Mark Patterson

Mark Patterson

@serfac.bsky.social

Writer, rank amateur photographer, former cult member, tech veteran, imposter syndrome survivor. Publishes “Things to Realize” on Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/markpatterson

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If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

Hear, hear.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

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this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

A culture that considers itself the only true “heritage” of a society is a culture that is inbred and diseased. It needs to go. A culture that protects affluent powerful perps over the victims they assaulted, abused, and/or killed is a culture that must die. Is that culture being replaced? Yes.

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Read it all please.

Kathleen Clark@kathleenclark.bsky.social

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

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It’s time to tap into your internal lesbian anger! Even if you’re straight. Now is the time to fight for your 1st Amendment rights! Let’s go!

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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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“The federal government is no longer bound by law. If agents of the state may kill people in public without being investigated; if they have—again, per VP Vance—“absolute immunity” from prosecution then we are living in an authoritarian regime.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

open.substack.comEmergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our GovernmentIt’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.

Small D motherfuckers.

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social

This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.

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They’ll keep killing until we stop calling them killers? Tom, put down the glass and sober up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

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The rank bigotry of today’s nativism is striking, but the utter stupidity of today’s nativism is almost as impressive.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"

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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.

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Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon — Piggies, The Beatles

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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

thecity.nycAs ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On WhistlesTaking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.

Republicans and Trump will starve people, bankrupt people, jail people in gulags foreign and domestic, and kill people outright to get their way. We knew they would. Now we know they do.