Rekabeiram
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A Fulbright scholar flees the county after ICE came looking for her - per NYT her social media activity was liking pro-Palestine posts.
We are in deep, folks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
We are in deep, folks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
March 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A Fulbright scholar flees the county after ICE came looking for her - per NYT her social media activity was liking pro-Palestine posts.
We are in deep, folks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
We are in deep, folks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
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A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
West Ada teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove ‘Everyone is welcome here’ signs
Sarah Inama said she was told by administrators that her signs “don’t allow people to express differing opinions.”
www.idahostatesman.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.
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Just remember that testing the waters by going after an unsavory or unsympathetic person's civil rights is a tried and true authoritarian tactic.
A Tale of Two Bigots
The stories of Marko Elez, Mahmoud Khalil, and the Camp Auschwitz guy show what the right means when it talks about “free speech.”
www.thebulwark.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Just remember that testing the waters by going after an unsavory or unsympathetic person's civil rights is a tried and true authoritarian tactic.
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Since Obama administration, at least, leftists/radicals repeatedly warned that Dems pouring cash into ICE and militarized police was not just evil in its own right, but laying the groundwork for open fascism.
We were dismissed, with various degrees of vitriol, for pointing this obvious fact out.
We were dismissed, with various degrees of vitriol, for pointing this obvious fact out.
March 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Since Obama administration, at least, leftists/radicals repeatedly warned that Dems pouring cash into ICE and militarized police was not just evil in its own right, but laying the groundwork for open fascism.
We were dismissed, with various degrees of vitriol, for pointing this obvious fact out.
We were dismissed, with various degrees of vitriol, for pointing this obvious fact out.
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DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
March 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
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WOW — “Republican lawmakers in Montana voted en masse to help defeat 2 extreme anti-trans bills in an unprecedented move after powerful speeches from 2 trans reps.”
A reminder of how extreme our TN GOP supermajority is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A reminder of how extreme our TN GOP supermajority is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
WOW — “Republican lawmakers in Montana voted en masse to help defeat 2 extreme anti-trans bills in an unprecedented move after powerful speeches from 2 trans reps.”
A reminder of how extreme our TN GOP supermajority is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A reminder of how extreme our TN GOP supermajority is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is how it’s done folks. If your rep won’t hold a town hall because they know what they’re doing is unpopular, hold one for them and let everyone in your community know what they’re up to.
Congressman Jack Bergman’s constituents held a town hall tonight—because their cowardly congressman refused.
He’s happy to cash a taxpayer-funded paycheck but too scared to face the people he’s supposed to represent. Pathetic.
He’s happy to cash a taxpayer-funded paycheck but too scared to face the people he’s supposed to represent. Pathetic.
March 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is how it’s done folks. If your rep won’t hold a town hall because they know what they’re doing is unpopular, hold one for them and let everyone in your community know what they’re up to.
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this
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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
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BREAKING: More than a half-dozen Tesla charging stations TORCHED near Boston. Another ‘random’ act or the beginning of something… French? When the system fails, people start lighting matches.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
March 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
BREAKING: More than a half-dozen Tesla charging stations TORCHED near Boston. Another ‘random’ act or the beginning of something… French? When the system fails, people start lighting matches.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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What do you call it when 10 Dems have dinner with 214 Nazis?
224 Nazis.
224 Nazis.
BREAKING: House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for his actions during President Trump’s joint address to Congress.
The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution.
The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution.
House votes to censure Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's speech to Congress
The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution.
www.nbcnews.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What do you call it when 10 Dems have dinner with 214 Nazis?
224 Nazis.
224 Nazis.
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Since Musk wants to replace Air Traffic employees with AI, the thing from now on should be to blame AI for all air accidents. Make AI associated with lack of safety, danger, and death. Anything else that goes bad also blame it on AI replacements. “They’re taking our jobs!” rhetoric to the extreme
NEW: A majority of voters (57%) think Trump’s FAA firings are making air travel less safe.
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/2/...
www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/2/...
February 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Since Musk wants to replace Air Traffic employees with AI, the thing from now on should be to blame AI for all air accidents. Make AI associated with lack of safety, danger, and death. Anything else that goes bad also blame it on AI replacements. “They’re taking our jobs!” rhetoric to the extreme
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quite remarkable that they went from demagoging "nameless faceless bureaucrats," to demagoging the press for seeking the identity of a nameless faceless bureaucrat
“Everybody knew, and we said who she was to all of you,” Leavitt snapped today at reporters asking for more details about new DOGE administrator Amy Gleason. “Because you are hounds in the media who are so obsessed with this for some reason!”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Karoline Leavitt slams press for being ‘obsessed’ with identity of new DOGE head
‘Everybody knew, and we said who she was to all of you,’ Karoline Leavitt snapped. ‘Because you are hounds in the media who are so obsessed with this for some reason!’
www.independent.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
quite remarkable that they went from demagoging "nameless faceless bureaucrats," to demagoging the press for seeking the identity of a nameless faceless bureaucrat
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Whoever had prison guards set fire to the prisoner transport vehicles on their 2025 bingo card, then mark your card.
www.wcax.com/2025/02/24/n...
www.wcax.com/2025/02/24/n...
New York prison buses vandalized amid protests by guards
Two inmate transport buses in New York were vandalized amid an ongoing corrections officer strike.
www.wcax.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Whoever had prison guards set fire to the prisoner transport vehicles on their 2025 bingo card, then mark your card.
www.wcax.com/2025/02/24/n...
www.wcax.com/2025/02/24/n...
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The machine that makes things up and tells me it's okay to eat glue is going to decide what matters
NEW: Info gathered from Musk's 5 accomplishments email is expected to be run through an AI system to determine whether or not someone's work is mission-critical, according to three sources with knowledge of the system
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
DOGE will use AI to assess the responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond to an email from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
www.nbcnews.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The machine that makes things up and tells me it's okay to eat glue is going to decide what matters
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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
February 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
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"NPC" betrays elitist mindset that allows for discarding anyone it's expedient to regard as inferior.
But as Gwen (& Jamelle, see shared) point out, it goes deeper: It lets the elitist regard them as SIMULATIONS OF PEOPLE.
Given creeping infestation of #TESCREAL & #EAcc that should be scary.
But as Gwen (& Jamelle, see shared) point out, it goes deeper: It lets the elitist regard them as SIMULATIONS OF PEOPLE.
Given creeping infestation of #TESCREAL & #EAcc that should be scary.
"NPC" as an insult has its roots in 4chan memes and suggests not only that some categories of people aren't really people, but that they are disposable in a moral sense.
It is not just an illiberal insult, it is a fascist insult with genocidally violent undertones.
It is not just an illiberal insult, it is a fascist insult with genocidally violent undertones.
i think the “NPC” insult is dehumanizing and illiberal and *rich* coming from a guy who thinks entirely in mindless dinner party cliches. in fact, all you need to know what he will think about anything is to know what parties he goes to.
February 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM