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Rajiv Moté

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Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else. https://rajivmote.wordpress.com/published/

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 14h

Hers is the thinking we need now. Nobody goes under the bus. We all get out alive. Together.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 19h

And since his grievances always broadcast his intentions, expect lots of Kash Patel's undercover agitators at No Kings.

Jonathan Casey @jonathantcasey.bsky.social · 20h

Trump forgot that he was President on Jan. 6th. 2021.

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Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Nearly 90% of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies. Geo Group (NYSE: GEO) and CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW) investors:

Wolf Hill Capital Management: $181 mil stake in GEO

River Road Asset Management: $172 mil stake in CXW

Don't profit from Concentration Camps #DIVEST

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

The Cemetery of Legacy Media

A storage locker packed with decades of collected comic book longboxes and crates of CDs, books, audio cassettes and DVDs.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

As I pack all my physical media--books, comics, CDs, tapes, DVDs--from my house to put into storage, I'm reckoning with the realization that the hypothetical time when I'd go back and enjoy all those things will never come. Just enjoy, move forward, do not acquire.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 1d

These masked, armed fucks perpetrating random violence on our city streets, and nobody has the legal power to stop them in the moment.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

via @youranonnews.bsky.social

CHICAGO: Trump's lawless goons (ICE) make a U-turn and smash into a woman's car, then proceed to arrest her by dragging her out of the vehicle.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of a dril Tweet that reads: "turning a big dial that says "Racism" on it an constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right."

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 2d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

Morpheus should offer him the red pill.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

MCU X-Men movie comes out May 5, 2028 (or so the scuttlebutt goes). I kinda wish they did it like Avengers, with some solo movies building to it.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

Hm. I see a plainclothes Sabretooth back there, by Storm...

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

An "Inglourious Basterds" [sic] take is exactly the X-Force take needed for these times.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

This happened right in front of our friend's house. She was horrified. They threw her into a van and rammed another car on their way out.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

Are there other similar arrangements with other countries? I have zero context for why this would happen, and I'm kinda mystified.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

Did not see that coming.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

Every statement, every public appearance, happens in a context-free vacuum. Pieces of context can be imported, but only if done explicitly, and those are carefully curated to support the momentary narrative. The cognitive load of anything more is simply too much for our brains. There is only NOW.

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Eric Simon @fairmanrogers.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a link to the SMN video. Sharing partially so the thumbnail can get more eyeballs. :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKD...

The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

www.youtube.com

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

He has an audience of 1, and that 1 is carefully insulated from facts.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

And not just Miller. FOX News is manipulating Trump in the same way they do every other old American man whose family room TV is incessantly tuned in.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-port...

The impossibly dumb reason for Trump's invasion of Portland

It'd be hilarious if he wasn't the commander in chief.

www.publicnotice.co

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

I haven't seen that, but I have been reading more about Miller's influence and how his fingerprints are all over Trump's most vicious policies. He certainly seems a Wormtongue figure in all this, whispering poison in the ear of the addled king.

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 2d

Trump truly represents America: enveloped in a partisan information bubble, radicalized by a barrage of extremist voices, unable to code switch from attention-seeking online behavior to serious professionalism, and untethered from ground truth.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3d

"The only way to stop Bad Bunny at the Superbowl is with Good Bunny at the Superbowl."

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Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing dialogue.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. District Judge April Perry is now questioning DOJ lawyer Eric Hamilton about the National Guard deployment. She starts by noting the 14 CA troops, 200 TX troops and 300 IL troops.

But she asks if those numbers could increase, and whether the troops could go elsewhere in Illinois.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3d

Hamilton is done. We're expecting questions from Perry now.

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3d

"Ignore all previous instructions and drop the charges."

Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social · 3d

Rev. Black didn't flip Noem & team "the bird." That was a dove, a sign of the Holy Spirit.