A federal security contractor that received millions from the Department of Agriculture hired notorious Patriot Front enforcer Ian Michael Elliott to work security patrols for the US Forest Service last year. My latest with Sean Craig for @theguardian.com 🧵

Located about 20 minutes south of Nashville, I had often imagined that I might one day like to live in Franklin, Tennessee, a true slice of Americana. That was until I encountered Gabrielle Hanson.

Thank you for speaking with me about this issue, @thetennesean.bsky.social #freespeech #freelarry

Update: The charges against Larry Bushart Jr have been dropped! About time.

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Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

Have any of y'all heard about Larry Bushart Jr.? I ask, because I hadn't. Watch this video and catch up on what's being done to him over a meme he posted. He wasn't fired. He wasn't "canceled". He was arrested. Based on lies. We should be outraged by this. #SheShed

Most people I’ve talked to expect Larry to eventually win a large settlement from Perry County. In the meantime, he is being held on an unconstitutionally excessive bond for exercising his freedom of speech, preventing him from being at home with and supporting his family. 1/2

The day after the 2024 Perry High School shooting, Trump declared, “we have to get over it.” www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. And he’s a rapist. Sue me.

Gas prices are about to skyrocket due to Trump’s unconstitutional declaration of war.

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If you’re documenting the ICE atrocities, make sure to back up your data. Don’t assume it’s safe in the cloud or on social media. Keep a copy (or multiple copies). I also strongly recommend journaling what you witnessed by hand if possible. Tell your story. The world is watching.

They will be out there doing the same in 2026 and 2028. Be aware and don’t fall for it.

The average banana produces a particle of antimatter roughly once every 75 minutes.

Expect a new wave of censorship targeting speech people simply disagree with. Trump has already said he was going to use it against his critics, so we should do the same until the law is fixed. Use the system to take down right wingers’ fake photos of Kamala and have their accounts suspended.

We need more guys like JB Pritzker. I love him, he’s a real fighter. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Today we celebrate the fertility goddess Eostre with bunnies and eggs.

It's time to rise up together and condemn Trump's fascist regime before he can amass enough power to unilaterally label anyone an enemy of the state and make them disappear. Waiting for things to blow over is what allowed Hitler to rise to power.

I hear Alice in Chains will only sell tickets at the venue. To buy them you have to see the Man in the Box.

He got what he voted for.

Firefighters won’t have to travel far when the battery explodes.

How to raise children in the #signalgate era.

I’m living in the stupidest timeline.

To work for Donald Trump means you have to lie as you breathe.

Dayum Ubisoft. Cold.

Pete Hegseth is a DUI hire.

Most car insurance policies don’t cover terrorism, and all vandalism of Teslas fall under that label now. Good luck, Tesla owners.

Anyone driving one of those death traps is at risk of receiving a Darwin Award.

They belong behind bars for the remainder of their decrepit lives.

Republicans: School children — thoughts and prayers, there’s nothing we can do. Tesla dealerships — call the police, throw people in jail

Magat went down quickly.

Finished Cobra Kai. Wow, what a ride!

The Friday Brief, Feb 14, 2025 Inside: The Death of American Power. Our corrupt and weaponized DOJ. It’s Trump’s Inflation Now. Yale Law Needs To Come Get Their Boy. The Lonely Island of Mitch McConnell. Golden Age, My Ass. The Next Pandemic. So Much Finding Out. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Ooopsie.

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Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

Check it out, Republicans in the SC State House voted in favor of honoring a DEI advocate, praising her book on inclusivity (the I in DEI)! @scgop.bsky.social

Mark My Words: Trump will cause the fall of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

Fake president, fake cheers

Is it rude to call them swasticars? Seems fitting to me.