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Bomb threat sent to anti-Trump conference singles out officer who tangled with ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio denies involvement despite organizers attributing threat to someone claiming to be ‘Enrique T’ Attendees of a center-right political conference in Washington DC were forced to evacuate on Sunday, after someone claiming to be Enrique…

Bomb threat sent to anti-Trump conference singles out officer who tangled with ex-Proud Boys leader

It's a publishing fairy tale. 'Hansel and Gretel' is reimagined by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never met: Stephen King and the late Maurice Sendak.

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Dumb people are easier to manipulate.

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.

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I mean, ACAB. But the feds are probably mostly sane. Which is more than can be said about the current situation.

Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.

Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

I hope all these unemployed cops, generals, and spies are getting organized.

Am I really supposed to go to work in the middle of a coup? We're all gonna die and I have to make chicken salad.

Don't let him in!

Theft is the word.

Shouldn't he be charging Elon Musk with something?

Hatred of police not racism motivated children in English riots, report finds Children’s commissioner says young people involved in disorder felt disempowered and saw chance to retaliate A deep distrust of the police and a lack of youth opportunities fuelled the involvement of hundreds of “disempowered” children in last year’s…

Hatred of police not racism motivated children in English riots, report finds

YouTube video by R Falconer Red Dwarf - Rimmer painting scene

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Here's your government efficiency-
"We want power blue, not baby blue," Trump said. "Everything has its time and place. We'll be changing the colors." [Of airforce 1]
Reminds me of Rimmer from Red Dwarf.

The Proud Boys Are Plotting a Comeback. And They Want Revenge Fresh out of federal prison, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio suggests he’s still in charge as the far-right organization looks to regroup.

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Nice guy. This was on a story from KXAN about empty offices downtown. He says there will be more once the "illegals and liberals are deported".

U.S. accuses six landlords of rent price fixing. See which apartments they own in Austin. According to an analysis by KUT, these companies own and manage at least 52,715 rental homes in the Austin metro. That accounts for roughly 13% of all multifamily homes.

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