Faithless Grace

A reminder that the Nazis came to America to learn how racist Americans were able to get away with all their extrajudicial crimes against minorities and implementation of Jim Crow laws. The same kind of racist Americans who rule America today. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Republicans, from the very top down to the lowest of levels, are inveterate liars.

Their claims should be met with extreme skepticism if not outright dismissal until they can produce overwhelming corroborated evidence because time and again this is what they do.

“When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph… the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: ‘We’re not reporters, just bad memers.’”

Because no one besides reporters has an obligation to not lie?

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Two 17 year old girls were brutally murdered in New Jersey when a truck ran them over going 70mph.

17 year old Vincent Battiloro is charged with first degree murder.

The suspected motive? One of the girls declined his advances.

He couldn’t handle hearing the word “no” 🧵

bingo

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”

The part of Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how human music has been replaced by soulless, machine-generated pop songs. The AI attempt to take over the film and music industries is an attack on the human spirit. Boycott AI actors. Boycott AI bands. Support human artists.

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Claim: rioters attacked ICE
Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass

Yes, very difficult to remember the extremely common name of "Ghislaine Maxwell," a person you might only from their association with one of the most famous criminals in history, who was also your best friend. I could see how you'd need a little refresher.

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

The local PD believes ICE called in a fake 911 call about protestors trying to break into ICE facility. Cops only found a CBS news crew shooting B-roll.

Now why would ICE do that?

This Portland police officer stood up for his community against ICE agents trying to drive into a crowd of protesters.

“You WILL be arrested.”

"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures." ~ The United States' Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

this is already a huge problem, and it’s about to get much worse as the economy goes into recession

What a dick

Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.

Someone posted yesterday about how just 10 sick calls shut down the NY/NJ corridor during one of the previous shutdowns. 😬

Fired Prosecutor Assails Justice Dept.’s Pursuit of Trump’s Enemies

Trump, Youngkin & Miyares have weaponized their government positions to be more concerned with pursuing Trump’s political vendettas than with protecting the US against terrorist attacks.

Opinion | JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman (Published 2024)

Vance makes no efforts to keep his fascism on the DL. (Gift link)

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions. He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly. The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity. He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings. Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This guy sounds like a fucking lunatic.

3 separate news websites and not a single one mentions the house of a female judge that was burned to the ground just days after being criticized and harassed by Stephen Miller.

seems like a pretty big story, ngl

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Autism doesnt make you racist.
Ambien doesnt make you racist.
Being poor doesnt make you racist.
Being rich doesnt make you racist.
Being a cop doesnt make you racist. **

Being a hateful asshole makes you racist.