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WOW... JUST WOW...

In order to justify invoking the insurrection act in Portland, Oregon, trump faked a riot with professional videographers, the military and hired extras.

Sen. Jeffrey Merkley tells us what happened :

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Anyone else starting to get annoyed they keep calling what's clearly a revival a "reboot"

If it's continuing from the previous era, and nothing's starting over, and most or all of the previous cast are coming back, it is DEFINITIONALLY a revival not a reboot

I am sorry. As a fellow teacher, hate that.

Just to remind y'all the Street Judges are not your friend: You can be arrested for illegal amounts joy in public (Judge Dredd Magazine #457) of and for having a book club (2000AD 2320)

6/ Hating the underprivileged for fighting to gain rights and respect because you feel you're being stripped of things you were "entitled" to by existing is a mark of the Alt-Right. Iago is one of the biggest examples of, for lack of a better term, a Proud Boy before they existed.

5/ Othello fights for his rights against his society's transgressions, even if he's an agent of an imperialist regime, and Iago HATES that. He hates someone he views as not entitled to these privileges, rising in society, taking what Iago feels is Iago's birthright

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AND Othello gave a second promotion to Cassio, who Iago felt was bookish and weebish and not a "real man" like Iago. Again, Iago speaks of entitlement, "I know my price, I am worth no worse a place."

3/ Othello on the other hand is a Moor in 16th-century Venice, a violent and oppressively racist situation. But he's married to a nobleborn Venician woman, loved by the Duke and the Senate, and gained the promotion Iago was vying for.

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He's a native born Venetian man. He's married to a woman from a highborn family. By every right and standard, he shouldn't be as miserable as he is. But he's not as successful as he wants to be. His wife hates him. His friends are easily manipulated but they're not true friends and equals.

A Thread: So, I been thinking about Othello and the Alt-right, and I have a thesis. May be me being overly analytical, but here it is. Iago hates Othello, not just because he's a Moor, but because both of them are unhappy, but Iago feels he (Iago) is ENTITLED to be happy.

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Chicago Police Dismissed a Recruit’s Claims That a Colleague Sexually Assaulted Her. Then He was Accused Again and Again. The Invisible Institute and ProPublica reviewed over 300 complaints accusing Chicago officers of sexual assault and misconduct. Time and time again, the police department downplayed or ignored claims,...

NEW: We identified at least 14 officers in the Chicago Police Department who, according to disciplinary records, have faced multiple accusations of sexual assault or misconduct in the past 10 years.

Most have not been convicted.

With @invisible.institute

@bumblekast.bsky.social

I got excited and posted this to Ian directly, apologies. But I wanted to ask: Is this the first time Sonic's used Chaos Control since Sonic '06, and how'd you spin that?

@ianflynnbkc.bsky.social I am SO JAZZED by this. I think this is the first time Sonic's used Chaos Control since Sonic '06. Is that right?

Remember: The buying of News media by large corporations and billionaires is an effort to prevent muckraking endeavors into their own business affairs.

It's a tactic to delay information of their own wicked deeds

Here's the 'Fire Elon Musk' Ad the Washington Post Refuses to Run | Common Dreams "Is it only okay to run things in The Post now that won't anger the president or won't have him calling Jeff Bezos asking why this was allowed?"

Share to hurt a thin-skinned autocrat!

Here's the 'Fire Elon Musk' Ad the Washington Post Refuses to Run www.commondreams.org/news/elon-mu...

Resort crime is now legal

Writing again is helping my mental

Three DOGE members raise access concerns at US Energy Department, sources say Members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency have started working at the U.S. Energy Department where officials are concerned that they could get access to personnel files and information about disbursement of federal grants, two sources said on Friday.

"Wright said the DOGE members do not have security clearances and are not looking at nuclear weapons secrets. The department's National Nuclear Security Administration is in charge of maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons complex and labs." www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...

Right-Wing Crusade Against USAID Has Been Fueled by Falsehoods As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work.

A lot of the claims being made by the Trump administration against USAID are false. Read my colleagues @stevenleemyers.bsky.social and @stuartathompson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

Trump Administration Orders 'Catastrophic' Funding Cuts For Science Research Scientists and medical experts said the move to effectively slash NIH grants will interrupt research across the country.

The White House is slashing funding for National Institutes of Health grants, a “catastrophic” hit to science research

Hey, you heard of Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran? The employees that broke into the Treasury department with Musk? The ones Musk threatens legal action if you post their names?

“Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point.”

I appreciate the effort to sound the alarm and identify historic echoes—and many are making this analogy—but Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, unlike the NIH et al., was not a government agency. Worse, the book burnings of 1933 did not involve the Institute setting its own records on fire.

Trump defends his controversial new tariffs: “Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!). But we will make America great again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid.”

White folks were sending their children to die on civil war battlefields in the service of white supremacy so this is extremely light work.

Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

OK, so Black, Hispanic and Native people do not deal with spooky stuff.
Can my Asian homies tell me if they're with us or with White people going "Let's check it out"?

Oh wait! You shouldn't!..... ah, you'll figure it out