Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

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The crux here being "how stupid it would be" since we've already seen these pea-brains are so ideologically driven that such stupidity is plausible.

Wouldn't put it past these assholes.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Why on earth is First Things positively referencing the notorious Neo-Nazi book, “Which Way, Western Man?” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Ruin a book with a car: The Grapes of RAV4.

FUCK YES! True story: as a child I wanted to be a marine biologist for a number of years.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

6/ Borsook described “paranoid” anti-government rantings and a tech libertarian culture in which the “gestalt is of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands.” And soon, these guys would morph into multi-billionaires...

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We turn now to the White House for their official response:

Share (one of) your favorite black & white films.

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I would go to this if I could but I'm going to be busy at the time.

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It's reality

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Do NOT do this. Shout louder. Me and all the other nsfw artists need you to shout louder

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

A lot of people on the post-liberal right like to compare the contemporary United States to the Weimar Republic, supposedly because we, too, are decadent and depraved. Do they realize this makes them the fascists in this analogy?

We should have never let the normies on the Internet.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position This is what white supremacy looks like

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

Mike Johnson said this kind of rhetoric is highly inflammatory and incites people.

While 🇺🇸 farms go under…

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say yeah, military lawyers know more about military law than the president who probably couldn't tell you what UCMJ stands for.

SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT!

this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*

Oddly enough I canceled Disney Plus the day before the Kimmel situation since I'm cutting back on expenses. I just clicked through three screens and was never asked why I was cancelling.

Personalist regime tries to set up another mechanism of control. Silicon Valley firms will be subject to the whims of the mad king.

“We’re fine with corruption if comes with terrorizing brown people.” Really sums up the MAGA punditocracy.

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