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Got that, everybody? These badge-less, ununiformed, anonymous goons are the employees of LEAR Asset Management (owned by Hayden resident Paul Trouette), acting at the behest of Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris. Fuck these brownshirts and anyone employing, enabling or defending them.

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Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s “central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. Call it the “Great Resegregation.”

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Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.

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Bannon, Musk, and the far-right have found that “defending Israel” is the perfect cover for their antisemitism.

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"Camps." The word you're looking for here is "camps." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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Happy Birthday to perennial favorite "Stop Killing Me," released today in 1987.

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Three unidentified goons--no badge, no identification, no symbol of authority--lay hands on a private citizen on the orders of Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris, because Idaho Republicans didn't like what she had to say at a public event. Let's make them all famous.

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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

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I wouldn’t think “moved to root out diversity initiatives” is a useful phrase for journalism at all, but using it as a euphemism for a purge of high ranking black officers is downright Orwellian.

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"The term DEI, frequently invoked by the Trump administration, functions as a smoke screen" read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the real goals of the 'anti-DEI' rhetoric www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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In 2017, centrists and liberals told antifascist activists that the institutions would hold and the State would preserve basic democratic rights. Now the country is being hollowed out by literal billionaires making Hitler salutes. This should be on the cover of every newspaper.

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Running thread of people trying to normalize the sieg heil. It's not an "Elon gesture", it's not autism, it's not your heart going out, it's not parody or trolling. It's fucking despicable. Don't ever let this shit become normal. Fuck any excuse given, there is none. Zero tolerance. 1. Elon Musk

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Who could have guessed that the former leader of the Proud Boys—convicted of sedition because of January 6th—would, after Trump pardoned him, start to harass the hero cops of January 6th? Who could ever have guessed it? (This went down at the Principles First conference in D.C.)

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This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.

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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

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Happy 25th Birthday to "Furnace Room Lullaby," released today in 2000.

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

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History teaches us that when governments begin persecuting a vulnerable minority group while simultaneously making it harder for members of that group to escape persecution by fleeing abroad... it doesn't end well for anyone. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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Hey @chatterton.bsky.social Rufo, among many other things, made up evidence that Haitians were eating people's pets. Now some 500,000 Haitians who were here legally are likely going to get deported. Glad he criticized you in "good faith" though. Enjoy staying on a platform run by the administration

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

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Among the many, many hypocrisies of Shapiro as a free speech hero is that he went to Hungary to celebrate a government that bills itself explicitly as "illiberal" and has shut down entire areas of studies and universities.

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I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

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The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

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"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...

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I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

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"The people voted for this"

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"[O]ffenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" — the pardon language — now means whatever the fuck Pam Bondi, Emil Bove, and Donald Trump say it means, apparently.

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I thought people were making this up, but

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If your defense of free speech is reserved for would-be authoritarians — while helping lead a regime that is otherwise busy suppressing speech, assembly, and the press — then it becomes difficult to ignore the suspicion that you might be one yourself. New Racket. theracket.news/p/what-jd-va...

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There is zero ambiguity here. It’s nauseating.

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Musk now calling for people at 60 Minutes to go to prison.

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theracket.news/p/what-jd-va...

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I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it

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Man remember all the times we were supposed to call them fascists from 2016-2024

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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I don’t know what to tell you, it’s a Nazi dictatorship.

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LITERALLY EVERY FBI DIRECTOR HAS BEEN A REPUBLICAN. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

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This is the reason I think @murray.senate.gov @wyden.senate.gov should ask GAO to investigate the fraudulent claims on DOGE's receipts page. Because it's serving as cover that DOGE is not seeking waste fraud and abuse but instead canceling programs Congress duly appropriated.

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Florida has sued Target for selling pride merch during pride month in a clear and blatant violation of the 1st amendment. www.reuters.com/legal/target...

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This kind of hard hitting in-depth reporting is why I'm proud to be a monthly supporter of the @texasobserver.org Join: texasobserver.org/join

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How much of hate directed at "leftists" is really just at the fact that the Internet sucks? The "left" gets blamed for cancel culture, but a mob's ability to harass a person out of public is non-partisan, and currently well embodied by Musk's Twitter.

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Happy Birthday to "Green Mind," released today in 1991.

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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