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At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran!, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @garethgore.bsky.social about Opus Dei. 4.30pm, Thursday, February 20, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats 🐈 slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=52695

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

When Opus Dei runs the govt - innocent people pay the price. worldcrunch.com/lgbtq-plus/f...

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SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

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@mandy-matney.com Rebecca Marodi, a California fire captain who was targeted by the right-wing as supposedly being a “DEI hire” and therefore blamed for the LA fires, has been found stabbed to death in her home. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

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The courts are taking the approach of you must be the aggrieved party. It cannot be an org on behalf of. So you need to join a class action. Research it on the interwebs.

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I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

US COVID update: Feb 17, 2025 🔸1 in 72 people currently infected 🔸668,000 new daily infections 🔸4,676,000 new weekly infections 🔸234,000 to 935,000 weekly Long COVID cases "There is more transmission today than during 59.3% of the pandemic" Source: pmc19.com/data/PMC_COV...

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Too many people on here seem to believe there are exactly two kinds of Americans: ardent politically-obsessed Bluesky users, and frothing MAGA cultists. There are a LOT of people in this country who *just don’t pay a lot of attention one way or another*. And we absolutely can reach them.

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Be like Georgia. Now more than ever.

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These groyper rats are 100% feeding sensitive data into Grok and asking the AI to find "fraud" for them

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

How I Left The Opus Dei Thirteen women share their stories of abuse, manipulation and suffering inside this secretive wing of the Catholic Church Streaming NOW on @hbomax.bsky.social hbo.max.com/nl/en/shows/...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I feel a sense of despair about Trump, and I’m Australian. This essay is an incredible call to action for people to fight back. Australians stand in solidarity with Americans fighting to save their democracy. And Australians - don’t take our democracy for granted by risking Temu-Trump-Dutton

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I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

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Seriously, this moment is almost certainly the most dangerous the world has experienced since the Cuban missile crisis. Understanding how we got here--and how we can get out--is vital to all of us. I drop hope you will join us--independent community education is crucial for all of us. ♥️

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America is now inviting Jack Posobiec on critical overseas trips — reminder that he has promoted and collaborated with European neofascists. Quite a message to send to the world.

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@crikey.com.au policy on reporting Trump 2.0. Enlightened. Pity other outlets don't do something similar.

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A piece I wrote for The Guardian. #dorothyporter #exvangelical gutsygirls.com.au www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

i keep coming back to the fact that Russ Vought got his start in studying Bonhoeffer and despite that ended up a Christian Nationalist willing to use force against all of his political enemies

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

"Paedophile Pell praised by Dutton" Where's the MSM asking why an ex-policeman, who wants to be PM, supported a paedophile? A cop (or ex-cop) supporting a paedophile? They usually bash them and let other inmates do likewise whilst turning a blind eye. Peter Dutton supported a paedophile.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

First murder of DOGE

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