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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 16m

"Just kill her already. Jeez."
—Jessie Waters

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25m

Genesis, a then-20-year-old, pregnant Amazon employee, says her manager wrote her up for sitting down and taking breaks.

Shortly thereafter, she says, her higher-ups gave her an ultimatum: Do your job the way we want you to do it, without the chair or without the breaks, or go on unpaid leave.

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless

"You're just a number to them."

www.motherjones.com

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 16m

"Just kill her already. Jeez."
—Jessie Waters

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Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2h

It is a struggle over language. The left has pursued a generational mission. From "Political Correctness" to "Woke", the project shapes public speech toward kindness. The right has been resisting that project for just as long. Because the right wants to be cruel in public without consequence.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2h

It has never been a debate about free speech. It is a debate about the content and range of public speech. Should it be kind to the weak, or cruel? Should it protect, or should it enact violence and oppression? The left and the right have entirely sorted on this question.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 1h

It's basically your parents telling you to be nice to your lame cousin while they visit for the holidays...

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h

This right here. The heart of it - all the discussion of noise around "PC" and "Woke" was always about kindness vs cruelty.

Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 2h

It is a struggle over language. The left has pursued a generational mission. From "Political Correctness" to "Woke", the project shapes public speech toward kindness. The right has been resisting that project for just as long. Because the right wants to be cruel in public without consequence.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

At a brainwashing center?

Is that even possible on such Marxist, communist, socialist, anarchist, sacred soil?

I thought no one survived the onslaught of woke math?

Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

An abstract comparison out of the blue, but, completely fair.

Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds bad, Mike.

Did they show up by the 1000s and with guns? Did they threaten to kill them and their families, like republicans at 100s of town halls & school board meetings?
Did Dems say the AG was a traitor for saying they're concerned about the threats?

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

Armed militia at Michigan Capitol screaming in the faces of state police

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

Or the Michigan Capitol....

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 4h

Photo from the Trumpist Insurrection on 6 January 2021, showing various Trump supporters climbing the walls outside the Capitol Building amid attacks on law enforcement attempting to secure the location

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 3h

You're welcome.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14h

"Copyright growing pains" is an interesting way of saying "they stole a bunch of intellectual property"

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself.

So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 16h

This is a good read.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23h

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 16h

So, chickens, frogs, tadpoles, and any other tricky animals that the regime chooses to secretly designate.

Got it.

👍
John Roberts is diabolical.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

it wasn't enough that our cities and states already paid far more than they receive from the federal government. the people who elected trump want to steal more from us, to give to Argentina, to give to ICE, to give to billionaires. Intolerable

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 19h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h

SCOTUS's refusal to block Trump's impoudment left Democrats questioning how they can even make a deal with Republicans when neither the president nor GOP leaders will abide by it, and when the Trump-friendly Court won’t intervene. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 17h

Gift link in thread.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19h

The crash of 1929 remains the most significant—and largely misunderstood—financial disaster in modern history. And few people today “perceive the remarkable parallels between that era and today’s political and economic climate,” Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.

The Lesson of 1929

Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 17h

Gift link.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Lesson of 1929

Debt is the almost singular through line behind every major financial crisis.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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