Fascists can't wait for the Trump administration to go after Bellingcat.

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

2026: It's still the Biden autism numbers, still the Biden autism 2027: It's still the Biden autism numbers, still the Biden autism 2028: It's still the Biden autism numbers, still the Biden autism .. 2045: It's still the Biden autism numbers, still the Biden autism

Nothing in this world is genuine, everything is fake. Poso, made over by his Belarusian wife, is a more synthetic creation even than Charlie Kirk (who headed a youth group founded by a 72-year-old). It fits that Poso is now pals with Pete Hegseth, also an influencer faking his way through it. 2/

lmao nazis just tripping over themselves to out themselves as nazis and the ABC happy to give them a soft launch.

For sure. Healing is not a one-size-fits-all journey, it's crazy to me that we're still hitting this loop of "Break the stigma! But not like that." To assume the grisly work of someone's lived experience will glorify harm is just repackaging the same ol' social repression, but with more lip service.

Re: TOS changes. Only allowing mental health stories that are positive is perpetuating the gross trend of only supporting mental health issues when it's palatable & sanitized All this does is stigmatize the ones who are still battling or don't have happy endings, that want understanding over inspo

This has been a 10+ yr long battle I constantly have for portraying mental health issues candidly through my work. And I will die on the hill that true acceptance has to include both the success stories and terrible realities. I'm so fcking tired of having to tap the sign lmao

he came to trump's attention by lobbying to pardon other war criminals, including a guy who decapitated a teenage civilian in front of his squad and whose own men fucked up his sights so he'd stop shooting random women. he belongs to a church which considers slavery and marital rape to be mandatory.

essentially every business he has ever been involved in is fraudulent. he preferentially does business with dictators. he sent thugs to threaten to kill a baby. pete hegseth stole money from veterans. he lies about being involved in war crimes. he's a serial rapist and domestic abuser.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Here’s the link to the original story. I encourage people to include links to avoid confusion and misinterpretation. Unlike X, Bluesky doesn’t downgrade your visibility for adding external links. It also doesn’t add to your character count. There’s really no reason not to do it.

this is to avoid culpability, no other reason

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

they just love what the murder does for them. that's it. a school shooting is of no benefit to them.

Who could have imagined that a guy who uses the moniker “Ka$h” would take over the FBI and shut down the bribery investigations of his buddies?

Greta Thunberg and the Flotilla have made their last stop, they are now less than 1000 miles from Israel Sometime within the next 6 days Israel is going to try to stop them The people of the world stand with them, it's time the Governments did, they must be protected

Yanks in the comments of this anti-trump ad are so far over the cliff they can't tell this ad is a warning and think it's a recruitment ad.

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The endpoint of this is the kind of Ancien Regime system where the duke of Kushner gets the royal charter to collect taxes and gets to keep a portion of the revenue

They’re putting in place a patronage network. Instead of open, accountable structures, public goods will be allocated to courtiers.

Stupidity repeats itself.

The head of the FBI is so smart and capable he remembers to jot down visual reminders to remember important tactics like “hold the line” and “brush off their attacks”.

They are good at constantly making things up, because that's their main activity. Fascism is make believe at gunpoint. Whoever holds the gun gets to tell everyone what they're supposed to be

Don't underestimate that whatever counter movement is required to unite against a fascist regime. BE ASSURED there will be instigators or other actors trying to fracture that counter movement. And with the state the yank left is in, this is not very difficult.

White centrists and white moderate are unable to deal with the reality that their precious politics club is now dead and they are facing fascism and cannot moderate or centrism themselves out of it without giving up their souls. These people are enraged that they will be forced to take a position.

This backlash against a absolutely real and good point trying to keep people safe has been very very illuminating in a similar way to realizing that a number of the same voices screamed at experts and academics in 2015 and 16 when Trump was correctly clocked as a fascist

ANTIFA liberates Rome (1944)

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

hey so this is insane

This is, for Freire, a sign of our supposed "allies" inability to trust us. Because they can't or won't trust not only that we know something, but that our knowledge is valuable, they're fundamentally incapable of being in solidarity with us. This, in turn, fractures our trust in our allies.

Here's the wrinkle, we need these supposed converts. Not only do they possess access to resources that have been denied the oppressed, but our liberation is interdependent with their liberation from being oppressors. If we do not free them from the situation of oppression, they'll just reinstate it.

I find it strange that he left his phone behind so nobody could track his movements and the text messages say he was talking to his roommate and was watching police arrest "some old dude" even though cameras show him leaving the area before police showed up.

It is! It is the essence of capitalism.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

It’s what is known as a “Trial balloon”. They say it to see how the public would take it. If it gets blowback, they issue a retraction or clarification. If people agree or don’t respond they start to make the plan to carry it out. Make no mistake this administration uses Fox News as a staging area

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Now I am being silenced by the Washington Post for -- *checks notes* Lamenting America's acceptance of apathy towards political violence and gun deaths-- especially when the violence is encouraged and carried out by white men.

Whenever men want power. They use religion and stupid people who don’t know how to read. If happens century and after century, and it works every single time. Be an ass twat…stick Jesus name on it.

They're trying to make their distorted worldview reality. This alternative reality they're conjuring provides the foundation for oppression and violence. Unfortunately, parts of media and conservatives keep falling for it.

The world is changing, whether the right likes it or not. People like Larry and David Ellison, no matter how much power they grab, or how many media orgs they buy up, will never force people to accept genocide, apartheid or colonization. Ever. It's a new world. www.thewrap.com/film-workers...

I think the National Guard needs to deploy to Utah ASAP. Sounds very dangerous there.

Americans are not ready to take on the psychic damage of realizing that we can't do anything on our own except make websites that barely work and designproducts for the actual professionals abroad to make for us

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

where are we on those Epstein files

Welp, it’s time to publish this: Bluesky Moderation has affirmatively dropped the ball with respect to allowing the transgender community on this site to protect itself. I have a blocklist, titled “Transphobic”. You can’t see it. Bluesky Community hid it.

I want to press everyone- when you read these things, to only remember one thing they are always projecting and this is their projection

The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

The emails, part of a cache of more than 18,000 obtained by Bloomberg News, show that Maxwell and Epstein were closer, in many respects, than either publicly admitted.

Fascism cannot create- as whatever is within their purview is aimed at reinforcing a singular power fantasy myth. It will, steal, syncretize and co-opt everything it encounters. There is nothing new, only conquering and repurposing. Their opponents, by necessity, live to create, to escape them.