Asinus Pervicax
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Asinus Pervicax
@knownagitator.bsky.social
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Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.
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one of the things i've been saying for years at this point is that the american republic ended in 1946, when the presidency was given sole control over nuclear weapons. like in post-augustus rome, what came after preserved the forms of the republic, but was fundamentally different in substance.
The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice
Breaking: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to cancel $65 million in teaching grants.
not even just on political videos either. watch anything about weight training and you'll inevitably start seeing rightwing horseshit start cropping up.
Youtube has been driving people, mostly young men, down the right wing rabbit hole for atleast a decade now. This is the result. Just watch any political content and see what it does to your recommendations. Its a fucking nightmare.
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If you weren’t around for the Bush years, everyone kept saying “his base doesn’t care” right up until everyone turned on him and right wing media had to disavow him on his way out
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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Youtube has been driving people, mostly young men, down the right wing rabbit hole for atleast a decade now. This is the result. Just watch any political content and see what it does to your recommendations. Its a fucking nightmare.
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yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.
The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars
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apologies in advance for ms paint quality
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"You can win awards—Pulitzers, Murrow Awards, Emmys—champion new ways of Doing The News ... —and they will still nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring."
Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Indicting Democratic candidates on transparently pretextual charges is the latest sign that things are getting very bad.
NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest
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Laying this out now; even if the political calculus changes and the feds suddenly fund SNAP before the 1st? Everyone who is facing food insecurity (or is suffering in the recall of hunger from their youth) doesn't get to return this trauma for store credit.

Remembering who to be mad at is praxis.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
"Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
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A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
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This is union busters trying to sell their $250/hour union busting services to Griselda's Pastry Shoppe, but still very fun data!
A new labor survey from Littler Mendelson found that 1 in 4 organizations whose workplaces were not fully unionized reported experiencing “organization activity” over the past two years, and most don't feel prepared to “effectively respond” www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news...
The unionization landscape is shifting. Here's how employers are navigating it. - Orlando Business Journal
Employers admit they aren't currently equipped to handle their employees unionizing. Here's how they're navigating the new landscape.
www.bizjournals.com
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Roughly:

The State of the Exception is when all pretense of law and rule falls away and politics are simply decided by who the armed agents of the state with weapons decide to follow.

Either:

All follow Trump, which is game over

or

They follow competing claims of authority, which is messy
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One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.
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Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF

www.instagram.com/p/DPRv1o6iDq7/
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If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory
File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
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Protests broke out in Pavia, Italy, denouncing Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Manif sauvage à Pavia en Italie pour dénoncer l’arrestation illégale de la flottille.
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The Damage Done: @marianneguenot.bsky.social tells the story of clinical trials derailed by the administration's reckless science policy, across kidney disease, HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Years of work and money thrown away, at times just short of a cure.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The damage done - Nature Medicine
When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.
www.nature.com
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my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)
Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America
www.nytimes.com
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What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk