to balkanize the US, and they’ve especially targeted California, to push destabilization and ultimately secession, aiming to trigger a civil war. It’s a far-fetched plot that probably won’t succeed, but that won’t stop them from trying.

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Maddow: I think we both have the same instinct: quote the ruling, quote the deposition—show the document. The audience is smart and capable of taking in primary source material. We can give it to them straight and then talk about it from there—based on this kind of non-pasteurized document

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Thomas Fugate, who has no apparent management or anti-terrorism experience, replaced an Army veteran with more than two decades of national security experience who resigned in March when the administration began cutting his staff. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

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That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 645 comments

Look beyond Trump and Musk's public blowout to the bigger problem: the infiltration of Big Money in our politics. It has corrupted our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels more wealth and power to those at the top while drowning out the needs of regular Americans.

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Let's be fair here. Just because Elon says that Trump is in the Epstein files and just because there are dozens of photos with Trump & Epstein together and just because Trump called Epstein a "terrific guy" who "likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"...

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Wait... is this the best meme ever made?

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😕 pretty much

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“Ukraine is confident in its ability to wage this war, even if it would still prefer that outside support make the costs for them less human…it listens to its own counsel more & more as it finds itself beyond the edge of most Western military thinking.” Brilliant. www.greatpower.us/p/operationa...

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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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Heritage Foundation’s plan of a Tech,Christian, white, authoritarian government is all coming together @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/have...

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The DOGE-led attacks on the civil service have decimated FOIA offices, severely weakening a key tool that helps the public understand what the federal government is doing.

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This is the person behind Peter Thiel, Vance, and Musk. Trump will not step down come 2028 unless the people stand up for democracy As the head of heritage foundation said it will be a bloodless revolution if “left” allows it Organize, resist do what you can

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Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long. Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.

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Peter Thiel and Palantir do not believe in democracy. They do not believe you have the right to vote. They are even creating a kill chain system for the military. This is the new registry to end democracy and end the US. The oligarchy are taking even more control youtu.be/DZ95Gmvg_D4?...

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Palantir’s platform is able to merge vast datasets. Bank accounts, medical records, driving record, debt, disability status, political affiliation, credit card expenditures, purchases, tax filings, travel records, phone records, creating detailed profiles on every American.

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Today on the pod… Timothy Snyder, a leading historian of authoritarianism, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, joins me to discuss the threats to American democracy, echoes of 1930s fascism, and what still gives him hope. open.spotify.com/episode/3stU...

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

Boiling the frog aka the country 1 day at a time. Why take away democracy right away when you can get the people take it away themselves with Fox News and the oligarchy telling people what to think. Russia has been aiming for this for decades and with TACO in charge they got what they want

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They really don't want Americans to do science anymore

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 9 days ago • 1127 comments

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

submitted 10 days ago • 110 comments

NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol...

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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley, along with historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, have accepted positions at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, beginning in the fall of 2025 . Here ,they explain why.👇

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NEW in @prospect.org: Much has been made of Elon Musk stepping back from DOGE. But RDP research finds that at least 46 DOGE staffers have direct financial or professional ties to Musk and his companies—indicating that the billionaire will have lasting power over the group.

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Letting it slide just means it’s okay. Bullies only respond when they get pushed back. Corruption and crimes should mean cell time not a slap on the wrist

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Where we are.

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