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"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."

Pam Bondi won't say what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that border czar Tom Homan pocketed in an FBI undercover investigation that the Trump regime dropped.
We don't even know if Homan paid taxes on the ill-gotten $50,000.
Crime is no longer against the law with these crooks in charge.

This is fascism in a nutshell. Right here. "A counter-revolution against a revolution that never occurred."

“Other polls say the opposite…”

“Which one?”

“Uh … I don’t know. But the poll you cited is clearly biased….”

“How exactly?”

“Uh … which poll was that again?”

This is how it’s done.

It’s very easy, and it gets results, so if an anchor isn’t asking basic follow ups, that’s a choice.

Absolutely heinous.

Very important. The “why hasn’t the market collapsed??” idea is yet another illustration of Americans’ complete lack of familiarity with real-world authoritarianism. Lots of companies can make lots of money under authoritarianism, no one should expect markets to tank in response to backsliding.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

«Freedom of speech»

exactly like the Chinese surveillance state

Sound Up 🔊

( ht: @stanrezaee.bsky.social )

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

It is a good bargain then? Democrats should stop saying thing they aren't saying anyway. They don't have to give up anything. And the right will give up fascism/authoritarian takeover.

The Village and the Sewer Behind the "Blueskyism" debate

Finally read this piece by @himself.bsky.social. It's very good, I agree with just about all of it, and I really, really wish there were a third option (other than just not being on social media, of course, because who could ever do that).

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign.

Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

Han er ikke ‘Trumps erkefiende’, @aftenposten.no . James Comey er en tidligere offentlig tjenesteperson som Trump sitt justisdepartement går etter for å avskrekke andre. Hvilke ord dere bruker i overskrifter er utrolig viktig. Til sammenligning er NYT sin overskrift.

Remember that Trump lamented that domestic violence was a crime. This is their version of “masculinity”

> @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

The point of most of the Disney movies I can remember is: stand up for what matters

And then they didn't

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

2/ Jøss. Noen sitter faktisk på NRK og har fullmakt til å bruke nyhetsdesken som en slags livetweet-strøm fra et kristen-nasjonalistisk show?

YouTube video by NestorKavli Jøkleba spilte for fullt hus

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Sagene Janitsjarkorps
Jøkleba www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoyn...

Skjønner godt at han kjenner seg igjen i å tjene masse penger og bli kjendis på å være reaksjonær. Jeg er mer usikker på hvordan tolke koblingen til arbeid, frihet og Hitlers Tyskland.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Les gjerne Ta-Nehisi Coates om dette: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Bra! Har sendt også klage, men viste bare til din begrunnelse og saksnummer.

Dette er et rent propagandaprogram, som fra nå av går ukommentert på NRK. Jeg fatter ikke hva de tenker på.

Fra Ole Torp på FB. Enig med han. Dette skjønner jeg ikke helt, NRK. Tror dette blir et etterspill.

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank.

Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall.

(Published 2021)

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?