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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Asked about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, ICE Acting Director Tom Homan says that "free speech has limitations"
March 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
megandunkno.bsky.social
The national parks, in the words of Ken burns, are america’s best idea. To gut their protections and maintenance is obscene and idiotic and should be seen as sacrilegious imo
March 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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johncusack.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 9
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
alfred hugenberg is probably the best Nazi era stand in for Musk, albeit with many key differences. among them, hugenberg started as an independent conservative political force seeking elected office

but there are many striking parallels
josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · Feb 11
History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes...
As self-proclaimed “economic dictator,” Hugenberg kept pace with Hitler in outraging political opponents and much of the public. He purged ministries. He dismantled workers’ rights. He lowered the wages of his own employees by 10 percent. “The real battle against unemployment lies singularly and alone in reestablishing profitability in economic life,” one of Hugenberg’s newspapers editorialized, arguing that the goal of economic policy should be to rescue “the professions, and those most negatively affected: the merchant middle class.” Hugenberg declared a temporary moratorium on foreclosures, canceled debts, and placed tariffs on several widely produced agricultural goods, violating trade agreements and inflating the cost of living. “It just won’t do,” Hitler objected in one cabinet meeting, “that the financial burdens of these rescue measures fall only on the poorest.” Let them suffer awhile, Hugenberg argued. “Then it will be possible to even out the hardships.” The economy fell into chaos. The press dubbed Hugenberg the Konfusionsrat —the “consultant of confusion.”
February 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
A deeply sobering but important article here from @hungrybowtie.bsky.social podcast episode to come via It Could Happen Here

shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-fe...
If Trump and Musk continue to get their way it could take years to fix, but the past ten years have shown us you can’t return to normal. There probably is no going back. The options are to hunker down and play it slow and try to survive whatever happens in the next 2-4 years while offering passive resistance. Or accelerate to whatever comes next, put cards on the table, trigger a kinetic confrontation, and fully manifest the results of this constitutional crisis. We are dealing with managing crumbles vs. full systems collapse. Sad face emoji. “When Congress is willing to hand the keys over to the president, then we really no longer have, you know, a democracy, or at least the constitutional democracy that was created a couple centuries ago,” says Derek Black, a constitutional law professor at the University of South Carolina. “The bigger danger, I think, is that through law itself, Congress cedes more and more power to the president with new legislation, so if Congress were to pass new legislation giving the president more centralized power, that would be a concerning thing to me.”
February 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
rad dude
February 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
I've seen a lot of posts about how shitty the bomb was and folks, if someone makes a bomb that blows up when they want it to blow up they are automatically in the top like, 1% of bomb-guys
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 3
Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who detonated a homemade bomb packed into a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t.
Soldier’s Bomb in Cybertruck Explosion at Trump Hotel Could Have Been More Lethal
Fellow soldiers say the Army sergeant who set off the explosion could have done far more harm. Investigators are trying to figure out why he didn’t.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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hanrahan.tv
Check out Roman’s thread regarding the depravity of the ultra-sadist groups currently causing hell for anyone vulnerable. Roman is one of the greatest journalists of this era for real.
romanhoefner.bsky.social Roman Höfner @romanhoefner.bsky.social · Dec 12
A deep dive into the dark world of so-called 'COM'/'764' chat groups, which push vulnerable individuals toward self-harm, animal cruelty, and even suicide: Samuel Hervey died a horrific death in front of a camera, encouraged and even cheered on by members of these chat groups.
December 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
this guy wore a mask and didn't keep his cell phone on him when he fled and as a result a police department that is itself one of the largest armed forces and intelligence agencies on planet earth is completely flummoxed
jphillll.bsky.social Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · Dec 7
One of the NYPD brass said “this isn’t blue bloods” when explaining they can’t just immediately find the guy and I like that years of copaganda have set standards cops can’t meet and might be contributing to people’s correct perception that cops don’t effectively stop crime or find killers.
December 7, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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“But UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad; they have to be tested in the country in a certified lab of which there are now none.”

I mean… ffs…

Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
as a fun moral question can anyone explain to me an ethical difference between being an insurance company CEO and firing a gun blindly into a crowd
December 5, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
"We could not choose to leave the silos even if we wanted to: they are being constructed around us, demanding ever-steeper admission fees to ever-shrinking cultural conversations."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)
November 30, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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dbergstresser.bsky.social
Poem by Joseph Fasano
November 29, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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jamesstout.bsky.social
If they win, they’d better put this guy on the money and the stamps.
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Nov 30
The Moscow puppet government in Georgia decided to attack pro-democracy protestors with water cannons, pepper spray, tear gas, and rubber bullets, the protestors responded with the equivalent of a fireworks mini gun. #georgiaprotests
December 1, 2024 at 1:48 AM