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Document reality.

Reality is kryptonite to the fascist illusion of strength & invincibility as they subsist on myth and propaganda.

This is why they target journalists and control media.

Use or lose those First Amendment rights.

Bumping this from 3months ago.

First amendment rights to assemble and document.

Bearing witness.

Document reality.

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#Minnesota
#Chicago

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Crowd at a protest in Minneapolis, holding signs against ICE. People wear winter clothing with a visible sense of unity and determination.

Extreme cold didn’t stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

Everybody showed up. Read @sarahlazare.bsky.social's report.

inthesetimes.com/article/minn...

Great reporting from @paleofuture.bsky.social on an American concentration camp.

#ICE #CBP

Russian forces struck a school and several apartment buildings in Kharkiv, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov. He said two people were injured in the attack. The strikes also caused power outages in parts of the city. #Ukraine

Your government kills people and tries to cover it up Journalists shouldn’t trust official accounts when they know the officials are liars

When the government kills people and tries to cover it up, the news media can’t be afraid to tell us the stark truth.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

The #IRS had reopened its honors program for the office of Chief Counsel, after shutting it down last year, because, as it turns out, you actually do need lawyers to enforce tax law.
For the first time in my career, however, I will NOT encourage my students to apply.

Thanks for highlighting our prior post on the subject.

Reminder on Politico…

No question the “Lachlan & Rupert” hotline rang in the editor’s offices at WSJ and NYPost.

Reality… the demolition of Constitution and societal harms they are cool with.

My old college classmate, a part-time TikTok influencer, just openly wondered on Instagram whether something's wrong with her TikTok algorithm.

TikTok's sale to the Ellisons has been finalized. The best time to delete the app from your phones was yesterday; the second-best time to do it is now.

The Trump regime has shredded the Constitution, sent masked violent government shock troops to abuse citizen & non-citizen alike; disappearing some to concentration camps or foreign gulags; to states governed by his opposition against their “state’s rights” autonomy.
NYT: “immigration enforcement”

All of this destruction of American minds is done by Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch.

Name them. Shame them.

Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

The Fox News response to the federal government execution of Alex Pretti sets a new level of depravity

“Fox News once postured as the patriotic opposition to purported government tyranny… Right now, its primary purpose is to explain to viewers why it is good that masked agents of the state are executing Americans on the street.”
- @mattgertz.bsky.social

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This whole thread. What you're seeing from Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg *of what DHS is doing in Minnesota*!

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Please help NYT editors with that important observation.

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NEW: Massive layoffs coming to Washington Post… rumor inside Post is that sports desk could be shuttered entirely… foreign desk will be hit hard too

If this is true (and that’s not a small if), it is reasonable to posit that Bezos is trying to offload the Post. Or kill it altogether.

Sports is a top driver of traffic and subscriptions for most news sites.

And we’ve seen how Bezos and Lewis have mangled the Opinion section.

#SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 Saudi authorities are using NEOM to test #AI-enabled governance under exceptional laws that bypass accountability, displace communities, and suppress dissent, turning the megacity into a model of digital authoritarianism, reports @ADHRB. buff.ly/RlaXXIQ

another #EditorialCartoonist makes it clear.

h/t and follow @danboriscreates.bsky.social

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

We were surprised FCC Chairman Carr didn’t wear his MAGA gold Trump lapel pin to the House Oversight committee hearing @karlbode.com

these clowns are nothing if not predictable

pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim

Yes.
People are at vastly different parts of that Overton window.

Good @froomkin.bsky.social

But it’s still “appears to” in the opening sentence!

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