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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 24m

TMBG famously have no patience for bigots or the knowingly bigot-adjacent:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGQ...

Your Racist Friend

YouTube video by They Might Be Giants - Topic

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 2h

Back in March 2022, President Zelenskyy did an interview with Russian “opposition media” in which he described how Moscow sabotages democracies with suborned obstructionist candidates, and I had to pause it for a bit bc it sounded like he was describing SineManchin not European politics…

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 2h

Especially one who went to work for Erik Prince in 2018…

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

Erik Prince is an old GOP insider from a theocratic dynasty (his dad bankrolled a young James Dobson) actively working to wreck democracy everywhere, and his sister was Trump’s Secretary of Education when Platner joined them…

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

The man they think had it is fascinating, too— was going to be a minister but entered an essay contest at Cambridge where the topic happened to be debating the morality of slavery and instead dropped out and became a leading abolitionist:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

Thomas Clarkson - Wikipedia

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

Cable Street 2025.

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

Pointless? GTFO. We need to know if he’s another ringer like Sinema, and only exposing all of it will convince the Red-Brown alliance out shilling for him like their next paycheck depends on it. If he can’t take the scrutiny he should never have stepped foot in the politics kitchen.

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

He joined Blackwater while the sister of theocrat dynasty heir Erik Prince, who was Kremlin-&-Musk supporting Rep Rohrabacher’s aide in Congress and later fundraised for him, was Trump’s Secretary of Education, too. He’s obvs Sen Sinema’s intended replacement ringer.

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

Went into Blackwater in 2018 - not just a notorious war-criming PMC, but run by the GOP insider’s insider whose sister was Trump’s Secretary of Education at the time…the fact that the “progressive left” dngaf about that proves EVERYTHING about them is performative

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

Red-Brown Alliance aka Molotov-Ribbentrop 2025…

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 3h

fyi bsky mods are hiding your posts and have your profile flagged as “rude”!

jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 5h

NYT stumped for Hitler (and Mussolini) from the Beer Hall Putsch all the way to the eve of the Oct 6 speech in Berlin, as President Zelenskyy alluded to back in 2022-– after praising Klansman/eugenicist/fascist influencer Lothrop Stoddard, no less. They haven’t really changed…

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 6h

Probably wouldn’t have enlisted in Blackwater over a decade after “Are we the baddies?” first went viral shortly after Erik Prince’s PMC got famous for massacring civilians, either… 🤷

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 21h

This guy who was so Extremely Online that he had to delete the Reddit profile where he defended Nazi symbols in the US military, never saw “Are we the baddies?” or watched Indiana Jones, Hellboy, or played Wolfenstein? I suppose you think he didn’t know Blackwater did war crimes, too!

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 21h

Worse—Blackwater. Though there may be zero daylight between them, by now…

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 21h

Also no, Nazi shit in the US military is not a sign of “warrior ethos” but of deep and vile Fox-fueled rot going back decades, and I doubt very much you come from a WW2 military family if you think otherwise. No recent Blackwater merc is a progressive, ffs!

newrepublic.com/article/1820...

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and j...

newrepublic.com

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jaimi.bsky.social @jaimi.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, that didn’t work.

Decent working-class folks showing up with half-bricks DID, in the Thirties and again in the Fifties and Sixties when he tried to make a comeback running on anti-immigrant racism, chased him off to France for good then