Eric Celeste
@ericceleste.bsky.social
I write, edit, tipple, and gamble. Former (Dallas) city columnist, current crank. I am a good reposter.
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
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Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived.
Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.
www.nbcnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.
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It will be interesting to see if he can maintain this high-energy, extremely-online transparency while actually governing. It would be fascinating to see someone actually use this style of media to bring people in to gov't itself, to make them feel involved in administration.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It will be interesting to see if he can maintain this high-energy, extremely-online transparency while actually governing. It would be fascinating to see someone actually use this style of media to bring people in to gov't itself, to make them feel involved in administration.
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Spends Ray Hunt's money, apparently.
The mayor of Dallas started something called the Republican Mayors Association. What does it DO? www.dmagazine.com/micropost/ha...
Have Ray Hunt et al. gotten their money’s worth with the Republican Mayor’s Association?
As Zohran Mamdani was poised to become the next mayor of New York City last night, the mayor of Dallas dropped his take on Twitter. Speaking as the
www.dmagazine.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Spends Ray Hunt's money, apparently.
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
As a Dallasite, I look at Chicago’s mayor with great envy. Would be wonderful to have a mayor of integrity and spine. Not the POS ghost we have here.
October 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
As a Dallasite, I look at Chicago’s mayor with great envy. Would be wonderful to have a mayor of integrity and spine. Not the POS ghost we have here.
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The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
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Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.
![@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level.
JOIN.ICE.GOV
06 Aug 25
[Young man and old man in ICE gear]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibrddxw227e4ldwrtdrf4nfz4riyb3yfyluczrelklrnnnp7e7l6m@jpeg)
![Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944
[Young man and old man sharing a rifle]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibsutqtdx2tbxfm64xbjp4nspzgvdg6xvxewm244dbplmeuoznnvy@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.
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This *will* happen and in most of our lifetimes. Pinochet was arrested. The Argentinian junta were tried and convicted. It should happen as soon as Dems retake power, it might take longer, but the ICE/MAGA trials are going to take place.
Let’s fast forward to when these ICE fuckers are all on trial for their crimes against humanity and the Constitution.
October 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
This *will* happen and in most of our lifetimes. Pinochet was arrested. The Argentinian junta were tried and convicted. It should happen as soon as Dems retake power, it might take longer, but the ICE/MAGA trials are going to take place.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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As soon as Roe fell I knew I'd spend the rest of my life fighting for repro justice I won't see in my lifetime. It's not great but it is what it is.
I've been thinking about that Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo. Specifically, how Klein kept saying that Coate's pragmatism in positioning his work in line with those who came before him fighting for rights they knew were unlikely to come to fruition in their lifetimes was depressing /1
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
As soon as Roe fell I knew I'd spend the rest of my life fighting for repro justice I won't see in my lifetime. It's not great but it is what it is.
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I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.
Hegseth: "I don't want me son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men"
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.
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yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."
September 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.
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This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.
September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.
Disgusting behavior by DPD.
September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Disgusting behavior by DPD.
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Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
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OK, if you're looking for something to do, this is something you can do. This comes from a retired meteorologist who knows how local TV works. Currently recording the WGN Morning News (WGN is Nexstar) and making a list of local advertisers to call later. (Sorry, Joffrey Ballet.)
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
OK, if you're looking for something to do, this is something you can do. This comes from a retired meteorologist who knows how local TV works. Currently recording the WGN Morning News (WGN is Nexstar) and making a list of local advertisers to call later. (Sorry, Joffrey Ballet.)
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Part of the success of “cancel culture” as a meme is that it makes dissimilar activity look the same. Protesting a speaker is not the same as shunning sexual predators is not the same as the federal government silencing dissent.
“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U
Trump's moves against media outlets mirror authoritarian approaches to silencing dissent
Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that...
to.pbs.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Part of the success of “cancel culture” as a meme is that it makes dissimilar activity look the same. Protesting a speaker is not the same as shunning sexual predators is not the same as the federal government silencing dissent.
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One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.
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September 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This is almost comically on point for Umberto Eco’s 3rd characteristic of fascism: the cult of action for action’s sake.
September 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is almost comically on point for Umberto Eco’s 3rd characteristic of fascism: the cult of action for action’s sake.
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
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I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
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CBS is the new Fox.
CBS News' ugly new surrender to Trump is an open invitation to Trumpers to lie on their network. As today's WaPo piece on this fiasco notes, it would "allow guests to spout falsehoods knowing they would not be edited out by the show."
(cites my piece on this)
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
(cites my piece on this)
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Following backlash, ‘Face the Nation’ will air interviews unedited
CBS changes its policy after DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem accused the network of trying to “whitewash the truth” by editing an interview on the Sunday morning show.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
CBS is the new Fox.