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Just curious -- where's the Executive Order that dismantled the Hatch Act? Did I miss it?
Just curious -- where's the Executive Order that dismantled the Hatch Act? Did I miss it?
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have.

I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵
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This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van.

“Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”

What has America become?
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I mean we already knew this but it’s nice of them to advertise it for us
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats.

He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”
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I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.
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I want us all, but men in particular, to really, really hear these words.

"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained.

As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
Just finished the finale of S3 of And Just Like That, and uh... Carrie's book ending? A woman in 1864 faced with being "on her own" is not the empowering message Carrie seems to think it is. Did she not see Little Women?!
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Every time a queer/trans person (or someone who they can label as such) commits an act of violence, it is used to demonize the entire community. And yet, despite the fact that cis white men carry out the majority of violent acts, this same demonization doesn't seem to occur. Convenient. 🤔
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Remember Emmitt Till.
Stop erasing Black history.
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Never let them forget what they are doing/did.
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I don’t think a lot of people realize, Nazi’s took parts of American racism and added their own cruel twist. And in the end, cruelty is always the main feature. 😒
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/q...
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Gun laws in Minnesota:

No state permit required to purchase rifles.
No firearm registration.
No magazine capacity restriction.
No owner license required.
No background checks for private sales of rifles without pistol grips.
State law preempts local laws.
Always with their finger on the pulse of what's actually happening out there, under the guise of humor.
All The Demands Trump Is Making Of The Smithsonian https://theonion.com/all-the-demands-trump-is-making-of-the-smithsonian/
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FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
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98 Years Ago Today: Sacco, Vanzetti Executed For Murder, Italian Descent
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John Bolton is a hardline conservative. For those unfamiliar with his name, he was basically the closest thing American politics had to Trump's abrasiveness many years before Trump entered the scene.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 22
The government claims broad authority to search our devices at airports and other border crossings, and the Trump administration has even reportedly used that power to search for posts critical of the president.

This has an unacceptable chilling effect on anyone traveling to or from the U.S.
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...
www.wired.com
Your tax dollars at work!
". . . as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information. . ."

Meanwhile, crickets on Signalgate, everything DOGE has done to open the floodgates to our nation's datastores, and... *waves hands wildly*

apnews.com/article/trum...
FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton
The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information.
apnews.com
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You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
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"Are you worried that they’re going to come after you in some way? I mean, he’s hinted at it before,” asked Karl.

“Well, I think he’s already come after me and several others in withdrawing the protection ... I think it is a retribution presidency,” Bolton replied.