CrypticCurls
@crypticcurls.bsky.social
One Piece and freedom enjoyer.
Ask yourself: WWLD
Ask yourself: WWLD
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"Unfortunately, rather than be shocked by each time Trump or one of his closest allies utter something openly authoritarian, we need to take a step back and realize that the Republican Party has become an authoritarian political party."
Transcript: Musk’s Threats Darken as Trump Declares Himself Above Law
An interview with Steven Levitsky, a scholar of democratic breakdown, who explains how the latest threats from Trump and Elon Musk show telltale signs of a country slipping into authoritarian rule.
newrepublic.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Unfortunately, rather than be shocked by each time Trump or one of his closest allies utter something openly authoritarian, we need to take a step back and realize that the Republican Party has become an authoritarian political party."
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For folks who are surprised about, or shocked by, Vance calling on Trump to ignore judges, he’s been saying it for a while but much of our political press wasn’t paying attention:
February 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For folks who are surprised about, or shocked by, Vance calling on Trump to ignore judges, he’s been saying it for a while but much of our political press wasn’t paying attention:
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Party leadership is just incapable of accepting responsibility for anything ever
February 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Party leadership is just incapable of accepting responsibility for anything ever
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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
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NEW: Trump wants to use Guantanamo to lock up 30,000 migrants, and President Joe Biden gave him the blueprint. In August 2024, the Biden administration awarded a private prison company a multimillion-dollar contract to run the Guantanamo migrant jail.
Drop Site contributor Jose Olivares explains.
Drop Site contributor Jose Olivares explains.
January 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
NEW: Trump wants to use Guantanamo to lock up 30,000 migrants, and President Joe Biden gave him the blueprint. In August 2024, the Biden administration awarded a private prison company a multimillion-dollar contract to run the Guantanamo migrant jail.
Drop Site contributor Jose Olivares explains.
Drop Site contributor Jose Olivares explains.
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NEW: Buckley Space Force Base (Aurora, CO) says it is now functioning as an ICE holding and processing facility #copolitics
January 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NEW: Buckley Space Force Base (Aurora, CO) says it is now functioning as an ICE holding and processing facility #copolitics
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"Can you answer my question, please, superintendent?"
'We're talking about children sir': CNN host presses official willing to hand kids to ICE
Oklahoma's superintendent of public schools adamantly proclaimed to CNN on Tuesday that he would do anything he could to further President Donald Trump's agenda — even if it meant informing on his own...
www.rawstory.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Can you answer my question, please, superintendent?"
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so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh
January 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh
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"Trump is holding all the nation’s hospitals and vital services hostage to seize power from Congress and hand it over to billionaires."
Trump is holding hospitals 'hostage' in brazen 'power grab': AOC
Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unloaded on President Donald Trump in an escalation of the brewing Democratic opposition to the new administration as it unleashes a barrage of new exe...
www.rawstory.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Trump is holding all the nation’s hospitals and vital services hostage to seize power from Congress and hand it over to billionaires."
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“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”
Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo
Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”
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January 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Research has shown that GoFundMe amplifies existing biases within aid and, in some cases, exacerbates them. https://interc.pt/4g7hswE
January 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Research has shown that GoFundMe amplifies existing biases within aid and, in some cases, exacerbates them. https://interc.pt/4g7hswE
Bro this shit is nuts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump fires 17 independent watchdogs at US government agencies
Inspectors general at state, defense and transportation departments removed in apparent violation of federal law
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Bro this shit is nuts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Far-right pundit rails against women in law enforcement: ‘It’s an absurdity!’
‘If we’re being honest, female cops are absurd. It’s an absurdity. I’m sorry. It’s just ridiculous. It’s cartoonish,’ Matt Walsh ranted on his podcast this week
www.independent.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This entire project is *very expliclty* about fully purging black people and women from huge swaths of public life, employment and education.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Don't let corporate media and right wing freaks gaslight you.
January 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Don't let corporate media and right wing freaks gaslight you.
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So much for the pro-First Amendment FCC.
Reinstating these complaints is a transparent attempt to intimidate networks that are critical of Trump and control their speech. If it wasn’t obvious already, just look at the fact that the only complaint Carr didn’t reinstate was against Fox.
Reinstating these complaints is a transparent attempt to intimidate networks that are critical of Trump and control their speech. If it wasn’t obvious already, just look at the fact that the only complaint Carr didn’t reinstate was against Fox.
FCC reinstates complaints against ABC, CBS and NBC for 2024 election coverage
Before Trump appointee Brendan Carr stepped in, outgoing chair had rejected complaints as trying to ‘weaponize’ FCC
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So much for the pro-First Amendment FCC.
Reinstating these complaints is a transparent attempt to intimidate networks that are critical of Trump and control their speech. If it wasn’t obvious already, just look at the fact that the only complaint Carr didn’t reinstate was against Fox.
Reinstating these complaints is a transparent attempt to intimidate networks that are critical of Trump and control their speech. If it wasn’t obvious already, just look at the fact that the only complaint Carr didn’t reinstate was against Fox.
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it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them
January 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
Elon Musk gave two back to back Nazi salutes at the Trump inauguration parade
January 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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How Mark Zuckerberg Is Making Meta More MAGA-Friendly
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January 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How Mark Zuckerberg Is Making Meta More MAGA-Friendly
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In the dying days of the Biden Admin, a journalist is dragged out of the State Dept press briefing.
CNN’s framing of “man repeatedly interrupting” His Highness Antony Blinken as he spews out lies.
And what about the other journalists sitting on their asses. Afraid to lose their access??
CNN’s framing of “man repeatedly interrupting” His Highness Antony Blinken as he spews out lies.
And what about the other journalists sitting on their asses. Afraid to lose their access??
January 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In the dying days of the Biden Admin, a journalist is dragged out of the State Dept press briefing.
CNN’s framing of “man repeatedly interrupting” His Highness Antony Blinken as he spews out lies.
And what about the other journalists sitting on their asses. Afraid to lose their access??
CNN’s framing of “man repeatedly interrupting” His Highness Antony Blinken as he spews out lies.
And what about the other journalists sitting on their asses. Afraid to lose their access??
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ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
December 15, 2024 at 3:29 AM
ABC (Disney), Washington Post (Bezos), Meta (Zuckerberg), LA Times (Soon-Shiong)... all bending the knee to Trump, all obeying in advance, all sucking up to the Dictator-in-Waiting.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.
This is (part of) how democracies die. This is the Orban, Putin, Netanyahu and Modi playbooks.