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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13h

The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 7h

Snap recipients also spend 25b at Walmart, so arguably Walmart is the largest recipient of SNAP and I’m sure a Walmart will be just fine taking a $25b revenue hit. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

#Thugs

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · Sep 23

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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je9jenine.bsky.social @je9jenine.bsky.social · 23h

Every one of these I read is better than the last. Even if you Hate apples (who?) read this one for the description of the American supermarket experience.

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

Today's apple review jumps back into the land of grocery store apples with the OPAL. And tomorrow, I hear a certain cosmically-inclined apple gets its time in the sun.

Hope you're enjoying these apple reviews. They offer me a moment's meditation away from *gesticulates crudely in every direction*.

Apple Review #30: Opal

I don’t care much for grocery store apples, but I do love me a good grocery store. I recall in reading White Noise way back in the day, that Don DeLillo captured the sort of overwhelming sens…

terribleminds.com

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

Well true, my point probably applies much less outside the US. But for fuck same can we raise the bar? Find someone in the state of Maine who *didn’t* go through a Nazi tattoo phase. There’s 1.1 million adults in Maine

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

The level of willful misunderstanding this requires really hurts

HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

The homeland security twitter account exists as further evidence that fascists have piss poor media literacy.

Homeland Security #
@DHSgov
g ..
"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."

there won't be a shire, pippin
JOIN. ICE. GOV

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 1d

Ok no one I think is asking for perfection but "not being a Reddit edgelord tool of American imperialism with a Nazi tattoo" is an incredibly low bar he failed to clear

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

Also anyone who thinks you could get that by accident has never spoken to a non Nazi tattoo artist. They have an encyclopedic knowledge of hate symbols as part of their jobs.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

"Only billionaires should pay higher taxes" discourse is downstream from a general belief that policy change need not involve tradeoffs, and that the very existence of tradeoffs is an automatic dealbreaker. My run-ins with people who hold this view are what will finally cause my psychotic break.

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, let’s find someone among the 1.1 million Mainers who doesn’t have Nazi tattoos.

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

He’s like a horrible combination of Michael Scott and Matilda wormwood’s dad (sorry Danny devito)

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 2d

Banging this drum again but I think this is another symptom of how the left sub-contracted out so much of thinking and morality to libertarianism

Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

"leftwing" people who hate taxes should be punted deep underground, you are a waste of space without a single iota of exaggeration

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

Probably because they don’t actually do it, it’s the staffers who are often pretty great

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking excuse me what?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

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-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

That’s why I like it here.

The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 1d

No no, you pay someone else to review what you guessed and if they get it wrong *you still pay*

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 2d

Defending Platner’s tattoo and dismissing his Reddit posts as insignificant is a kind of identity politics for privileged douchebags who believe that casual expressions of bigotry should not prevent a butch white man from getting the position of power, prestige, and authority that he is entitled to.

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great thread

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

I tell you what, though: I've come to have a very basic problem with the formulation "if liberal government doesn't do XYZ, fascism rises." This to me reflects one of the deepest & most enduring blind spots among the broad left coalition, namely ... they don't believe in the right.

Lemme explain.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The unspoken root assumption that underlies this theme is that fascism -- reactionary tribalism, a desire to draw in the circle of moral concern, to heighten in-group out-group distinctions -- is a kind of pathology, a break from the normal, something that's gone wrong w/ an otherwise decent person.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

One feature you see in virtually every left analysis of politics, whether center-left or far-left, is that the right's authoritarianism, thirst for violence, and nihilism are framed as reactions to the left's failures. "They wanted better healthcare, they didn't get it, so they went fascist."

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Tobias Barrington Wolff @tobiasbwolff.bsky.social · 3d

There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope.
h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

'Jarring, frightening attack': Chicago homeowner describes immigration raid at his home

MSNBC exclusively obtained security footage of federal agents targeting construction workers at a home in the wealthy Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Leo Feler, who owns the property, joined The Wee...

www.msnbc.com

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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 3d

Oh, you like baseball huh?
Well, we’re going to sit here while you smoke this whole pack of baseball and THEN we’ll see how you feel.

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The Doomed Gooner (are eggs cheap yet?) @leftxtobetterskies.bsky.social · 3d

America has a nazi problem because interviewing nazis generates $$$

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The Summoning Dark (it/that) @radherring.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus Christ I just wanna go to sleep

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