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Inventing Antifa In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

"This does not mean that you are doomed: it means you are already brave. You are brave for not bowing down: this makes you different than the universities and newspapers and state officials who capitulated at the slightest provocation."
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.

The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.

The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

Honestly, there is something deeply ironic of a nation that views itself as a successor to the tradition of Rome, and has rendered its Senate irrelevant and is ruled by a mad Emperor who has chosen to go to war with a nation that views itself as a successor to Ancient Persia.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

Event | No Kings, but Yaaaas Queen! — Mass 50501 On June 14th, a day of nationwide No Kings Day protests, Mass 50501 will join Boston Pride for the People with a parade contingent and a table at the Boston Common as part of the festival.

www.mass50501.org/events/june14

Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

I’m worried about what happens when we start having AI-generated video going around to provoke people :/

Substack proudly funds the nazi voices on their platform. Please stop publishing on substack if you have any modicum of concern about the information ecosystem and the economics of hate. I know many people who absolutely do know better who continue to publish there and it is second-hand embarrassing

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

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$45 billion for adult and family detention. That would be enough to detain 100,000 people at a time, perhaps more. The New York Times reported in early April that ICE had already requested proposals from contractors who run detention facilities. Add another $3 billion for the Office of Refugee Resettlement to hold migrant children who arrive unaccompanied. How much is that combined $48 billion? Adjusted for inflation, it would be: Enough to cancel the debt of 1,240,814 student loan holders ( averaging $38,375 each). A generous estimate of what it would cost to end U.S. homelessness for 19 months ($30 billion per year). 1.6 times the global revenue of the entire music industry in 2024 ($29.6 billion in 2024 dollars). More than enough to build a new stadium for all 30 Major League Baseball teams (the Oakland As’ new stadium in Las Vegas is expected to cost $1.5 billion). More than Netflix’s forecast worldwide revenue from its 300 million-plus subscribers in 2025 ($43.5 to $44.5 billion). ICE’s detention budget in 2024 totaled $3.43 billion to hold 41,500 people at a time. This bill would quadruple that capacity,

Second, the Bill sets the stage for massive privatized, for-profit concentration camps. It will quadruple the capacity of ICE to detain people--giving it capacity to detain, in for-profit arrangements where corporations make money per person per day, at least 100,000 more people.

Every single segment on cable news about Jake Tapper's book talking Biden is one less covering Trump's corruption, his war on our Constitution and his crimes! And that is by design.

I know that people love to scream at anyone who dares to try to give people a heads up about how advanced "AI"-type stuff is (which is essential for being able to spot it to avoid getting fooled by it), but I think it's important, actually, to be aware that this is where the tech is currently at.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

I'm really concerned about this as well...

Someone needed to play more red light-green light in kindergarten…

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

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The US Has Spent Over $500,000 on Hyper-Targeted YouTube Ads to Discourage Irregular Migration A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry.

A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry. www.wired.com/story/dhs-yo...

I think about this book so often these days.

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: “Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: “Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

NYT has it backwards! Headline should read "How the US high-tech economy became so dependent on cheap university research"

This is an unusual order for several reasons, suggesting the majority thought it necessary. This was issued:
• after midnight
• before the government even responded (perhaps most irregular)
• while a Fifth Circuit request remains pending &
• before a dissenting justice could finish their statement.