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Yikes

The officer who led the pursuit that ended with the death of Dominga Flores Gomez has been suspended 3 times for a total of 6 days for engaging in pursuits that violated CPD policy.
One of those pursuits occurred just 10 days before Flores Gomez was killed. @wttw.bsky.social

I have to say, @fritzforassessor.bsky.social lays out the grift here better and more clearly than I’ve ever seen done before.

A vote for Pat Hynes is a vote for corruption AND higher property taxes for homeowners.

I am forbidden by TOS everywhere to ask Republicans to do the most courageous and humane thing they could ever do.

Neoliberalism requires the enemy to be defined in the smallest and narrowest way possible so it doesn’t spread to groups that Neil liberals will defend at all costs like police and other law-enforcement we are seeing the same playbook that was used to destroy BLM after George Floyd being deployed

I am begging people to stop treating politicians like automatons with Robert House's little remote controls on their necks.

They have agency. If they're voting for something, or hiring someone, or doing something, or confirming someone, it's because they want to.

It was predictable because it is what cops have been doing for decades.

not a single "let me be clear" or sports metaphor in sight

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

Holy shit you weren't kidding

Cause they haven't had either of those for at least 60 years.

in light of the newly-verified ICE account, here’s how to to opt out & block the Bridgy Fed bot user for the network you want to opt out of. #mastodon

I wasn’t being glib saying AI is fascist

At some point people need to realize conservatives have actual beliefs and values they uphold regardless of what liberals do and are not reverse marionettes who are subject to liberal control

The standard for “cultural revolution” according to centrist and right wing commentators is “liberals being loud about their opinions” whereas Trump is making prosecution, regulatory, and funding decisions based on the politics of the speaker but that’s also libs fault for making him mad

Ben Shapiro: ICE shouldn't be abolished and Israel is not committing genocide.

Gavin Newsom: Yes I agree (but dark wokely)

“My preferred fascist wasn’t openly doing murder as grotesquely why are you mad at us? at least our fascist murdered with class”

The democrats everyone.

Democratic leadership barely agrees that this is bad in any way

Go fuck yourself then.

The thing that you need to understand is that Trump and Biden are on the same side: the fascist side. It is no mistake that Garland didn't prosecute. Prosecuting Trump would have been antithetical to the fascist-lite agenda of the national Democratic party.

Thank God Merrick Garland didn’t prosecute Trump right away because it might have looked too political

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but if you think that CBS News losing ratings or prestige matters to David Ellison, you're mistaken. Murdoch ran the NY Post for 45 years without turning a profit. They want these media companies to pump propaganda, not to get ratings or make money.

This is the exact kind of ideas IDF supporters come up with. They don’t want a world where there aren’t paramilitary groups roaming the streets, they want a world where there’s an app that makes you feel better about the paramilitary groups roaming the streets

One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Fun fact interrogators at Guantanamo were in fact *trained by Chicago police*

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Jim, this has -always- been America. The only change is that now this is happening to your neighbors, and now it's happening every day instead of every month.

It's not that they aren't trained. It's that they're evil.