I donโt get it. Why wouldnโt you want to send your kid to a gulag to be tortured in an undisclosed country on their way to Brown?
03.08.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0@skyspider.bsky.social
photographer, writer, documenting the far-right.
I donโt get it. Why wouldnโt you want to send your kid to a gulag to be tortured in an undisclosed country on their way to Brown?
03.08.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Box Wine Barbie will now be US Attorney for the District of Columbia.
03.08.2025 01:19 โ ๐ 503 ๐ 141 ๐ฌ 125 ๐ 15Link to register- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYlDvhSt6-Qj2buEQSkbOD5KH8AB9O8_LryagGQdunDzeLaw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=100248061387188854096 805 SpeakEasy Presents An Evening With MATTHEW BOEDY JOIN US AS WE DISCUSS DR. BOEDY'S NEW BOOK "THE SEVEN MOUNTAIN MANDATE: EXPOSING THE DANGEROUS PLAN TO CHRISTIANIZE AMERICA AND DESTROY DEMOCRACY" THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS MANDATE EXPOSING THE DANGEROUS PLAN TO CHRISTIANIZE AMERICA AND DESTROY DEMOCRACY MATTHEW BOEDY WEDNESDAY 6TH AUGUST, 2025 6PM-7:30PM An Online EVENT REGISTER NOW Matthew Body's new book, coming out September 30th, explores how a decades-long network of prosperity preachers, right-wing operatives, and leaders like Charlie Kirk have sought to seize control of seven key societal pillars to advance Christian nationalist aims. He traces the evolution of this movement from its evangelical origins into mainstream influence, arguing it laid the groundwork for Trump's presidencies and now threatens democratic institutions under the banner of divine dominion.
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Oooh! I know the answer! The incredibly well-funded oil-soaked apparatus of the Council for National Policy / CNP.
02.08.2025 17:34 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1School starts in LA on August 14. We're going to see an impact on who turns up for school and how traumatized some of our students are by this past summer. There is already a plan in place to make LAUSD students feel safe, but who wants to go to school when they may come home to disappeared parents?
02.08.2025 15:26 โ ๐ 76 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the long term it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths.
www.commondreams.org/news/doge-wa...
It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers
31.07.2025 04:47 โ ๐ 5446 ๐ 1379 ๐ฌ 100 ๐ 48More than a month since DEA, ICE and National Guard raided marijuana grows in Eastern #CoachellaValley, still no charges filed publicly.
29.07.2025 23:45 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1"A former CIA paramilitary officer and twice-failed congressional candidate ... He talked to white nationalist Nick Fuentes about helping him with his social media strategy, gave an interview to a Nazi sympathizer, downplayed the extremism of the neofascist Proud Boysโ
He also super hates Black ppl
This article is a must read for anyone who wants to better understand the Trump adminโs political pressure on care providers to stop providing gender affirming care - and how itโs something you should be worried about, even if youโre not trans.
As a reminder, this is impacting OC already.
The film Lee is OK but I remembered Iโd caught a documentary earlier and had always meant to go back for a full watch. No longer on iPlayer but here it is on YouTube
Lee Miller A Life on the Frontline, a tribute to an incredible woman who led a fascinating life
youtu.be/NoHuUpZZqsc
If youโve not seen the film โLeeโ I highly recommend it. Miller was a model turned fearless WWII photog for Vogue, and captured some of the most chilling documentary images of Death Camps.
10.07.2025 12:09 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0More on No Bill Essayli news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
29.07.2025 21:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thereโs much more, and will be follow up here: www.instagram.com/p/DMqOxMpPPaG/
29.07.2025 16:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@noellecook.com tagging you to boost if youโre up for it! Redlands Unified school board member is posting / liking Nazi content.
29.07.2025 05:00 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Redlands School Board member Candy Olson has likedโ several blatantly white supremacist posts on Instagram. She needs to resign.
28.07.2025 22:18 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3I went to the Israelis for Peace demonstration at Union Square in NYC this afternoon. Deeply solemn and moving. They're there every Sunday at 5 pm.
Today they sat in silence with empty pots and photographs of children from Gaza.
To argue that Gazans could eat if Hamas simply released the remaining hostages and surrendered is to admit that Israel is using Gazans as hostages to achieve that end.
26.07.2025 12:55 โ ๐ 532 ๐ 138 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 8A tabby cat seen from above, stretches his front paws.
Stray who stays
#cats
A white cat with grey/ brown mask around face and ears, considers how she might scratch someone while lounging on a red tablecloth.
Predator
#cats
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. Itโs made me feel ugly, unworthy, canโt go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in โsweeps.โ
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
โก๏ธ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop thatโs been set up inside of a butcherโs delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
26.07.2025 01:56 โ ๐ 7348 ๐ 1522 ๐ฌ 114 ๐ 141100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill.
They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget.
Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a โreal university,โ there could be no ideological control.
โOne prosecutor said work under Essayli has been filled with threats of termination and screaming matches over cases, leading to โvery lowโ morale.
โWhen heโs in the office, I feel like I usually find out about it because heโs yelling at someone,โ the prosecutor said.โ
Thank you, this is so good.
26.07.2025 01:45 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Trump Administration has used odd legal moves to keep its desired U.S. attorneys in place without following normal confirmation processes in N.Y. and N.J. Is L.A. next? We take a long look at @USAttyEssayli time in office so far.
25.07.2025 22:47 โ ๐ 42 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0www.latimes.com/california/s... According to this article, staff in Bill Essayliโs office call him โ No Billโ because he canโt get a grand jury to indict anyone. ๐๐๐๐
26.07.2025 01:43 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...