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🧵 1/4 This video was too long & needed to be broken into 4 sections Despite that, this Southern man’s message to his fellow southern men & “not the politicians & bootlickers pretending to know bourbon from Boone’s Farm, the good ol’ boys that can bait a hook & throw a punch” is worth the listen!

Calling people like JD Vance and Tom Cotton "simpering little power fetishists in tailored camouflage" makes this a great listen.

Proud Boys are your prototypical fash cowards. They cannot fight a fair fight, and won't. When they hurt someone successfully it's usually because they ganged up and ambushed, or because the police protected them. And that latter part is where they really pose a serious threat, actually.

Yesterday Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security threatened to “liberate” Los Angeles from its own freely elected officials. Kristi Noem must resign.

Cops shooting a woman at point-blank range for trying to get to her apartment Very protect. Much serve. Cops are great

Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks: America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)

Coupled with the savaging of NOAA & NWS, this means states are going to be caught unprepared when hurricanes strike, resulting in more damage that they’ll be even less capable of cleaning up. A disaster on top of a disaster.

i just think if you’re pro kidnapping you should be politically untouchable

Lots going on, but this is big. White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/u...

If you’re like me and have a health condition that keeps you away from protests remember that there are always other things you can do to help. Donate to bail funds! Share resources and updated news! Help to make supply runs!

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

"On the trail, Trump declared he would deport massive numbers of 'criminal aliens.' When he came into office, however, he faced a problem: The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding. But he came up with an answer: Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals."

This statute reaches conspiracy "by force, intimidation, or threat to induce any officer of the United States to leave the place where his duties as an officer are required to be performed." It's pretty clear that the administration will try to characterize any anti-ICE protest as "intimidation"

As Trump demands that people in masks at protests be arrested, just a reminder that Mayor Karen Bass, nominally a Democrat, floated a mask ban at protests as recently as last year. There’s really no anti-authoritarian party. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

More desperate financial engineering to try to cover up Zaslav's incompetence, this time likely torching the company that he ascended to power in, with all the jobs locked inside.

The moment Trump decided to call the National Guard prematurely as well as threatened Marine deployment this was no longer about immigration or deportation legality. This became about an American city. They will learn that lesson too late. All politics are local.

A crucial point. I’ll add: The paranoid accusations gain plausibility on the Right not because of empirical evidence, but because they adhere to the “Higher Truth” that governs rightwing politics: “Real” America is under siege from a fundamentally illegitimate coalition of leftist and alien enemies.

Some "Gender Critical" activists tried to sue people protesting against them screening an anti trans hate film. They LOST The judgement is crazy to read as they talk about me a lot in it! The GCs tried to argue that me giving a talk about all the hate I received from GCs made them feel...

A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

Trump's order with regard to the National Guard is not limited to California. Our move needs to be to make it impossible for them to focus on any one area. They do not have the manpower to fascist all of us.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

That would be here. Corner of Foothill and Osborne. And what's that in the upper left corner? A Home Depot? I wonder if they'll be going there next.

One of the reasons I think “defund the police” is a great slogan is that you get to repeatedly tell people that studies show that police don’t actually solve murders, and in fact one-third of stranger-murders are committed by police.

If you live in a GOP district in CA, start calling your Rep about how Trump's Big Ugly Bill aims to invade California, and they MUST vote against giving up CA's sovereignty bc Stephen Miller ordered the invasion of Home Depot.

Note THUS FAR, LAT is covering this as a response to Trump's ICE escalation (other outlets are treating the protests as the spark).

Today would be a good day to mute radiofreetom once and for all