Lisa the Knitter

Ten Articles Explaining the 2024 Election Some background reading

The Republicans will kill you, and the Democrats will let you die.

An explainer on enablers from last year -- and before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...

Servants of the Mafia State Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth

Garland is 100% complicit. If you have not read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social on the subject, here is one of many times she laid it all out.

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

We now have a concentration camp in Florida.

Stop pretending any of this is normal.

If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.

Be human.

Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.

Reject Bill Undermining Judiciary's Power Over Executive Overreach Text SIGN PUJPSD to 50409 to send this to your officials.

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When Trump’s sister got exposed for tax fraud during his first term she was allowed to quietly retire from the bench, no perp walks for that judge. Of course she’d always helped Donald cover up his crimes. So when Kash Patel says ‘no one is above the law’ he doesn’t mean Trumps.

Thanks for reading! Appreciate it, link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

Anyone else feeling like Tess gives off Ferris Bueller vibes? Just me?

The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?

The US government recently bought powerful spyware that could make hacking your phone easier—and shape the way Trump executes some of his campaign promises, including mass deportations. My latest in
@newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

The FBI and CIA allowed the Russians to kill former US District Attorney, Jessica Aber, on our soil.

Her death is on the hands of Kash Patel and John Ratcliffe.

The case she was working on involved Russian money laundering.

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Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this?

Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

As a child, I wondered how the hell my grandfather could just sit and watch those creepy, scammy televangelists for hours. Fear is a powerful drug.

FDA staff return to crowded offices, broken equipment and missing chairs Thousands of Food and Drug Administration employees are returning to the office to find overflowing parking lots, cramped workspaces and missing equipment.

"Thousands of employees returned to the Food and Drug Administration’s headquarters Monday to find overflowing parking lots, long security lines and makeshift office spaces without chairs and other basic supplies..."
apnews.com/article/fda-...

ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st.

He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses."

They didn't show him a warrant.

They didn't give him paperwork.

And he's now suing.

March Madness: Who is the G.O.A.T. of Racism? America's greatest pasttime to see who'll be crown the Greatest Oppressor of All Time?

Our selection committee chose 64 competitors with the best resumés to compete in a single-elimination tournament. Now it's your turn to vote for the GOAT in America's REAL favorite pastime:

Racism.

Who is the Greatest Oppressor of All Time?

Becky Burke (British): 20 days in detention

Jasmine Mooney (Canadian): 12 days in detention

Jessica Brösche (German): 8 days in solitary and multiple weeks in detention

The US is not safe. Not for tourism. Not for work. Not for a “quick visit”.

Vote with your dollar. Stop going to America.

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”

@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”

NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*

(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled that the Defendants’ unilateral decision to shut down USAID likely violated the US Constitution. Indefinitely blocked the agency’s dismantling and barred Musk’s staffers from accessing sensitive personal data maintained by USAID.

Primary Sources: The Secret Slave Revolt That Started the Civil Rights Movement The story of the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmitt Till begins with a national slave revolt.

What if I told you Martin Luther King, the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, John Brown's raid, Emmett Till's murder, Muhammad Ali, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Emancipation Proclamation, Rosa Parks and the Tuskegee Airmen all have the same origin story...

A nationwide slave revolt started it all.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment:

"18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."

Judge Rules Trump Officials Must Testify in DOGE Data Lawsuit Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There's a reason they keep doing the salutes that are banned in Germany.

This AM I have re-posted stories from WaPo, the NYT and NPR. The NYT story has multiple bylines and is a thorough factual debunking of an official government communication.

You can argue about headlines and stay mad about past errors or you can realize institutional journalists are doing the work.

I honestly hope that if people hear this coming from me then maybe it will sink in

you DO NOT need to get arrested. We live in a surveillance state, an arrest now does not carry the same consequences as arrests in ‘68. The state is violent & will escalate on you. You should avoid arrest if possible

But the real fraud might be him looking in the mirror—how many years in a row did Tesla pay zero?

Tesla (2024): $0 in taxes, $2.3 billion in earnings.

Ah, right—loopholes. Almost forgot.

Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to drop this. 😏

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.