Ray Pride
@raypride.bsky.social
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Ray Pride
@raypride.bsky.social
· Dec 15
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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ICE is using a Navy war-fighting contract (WEXMAC TITUS) to turn warehouses into detention sites in the US.
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
ICE is using a Navy war-fighting contract (WEXMAC TITUS) to turn warehouses into detention sites in the US.
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.
Call your Reps and demand:
1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?
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As I’ve already pointed out repeatedly — masks are *also* a mechanism for *disinhibiting* sadists.
People feel free to act out when they feel that they can’t be seen.
People feel free to act out when they feel that they can’t be seen.
NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:47 AM
As I’ve already pointed out repeatedly — masks are *also* a mechanism for *disinhibiting* sadists.
People feel free to act out when they feel that they can’t be seen.
People feel free to act out when they feel that they can’t be seen.
Thread.
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 16, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Thread.
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NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
NEW: The Trump administration's argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission.
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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"...what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China."
This is a piece you need to read and share while we can.
This is a piece you need to read and share while we can.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"...what we’re witnessing is the express repetition of a project on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, and Chinese labor camps in the People’s Republic of China."
This is a piece you need to read and share while we can.
This is a piece you need to read and share while we can.
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Still waiting for Senate to hang the Jan 6 plaque
February 16, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Still waiting for Senate to hang the Jan 6 plaque
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wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
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Let's burn it down and salt the earth.
February 15, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Let's burn it down and salt the earth.
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That orange bastard is still ordering the military to murder random fishermen in the Caribbean Sea, and the military is still doing it.
So much for refusing to obey illegal orders.
So much for refusing to obey illegal orders.
February 16, 2026 at 2:09 AM
That orange bastard is still ordering the military to murder random fishermen in the Caribbean Sea, and the military is still doing it.
So much for refusing to obey illegal orders.
So much for refusing to obey illegal orders.
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I don’t think we should let that guy have a knife
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I don’t think we should let that guy have a knife
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my opinion about whether democrats should aggressively gerrymander every possible house seat is the same as my opinion about taking a knife away from a guy who has spent the last thirty years stabbing people to death with it
February 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
my opinion about whether democrats should aggressively gerrymander every possible house seat is the same as my opinion about taking a knife away from a guy who has spent the last thirty years stabbing people to death with it
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Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
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i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.
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If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
February 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.
Well that’s obscene
Holy crap, I just looked at Platner’s FEC filings, & in Q4 he raised $4.6m but spent $3.1m. And the election was still 6 months away.
His campaign is essentially a cash cow for online & direct mail fundraising consultants, who take like half of what they raise.
His campaign is essentially a cash cow for online & direct mail fundraising consultants, who take like half of what they raise.
February 16, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Well that’s obscene
Crepey pic
they look like woody allen’s rejected clones
Perfect screenshot
February 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Crepey pic
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One of the great myths of our society is that really rich people are rich because they are smart.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
It’s also virtually impossible to become a billionaire without choosing immorality many, many times.
There is no such thing as a self-made billionaire.
February 16, 2026 at 1:11 AM
One of the great myths of our society is that really rich people are rich because they are smart.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
They are not rich because they are smart.
They are rich because are broken. Because nothing matters more to them than hording wealth. Because they lack morality, empathy, and social responsibility.
DOJ’s six-page letter on burying remainder of Trump-Epstein files
EFTA Final Letter
www.documentcloud.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
DOJ’s six-page letter on burying remainder of Trump-Epstein files
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When Democrats figure out who the candidate will be that Democrat voters would vote for instead of the Democrat candidate Republicans would vote for, that’s their way out. Until then they’re gonna lose
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 AM
When Democrats figure out who the candidate will be that Democrat voters would vote for instead of the Democrat candidate Republicans would vote for, that’s their way out. Until then they’re gonna lose
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That sound you hear? The Democratic establishment crapping their pants over @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
The next progressive pressing for an upset
www.politico.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
That sound you hear? The Democratic establishment crapping their pants over @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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the amazing thing about the anti-Mellon shank job is its resistance to actually contending with any of the ideas being described. for instance, the author glides past something that I think is one of the coolest and most interesting projects on earth:
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
The Bard in the Borderlands - Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva
The Bard in the Borderlands brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time scholarly edition.
borderlandsshakespeare.org
February 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
the amazing thing about the anti-Mellon shank job is its resistance to actually contending with any of the ideas being described. for instance, the author glides past something that I think is one of the coolest and most interesting projects on earth:
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
borderlandsshakespeare.org/the-bard-in-...
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Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...
press.uchicago.edu
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...