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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 3h

Laugh at and belittle fascists at each and every single opportunity.

crooksandliars.bsky.social @crooksandliars.bsky.social · 3h

SNL Cold Open: Tina Fey Does Kristi Noem

They’re just the best. #SNL #TinaFey #AmyPoehler

dlvr.it

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4h

Your regular reminder that it is not hyperbole to say that Republicans do not care if you live or die, and will proactively advance measures to ensure the latter.

There will be a reckoning of one stripe or another for these evil evil motherfuckers.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 4d

Siamo tutti antifascisti

She-Wolf antifascist street art in Rome - "fight fear, destroy fascism"

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 5h

The people who legislate this with their greed and apathy will burn this country down to rule the ashes. They show us this every day.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 6h

“Officials said that hundreds of people were at the bar when the shooting happened, and multiple victims and witnesses ran to nearby businesses to escape the gunfire.
At least four people were pronounced dead at the scene, and four others were transported to hospitals in critical condition.”

At Least 4 Dead in Bar Shooting in South Carolina, Sheriff Says

www.nytimes.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 5h

Shut your mouth!

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 5h

That's called purgatory, my friend

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DCRiff @dcriff.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been away from this app for a week and 1/2 for some work and personal shit and coming back in tonight it’s like walking into a fucking buzzsaw. There really should be some kind of online merge lane or something so I can get a minute to pick up speed with the traffic

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 5h

I like these fields bc unlike most of our turf fields in DC, you don't get eleventeen quazrillion rubber pellets in your boots

Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

This describes my experience with music. Thank you.

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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 7h

Just mute or block this person and move on with your life

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 13h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

A class for which laws bind but don't protect; a class for which laws protect but do not bind.

Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 7h

What was all that we’ve been hearing about “parents’ rights” again?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 7h

This seems like a persistent problem--it feels like what really happened to LA and DC never fully got through, is already in the process of being forgotten, and now lots of people seem only vaguely aware of Chicago's situation. How do we get more people to care before it shows up at their doorsteps?

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 7h

So many people i talk to mention that their out-of-state friends or family have heard little to nothing about what’s going on in Chicago.

Some viral stories like the South Shore apartments raid or Rev. Black getting shot break through but the persistent Fed violence in the streets in lost.

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

I don't get any sound with this one, my friend

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

They share a field with my coed 7's team, HAHA. That's our practice field.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 6h

Two preventable causes of death that we have chosen to do nothing about. Two preventable causes of death with evidence-based solutions that we have chosen to ignore.

OPB @opb.org · 7h

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

www.opb.org

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

Lest we forget the United States' original sin, today this parallels American Racists & those who allow systemic violence towards Black neighbors.

"Many individuals convinced themselves to overlook one or another of the abuses because they liked some of what Mussolini and the Fascists stood for."

Authoritarianism is Built on Collaboration: How Supporters Enabled and Normalized the Fascist Consolidation of Power - Democracy Seminar

The last few weeks have born numerous demonstrations and statements across Europe against the threat of (neo)fascism. In January, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sànchez warned of the rise of authoritarian forces and asserted—correctly—that “you don’t need to be progressive, you just need to be a democrat” to stand up for parliamentary democracy. On February 2,

democracyseminar.newschool.org

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 8h

The @nytimes.com shamefully insists on "both sides" rather than reality of #Portland /Chicago/LA (NO credible reason for POTUS to send the Natl Guard - against the wishes of govs) vs. POTUS and GOP elected propaganda.

h/t @timdickinson.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/timd...

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 7h

Again, the parallels practically jump off the screen. Qatar plane, crypto, etc ring any bells?

"Mussert was arrested, tried for treason, and executed. His legacy is one of betrayal...willingness to sacrifice his country’s sovereignty for personal ambition and ideological alignment with the Nazis."

Betrayal in the Shadows: The Men Who Sold Out Their Nations to the Nazis During World War II – The World Hour

theworldhour.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 7h

ICE Collaborator parallels-

"Quisling’s regime facilitated the deportation of Norwegian Jews to concentration camps and suppressed resistance movements... earned him infamy, and after the war, he was tried for treason and executed. His name endures as a term for traitors worldwide..."

Betrayal in the Shadows: The Men Who Sold Out Their Nations to the Nazis During World War II – The World Hour

theworldhour.com

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 7h

I talk about and call out our epoch's Collaborators quite a bit and know it can sound trite coming across on social, so let's see the historical parallels about who these maga fascist Collaborators are and what they are capable of.

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Vidkun Quisling | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Vidkun Quisling, Minister President of Norway from 1942 to 1945, was a Norwegian fascist and Nazi collaborator. His last name has come to mean “traitor” or “collaborator.”

encyclopedia.ushmm.org

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 10h

Collaborator-ass post

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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 10h

NMR FTW!

Science 🧪 BAM💥

Konsyse @konsyse.com · 10h

Naked mole-rats may hold the molecular blueprint for aging more slowly. Researchers have traced their resilience to unexpected changes in a single protein.

Unique Naked Mole-Rat Protein May Guide Future Human Anti-Aging Research — Konsyse

Scientists studying naked mole rats have identified four amino acid changes in a key protein that enhance DNA repair.

www.konsyse.com

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 14h

"The government shutdown began a few weeks after Trump was sworn in."

Accurate.

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 16h

I wrote about the government shutdown—and why this one is different

newrepublic.com/post/201612/...

Why It’s Pointless for Democrats to Negotiate a Shutdown Deal

The most overlooked aspect of the current impasse is that it began a long time ago—and is rooted in a deep Trumpian dysfunction.

newrepublic.com

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 12h

This is how it’s done. I keep saying this: if you’re running for national office right now, this is the platform. These tactics are not popular and will not be protected by a majority in the future.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 14h

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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11h

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12h

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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