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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet

This part

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Well, it's been a couple of years now, and as far as I can tell the only use case for genAI has been to accelerate the descent into dystopia by allowing fascists to pretend it's not them making their monstrous decisions.

www.huffpost.com/entry/albani...

Would Some Climate Nice Time Recharge Your Batteries? Here You Go! www.wonkette.com/p/would-some... By Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social

This is a semi-esoteric sounding thing that strikes me as one of the most grim indicators of fascism so far

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

www.commondreams.org/opinion/lett...

Friday night at end of week which for me began reporting at a “war church”—preparing for civil war—& proceeded thru news tightening like a vise. Outlet for which I’m reporting appears financially forced into retreat. Possibilities are dwindling. Nothing is over. But friends, we’re losing ground.

Goodnight everyone

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

what’s the point of access journalism if you don’t use your access to do journalism

A public school teacher in Florida has been informed that her contract will not be renewed after she used a student’s chosen name without parental consent, in what appears to be the first instance where a teacher’s job has been directly impacted for affirming a student’s identity.

Not for nothing, but how, exactly, is it legal to send people for *punishment* in a foreign prison (esp with no due process)? Were the funds being used for it appropriated for this purpose? I feel this has just become a thing no one questions

'Handmaid’s Tale-esque': State Dep. tells employees to report each other for 'anti-Christian bias' https://twp.ai/4imRlP

"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

you know the us economy isn't looking good when the right wing talking points shift to transgender sports and it's not even a normal sport, it's fencing. like yeah if you hear about transgender ping pong start taking your money out of the bank

This is the result of the CPC obsession with their “culture war”—in their 2023 policy doc, not only does “protecting children’s mental and physical health” mean preventing trans kids from accessing healthcare, THAT’S ALL THAT IT MEANS. There’s nothing there about improving supports for ANY kids.

"Terminate their fiscal lives": Trump admin cancels some immigrants' Social Security numbers https://twp.ai/4imSQY

1. The Trump administration is about to release it's own anti-science "Cass Review," a sham review with pseudoscience that will be used to justify sweeping crackdowns on trans care in the United States. No experts are involved in its drafting. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The reason fascism is taking root so quickly and so many institutions are falling is because they were already rotten at the core. The foundation was built as our country turned toward extreme capitalism & every institution became into its own authoritarian space. All that are left are cowards.

Every time Trump turns to a liberal institution to demand cooperation, it should be a reminder that he can’t accelerate the spread of fascism without our help. And we strengthen the power we already have when we withhold our help.

Not a single word of this is true, but brazen lying is an essential element in right wing authoritarianism and today's GOP.