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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.

Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.

(Published 2023 by @ericumansky.bsky.social & @farooqumar.bsky.social)

Legal permanent resident spends 40+ years in prison after prosecutors violated his Due Process rights by hiding exculpatory evidence.
Court finally overturns conviction & he’s released from prison.
ICE detains him.

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

Here’s a video and thread on how the White House is following the script developed by Goebbels nearly a century ago.🧵

The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools None

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Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity MESA, AZ—Gleefully describing the inevitable day when society would collapse and digital files would become unusable, local physical media collector David Campbell confirmed Wednesday he was “absolute...

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands returns to the National Mall A statue featuring President Donald Trump alongside convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has reappeared in front of the Capitol after it was removed last week.

A statue depicting President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein reappears on the National Mall amid the government shutdown.

CRESTRICTED] ORIENTATION FACT SHEET 64 WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM! Note For This Week's Discussion: Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis; (2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

A lot of people who sign up for their health insurance next month will see that it’s doubled or tripled in price. That’s unaffordable.

And that's what Democrats are fighting to stop from happening, but Trump and Republicans would rather shut down the government than fix it.

re-regulation of the practice of law you say? Tennessee has entered the chat: faughnanonethics.com/icymi-becaus...

Incredible pairing of text and chart

Inge of the Supreme Court but six justices are Trump

One more time

A Simple Law That Would Unshackle AI for Legal Use Uncertainty surrounds whether providing legal help, advice, or services to consumers and small businesses through GenAI tools is considered an unauthorized practice of law and may even be a crime.

Is providing AI legal help a crime under UPL law? Not clear. And this chills developing and deploying legal help for consumers and businesses. A modest proposal to fix this…. #AIisnotUPL www.americanbar.org/groups/law_p...

WATCH: ICE agent VICIOUSLY shoves and tackles a woman who is upset after masked men dragged off her husband.

Sickening. (From Elaad Eliahu)

Precisely which “liberal ideals”?

In 2016, JD Vance mused that Trump might be "America's Hitler"

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID.

They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it.

This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing. Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.

Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.

Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.

By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill

So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments.

Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.

Fox host Brian Kilmeade calls for the execution of mentally ill people who commit crimes: "Involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill them."
And you watch: He won't be suspended by Fox. The right wing supports euthanasia as long as they get to decide who gets it.

Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead. Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer, with the lab facing a 40% cut in funding in President Trump's budget.