there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Dem game move number 341-B: Demonstrate the threat of actual regulation to drive up your price before inevitably caving.

People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider. Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +

The leader of the political party Americans hope will save them brags about helping carry out genocide in Palestine.

Why was it normalised that the Biden administration brought no charges against Trump for 6 Jan and instead the AG just threw the damning investigation into Trump to the wind on the way out the door?

In some countries the masses would take this as seriously as it deserves and rally around the rule of law. Not in the US.

People who call Trump crazy are afraid to acknowledge the truth that evil is real in this world and manifests itself not only in public figures of revulsion but just as much in the friends and family they refuse to reject.

Puigdemont acusa l’Estat de generar la crisi de Rodalies “a consciència” i a Illa de no saber gestionar ✍️ Dolors Bellés

Most Americans see the car they're in heading towards a wall, but they don't believe in physics. They'll only react after the crash, when they have no choice, and when they're bleeding and broken and it's too late.

I bought a signed copy of this book when it published. I read it and tried to warn people. Now I just say. I tried, but now you can all see what's happening. Sarah Kendzior is an extraordinary journalist and far more should have taken notice.

Has anyone seen even one editorial anywhere? I've seen a small handful of opinion columns, but that's it. Let me know.

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Just want to reinforce that the "SOS" is literally meant for the guy quote posting like he's an average pundit

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

The co-author of "How Democracies Die" thinks Trump is going further in his crackdown on the press than strongmen around the world. Via @status.news (Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)

they want to be plantation owners with all the associated privileges of wealth, caste, and free entitlement to the labor and bodies of others

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

The millions upon millions of Good Americans are gonna keep pretending to believe elections will save the country, even though in their private moments they know that's a shaky bet at best. Then, when it's demonstrably too late, they'll say, "Oh, if I'd known, I would've done more!"

The Good Americans are intimately connected to Maga: they unconsciously define themselves in large by not being Maga, and have let their standards slip in relation to that group. They're like people who saw someone faint and fall to the ground: instead of helping, they declared that fainting...

barack obama hillary clinton and kamala harris don't owe you shit we have got to get the fuck out of this saviour mentality obama isn't going to write some eloquent shit that will make this all stop why are you mad at the people who warned you about this this is people in the streets time

Republicans escalate violence, Democrats normalize it.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

Bovino is a sacrifice for appeasement. Revel in his humiliation and suffering, but people are still being disappeared and attacked this morning. Democrats have no desire to fix this. It’s on us to defend ourselves, our neighbors, and to bring this fascist system to the ground.

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

This is the GM firing an assistant coach and hoping that will be the end of the questions, except with fascism.

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Esto es sangrante👇🏼 elpais.com/internaciona...

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs. reut.rs/4pPCx3x

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”

What other conclusion can we draw than that these politicians do not oppose what Trump is doing but want to appear as though they do?

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Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza" Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."

i've launched a campaign to help a bunch of useless grifters send more text messages asking you to send them money to stand around and do nothing while blaming people for being on the streets when the fascists kill them.

So - I am going to mute this person because of how dumb this is - but they are thrashing around days later in my thread where I suggested people shouldn't dismiss Trump saying he wants to cancel the election so let me address this.

🚨NEWS: Senate Dems are reportedly offering ICE funding increases in exchange for body cams and de-escalation training for agents. Body cams can be turned off. De-escalation training can be ignored. Unclear if no masks, requiring ID badges, and no immunity is on the table.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

1953. Golpe contra Mohamad Mossadegh, primer ministro iraní, nacionalista laico, elegido por el Parlamento en 1951. Mossadegh nacionalizó el petróleo, en manos británicas. Reacción de Londres y Washington: Operación Ajax. El Sha pasó a tener el poder absoluto. Ahí empezó todo.

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Directa 596 | “Quan vaig començar a posicionar-me, em feia moltíssima por, sobretot per si deixaven de contractar-me les marques. Sorprenentment, no ha sigut així”.