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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

The social contract is ablaze.

Oh yes- please do base validity on the number of likes! That seems absolutely rational.

Didn't expect you to be so quick to dismiss an entire marginalized group that already has more than enough haters but hey, why not- it's not *your* marginalized group.

both sides, huh?

U.S. Olympic men’s cross-country ski team member Ben Ogden, second from left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 5 at the competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left, Ogden’s teammates are Zak Ketterson, JC Schoonmaker and Zanden McMullen. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Masked members of the U.S. women’s Olympic cross-country ski team pose for a photo Thursday, Feb. 5 after a news conference at their competition venue in Tesero, Italy. From left , Jessie Diggins, Hailey Swirbul, Sammy Smith, Julia Kern, Novie McCabe and Rosie Brennan. (Nathaniel Herz for FasterSkier)

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

That Jeff Bezos's Amazon gave Brett Ratner, someone photographed with Jeffrey Epstein and in the Epstein Files, $75 million to make a doc about Melania Trump, while he chooses to destroy The Washington Post, says about all you need to know.

This powerful scene shows something survivors have been trying to explain for decades.

Freeze. Comply. Dissociate. These are not choices — they’re automatic trauma responses.

F*ck those who don’t understand.

Body cams- not being transparent- this is another way to grift. How much more "funding" can they possibly need?!

Takeaway:
Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service"

This has 2 parts:
1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data
2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse

I hate it when slews of experienced law and order get removed or forced to quit their jobs.
Terrorists attack the defenders.
It's what they do.

Pretty positive Robert De Niro and Adam Sandler are not Epsteiners.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

And how long before the people (wrongly) jailed these camps become the Amazon warehouse free labor force?

The reality of the situation is that whatever Trump personally thinks about anything, he is allowing Stephen Miller to run his administration because he is lazy and stupid, and the entire decision-making apparatus on immigration has been infested with Nazis.

partial quote of Bari's speech: "with trust in the mainstream news organization and the legacy press at historic lows- and it's not hard to understand why- many people have retreated to news sources that protect them from conflicting narratives. I don't need to name them. you know who they are.

Actually, Bari, I think you should explain why "trust in the mainstream news organization and the legacy press" is "at historic lows" and spell out what news sources you think people retreat to "that protect them from conflicting narratives". I think your explanation would be...edifying.

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

And at this point, they've enabled such an enormous amount of pain, trauma, irrevocable harm, and actual death- I don't know what kind of off ramp is possible here (I do fervently hope there is one).

But the current "this is what I voted for!" crowd has permanently changed how I view this country.

Kind of like how they can't understand that the people out protesting have not been paid?

This is not “law-enforcement”… this is state sanctioned domestic terrorism!!!

Get ICE the fuck off our streets now!

Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.”
They are supposed to report the truth.

DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun.

Any second now, I'm sure.

He was a white guy, if that helps?

Hello? NRA?

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

Everyone who ever got turned down for a car loan or a mortgage or credit card should sue the bank!

Embrace the new normal!

Even if RFK did react to the flu vaccine so what? The rest of us can't get it because it affected him? Science says that's ridiculous.

His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him

16 years after the Supreme Court decided Citizens United, the damage is unmistakable.

Unlimited money has warped our politics, empowered the wealthiest and biggest special interests, and pushed everyday voters to the sidelines.