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So, imo, the point is to focus on the system not “the elite”. That phrase can very easily be co-opted by white supremacists and neo-nazis. The working class aren’t all saints on earth, and there are some decent rich people. Shitty people exist everywhere, albeit in the minority. …continued

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

"You are Queer enough. You belong here and you're wanted here." - @jaxlersr.bsky.social 🥹💙 #GDQueer

This is how. Every Dem, please, this is how. EVERYONE in the media, please!!

Make no mistake about it: This administration is trying to take away your ability to protest their new secret police force and even stand next to those who do so, and they are abusing the legal system to do so. Kat is not afraid. I'm not either. We all have to stand together here. We will win.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

this is why I call it abuse at scale

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Protesters chant “shame” as feds retreat

Here is the “when are you going to kill yourself” moment.

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

If they had the capacity to do this, it would be really bad. And they probably will try to do a couple of high profile examples to make you think they *do* have the capacity. But like a lot of stuff, this is a memo designed to get you to voluntarily stop doing stuff they don’t like.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Beware fascism's most effective cheerleaders: Those who screech constantly that the battle is lost and action is hopeless. Their cowardly panic is a virus that aims to infect others with the same demoralizing terror. Shun them, shame them, block them—mercilessly.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

For those just learning more about Turning Point USA and Kirk, here's a thread of some of the stuff I've covered over the years, mostly for @lcrw.bsky.social, which has also covered TPUSA over the years and the real (negative) impact they've had on various communities throughout the county. 🧵⤵️

Holy shit

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

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As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

I cannot emphasize enough how unhelpful it is to make the joke or comment — I’ve been guilty of making it at times myself — that this is conservative “cancel culture,” it’s not. It’s an authoritarian, cultish, censorship project run by the most powerful people in the federal government…

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

All these nazis ever wanted was to make the rest of us take them seriously and treat them with respect. Nothing rattles and throws them off their game more than being laughed at. THAT is what the Kirk censorship is about, especially the attack on Kimmel.

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

Our latest investigation reveals how extremist networks amplified a harassment site targeting people accused of making distasteful comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Read more here: openmeasures.io/far-right-ex...

Bring back calling these cowards what they are - appeasers

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

it was dumb when it came out and it's still dumb today

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

We all need to scream that the emperor has no clothes right now. And we need to do it loudly and cussedly and in strategic relationship with each other. Because they are TELLING US what scares them most, right now. And it is unapologetic truth-telling.

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

NEW from LCRW: Things moved fast after Charlie Kirk was murdered. @azrww.bsky.social, the staff & I tried to encapsulate the bizarre first week after his murder in as much minutiae as we could stomach. The end of every graf felt like the most gut-punching absurd kicker I've ever written.

Agreed, and I think part of this is Pritzker gets more than most how being the anti-Trump isn't trying to out-funny the funny man, to compete in the irony-poised joke game, to be another outlandish character. It's being earnest and serious about the stakes of a real crisis, like a functional adult.

Finally: remember to take care of yourselves. There is a long road ahead, but we’re in this together.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

I don't think Team Trump or even foreign state disinformation agents are really that sophisticated. Imo it just boils down to, a lot of people want to convince themselves that nothing they could do matters. So that they don't have to do anything.