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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Nice to see that the, um, crack troops of Portland's Naked Bike brigade have shown up to provide some diversion down at the ICE facility protests.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 2h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Chelly and Haley both have extensive PB ties. My sense was always that the PP and PB memberships were pretty porous.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

I watched many livestreams from far right direct actions on the streets of Portland and Salem back in 2018-2020, and after a while I could recognize about half of the 50 or so usual suspects who showed up at those events. At least 8 of them are currently creating content at the ICE protests.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

I've long wondered what happened to the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, far right groups that were ubiquitous in 2018-20 but who seemed to have largely disappeared. It turns out they've come back together not in the form of a street fighting unit, but in the form of "citizen journalists" on Twitter.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

I just learned that the guy who in 2020 filmed Medina & Joey Gibson (the Black Conservative Preacher, i.e. Quincey Franklin) is currently in the MAGA "citizen journalist" corps down at the ICE facility. He attended the December 2020 meeting where the attack on the OR State Capitol was planned.

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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 7h

So that makes at least 4 J6ers creeping on PDX ICE protests.

Fulfer, David Medina, Katie Daviscourt & Quincey Franklin.

It's been surreal watching them all code switch to calling anti-ICE protestors "insurrectionists" as soon as they realized it was the magic police state button.

Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 21h

Far-right asshole Josh Fulfer, who called for vehicular assaults on Portland protestors, has come up from California & is filming on the ground tonight.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Just learned that Haley Adams (now Haley Lewis) is also there creating content. Many have been wondering where the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer went to...now we know that they've basically reformed and are serving as the MAGA "citizen journalist" corps at the ICE facility.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

To paraphrase Orwell, "if you want to imagine the future, picture AI-slop videos of everyone you love or respect being ritually humiliated--forever."

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3h

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

It's worth remembering that the disgraced and disgraceful Rudy Giuliani rode into the national spotlight in the late 80s and early 90s thanks, in part, to a racist backlash against David Dinkins that Rudy actively stoked. www.thenation.com/premium/poli...

Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades

David Dinkins campaigned for mayor of New York in 1989 as a longtime member of Democratic Socialists of America who had worked for decades on progressive causes and served as New York cochair of the R...

www.thenation.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Speaking of Harold Washington, I listened to this recently and found it to be really engaging and informative. I lived in Chicago for a few years in the mid-90s and the ghost of Harold Washington (and the racist backlash against him) was very palpable. www.thisamericanlife.org/869/harold

Harold - This American Life

The story of Harold Washington and the white backlash that ensued when he became Chicago's first Black mayor.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Peak white mediocrity (Bari Weiss) is publishing the same basic article that was published in 1990 about David Dinkins, or in 1983 about Harold Washington, and applauding oneself for being a brave truth teller.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

If someone ever makes a documentary about Benny Johnson, I hope they call it "Dumb and Duma." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say

The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.

www.pbs.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

I too feel remorse about Babbitt's death and anger at those responsible for it--that is, the wealthy and powerful people who lied incessantly to her about a "stolen election" and thereby convinced her that it was her duty to storm the US Capitol and risk all on January 6 to "save America."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

But it's not like they're incapable of feeling remorse for people who've been shot. Ashli Babbit, who was shot (after being warned multiple times) while trying to break into the US Capitol with an angry mob of people chanting "Hang Mike Pence," is considered a noble martyr by Oregon Republicans.

A picture of a "Justice for Ashli Babbitt" flag that was flown at an Oregon Republican event at the State Capitol building in Salem in 2022.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

“America First.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

I make the Radio Rwanda comparison because my sense is that if a peaceful protester is killed by feds in Portland, OR; it seems more likely than not that Oregon Republicans would express little to no concern about it. They've so dehumanized Portlanders and "the left" that they'd shrug off murder.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

This is a thread from last summer on this particular weekly show broadcast on one of Salem's GOP-aligned AM radio stations. This is what passes for "normal political discourse" amongst many Oregon's Republicans these days. It's approaching Radio Rwanda level hyperreality. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 25

There's a dynamic known as "nutpicking" where a critic picks out unrepresentative voices from a movement or organization in order to associate it with its most extreme elements. That's not what I'm doing. Don Powers & Noncompliant America are "nuts," but they have influence and power in the OR GOP.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

This particular person has been like this for many years now

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

He's also a big Candace Owens fan who thinks Laura Loomer is a neocon warhawk with divided loyalties. He also thinks 9/11 was obviously an inside job and wonders why people are constantly talking about how the Jews were the victims and the Nazis were the bad guys in WWII.

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who helped facilitate 9-11? So again, she's pulling the 9-11 narrative that these guys from a cave across the country, from this country called Afghanistan, which by the way, the leader of the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, he had no connection to the Bush administration at all, folks. He had no connection to the Bush administration, so he masterminded the most sophisticated attack on US soil ever.
Come on, come on. Again, it's been debunked, but so she's doing the same thing that I feel like a lot of people do when they're constantly talking about World War II and constantly referring to the Nazis and the Jews and the Jews are the victims and the Nazis are the bad guys. And this weird thing that is being talked about 60, 70 years, 80 years later, let it go.
Let's talk about the future. Let's talk about the future. Right?
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

It would be hard to overstate how bananapants this show is. The guy thinks Trump didn't really get the Covid shot, but instead got a saline shot so as to prop up the stock market to avoid an economic collapse.

"Conservatives" in Salem generally perceived KSLM as a "trusted source."

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
saline, that Donald Trump took at the Walter Reed Medical Center, that he's got a clean bill of health, and
everybody's losing their mind, because it's like, dude, how is it that our president took another COVID-19 booster?
Peter, Dr. McCalla speculated Trump's booster may have been a publicity stunt, writing a possible marketing stunt to boost the collapsing mRNA shot to uptake. And as you know, the pharmaceutical industry does have a huge impact of the stock market. And yesterday, the stock market was in the toilet.
A lot of people are panicking. There's a lot of after hours trading going on right now that we aren't, as says, peons aren't able to access. And so are we leading into this depression and are they allowing this bubble to pop?
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

There's a local right wing show on KSLM in Salem, OR called Noncompliant America. KSLM broadcasts Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Charlie Kirk's show, etc. This week's show featured this "small gov't" guy saying "bring all of the troops home," right after saying "send the troops to here to Oregon!"

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October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Trump takes Covid Booster? - Bolton next on the chopping block - and more candace updates

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Makes you wonder. And so we don't want wars. We want to pull out of everything.
I think all the troops should come home to the United States, maybe leave a couple behind elsewhere. But we don't need to be involved fighting for other countries like Ukraine either. We don't need to be defending them.
We don't need to be there. I say we pull out completely, and let's get out of these wars, and let's save some money. Let's be fiscally responsible.
Let's pay for the taxes that are supposed to be used on the American people, and stop giving it to all these NGOs that are thwarting and undermining Western civilization all over the world. Let's start focusing on the people, not other countries. That's what we need to do.
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

Laura Loomer LOOMERED herself - Tr...
October 11 • Ep 129 • 45 min
Well, it really is a war zone in the sense that you look at the lawfare that's happening between the judges and the governor that's vowing to fight Trump in every way. And he's not violating his constitutional right. He's protecting federal buildings.
He's not sending in the National Guard to take over the city, which I personally believe he should. And it may or may not happen because Portland is an Antifa stronghold. There's a guy, there's a video I posted on my ex earlier this week.
NONCOMPLIANT AMERICA

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

Last I saw Haley got married to another Patriot Prayer person and was doing the trad wife thing in rural Oregon...but that was a couple years ago.

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