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Goth or Ostro-goth

@edwardericsonjr.bsky.social

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I build things and sometimes I write things. I try to align my opinions with the facts, rather than the other way around. Example: Fascism is bad, actually, and being against (i.e.: anti) fascists is good.

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · Mar 18

What Crapulous Maximus will do, re Kennedy Center Honors (pin this): He will appoint himself host and MC, and then script a "by popular accolade" "surprise" slot for himself among the honorees.

He will do this probably every year.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 10h

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 10h

"Aidan." Jeezuz

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

The Republicans, whose fascistic embrace of racism and Hitler worship was exposed, are not taking it well. At all.

Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 10h

Thing about a "war on terror" is you can make it apply to anything or anyone. Some of us made that argument way back in 2001.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 11h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 10h

The man is beyond parody.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

Not even a week in and prosecutors in the Jim Comey case have SEKRITS.

I'd give at least a 25% probability that the judge requires this unsealed (there's no sign of permission to sign it under seal).

Maybe it's about Trump's fee fees.

A screen cap of two docket entries reading:

10/14/2025 44 Sealed Motion by USA as to James B. Comey, Jr. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order) (jlan) (Entered: 10/14/2025)
10/14/2025 45 Sealed Document as to 44 Sealed Motion as to as to James B. Comey, Jr. (jlan) (Entered: 10/14/2025)

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13h

Since last fall, sheriffs in MA have been accused of misusing campaign funds (funneling cash to their personal business, one sheriff purchased a $700 course to start a podcast), drunken driving, and extorting a cannabis company, respectively. They have a $162M deficit on their $737.2M annual budget.

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: Citing ‘serious questions’ and ‘questionable spending,’ Mass. lawmakers move to hold back funding for sheriffs www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/m...

Citing ‘serious questions’ and ‘questionable spending,’ Mass. lawmakers move to hold back funding for sheriffs - The Boston Globe

Massachusetts lawmakers propose holding back $162 million for county sheriff’s offices in a spending bill, citing “questionable spending practices."

www.bostonglobe.com

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 13h

Glad we got the elected sheriff system abolished in CT three decades ago (because they were doing the same shit). Trying to do this now would be impossible.

Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 13h

"Nazi punks fuck off"
—Jello Biafra

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 20h

dude looks mad.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 22h

There's no quoted call to violence. No quotes at all from the offending speech and the University won't characterize the speech except to say it was "controversial?"

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 1d

Also in every time, but especially in the age of chattel slavery, there were plenty of people in the dominant in-group who objected to these things. I spent a good bit of time on this point in the first Lawful Extremism paper:

www.middlebury.edu/institute/ct...

Every effort to minimize or absolve the significance of historical racism is grounded in the erasure of racism’s victims. Taney was a man of his time, but he was not the only man of his time, nor was he the only person, nor was he archetypical in any meaningful sense. It would be more accurate, but still grievously incomplete, to say he was a White person of his time, since most Black people from the same period strongly objected to the beliefs and opinions presented in the Scott decision.

As Douglass implies, Taney was also not the only White man of his time, nor was he an especially representative one. Millions of White men and women of the day opposed slavery and opposed the Dred Scott decision’s disenfranchisement of free Black people, even if relatively few of those people could be considered anti-racist in any modern sense.
The “man of his time” framing implies that it is not reasonable to expect someone of Taney’s era to display the necessary moral sophistication and fortitude to oppose the cultural norms under which he lived. But in fact, that is an entirely reasonable expectation, and Taney himself appeared to have displayed such sophistication many years earlier. As a young lawyer, Taney represented both free Black people and White emancipationists. During his arguments defending a radical abolitionist, Taney called slavery “a blot on our national character.” At the age of 41, he made the decision to free his own slaves. There is ample evidence that Taney, at one time, possessed enough moral discernment to understand that chattel slavery was wrong. Yet as he entered his 80s, he unambiguously aligned himself with enslavers.59

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

This is basically what a [Brett] Kavanaugh Stop looks like: Cops roll up on brown person, demand papers, penalize them for not having them. This became the law of the land in that shadow docket decision.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 1d

Remind me. Isn't this the guy who, years ago during a protest, was struck in the face by a milkshake and claimed it was a chemical weapon? Something like that?

Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 1d

"discrete?"

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 2d

Narrative matters in political warfare. We are winning this. MAGA are reduced to begging each other to be scared of the dancing frog.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Goth or Ostro-goth @edwardericsonjr.bsky.social · 1d

"a leading originalist scholar"

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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