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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 4h

It is also piracy.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone's got blind spots, everyone has a level of "I've got mine, Jack;" but to me it's obvious the Republicans who jumped ship or got kicked out were the ones who had SOME kind of sincere moral basis, some vision for society as a whole, & more to the point the actual people in it.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 5h

Since we're discussing Black Bloc again, this I think is worth reposting.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · Apr 6

Having watched the Black Bloc in action over and over in Seattle, they were much more part of the problem than the solution. You'd have a thousand peaceful protesters and maybe 10 Black Bloc and guess who got the column inches?

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 5h

You know what soldiers think about such orders, right?

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, yes you are and wisely so. Who wants a nasty burn?

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 7h

Blasphemy!

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 8h

Bad apples spoil the whole barrel; I don't know how the saying got inverted.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 8h

@hurricanexyz.bsky.social speaking of supermajority problems, a Democratic majority ought to be able to expel this jerk.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills

Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 8h

Adrian ("Leopards eating faces") Bott is a folklorist and he points out that a lot of popular ideas about folklore are actually Victorian inventions.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

Cohen himself felt the canonical version was KD Lang's.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

This is starting to feel like a Terry Pratchett or Diana Wynne Jones novel: everything is comradely and kind of funny to start with and then the big moral issues start showing up.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

The officer corps hates him mostly; the enlisteds think he's kind of cool.

Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

The United States has had multiple noisy popular leftist movements. That's why the country went social democratic for decades. People also remember Molotov-Ribbentropp and don't think much of the radical left.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

I can tell you that in Seattle, where the Black Bloc is probably strongest, almost everybody hates them. They get lots of press, give cover to the police, and all the peaceful protesters and all the issues get ignored. Maybe somewhere their tactics work but I don't know any place in the USA.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

Animal abuse is usually an indicator of someone who can be a violent criminal in other ways. It ought be a red flag for anybody in law enforcement

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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202-344-1808
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El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
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Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 9h

It is exactly what the Houthi have done: piracy on the high seas. Not only is it repulsive and illegal, it grants license to other countries to do it.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 10h

That's true, but it was the Age of Exploration; likely enough someone would have made the trip.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14h

Confirmed, the "Gaza peace deal" was the same deal offered to Netanyahu and the US repeatdly, but it was turned down by Israel because they wanted to gift Trump (Israeli asset) a perceived victory at the expense of the Israeli hostages and Gaza population.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that about sums it up.

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 18h

This would seem to be a major flaw in Trump’s, Navarro’s, Bessent’s, Lutnick’s, and Colby’s cunning plans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 18h

And Don't Pick Up The Bricks!

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 18h

As soon as they make the agreement, they break it.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 18h

God does not need saving. Blasphemy!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder how many drugs he uses. It's often the case that sinners will attack their weaknesses in other people.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 23h

“Multiple officials told STAT that staff have been asked to identify links between SSRIs, violent behavior, and other adverse events. Kennedy is highly skeptical of SSRIs, calling them harder to quit than heroin, and has falsely linked them to mass shootings.”

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 22h

Don't pick up the brick and also don't pick up the grenade.

There is a general problem of adopting police rhetoric with weaponry. The proper name for what's usually called a rubber bullet is "baton round." The proper name for a flashbang is "stun grenade."

Chris Luchini @drbooom.bsky.social · 1d

Let's talk about flashbangs.

FBs are extraordinarily dangerous devices. A Couple of decades ago I worked on a project to try to make them safer. The primary result of that research was to produce pyrotechnics that reduced flame temperature, and increased gas volume.

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