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hey guys isn't it weird how all of the abundance guys in DC started talking about the US government needing to back US AI tech companies at the same time and now government backed entities are now looking into doing this

Research Into ME/CFS Pathology Points to Possible Treatments With greater understanding of the complex pathomechanisms of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, researchers aim to target treatments.

Some healthcare providers are still referring to #mecfs and #longcovid as psychological or "functional" despite considerable research to the contrary. Here, I review the latest findings and expert thinking, with potential for treatment: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

La Migra was a place for neonazis & kukluxers to operate with federal support even before Bush-Cheney. (And I blame Bush & Cheney as individuals less than I blame the larger bipartisan racist consensus.)

It's logical that the alt-right ascendancy used them as the basis for general terror squads.

La Migra was a place for neonazis & kukluxers to operate with federal support even before Bush-Cheney. (And I blame Bush & Cheney as individuals less than I blame the larger bipartisan racist consensus.)

It's logical that the alt-right ascendancy used them as the basis for general terror squads.

When this admin finally ends we’re going to have to completely dismantle DHS and clean house on ICE/CBP/FBI and any other agency that has been taking part in this shit.

Throwing dry rice in front of Stephen Miller probably won't make him stop & count the grains. But staking his body securely into a coffin should keep him out of our hair.

Thinking about this again last night.

At this point I just operate as if vampires are real. Not in a way as to let the ruling cabals terrorize me into compliance, but as a motivation to render them immobile in their graves.

ProPublica Sheds Light on the Origins of Border Patrol’s Corruption, Abuse, and Lack of Accountability - America's Voice Reports of alleged Border Patrol and ICE misconduct have surfaced with almost regular occurrence over many years. DHS Watch has cataloged some of these reports here, here, and here. On Monday, ProPubl...

If it’s feasible to sell the abolition of CBP’s current incarnation to the voting public focusing on their lengthy, consistent history of being so corrupt that every major drug trafficking operation in Mexico knows that getting CBP officers on their payrolls is standard practice is a must.

The shit we're seeing in our streets has been SOP at our borders for decades. The cruelty, inhumanity, and death has been part of Border Patrol from the onset, and was just as horrible during Biden as it is under Trump. ICE needs to be disbanded but so does our current Border Patrol.

I’ve been trying to put the focus on this guy. And he and lewandowski have pretty much taken over DHS

I’ve been trying to figure out the messaging aspect as well. Everyone refers to the group of federal agents (CBP/ATF/HSI/ICE/FBI) as just ICE. All the signs and slogans: ICE Block, fuck ICE, abolish ICE etc. When I start explaining CBP/HSI, eyes glaze over.

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.

There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

Correct

If the reform focuses on ICE because they're the Big Baddies in the popular mind, it'll completely miss the fact that the actual worst actor (so far) and the one with an internal culture most prone to be trumpist brownshirts is the BP

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

YouTube video by Dim Sum Distortion of Truth by Association

When I was growing up my dad was in the ad business and had this movie on VHS, which was weird for an American, but this scene imprinted on me permanently. youtu.be/6iAecAtJVdE?...

The time of side-deals with white nationalists, trading Jewish safety (and everyone’s safety) for access to power, and making a mockery of the real threat of antisemitism by conjoining it with the whims of the far right is over.
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Anti-Semitic beliefs revealed in death Duxbury neighbors learn of millionaire with a complex past By Douglas Belkin GLOBE STAFF DUXBURY - Richard J. Cotter Jr. wasn't your typical Massachusetts millionaire. A bachelor since the 1940s, he lived alone in a 275-year-old estate on Surplus Street. He was worth more than $5 million, but drove a 20-year-old car and didn't own a computer or even a TV set. Though he lived for 40 years on the same street in this seaside town of Colonial homes, neighbors barely knew him. They simply considered Cotter the eccentric next door who liked to ride his horses and be left alone. In death, however, the secrets held by the horseman with old-school ties to Exeter and Harvard have slowly emerged, transforming him into something more complex. Almost two years after Cotter was laid to rest, neighbors learned that the civil law attorney with impeccable establishment credentials was a longtime white su-premacist. Just inside the doors of the stately home that few strangers entered, Cotter displayed wooden eagles from anti-Semitic groups hailing him as their man of the year. His shelves and table tops were stacked with books and pamphlets touting the virtues of white pride and far-right patriotism. His will produced varied bene-ficiaries. He left $25,000 to his favorite waitress at a Quincy diner, and more than $500,000 to help preserve the legacy of the children's book "Peter Rabbit." He left $400,000 to care for his prized American saddle show horses. But then there was the $750,000 doled out in five- and six-figure sums to Holocaust revi-sionists, white supremacist au-thors, and a church that supports extermination of Jews. Cotter's lawyers, meanwhile, confirmed that their client, a onetime Massachusetts assistant state attorney general, had advised and had met repeatedly with leaders of fringe and neo-Nazi groups, over decades. As information about the will surfaced, many along Cotter's tree-lined street wondered how well they know their n…

The person who funded Mlot-Mroz's career as a neo-Nazi troll also helped fund the careers of David Duke and William Luther Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries.

Let's stipulate that I buy into some kind of ethnic purge as a viable program rather than equivalent to doing mayhem on myself.

Why would I purge my black & brown cousins for a Polack immigrant? We still made Polack jokes in his day!

Hateful twerpery.

Even though Ben Shapiro would decry such gut bucket antisemitism, it's noteworthy that a) he's the guy partially responsible for her fame and b) Ben himself wrote an entire book about how "bad Jews" control Hollywood in 2014. He even went on a neo-Nazi show to promote it! bsky.app/profile/seth...

The Commies, playing at Donald J. Trump Stadium. Ew.

You know, the Redskins used to play at a stadium named after RFK Sr.

I wonder if Miller even thinks about the future.

I think mostly he just wants to inflict harm as deeply and immediately as possible. Idk that planning (beyond, "go raid Home Depot") really even enters the equation for him

Yes! And to build on this, there are often times I start writing something and by the end I have problematized my own argument to the point where I have talked myself out of it.

And that is very annoying but also a sign that the writing is doing its job

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”

Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

This is an actual example of emotional labor

No Trump did not redefine the international order with his latest whatever statement he is corrupt, senile old man and literally everybody has stopped taking what he says seriously it's actually kind of a problem

Maybe if more people followed adult content creators they wouldn’t need to get off on blowing up random boats in the Caribbean.

I think it triggered rich old men who then went out & preached against them from there pulpits.

We're better off when the bad preachers only get you on Sunday morning. But the Internet is 24/7/365.

So put one way, women spent decades on "municipal housekeeping" reforms, got formaldehyde out of milk, developed immunizations, got trash pick-up, insisted on funding vet services post-WWI, made factories safer, fought child labor, & then the current pres's old lawyer's boss punished them for it.

New Deal architect Frances Perkins might've felt vindicated. She was threatened w/impeachment, the subject of a birther conspiracy, went before the Dies committee, & was roasted by Coughlin on the radio. She said the New Deal was born the day she witnessed the Triangle shirtwaist fire.

thomas jefferson's life was basically like if you tried to play an immersive sim as simultaneously the most upright and most evil character possible on the same save file