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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11m

Really would like people to shift their thinking to the point where they see themselves and the people around them as the people who will collectively navigate through this moment.

Nom Sequitur @nomsequitur.bsky.social · 18m

Pritzker or Newsom aren’t perfect or even great but they are the only hope to take the country back from MAGA. It’s not gonna happen tho

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25m

This is what happens when you frame the current efforts from the Trump Administration in terms focused on the “great men” in the moment and not the actual people being targeted and resisting on the ground. They should understand their assault is a part of the “greater good” to save Pritzker.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28m

Notice the way Pritzker’s risk is placed at the forefront and the protesters under assault from the police aren’t even in the equation.

wavesandsuns.bsky.social @wavesandsuns.bsky.social · 31m

Just what would YOU have Pritzker DO?
He is on the verge of being charged by a fascist regime in our White House.
GET REAL WITH YOUR CONCERNS.
MAYBE THE F'ing POLICE SHOULD FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 33m

“Some compare it to a plane that never lands, or a lawnmower that never turns off. A county commissioner said it’s like “sleeping with a leafblower under your pillow.” No matter the comparison, there’s one common thread — it’s relentless.”

I’d lose my mind in this scenario.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 34m

“But ever since a noisy cryptocurrency facility moved in about half a mile away in 2023, he said their rocking chairs have mostly sat empty. Other nearby residents also say they don’t spend much time outside anymore because of what many call “that roar.””

A North Texas community will vote to form a city in an effort to quiet down a crypto mine

Leaders of the effort say they moved to rural Hood County for its quiet country charm, which was shattered by what locals call “that roar” from the facility.

www.texastribune.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 50m

Very much so,

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

???

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

They’ve fully embraced the “Graham crackers and prim manners to civilize people away from ‘base’ experiences and flavors” aspect of eugenic thinking.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 11h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

*Clarence Thomas jumping off a jet and shaking his head at his luck.*

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

“His call for Trump to take action against the US judiciary also received support from Maga figures, including an X post by one-time close Trump ally Elon Musk, who has in the past boosted Bukele’s calls to impeach US judges.”

*laughs in iceberg martinis*

Maga figures back Bukele’s call for Trump to crack down on US judges

Experts say El Salvador president’s intervention comes as Trump is employing tactics used by autocrats abroad

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

“A hiring freeze and mass layoffs in the federal work force, which have continued during the government shutdown and now exceed 200,000, have also fallen disproportionately on Black workers.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

“Job losses are concentrated among Black women working in professional services such as human resources, according to Ms. Wilson’s analysis of federal data.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Pleased as punch.

En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 1h

And both Manchin and Sinema are completely fine if not happy with how things turned out.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Manchin and Manchin-enablers really tripped up Dems political hopes and its wild everyone blames “the groups”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

“Conditions started to deteriorate in 2024 after pandemic-era subsidies expired. Hiring slowed, and high prices weighed heavily on low-income earners. Black households were the only racial group last year in which median income fell and the poverty rate rose, according to the Census Bureau.”

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent. On top of a slowing economy, the White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said.”

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 1h

SIX YEARS after Harris County deputies took a man's life savings - $41k - saying it ~could~ potentially be used to buy drugs at some point in the future, a Texas appeals court has ordered them to return it.

Will be interested to see if the current DA tries to appeal this... ij.org/press-releas...

Texas Appeals Court Reverses Forfeiture of Innocent Americans’ Life Savings and Orders Harris County to Return the $41,680 It Seized - Institute for Justice

Today, the Texas First Court of Appeals reversed a Harris County civil-forfeiture judgment entered after a six-day jury trial and rendered judgment for Institute for Justice (IJ) […]

ij.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

““I think there’s probably a very justified sense of fear around how it could be used in a politically motivated way to target people that are seen as opponents to a more rightwing political government.””

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

If someone was shouting this on a street corner, people would cross the street to avoid them.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Cory Booker did the same thing. Had his bill tanked by Republicans anyway, and so we all walked away with more firm bipartisan support for the police with none of the promised reforms.

Michael Brown II @miekbrzy92.bsky.social · 4h

This is one place where I have to say Mamdani has good political sense about because it's very clear that's on the back of his mind as he says things but he frames his policing policy as a benefit to them so they have no real reason to go after him.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Doubly so if I think you’re trying to be on some weird shit.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

“Video shows the aftermath of drone and artillery strikes on a shelter in the besieged city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state, which killed at least 60 people.”

www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Aftermath of RSF drone attack which killed dozens in Sudan’s el-Fasher

Video shows the aftermath of drone and artillery strikes on a shelter in el-Fasher in Sudan, killing at least 60 people.

www.aljazeera.com

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4h

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

If I’m discussing policing, and you want to jump in to talk about your pet cause, I’m going to block you.

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Luanne Platter @luanneplatter.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Kirk Watson let DPS patrol Austin and they immediately racially profiled everyone from Rundberg to Riverside?

He collaborated with Greg Abbott to police Austin while our DA had like 30 cops indicted after 2020.

Watson is not going to do shit. He thinks of them as coworkers.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

There was a moment, very recently, when the popular sentiment was firmly in favor of addressing police violence and unaccountability; the response from these same politicians was “fund the police.”

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

“But the politicians are scared of police violence,” hmm how do you think we feel about it?

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