Jim Bakes
noclipping.bsky.social
Jim Bakes
@noclipping.bsky.social
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Riflemen from the Wermacht 203rd Security Brigade stand guard against agitated locals while masked Schutzstaffel agents conduct racial enforcement raids (1941, colorized)
June 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.
February 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The American right has turned to Hungary to learn how authoritarians consolidate power.

The American left should look to Poland to see how a big-tent coalition can defeat authoritarianism. It involves multiple parties appealing to different voters.
February 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Dear @Doge

If there is nothing to hide. Hide nothing
February 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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1997, watching some movie where one person takes over all the government computer systems: This is a stupid premise.

2025, watching one person take over all the government computer systems: It's still stupid this is happening.
February 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I attempt a very rough historical materialist breakdown of the tech ascendancy:—
www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...
What Happened Here
It's Very Simple Dialectics
www.unpopularfront.news
February 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Congresspeople need to force their way into buildings. Bring cameras. Surround the buildings, let only legit employees in/out. Block food deliveries (since Musk and his college dropouts are sleeping there). Be Yeltsin from Aug 1991. Force confrontations on video. bsky.app/profile/timm...
February 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
February 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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hard to even know where to start with the many things that would be illegal and/ or horrific about this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
El Salvador Offers to Jail U.S. Criminals in Notorious Mega Prison
Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any convicted criminal deported by the United States.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM