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At some point the mood in the administration will flip from “we don’t have to worry about consequences because we will never lose power” to “we must make sure we don’t lose power because if we do, oh God the consequences“.

We’ll know that moment when we see it. It won’t be fun for anyone.

The fact they are doing publicity for urban black sites and feeder concentration camps within the cities they are waging terror campaigns against should tell you what this is.

The takeover of democratically held cities by fascist troops this is the first step of many towards a fascist police state

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.

To Donald Trump:

Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities.

Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US.

Stop attacking the 1st Amendment.

Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.

Every single Republican owns this.

My House Rep. My State Rep. The city council. My neighbors. The "apolitical" Supreme Court.

I'm really struggling to see how all of this ends. We can't go back to "normal"

Emotionally I waffle back and forth between "haha fuck it, this might as well happen" and an intense unforgiving hatred for everyone who voted for this.

This better be giant, all-caps type in headlines on every news outlet in the country for days. This is our government literally declaring war on it's own citizens. This isn't nuanced or ambiguous, he is saying it very clearly.

But I have zero confidence in our national media to meet this moment.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

You cannot trust the federal government Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.

"The leadership of the FBI, DOJ, and DHS have proven their agencies are not capable of conducting investigations based on anything other than Trump’s political objectives. Simply put: the federal govt can no longer be trusted, & the Trump admin only has itself to blame." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

Trump is sending U.S. troops into Portland "in force" to fight a war that doesn’t exist, against an enemy he made up. This isn’t America, it’s a nightmare.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Not just because he can’t take a joke. His favorite thing is hurting Americans.

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

Imagine being these world leaders and experienced diplomats and just having to sit there and listen to this maniac talking absolute dangerous bollocks for hours. It’s sometimes hard to believe this is real life.

People came from all over the world. They have serious problems to solve.

Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

A headshot photo of Professor Andrea Lopez Lang.

#HispanicHeritageMonth Spotlight: Andrea Lopez Lang @alopezlang.bsky.social is a professor at @uwmad-aos.bsky.social.

She served as AMS Councilor, chair of the Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.

Authoritarianism is scary and dangerous but so very far from invincible. And if you let yourself be convinced too much of their power, then they've won. Authoritarianism is built on fragile illusions of control and competence. It's hard but brittle and shatters readily under even a little pushback.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

It is possible the admin is moving too fast. Even the simplest folks out there are going to start to wonder what's going on when a whole bunch of rich white guys are cancelled for saying innocuous stuff (except for the fox news guy who wants to kill homeless people who still has a job).

Helene in Southern Appalachia One year later: An event analysis and how we move forward.

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps.

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Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

A tacit admission that he is completely ensconced in a right-wing echo chamber.

More importantly, it is clear as day that Trump and MAGA want to use his murder - as awful as it is - as an excuse to criminalize entire categories of speech and beliefs they object to, or just find annoying. This must be fought with every ounce of energy we can muster.

No one ever taught them how to regulate their emotions.

Because no one ever taught them how to regulate their emotions.

Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

“If you can’t honor a man by quoting him directly because his own words seem disparaging to his legacy, then perhaps you shouldn’t try to honor him at all.” Watch my latest here: www.youtube.com/live/2Mv50KZ...

Hi. I’m Rachel.

My name is first on the website the North American far-right is using to target people they say “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death.

There’s just one problem: I never did that.

But the people sending me threats don’t seem to care.

Let me tell you, in my own words, what happened: