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Patti Smart
@pressley.bsky.social
Truth matters. Alternative facts are not facts. Misinformation is a euphemism for lies.
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Re: the positive impact of protests. It’s not about changing THEM. It’s about changing us. Sort of like prayer. I AM ANTIFA. RELEASE THE FILES.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
There are people other than Bernie Sanders who are speaking out and drawing large crowds. If you take the time to look. Although it would certainly help if MSM paid as much attention to these rallies as they did to the convicted felon’s rallies.
We need more Jon Ossoffs in the Democratic Party. This is just fantastic.
Rhetorical question only. (Obviously.)
It seems to me that if Musk has proof that millions of social security checks have gone out illegally to dead people, he should be presenting that evidence in front of a grand jury under oath tomorrow instead of shitposting it on social media. When can we do this under oath?
When are the working class folks who voted for the felon going to catch on to the fact that he never was going to look out for them? But at least they don’t have a black woman running the country, right?
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
It’s all theater. He will brag to his supporters that he “won” something and they will eat it up.
Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...
His personal police force, goon squad.
The most important part of Trump’s January 6 pardons isn’t specifically who is released from prison, but the meaning of the gesture: “Radical militias are free to act with impunity—as long as they’re loyal to Trump,” writes @alibreland.bsky.social. theatln.tc/HPRaVHMR
This is really important so of course MSM is ignoring it.
The GOP in NC is a bunch of bad faith partisans, and that’s nowhere more evident than in the state Supreme Court, which has now halted the election certification of Justice Allison Riggs over a dangerous and frankly absurd claim. My write up: https://buff.ly/4gJOTqh
If Jeff Bezos had owned the Post in the early 70s, the Pentagon Papers would never have been published and no one would ever have heard about Watergate.
Scoop: It's not just the political reporters fleeing The WaPo. The health desk is also in disarray with the top two editors fleeing to other outlets & star reporter Dan Diamond entertaining his options. More from inside The Post in the latest edition of @status.news: www.status.news/p/will-lewis...
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Mark Zuckerberg has fully adopted the language of his former right-wing critics about what constitutes censorship.
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If other words, if the media hadn’t become stooges for the felon.
If we weren't at such a weird moment in history, the collapse of Assad's regime would be widely understood as a huge success for the Biden administration, which pursued sanctions on Russia and Iran as well as Syria, armed Ukraine and thus weakened Russia, and supported Syrian democrats and activists
Make America Great Again. Bring back iron lungs.
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
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Imagine, just imagine, if a Biden or Obama nominee had been heard drunkenly chanting "Kill All Jews! Kill All Jews!" (To be clear: such a scenario never happened, nor would ever happen, but just imagine!)
Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense: "Hegseth, who was married at the time…sexually pursued the organization’s female staffers…a different former employee described Hegseth being at a bar in the early-morning hours…drunkenly chanting 'Kill All Muslims! Kill All Muslims!'"
The breakdown of the wall between the state and religion may be one of the most serious consequences of the 2016 and 2024 elections.
Pay attention to Oklahoma. Bibles in classrooms isn't the big story. The same legal teams behind the seeding of Dobbs are driving a case to create religious schools fully funded by the public & they've already petitioned the Supreme Court. Understandably, everyone was focused on the election.
Recycling electronics is not as easy and convenient as dumping them in your curb side recycling bin, but the extra effort is well worth it as this article explains. www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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