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“This type of violence is not okay. I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one particular party or another, one particular person or another, it is not okay, and it has to stop. We have to be better than this.” Governor Shapiro

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt

“The finding, contained in a March memo that was described to The Washington Post, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not have sufficient grounds for revoking Ozturk’s visa under an authority empowering the top U.S. diplomat to safeguard the foreign policy interests of the United States.”

After watching 60 Minutes tonight, Trump calls on FCC Chair Brendan Carr to revoke CBS’s broadcast license.

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

No one would have tolerated what Musk was doing if $150B had been the initial estimate of his "savings". The whole thing has been a scam. He doesn't have any governing experience. He doesn't know what he's doing. GET HIM OUT OF THERE.

One reason I find it hard to follow the Garcia deportation case here on Bluesky is that scads of people are declaring him already dead, without ANY evidence. For a case that hinges on the lack of evidence, this trend is ironic and disturbing. If you are one of these people, please stop doing this.

NEWS: In today's declaration filed by the government in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, the govt still provides no information or past or current efforts to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. Instead, an asst dir of ICE suggests that Abrego Garcia "is no longer eligible for withholding of removal."

“The entire business model of Silicon Valley is surveillance. It harvests our data to sell us stuff. “We are already living inside the architecture of totalitarianism.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

Fox et al. might exist to keep us from collectively achieving critical mass of insight and subsequently actually doing something about this.

To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves

Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.

The president is saying that once the administration gets people outside our borders it can do anything to them—including torture and death—and they can’t be stopped or held accountable.

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/42wYrix

Remember, the Trump Adminstration made it a humanitarian priority to bring back Andrew Tate from Romania.

p-Tau217 is a breakthrough blood test that can predict and may help prevent Alzheimer's disease. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt... Here's the rundown on it. Free, open-access.

DOGE already has cost tax payers money (at the very least $500B/year in IRS revenues, but that's before other huge costs are accounted for). And as I keep noting, Elon's $150B/year estimate is what some of the IGs who got fired were finding--w/o cutting services.

"The Seven Mountain Mandate states that Christians need to capture 7 areas of public life [so as to gain] control over every major aspect of society. ✂️ "This time, though, instead of... minorities, the would-be conquerors mean to reign as Whites over Whites." novapsyche.substack.com/p/moves-of-i...

Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

Dear libs: if Gaza is such a distraction then why are people criticizing it the very first to be disappeared and kidnapped by this administration? If Israel's genocide isn't a connecting pin to current international fascism, why are it's critics being treated as an especial danger?

This is what we're working with

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

The Monster at the End of This Book - Jon Stone and Michael Smollin, 1971

BREAKING: A judge is allowing the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil. Story coming soon, but for now, here's our prior coverage of the vague "antisemitism" claim the administration used.

Trump Admin Defies Court Order To Provide Basic Info On Man It Wrongly Deported talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...