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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The merging of the omniforce is happening via different mechanisms.
First, ICE has become a black hole consuming resources from other agencies. Those agencies are being told to send their people to support ICE. For example, nearly half of FBI field agents work on immigration enforcement.

According to an analysis by the Cato Institute, more than 28,000 law enforcement officials have been sucked into performing ICE’s mission. ICE has trained or is training more than 10,500 state and local police who are part of a task force that allows them to make arrests. In addition, “one in five US marshals (650 of 3,892), one in five FBI agents (2,840 of 13,700), half of DEA agents (2,181 of 4,620), over two-thirds of the ATF (1,778 of 2,572), and nearly 90 percent of Homeland Security Investigations (6,198 of 7,100).”

More recent data suggests that these numbers are increasing, with nearly half of FBI agents in major field offices, and about one-quarter of all FBI agents, now working on immigration enforcement.

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 13h

Since I'm One Peice posting today, I watched a video about how while The Strawhat Jolly Rodger has always been a fixture of protests, that they really started doing huge numbers after Gear 5 was introduced and that makes a hufe amount of sense to me

Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 13h

He knows. This is why Theil is trying to to coopt it. I keep trying to explain to people that he is legit terrified (rightfully) of it

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 13h

Every democrat should be talking like this. Not the feckless mueller time version of this that we’ve had for years, but actual promises of actual consequences

As long as it goes unpunished we’ll never be free of this

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 13h

Its very small, and very sad

A group of people who appear to hate reform Judaism or are pro genocide or anti-muslim (only sign i can reqd days jews for jehadists) protest outside of a reform synagogue

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 13h

former israeli diplomatic corps member and current communications director for the american fundraising arm of israel's ben gurion university tali goldsheft mobilizing a protest outside of the most mainstream synagogue there is in brooklyn for hosting a conversation with zohran mamdani

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14h

Do Zionists still think protesting outside a synagogue is antisemitic?

Screenshot from Tali Goldscheft:

PROTEST today at 1 pm!!! 📢📢📢

At the same time as hostages are hopefully being finally released, Zohran Mamdani is speaking at CBE (Congregation Beth Elohim) in Park Slope.

Beyond outrageous.

A major protest by the Brooklyn Jewish community, including CBE congregants and former congregants, will be taking place.

IN BROOKLYN? Join us, rain or shine!!!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

At first i thought the majority on the court was just a bunch of hardcore gop partisans with brains pickled in right wing propaganda but after seeing them do these softball book tour interviews with right wing outlets I'm convinced they're just neutral arbiters doing their best.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

You know it's going great when you have to repeatedly remind the interviewer you're the Vice President of the United States mid-tantrum.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 13h

One funny thing about The Onion’s Jeffrey Epstein documentary is it’s a mere 22 min long. The Babylon Bee made a January 6 documentary parody that is 40 minutes long, confirming my theory that all right wing comedy is double the length it needs to be because the right have no grasp of comic timing

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 1d

Given that the whole point is to keep escalating the violence, this is the most effective form of protest. It undermines their narrative of a "violent mob", and every time they try to escalate, they'll just look goofy as hell beating a bunch of inflatable animals.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 14h

I truly, 100% belive that Theil is terrified of One Peice, which is a fun comic serial for children, but also maybe the best narrative to get a bunch of young people on on the street demanding a more equitable world

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

it's very funny to me that his delusional misreadings can include both Watchmen, one of the great 20th century novels, and One Piece, a fun comic serial for children. But it's not good that this man is genuinely mad and a major political and financial force in the United States of America.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 15h

He's right that Luffy resembles The Christ, but hes wrong that him and Oda have a concept of The Christ that overlaps

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 15h

He was a psychotic looking for a reason to hurt someone else and he found it

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

www.nytimes.com

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 15h

Any ability to truly change the world was exocsised out of DC and Marvel by the end of the Silver Age. To be a super hero, even a radical one, is to uphold the status quo. A return to the dynamics readers no and love.

One Peice is very much the opposite of that. Change change change

Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 15h

The real take away from all of this is that Theil is actually terrified that One Peice is about to become the number one selling comic ever, as it his much harder to read The Christ into Luffy then it is into Supes, Bats, or Spidey

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Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 15h

Oda*

Gam Silroy ❌️👑 @gamsilroy.bsky.social · 15h

This is both an accurate interpretation of Luffy as Oda *conceived* him and one designed to rob him of the freedom and radicalization that Ida *writes* him with

Also The Christ powers being theologically the same as Toon Powers is chefs kiss

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

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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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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