Sergey Kishchenko

#NoKings

The march should start soon I believe #NoKings

The crowd is actually larger than what you see in the pic and more and more people are joining

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident.

Release Steve Held.

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

A 12-step illustrated guide to hand washing with text taken from Dune’s “fear is the mind killer” riff

How to wash yr hands

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Again:
>looking for a new leftist movement
>ask the left populist receptionist if their leftist movement is based or tankie
>she doesn't understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is based and what is tankie
>she laughs and says "It's a good leftist movement, sir"
>join
>it's tankie

The Misleading Panic over Misinformation People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.

🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

Source

It's obviously subjective, but I'd say "pelican on a bicycle" test got saturated at least a few months ago. Google I/O is just a visible confirmation of that.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

CHICAGO…

he wants to abolish the income tax and fund the government almost entirely through tariffs, thereby delivering the most regressive bonanza to the rich in the history of American taxation. He has said this many many times. He said it *at the announcement* and yet pieces like this just ignore it.

It’s very weird to me that in all the (genuinely comical) hermeneutic reading of Trump’s decision to annihilate the global trade system, no one actually quotes one of the major reasons he himself cites for it:

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Following multiple denials from Trump and participants in the "Houthi PC small group" Signal group that information shared was classified, The Atlantic is now sharing information posted in the group. It's fair to say it has a big "Classified" energy around it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The parallels with the Yanukovych regime are becoming increasingly eerie

11/n Final Ukraine lesson: Times like this reveal dignity, both personal & national. Look inside yourself.
I hope I'm wrong, and in the end the US avoids Ukraine's 2013-14 chaos. But, wouldn't it be something? Not one (Yanukovych), not two (Assad), but THREE Putin lapdog dictators hiding in Russia?

10/n Then, regime used lethal force, started shooting to kill. Only the threat of armed escalation by protesters brought the end of it all. Be prepared for force here, but let's hope we never see that. Stay safe.

9/n In Ukraine regime & 'titushky' used force: physical assaults on protesters and their camps. Protesters responded with shields, barricades, and pushed back. This is physical, extreme violence even against the most peaceful protests, people got hurt.

8/n Ukraine protest lesson: Protest camps >>> ad-hoc demos. Camps are a focal point, as people rotate, but the protest continues. They are the center stage. If not, they're not disruptive enough. Given the parallels, a permanent protest camp around the White House in months wouldn't surprise me.