Ruth Becker

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.

Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc

Why are the comedy team of Witkoff and Kushner the lead negotiators on …. ANYTHING???

No Senate approval. No confirmation process.

The only expertise these two have is the ability to enrich themselves.

How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly...

The investigation into MIT's connections with Epstein was triggered, I believe, by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social 's 2019 piece for the New Yorker. Joi Ito stepped down as director of the MIT Media Lab the next day after his piece was published.

www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Boyden refers to the the Goodwin-Proctor report -- MIT's internal investigation report, " Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"

facultygovernance.mit.edu/sites/defaul...

Based on Ed Boyden's presence, I strongly suspect this was a Silicon Valley fundraiser dinner for MIT's Media Lab.

Here are some of Prof Boyden's comments about his connection with Epstein www.media.mit.edu/posts/commen...

What must really piss him off isn’t just that Obama’s nowhere to be seen in the Epstein files —

It’s that they tried every possible means to compromise him — and failed.

pure malevolence

Rowan — along with Kushner and Witkoff and Tony “bankrolled by Oracle” Blair — is also a Trump “Board of Peace” appointee

Not Q — but well before the Q era, Pizzagate was pushed by ex CIA conspiracy theorist Robert David Steele. Sandy Hook truther POS. Died of COVID complications in 2021

Lord knows who he was working for. But we can guess

Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse | Washington Spectator Between the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, and the rapid coalescence around Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee, everyone’s rushing to…

Yes. If you really want to understand, read @davetroy.com’s work — whose grasp of these networks & their histories is as good as it gets. From 2024:
washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-...

Sarah Kendzior THEY KNEW (2022) book excerpt

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

Tweet from JD Vance: “Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path.”

To avoid the mere possibility that Holocaust remembrance might make a person draw contemporary political conclusions, JD Vance managed to post a Holocaust Remembrance Day message that does not mention Nazis, fascists, Jews, Romani, queer people, disabled people, nor any other victim or perpetrator.

Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

"citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group" is so perfectly worded tho -- thank you for that!

COLLECTIVE

LIBERATION

OR

BUST

“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom....So it was last week in Selma, Alabama."
Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.

Animated scene from the Legion of Doom cartoon: a group of supervillains seated around a large curved table in a dark, dramatic hall. At the center, a bald villain stands at a podium beneath an arch, as if presiding over a formal meeting, with other costumed villains arranged on both sides like the secret evil muthafuckin bitchass council that it is

Animated scene from the Legion of Doom cartoon: a group of supervillains seated around a large curved table in a dark, dramatic hall. At the center, a bald villain stands at a podium beneath an arch, as if presiding over a formal meeting, with other costumed villains arranged on both sides like the secret evil council that it is.

Inaugural meeting of Trump’s “Board of Peace.”
From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding.

Got my first ritalin prescription 15 years ago when I visited a psychiatrist & nervously said I'd heard ritalin helped some ppl quit smoking. He asked me half a dozen questions, smiled, and wrote me a prescription. "This is gonna change your life."

He was right. It did.

And I quit smoking, too

Independent artist reporting for holiday duty, folks! Support your local artisans! 🫶

Turnage insisted on Monday that she wasn’t paid to share the emails with anyone, despite accusations that she was receiving financial compensation.

“I’m like, really? Then why am I still sitting here eating corn dogs? I guess the check got lost in the mail. I don’t know.”

Hahahahahah 😂😂😂

To justify Thiel-like wealth you need Thiel-like crazy: the protestant work ethic, rugged individualism, & invisible hand only get you so far. To believe that's it's Good that you have such extreme power over others, you need a whole batshit crazy belief system that makes it make sense.

Yes. Concentrating power in the hands of so very few is inherently not ok. I think part of why they've developed such bizarre beliefs (lookin at you, paypal mafia!) is bc we have such a deep need to be heroes of our own stories: And only a distorted ideology can support such a distorted reality

“Rooted in my conviction”

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Vance: "The couch thing was entirely offline"

Ok right next week!
Can’t come soon enough 🔥🔥

In the meantime, so happy for
Bill! Can’t believe he sat out an entire season before joining the team — doesn’t seem to have hurt him tho 🫶

Next week?