Dan Ust

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If you can't tell the difference between hate speech and speaking against hate, you're probably a Republican.

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

You “regret” mistakes. This was not a mistake. They deliberately shackled these people and distributed video of them being humiliated. They detained them for days after.

What they regret is that, this time, their gleeful anti-immigrant violence wrought negative consequences for the administration.

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

They used Kirk’s podcast to praise his alleged commitment to free speech, while announcing that they’ll be using the full force of the federal government to silence the left.

Just so we’re clear on how disingenuous this is: Vance mentioned Soros by name. Soros has never promoted violence.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Donald Trump, defender of free speech and foe of the administrative state, unleashes the administrative state on broadcasters whose speech he dislikes: www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Yeah. It’s happening here.

This is preferable to terrorizing black neighborhoods. But it also just confirms what we all knew: the whole operation is about projecting the image of safety for tourists, politicians, and white residents, not reducing crime. (Which terrorizing black neighborhoods also would not accomplish.)

Great thread!

If there’s any solace to be had right now, it’s that all of these videos show multiple people recording everything on their phones.

It really is inspiring. Keep it up.

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When the antebellum Slave Power whined of abolitionist "agitation," censoring the mail and demanding speech be suppressed, they didn't so much fear abstract moral arguments. They were infuriated, and threatened, by the simple factual accounts of what they were doing. And they weren't exaggerations.

Funny how the "only happy talk" rule about America that is going to be enforced on museums about history is not going to be enforced against false depictions of contemporary cities as crime-ridden hellholes.

Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: ‘There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere’ Maggie Haberman said Democrats risk seeming out of touch when they push back on President Donald Trump over his policing takeover.

Infuriating to watch elite journalists embrace MAGA narratives.

It isn’t about crime. It was never about crime. We know this because they said so. Taking over blue cities was the plan from the start. So stop pretending that they’re sincere.

www.mediaite.com/media/tv/mag...

It's almost as if liberalism has spent centuries deliberately eroding all power and capacity outside the state, such that legions of people being formally opposed to something provides almost no checks or balances if a fascist still wins within the state's internal electoral system.

I’ve gotten some negative feedback about the language I used about Columbia. Although I accept people choosing their own tone, I decline to accept tone critiques from people who wish to follow decorum obediently into a ditch. Columbia’s leadership is contemptible Vichy scum.

Green Lake boat launch

THREAD. It is an honor to announce that we have just sued the Riverside Sheriff, Riverside County, and the Riverside Superior Court in a landmark case challenging the constitutionality of jailing presumed innocent people solely because they cannot pay cash bail.

Hiking around Fortune Creek Pass, WA

A meme with two parts. The top half is text that reads: "ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmarked cars with no uniforms or identification as law enforcement to abduct people, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they're ICE for days afterwards." The bottom half is a scene from the movie The Cabin in the Woods, showing a man in a shirt and tie standing in front of a large whiteboard with monster names on it, raising his arm. Overlaid text says, "Who had 'Glitter bombing the Gestapo' on their bingo card?"

Let me guess: Trump appointees

Rereading Neuromancer and some 80s and 90s tech culture writing is reminding me we used to imagine the internet would be a weird and individualistic culture of DIY hardware and strange people in strange corners battling corporate takeover. Instead we got platforms and everyone wanting an iPhone.

Federal prisoner in Kansas: For two days, I was forced to live in a cell covered by an inch and half of raw sewage. Tenth Circuit (unpublished): Sounds gross, but haven’t you heard? Bivens is dead. Prisoner: That ruling essentially nullifies the Eighth Amendment. Tenth Circuit: Not so; it’s sovereign immunity that does that.

the fact that it's essentially impossible to hold a federal agent responsible for their unconstitutional behavior should be a bigger deal while federal agents are assaulting a city

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My hot takes on the lines separating protest, violent protest, and rioting are

a) it is neither violent protest nor rioting for one's body to be acted upon violently by state actors

and

b) it's dumb to argue about the rest when protestors are sticking to non-violent tactics.

Mt Rainier

The party that subjected Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Michael Byrd, Ruby Freeman, Shaye Moss, Ashley Thomas and countless other public servants to death threats demand that you to stop posting the names of the ICE agents who are snatching innocent people off the street and disappearing them.