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Obama and Biden both failed to do anything about right wing extremists and the big change we need is someone willing to use the state to confront and dismantle their networks, including using state force. For this to be successful it won’t look very “liberal.”

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you ever think about how in 2009 DHS released a report about the growing threat of violent domestic terrorism from the right and then Republicans got so mad about it the DHS secretary resigned?

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Not gonna lie one of the more enjoyable prospects of a Mamdani win will be the hysteria from Atlantic writers

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By coincidence, my review of Adam Becker's More Everything Forever at Lawfare today www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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iran war disrupts caitlyn jenner tel aviv experience

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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY

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It's hard to break new ground in the catastrophically dipshitty "Let's daydream about how Trump wrecking the government might boost my pet cause" genre, but fantasizing about an administration full of eugenicists pursuing targeted interventions to promote minority health really gets there

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It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

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the people obsessed with "ideological diversity" in online spaces are the same people who experience none in their daily lives

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There are no ways to not let this become the story. The media & the moneyed-yet-mediocre who are in bed with fascists will not stop calling any space that does not welcome fascists an echo chamber until they do. It is a rhetorical trap designed convince people to welcome foxes into the hen house.

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Huge endorsement for Zohran news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

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ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

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EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hawley's letter to PSL appears to be in coordination with The Heritage Foundation's Mike Gonzalez - who wrote a book on "how to combat" Marxism that proposes reviving McCarthy hearings and restricting the right to peaceable assembly. www.carlbeijer.com/p/the-hawley...

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when the videos of monkeys being surprised by magic tricks came out some people were like “it’s not funny that’s actually traumatic and upsetting to the monkeys” and i think of it every time i see a guy sincerely talking to ai

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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

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"average philadelphian kills 3 people a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average philadelphian kills 0 people per year. Murders Ben, who lives in Beit Aghion & kills over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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From an Oregon State Police email recruiting members for its SWAT unit: “Are you jonesing to fire 40mm less lethal rounds and gas munitions through windows, gables, cameras, and at fleeing suspects?” "Anyone want to shoot some pepperball into vehicles...?" @maxbernstein.bsky.social @oregonian.com

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If you ask the broad consensus of Western pundits and politicos, Iran is just supposed to take this on the chin forever.

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For those who do not have access or care to go to Twitter for the video, here is the video of the U.S. Secretary of the Army stating that there is currently a soldier on the moon:

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Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

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Israel needs to be put down like a mad dog

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Says the guy who cut off House Impeachment Managers' attempt to put on witnesses at Trump's Senate trial (following his second impeachment related to January 6) because he wanted to get home for Valentine's Day.

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Great Rolling Stones parody on Sesame Street I just watched with the kiddo youtu.be/qozwWbvkYAg?...

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a Republican House member from SC, Rep. RJ May, is facing 10 counts of CSAM using the screen name "joebidennnn69" im dead

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Are we really fucking doing this. Had nothing happened to Senator Padilla at all, what she was describing is a federal takeover of a major city by military force with no specified end-date, with no legal authority. Do not let the fascists talk their way out of that.

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The Rodney King trial started a long, grim ongoing process of the video age where the things cops used to do under private cop rules have suddenly became available for mass witnessing, and so the public has had to be retrained one incident at a time to accept excuses for the obviously inexcusable

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Toldya.

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america is like siegfried and roy and fascism is like that tiger they kept around for years until one day it mauled one of them. people were like “ehhh it probably won’t happen” but deep down they knew it was only a matter of time. and now here we are in 2025. reading the siegfried and roy wiki

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These 11 Democrats just joined the GOP to vote to force DC police to cooperate with ICE, against the city's own laws. Ed Case Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gillen Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Adam Gray Kristen McDonald Rivet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi George Whitesides

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Democratic leadership will never realize it. It'll be their epitath.

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Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

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I will never forgive the Biden administration for smugly insisting that this obvious fifth column was not a fifth column and should in fact be given more money and weapons

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Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.

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Why are you in DC collaborating with Republicans on a crypto bill right now

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booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

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I joined Bluesky exactly two years ago and I wrote a piece about my thoughts on the platform - how it's been coming along so far and where it seems fated to go. Thanks for reading.

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Real oldheads remember Cuomo’s first foray into NYC politics five decades ago, when he tried to win the mayor’s race for his father by putting it out that Koch was gay.

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Gosplan at its peak employed about 50,000 people; BlackRock ($10TN AUM) employs about 20,000. Vanguard ($9TN) is another 20,000. The VC firms on Sand Hill Road probably account for at least another 10,000. We've recreated our own central planning agency - it's just completely unaccountable to us.

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LLMs are a vivid reminder that we already live in a planned economy. Investment is not directed by decentralized market signals, but by the conscious choices of a small group of people. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

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