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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
They disappeared a green card holder and threatened to arrest a citizen.

We are in some serious trouble in ‘democratic’ America.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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jamellebouie.net
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
jakewittich.bsky.social Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · Mar 1
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.

"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
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March 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening.

An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply:

“The same will happen here”.
Photo of text from a newspaper article that says “Kennedy advances the lies that vaccines cause autism, increase cancer risk, and result in higher death rates. None of this is true, but Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence showing the safety of vaccines. His goal is to cause fear over vaccines and public health ini-tiatives, which he does for profit Kennedy will promote decreased vaccine uptake, as he did when he influenced government officials in Samoa to stop measles vaccinations; in the resulting measles epidemic, 83 people died from measles, mostly chil-dren. The same will happen here.”
February 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 27
Wow—Trump is firing and banning all trans people from the military, per DoD memo.

“Military service by members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service.”

Part of memo:
ATTACHMENT Service Members and Applicants for Military Service who Have a Current Diagnosis or History of, or Exhibit Symptoms Consistent with, Gender Dysphoria 1. Policy. It is DoD policy that: a. Service in the Military Services is open to all persons who can meet the high standards for military service and readiness without special accommodations. b. It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for Service 1s inconsistent with the medical is inconsistinest the medical, surgi, al, and mental he, un constraints on individuals wiplicy gender dysphoria or who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria. c. Military service by Service members and applicants for military service who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria is incompatible with military service. Service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the Military Services and is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. d. Individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no longer eligible for military service, except as set forth in sections 4.1.c. and 4.3.c. of this attachment. e. Service members who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria will be processed for separation from military service in accordance with section 4.4. of this attachment. Characterization of service under these procedures will be honorable except where the Service member's record otherwise warrants a lower characterization. f. The Department only recognizes two sexes: male and female. An individual's sex is immutable, unchanging during a person's life. All Service members will only serve in accordance with their sex, defined in Executive Order 14168, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to i. Absent extraordinary operational necessity, the Military Services will not allow male Service members to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females, nor allow female Service members to use or share sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for males. j. No funds from the Department of Defense will be used to pay for Service members' unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with facilitating sex reassignment surgery, genital reconstruction surgery as treatment for gender dysphoria, or newly initiated cross-sex hormone therapy. k. Consistent with existing law and Department policy, commanders shall protect the privacy of protected health information they receive under this policy in the same manner as they would with any other protected health information. Such health information shall be restricted to personnel with a specific need to know; that is, access to information must be necessary for the conduct of official duties. Personnel shall also be accountable for safeguarding this health information consistent with existing law and Departmental policy. 2. Applicability. This policy guidance applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD.
February 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.
UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed
A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Palestinian residents throwing stones at Israeli tanks entering city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002.
February 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
hakeem jeffries is so much worse at his job than nancy pelosi it's making me question my war on the gerontocracy
February 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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jamellebouie.net
"coffee is only good when it is served in jim crow conditions"
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 14
Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"

This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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edgeofsports.bsky.social
Wow. The REPUBLICAN interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, just resigned rather than drop charges against the corrupt Mayor Eric Adams. She just torched her career but may have torched his as well in NYC. More of this please. More non-compliance.
February 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
cubancuervo.bsky.social
Great interview. Not surprising they are all obvious fascists

www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/el...
“The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump
President Trump’s targeting of South Africa is clearly tied to his influential adviser Elon Musk and a coterie of wealthy U.S. oligarchs, “all of whom in some way or other grew up in South Africa as c...
www.democracynow.org
February 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Here's the article: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
February 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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elivalley.bsky.social
ADL now recruiting him for a Board position
rightwingwatch.bsky.social Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · Jan 30
The Anglican Catholic Church has now revoked Calvin Robinson's license. anglican.ink/2025/01/29/c...
January 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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mattlieb.bsky.social
The crazy thing about Trump’s spree of incredibly stupid, racist, and performative-yet-still-damaging executive orders is that I can’t even imagine a single Democrat getting into power and doing the same thing but with objectively popular shit like Medicare for All.
January 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
cubancuervo.bsky.social
Consistently one of the best podcasts out there
January 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Was honored to chat with the fine folks on Bad Hasbara! Talked about Israel, Trump, Musk and the Sieg! Sat too close to the camera! Kvetched!
youtu.be/Og_P_grFd90?...
Bad Hasbara 78: Sieg Heart, with Eli Valley
YouTube video by BadHasbara
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January 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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elivalley.bsky.social
How to say "ethnic cleansing" in NYT-speak
Mr. Smotrich has long advocated for _helping Gazans who want to leave to depart_ and for the Israeli military to remain in the enclave in order to pave the way for eventual Jewish settlement there. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/world/middleeast/trump-gaza-jordan-egypt.html
January 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Two days after this monstrous institution did this:
Per the settlements, Harvard will clarify that its non-discrimination policies protect Israeli and Jewish students and adopt the widely-used but controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of antisemitism. The definition — which a group of pro-Israel affiliates urged Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 to adopt in a May letter — classifies certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic. The definition could allow Harvard to crack down on pro-Palestine student protesters who have condemned Israel’s war in Gaza and policies toward Palestinians, often in harsh terms.
January 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM