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Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 9h

We've reached the point in capitalism where gambling on anything and everything is normalized for the masses, and not just restricted to formal, government-regulated markets.

The Lottery-fication of Everything

Parlays, zero day options, and perpetuals have gone mainstream. The world is getting stranger.

www.dopaminemarkets.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 23h

Trump demolishes the East Wing of The People's House, but he hasn't gotten the required permission from the National Capital Planning Commission. Assertions that Trump has the authority to do this on just his say-so are lies.

No more perfect picture for the state of the US than this.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed

He’s building something that’ll just be summarily demolished when he’s gone, as in this century—unlike prior ones—America mustn’t let sexual-predator insurrectionists build monuments to themselves, especially not when they take a wrecking ball to the People’s House (sans permission) to do it

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

I’m disgusted by the photos of Ttump’s demolition at the East Wing, but I’m even more sickened by the renderings of his mar-a-lago ballroom dwarfing our White House. Once we’re rid of this despicable man, that ballroom must also be removed.

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Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 1d

Anthony Kennedy can fuck right off. Citizens United is why we're a fascist dictatorship today. Only a clueless dolt would write, "independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption".

This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.

The story of how corruption became legal in America isn't just about memos, movements, and legal strategies.

slate.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 1d

You know what pisses me off most about this? That the establishment Dems are just crowing with glee that their preferred candidate now has a clear runway. Their preferred candidate will be 78 in 2 months and sounds just like Chuck Schumer. *facepalm*

Are You Confused About the Oysterman Turned Democratic Senate Candidate With a Nazi Tattoo? I’m Here to Help.

A newcomer's guide to Graham Platner's tremendously confusing week.

slate.com

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U.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social · 2d

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Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 2d

No lies detected.

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans proudly doubling down on being Nazis.

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 3d

The President of Colombia calls out the Trump regime for murdering their civilians in Colombian waters. We are so far beyond needing to impeach him and everybody around him. If these aren’t “high crimes”, what are?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 6d

Vice President J.D. Vance approves of some forms of flag desecration.

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 6d

Actually it's now $40 billion for Argentina and still nothing for you.

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 6d

Übermensch Stephen Miller flees home because sidewalk chalk messages are too terrifying.

Sidewalk Chalk Messages Force Stephen Miller to Flee Arlington, Put Home Up for Sale

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and architect of some of the Trump administration’s most hardline immigration policies, has listed his Arlington home for $3.75 million — just two years after buying it for $2.875 million.

dailyboulder.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 6d

Never underestimate SCOTUS's willingness to deliberately misread or even ignore the actual Constitutional text. Words are supposed to have meaning, but the Roberts Court has perfected the art of gaslighting language comprehension itself.

The Supreme Court Is Poised to Rule That It’s Racist to Remedy Racism

It's going to be an electoral bonanza for Republicans.

slate.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, you are being tracked. And there is no way to detect it or stop it.

How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World

From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking company

www.lighthousereports.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 6d

It’s Nazis all the way down. And up….

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 7d

Misleading headline. It should read, "Leaked texts show the Republican Party have been Nazis for decades."

We now have solid proof that after Trump and Project 2025, the future of the GOP is Nazism

Opinion: Project 2025 is laying the groundwork for Nazism that is bubbling up in the next generation of Republican leaders, and texts revealed by Politico prove it, writes John Casey.

www.advocate.com

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Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 7d

Compare and contrast to January 6.

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Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 7d

Federal Nazis terrorize an innocent family and kill their dog with no consequences. This is what Republicans voted for and wanted. Never forget, never forgive.

‘F*cking Losers’: Massively Popular Dog-Themed Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post

WeRateDogs, a popular social media account that shares heartwarming dog stories, took an unusual political turn Tuesday with a post bashing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a story about...

www.mediaite.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 7d

“I was using race as the reason to determine whether somebody was here legally or illegally,” he said. Now, he says, the Supreme Court is just fine with that approach. “I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”

He Invented “Kavanaugh Stops.” Now He Is Claiming Total Vindication.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 7d

You may laugh, but the implications are deadly serious when an autonomous vehicle causes an accident and/or kills somebody.

"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision." —IBM, 1979

California police pull over a self-driving Waymo for an illegal U-turn, but they can't ticket

Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn.

apnews.com

Damon Butler @damondaemon.bsky.social · 7d

The Greatest Generation is rolling in their graves.

JD Vance defends Young Republicans group chat that supported Hitler

A fresh political scandal is brewing among the MAGA crowd after Politico published leaked texts where Young Republicans leaders used racial slurs

www.irishstar.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 7d

“The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and, if need be, a native form of fascism.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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