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[?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
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@transworld ofc will triple-down on ...

    [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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    Top officials🚨knew in Mar 2025 that offs were USING DRAMATICALLY MORE FORCE AGAINST CIVILIANS & targets of their enf ops, mos before offs killed 2 US citizens in MPLS.

    Emails show that top ofcls knew the amt of force *lethal/non-lethal -used by ICE offs was rapidly rising after Trump took ofc, & incidents were occurring NW.

    : insisted➡️offs: complying with the standards.

    ⬆️:🚨a feature: not a bug➡️⬆️.

    politico.com/news/2026/02/17/i

    Caleb Vitello (left), ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Academy assistant director and Todd Lyons (right), acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement speak to the press at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Brunswick, Georgia on Aug. 21, 2025

    Alt...Caleb Vitello (left), ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Academy assistant director and Todd Lyons (right), acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement speak to the press at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Brunswick, Georgia on Aug. 21, 2025

      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
      @wdlindsy@toad.social

      "Bondi walked away with the image that will haunt her for the rest of her life: her back turned to those Jeffrey Epstein victims as Representative Pramila Jayapal asked them to stand and raise their hands 'if you have still not been able to meet with the DOJ'—and they all raised their hands."

      ~ Michael Tomasky


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        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
        @wdlindsy@toad.social

        "That image looked horrible Wednesday; as more and more details about the Epstein story leak out in the coming weeks and months, it's only going to look worse."


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          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
          @wdlindsy@toad.social

          Noah Dowe offers a rundown of how even MAGA media are dissing Pam Bondi now and her abysmal performance this week in front of Congress.


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            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
            @wdlindsy@toad.social

            "The image of Bondi, head turned, as the victims stand with hands raised encapsulates the real conspiracy behind Epstein files — the way the people who are supposed to protect victims quietly turn away from the truth."

            ~ Liz Dye


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              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
              @wdlindsy@toad.social

              "The image also encapsulates the way patriarchy works, not always with active violence, but rather the pernicious and quiet complicity of women like Bondi, hired and promoted to do exactly this — be a feminine shield for the crimes of men."


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                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                Kristin Du Mez analyzes Pam Bondi's recent performance in light of the "long history of white femininity being used to justify state violence and … domestic terrorism. As she notes, fascist regimes (and Trump specifically) like to push forward as spokespersons submissive, stereotypically "feminine" women, particularly if they're blonde.


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                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                  "What truly amazed me was her demand that Democrats stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein because the Dow was above 50,000. This plumbed new depths of moral bankruptcy, effectively saying: 'How dare you complain about child rape when the stock market is up?'”

                  ~ Steven Beschloss


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                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                    "Allow me to predict that Pamela Jo Bondi will go down in history as the single most corrupt attorney general in the history of the United States."

                    ~ Joy-Ann Reid

                    Reid minces no words in describing Bondi as she performed for Trump this week: "shrieking, nasty, inhumane, barbarous cur of a barely distinguishable human being" for starters.

                    ~ Joy-Ann Reid


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                      [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                      "NEW DATA:🚨As mass deportations have gone on,🚨native born unemployment has surged.

                      It turns out mass deportations actually don’t create jobs for Americans.

                      We🚨were lied to."
                      -Micah

                      Refute Trump/Rs' dangerous and disinformation, because are integral to the country, & they're being tortured, injured, sickened, deported, and killed.

                      Graph: only native-born unemployment up vs last year:

                      Alt...Graph: only native-born unemployment up vs last year:

                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                        "And on it went for hours [a Senate hearing last October], a calculated performance that amounted to a giant middle finger to basic notions of decorum and accountability, leaving all sorts of questions unanswered, including a fundamental one that some of Bondi’s old friends and colleagues back home in Florida had been asking."

                        ~ Stephanie McCrummen


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                        theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/

                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                          "As one of them put it to me: 'I keep asking myself, What the f--k happened to Pam?'

                          At this point, there is little mystery about who Pam Bondi has become."


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                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                            "What most people took away from Bondi’s testimony before the House is that she screams a lot, seems very defensive, and is the stupidest, most beclowned attorney general in history — & Donald Trump has a lot of previous attorneys general to choose from for that honor — who is spearheading the cover-up of the vilest, most disgusting child rape ring in human history. & that she revels in that job."

                            ~ Evan Hurst


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                            wonkette.com/p/insolent-shouty

                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                              "The Department of Justice has required Members of Congress who wish to review the slightly-less-redacted Epstein files to travel to a DOJ annex, sit at one of four DOJ-owned computers, use a clunky and convoluted software system provided by DOJ, and search for and read documents while DOJ staffers look over our shoulders."

                              ~ Jamie Raskin


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                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                "It is the perfect set up for DOJ to spy on Members’ review, monitoring, recording, and logging every document we choose to pull up.

                                “Today, photographs of Attorney General Bondi’s ‘burn book’ confirmed my suspicions."


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                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                  "These photos show Bondi came to our hearing with a document entitled ‘Jayapal Pramila Search History’ and then listed the documents my colleague, Rep. Jayapal, reviewed while at DOJ, apparently to prepare the Attorney General for any questions Rep. Jayapal might ask.

                                  Not only has the Department of Justice illegally withheld documents from Congress and the American people."


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                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                    "Not only has Attorney General Bondi failed to bring a single indictment against a single co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But now Bondi and her team are spying on Members of Congress conducting oversight in yet another blatant attempt to intrude into Congress’s oversight processes."


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                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                      "She blustered. She filibustered. She shouted. She summoned the mock outrage usually seen in recalcitrant teenagers. She what-about’ed like a two-bit, 500-watt drive-time radio host. She sneered and chuckled and did everything she could to express contempt for the Congress."

                                      ~ Charles Pierce


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                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                        "Ultimately, she refused to talk about the Epstein files, or about the street violence committed by government goons, but succeeded in turning the hearing into chaos, which was her real job on Wednesday."


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                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                          "I've seen a lot of people come before us, and I've seen some pretty... pretty stunning disrespect from different people that come before us.

                                          But this was a new low. This was really a new low. And she showed herself over and over again. ...

                                          She came with a book that was filled with personal attacks against members of Congress."

                                          ~ Pramila Jayapal


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                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                            "And she basically prevaricated on every single thing. She refused to answer questions. If she got a question she didn't like, what she would do is she would turn it back on the member and bring up some personal attack on them. ...

                                            The example that I put up was a victim's list. It said Epstein Victims List. It said Epstein Victims List. And there were 32 names on there of victims, survivors."


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                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                              "Bondi’s Justice Department is doing more to harm victims and shred their protection, not just in the Epstein case, but for all victims of sexual abuse. In her words, 'It affects everyone, and it’s a horrible, ugly, ugly business.' Her tolerance for it, where her boss is concerned, is an appalling abdication of duty."

                                              ~ Joyce Vance


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                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                "Bondi dropped the ball on investigating Epstein and his abuse of children in Florida a long time ago. She was Florida’s attorney general — the state’s top prosecutor — as more and more Epstein victims came forward in the years after Epstein received federal immunity in 2008."

                                                ~ Julie K. Brown


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                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                  "The irony is as Florida attorney general, Bondi tried to position herself as an advocate for victims of sex trafficking, and created a statewide panel on human trafficking. But she remained silent on the most famous sex trafficking case in Florida’s history."


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                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                    "Pam Bondi just lied to Congress. What is the State Bar of Florida going to do about that fact?"

                                                    ~ Robert B. Hubbell


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                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                      "The vitriol was, of course, mostly intended to try to mask the fact that Bondi has shockingly few good answers to a whole host of reasonable questions about her job performance."

                                                      ~ Bulwark


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                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                        "In fact, Bondi has been protecting Trump long before she served in the Trump regime. ...

                                                        Bondi made a choice to protect Epstein. That is clear. Now we need a criminal investigation into Bondi. The Epstein survivors deserve to know why Bondi put Epstein and his powerful friends over their own safety and well-being?!"

                                                        ~ Dean Obeidallah


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                                                          [?]littletecky » 🌐
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                                                          Cursed madness when you take us

                                                          We must admit that things aren't going well in the world‼️
                                                          The ideoligists impose themselves in our lives like parasites of ultimate thinking🙄
                                                          1. Vegan for everyone🙄
                                                          2. Fake green and falsely renewable energy.
                                                          3. Imposition of Transgender ideology on children and our institutions.
                                                          4. Parental alienation by government institutions.
                                                          5.Digital identity supposedly for the protection of children, but in fact it is for the control of the masses.
                                                          6. Unlimited immigration which denies reception capacity and societal and financial impact.
                                                          7. Artificial Intelligence
                                                          8. Culture of lying in the workplace.
                                                          9. Invasion of privacy
                                                          10. Exclusion of the right to speak to people who oppose their ideologies.
                                                          11. Mandatory vaccinations
                                                          12. Assisted suicide

                                                          There is clearly a Problems and a war against humans.


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                                                            [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
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                                                            USpol, MAGA, Trans Genocide, Propaganda lies, [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                            @ignova for the teality is irrelevant.

                                                            • They'll believe whatever they want and won't accept but flatout dismiss aything that doesn't affirm their bs beliefs!

                                                            You cannot argue with these fash!

                                                            • You can only force them into conditionless surrender at gunpoint, cuz that's what was necessary the last time

                                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                              "To an important degree the absurdity of the professed belief is part of the attraction, especially since aggression is so deeply embedded in the professed belief. This issue comes up in a less extreme, though still similar, way in the various ways Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration try to justify ICE’s behavior."


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                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                "NPR reported that “The affidavit relies on misleading and already-disproven claims about the 2020 election,' before reminding readers that Fulton County ballots were counted three times following that election, confirming the accuracy of the result."


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                                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                  "You would expect that the affidavit would rehearse those well-known facts about the Big Lie of 2020 and explain why, moving beyond those previously discredited theories, there is probably cause to support a search. It doesn’t."


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                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                    "The affidavit doesn’t disclose that the man who set off the investigation, a Trump administration employee named Kurt Olson, is 'a leading election denier' who 'relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.' And it doesn’t get any better from that point on."

                                                                    ~ Joyce Vance


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                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                      "The affidavit relies on misleading and already-disproven claims about the 2020 election. Fulton County's 2020 ballots were counted three separate times, with the results affirmed."


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                                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                        "An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia's Fulton County was initiated by a lawyer working for the Trump administration who also aided President Trump's efforts to try to overturn that election years ago, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday."

                                                                        ~ Stephen Fowler


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                                                                        npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-57106

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                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                          "One issue we’ve discussed again and again during the Trump years is the purported belief as a form of performative aggression. It’s something essential to the Trumpian/MAGA world. You believe things that are, in factual terms, obviously absurd. But they’re also convenient. They create permission structures for all sorts of things they already want to do."

                                                                          ~ Josh Marshall


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                                                                            [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
                                                                            @KimPerales@toad.social

                                                                            Rep Escobar⚡says she's been told there's no immediate threat to the region, demands that the flight restrictions be taken down⁉️

                                                                            The 🚨issued unexplained notices late Tues closing airspace over El Paso & a large patch of S NM... for 10 days. El Paso INTL A/P is closed to all flights -could cause massive disruption in TX.

                                                                            Given the from this regime, it's very concerning as to what Hegseth, Duffy, Miller... are up to.

                                                                            elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u

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                                                                              [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                              , people...🚨DIE in darkness: McLaughlin/other SPOX didn't explain when the TB & COVID cases were 1st reported & what happened to the ppl Escobar/city ofcls said had been diagnosed w the illnesses last mo. Fed ofcls: haven't disclosed how many TB...

                                                                              “This is the best healthcare many aliens have received their entire lives.”

                                                                              The city’s SPOX indivs with TB: 💔evaluated & trt by ICE +contracted med providers *no longer at the fac.


                                                                              texastribune.org/2026/02/07/ic

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                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                "The guy doesn’t exercise; he doesn’t eat well. He drinks enough Diet Coke to fill a football stadium. And you just can’t quite trust the people around him. And I felt like the story I published said a lot about Trump’s America, not just Trump’s health."


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                                                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                  "Instead of just saying he’s healthy for an almost 80-year-old, that he’s slowing down a little bit, but he’s certainly healthy enough to be president, people talk about him in these terms that are just completely outrageous: superhuman, the healthiest man alive. He told me he was healthier than he was 40 years ago."


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                                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                    "The story I set out to write about was to figure out whether he is healthy or not, and it kind of ended up being a story about whether the government is healthy or not. There’s kind of an infection that has spread throughout Trump’s inner circle where everybody who talks about him talks about him in the craziest, most North Korean-type, dear-leader way."


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                                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                      Ben Terris explains why it's so difficult for investigative journalists to get clear information about Trump's health:

                                                                                      "The story I set out to write about was to figure out whether he is healthy or not, and it kind of ended up being a story about whether the government is healthy or not."


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                                                                                        [?]The Whore of Blahbylon » 🌐
                                                                                        @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

                                                                                        Ohh, I know this! I know this!: The President of the United States of America.

                                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                          "The Big Lie is back, and its revival marks an escalation. The first time, it supported the mission of overturning one election that didn’t go the way the Lie’s creator, President Donald Trump, needed it to go."

                                                                                          ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat


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                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                            "This time, it’s not one election at stake: it’s all American elections, which, Trump tell us, should be 'nationalized' and managed by Republicans to fight the kinds of fraud and interference which deprived him of his 2020 win. ...

                                                                                            The more unpopular an autocrat becomes, the more he needs his lies to create the reality necessary to keep himself in power. That is where we are now in the United States."


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                                                                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                              @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                              "Trump’s determination to prove that he actually won the 2020 election continues to drive the administration. This morning, in a rambling and often crazed speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump told attendees: 'They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego.'"

                                                                                              ~ Heather Cox Richardson


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                                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                "'I would’ve had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego, though. Beating these lunatics was incredible, right? What a great feeling, winning every swing state, winning the popular vote. The first time, you know, they said I didn’t win the popular vote. I did.'”


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                                                                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                  @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                  "On the January 28, 2026 edition of The Kim Iversen Show, Marjorie Taylor Greene declared that 'MAGA was all a lie.' The revelation landed with unusual force, not because it was shocking, but because of who said it. Political movements routinely attract defectors, dissenters, and apostates."

                                                                                                  ~ Brian Daitzman


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                                                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                    "What they rarely confront is repudiation from figures who once functioned as living proof of the movement’s sincerity.

                                                                                                    Greene was not a marginal ally of MAGA; nor a late convert hedging her bets. She was, for a critical period, one of its clearest internal embodiments—an unfiltered carrier of its insurgent identity, affect, and moral claims."


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                                                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                      @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                      "When such a figure concludes that the governing reality negates the founding promise, the problem is no longer messaging. It is legitimacy. ...

                                                                                                      Crucially, Greene’s repudiation is not a rejection of MAGA’s motivating language or its voters."


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                                                                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                        "She does not claim the slogan itself was fraudulent, nor that those who believed in it were naïve. She describes herself as a sincere believer. What she rejects is the translation of mobilizing myth into governing reality."


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                                                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                          "Trump’s bringing crazy back. I hate to be the bearer of such absurd news, but we need to pay attention and wrap our heads around it. Because shit’s about to get crazy. …

                                                                                                          First, Trump hopes to cause his base to froth in anticipation of more “revelations” about the 2020 election," (continued in /10)

                                                                                                          ~ Jay Kuo


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                                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                            "The video clip, which some commentators and politicians may want to wave off as a mere distraction, actually succinctly combines two of the top policy priorities of the Trump-Vance administration: codifying his election denialism and election-rigging efforts into government policy, and institutionalizing blatant racism."

                                                                                                            ~ Asawin Subsaeng


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                                                                                                              [?]Scooter :polyamoryFlag: » 🌐
                                                                                                              @scooter@labyrinth.zone

                                                                                                              exceptionally impolite rant on uspol and journalism [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I am about to scream about this: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tommy-tuberville-wildly-claims-half-a-dozen-members-of-congress-won-bogus-elections/

                                                                                                              Quick summary: Senator Douchenozzle here gets in front of a Fox Noise mic and literally tosses off that six of his colleagues in Congress won "bogus" #elections to be there, and that he has seen the evidence. And the fuckwit host lets this just float by like he's a goddamn potted plant.

                                                                                                              Who. WHO, motherfucker? Which ones won by fraud? What are there names? Can't give that, uh-huh...were they all from the last election? Which are in the House and which in the Senate? Who else knows about this information? Is there an ongoing investigation? Who is leading that investigation?

                                                                                                              What evidence did you personally see, as you just claimed? Where did you obtain this evidence? From whom? How? Who is holding it now? Is it in your office? Will you be introducing it to the Senate Judiciary Committee? Will you be contacting the Department of Justice? Were you planning on doing these things, or anything else, with the evidence? When?

                                                                                                              I'm not going to say this out loud at this point, but yes, I'm damned well aware that you just made that shit up on the fly because your idiot constituents don't know any better and want their red meat they can yawp about next time they're at the bar, but I have a functioning cerebral cortex as opposed to the Fox Business "News" corpse that's sitting opposite you, and without a single journalism credit to my name, I just exposed you as a complete fucking liar and not even that creative of one, and exposed this Fox dipshit for being as useless as tits on a bull.

                                                                                                              Fucking MORONS.

                                                                                                              Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

                                                                                                              #rant #screaming #FistThroughMonitor #MyGodWhyIsStupidNotPainful #PeopleWhoNeedToBeBeatenWithATableLeg #lies #journalism #CommaLackThereof

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                                                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                “'It was a brutal lie against the American public,' said Mark Fleming, an attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center and co-counsel in a lawsuit against the government that led to the consent decree. 'This was really about immigrants purportedly occupying apartments unlawfully, which is radically different than the story they told.'”


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                                                                                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                  "Now, new documents confirm in the government’s own words that what prompted the raid was more pedestrian: allegations that immigrants were squatting in the complex.

                                                                                                                  And the landlord had given federal officials, who were already targeting immigrants in Chicago, the blessing to search the building."


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                                                                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                    "For months, the Trump administration has justified its dramatic midnight raid on a Chicago apartment complex by saying that it had intelligence that the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But officials have provided no evidence to back up the claim."

                                                                                                                    ~ Melissa Sanchez and Jodi S. Cohen


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                                                                                                                      [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                      While the 🚨has promised high salaries & generous bonuses for fed IMM agent recruits, a wave of apparent new agents have taken to SM to complain about getting stiffed on everything from bonuses to health insur.

                                                                                                                      “Been here for about 2 months,🚨still waiting for my health insurance… is anyone having that issue as well?” reads a post on teddit on an unofficial forum for deportation offs.

                                                                                                                      Trump , & stiffs everyone.

                                                                                                                      No🎻s for .


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                                                                                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                                        “The murder of Renee Good and the murder of Alex Pretti broke through in a way that few, if any, other stories of the Trump era have broken through. They broke through the information bubbles and were disseminated – whether it’s Reddit or websites devoted to rock climbing – and people were talking about it."

                                                                                                                        ~Charlie Sykes quoted by David Smith


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                                                                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                          "It made Stephen Miller’s counter-reality utterly unsustainable.”

                                                                                                                          The mobile phone made all the difference."


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                                                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                            "We know that Pretti was armed with a handgun. And yet the defensive weapon he wielded throughout his confrontations with masked federal agents was his phone, gripped in the classic position one holds a cell phone while filming, so Pretti could see the video on his phone screen facing him."

                                                                                                                            ~ Lucian K. Truscott


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                                                                                                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                              "It is clear from the photos that people’s cellphones are not only being used to record the often extreme and overbearing actions of ICE agents, but for self-defense. Masked agents have guns. Citizens have cell phones."


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                                                                                                                                [?]Anthony » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @abucci@buc.ci

                                                                                                                                The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.
                                                                                                                                Truth and Politics, Hannah Arendt


                                                                                                                                  [?]Proto Himbo European » 🌐
                                                                                                                                  @guyjantic@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                  In Utah, a little army is getting signatures for a petition to allow the GOP to gerrymander the state even more than it already is. They are lying through their teeth--as policy, apparently--telling people the petition is anti-ICE. A network of people has stepped up to follow them around and inform people about what they're actually signing.

                                                                                                                                  Also: They mention Sarah McConkie. I think maybe I dated her aunt in college.

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                    Trump WH pub a memo suggesting:🚨feminism, antiracism, & opposition to were all ideologies of “domestic terrorism.” That🚨they’re calling Good & Pretti -isn't just a smear *long-planned strategy.

                                                                                                                                    Mvts🚨portray fndn American principles (e.g., support for LE & border control) as “fascist” to justify & encourage acts of violent rev. lie: rallying cry used by dom terrorists to wage a violent assault against dem insts, CON rights...


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                                                                                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                      "Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."

                                                                                                                                      See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.


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                                                                                                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                        "Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."

                                                                                                                                        ~ John Stoehr


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                                                                                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                          As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.

                                                                                                                                          MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.


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                                                                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                            "The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."

                                                                                                                                            ~ Jay Kuo


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                                                                                                                                              [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                              Approval numbers are plummeting, he feels checked with ICE and Minnesota (though he refuses to de-escalate). Queue wild diversions, from raiding an election office, resurrecting lies about the 2020 election being stolen, advancing Tulsi Gabbard as the new face while Kristi Noem is shoved to the side, arresting Don Lemon.

                                                                                                                                              As Peter Rothpletz says,

                                                                                                                                              "A floundering Donald Trump gaslights on overdrive."

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                                                                                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                "Donald Trump is enormously dangerous. And we would be fools to look at a small rhetorical retreat from the horrors of his armed occupation in Minneapolis as a victory that will last."

                                                                                                                                                ~ Edwin Eisendrath


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                                                                                                                                                  [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                  “'We’re gonna de-escalate a little bit,' Donald Trump said on Fox News Tuesday.

                                                                                                                                                  Sounded good. But it was absolute nonsense.

                                                                                                                                                  This malignant sadist has zero interest in moderating the abuses of his lawless police state."

                                                                                                                                                  ~ Steven Beschloss


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                                                                                                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                    "It’s important to know exactly what is happening in our country. President Trump suffered a setback in Minneapolis. His larger project proceeds apace, however, and it’s creating a parallel MAGA reality that is laying the foundation for a further escalation of state violence."

                                                                                                                                                    ~ David French


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                                                                                                                                                      "The criticism of all the living Democratic presidents, along with his disastrous performance in Davos, Switzerland, last week and his plummeting numbers—as well as the fact the American people have not forgotten that the administration is continuing to break the law by refusing to release the Epstein files—appears to have sent Trump back to the comfort of older grievances."

                                                                                                                                                      ~ Heather Cox Richardson


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                                                                                                                                                        "Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, who has been strangely invisible now for months, resurfaced yesterday when the FBI seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election from a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia."


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                                                                                                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                                                                          "OBAMA PALLETS CASH ITALY SWITZERLAND SATELLITES HACK VOTING MACHINES CHINA DEEP STATE JEWISH SPACE LASERS VENEZUELA RIGGED AND STOLLEN BIDEN PUPPET!

                                                                                                                                                          The mainstream media is not ready."

                                                                                                                                                          ~ Evan Hurst


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                                                                                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                            "Stolen Election. Obama. Cash to Iran. Hacked voting machines. Flipping votes from Trump to Biden. China. The Big Lie is back on—just in time for the midterm elections.

                                                                                                                                                            Trump signposted his intentions in Davos a week earlier, when he said that the people who were involved in the 'rigged 2020 election' were going to be prosecuted soon."

                                                                                                                                                            Joyce Vance


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                                                                                                                                                              [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                              "As names of ppl with criminal records scroll by in this clip:🚨MANY were transferred directly from state prison to ICE custody, undermining Noem's entire ARG.

                                                                                                                                                              MN's prison system put out a press rel calling out 's "false arrest claims."

                                                                                                                                                              Eg: 2 of the sex offenders: claims that ICE just wants to get criminals "off the sts"🚨-tranferred directly from MN st prisons w/o ever being released."
                                                                                                                                                              -A R-Melnick

                                                                                                                                                              arrests are for /optics‼️
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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                Trump🚨said he wished he’d “seized” ballots in the 2020 election.

                                                                                                                                                                He⚡doesn’t have those powers. I helped write the EO he’s talking about *ref to a specific EO that he thinks would justify such an act. Trump/ATTYs have suggested: EO 13848, signed in 2018, gives the pres the power to intervene in elections.

                                                                                                                                                                It does NO SUCH THING *order: resp to fgn interf in the 2016 elect -designed to make it easier for a pres to impose sanctions on fgn actors...


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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                  "During his nonsense-posting blitz last night,🚨PresTrump shared a social media post that falsely claimed Wisconsin has 7.4M registered voters, millions higher than the number of actual adults in the state. In reality, WI has 3.6M registered voters."
                                                                                                                                                                  -D Dale

                                                                                                                                                                  Trump's are becoming more egregious, & telling. He's preparing to deploy fed militia at voting places +convince his voters: it's acceptable, & normalizing , ... terrorizing communities...

                                                                                                                                                                  Trump's post on the WI lies:

                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...Trump's post on the WI lies:

                                                                                                                                                                  From the WI website with the real numbers of voters:

                                                                                                                                                                  Alt...From the WI website with the real numbers of voters:

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                                                                                    "Frst you get Epstein, which gets you Greenland, which gets you ice in Minneapolis. which now gets you raiding the Georgia [election board]. I mean, the distractions are actually piling up the scar tissue that's being pulled apart here."

                                                                                                                                                                    ~ Joe Trippi


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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                      "Destroying our ability to reality test is the only way he can maintain his own delusion."


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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                        Liz Dye reports on what she experienced at Trump's rally yesterday in Clive, Iowa:

                                                                                                                                                                        "When everything is always a lie, the truth eventually escapes. What does it do out there in the open?

                                                                                                                                                                        When I gently bring up Minneapolis and what’s happening there to the people around me, the grandmother two chairs down frowns and says she doesn’t believe most of what the media reports."


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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                          "It’s hard to know the truth when everyone is so biased [the grandmother says]. The college student near me, who spends most of his time in the events center — and, based on the evidence, a lot of his other time as well, chewing the skin off his fingers — tells me, 'People need to comply with the police.'

                                                                                                                                                                          That’s it. The subject is changed."


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                                                                                                                                                                            "The Department of Homeland Security is now walking back a Saturday statement that described Pretti as having 'violently resisted' Customs and Border Protection agents and suggested he intended to 'massacre law enforcement.' A DHS spokesperson told NBC News that the initial account was based on chaotic and incomplete reports from CBP personnel on the scene."

                                                                                                                                                                            ~ Aaron Parnas


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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                              "Many large media outlets are reporting: Trump🚨"pivoted" his strategy in MN & has "changed course."

                                                                                                                                                                              This is what the🚨WH WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE

                                                                                                                                                                              The only problem is🚨it isn't true

                                                                                                                                                                              Is Trump ending his IMM crackdown in MPLS? NO

                                                                                                                                                                              Is anyone responsible for the operation being held accountable. NO

                                                                                                                                                                              Has Trump acknowledged that these killings were unjustified?🚨NO"

                                                                                                                                                                              ~ 🟰 *hasn't appeared in a coat, but: took a $50K bribe.


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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                "Trump⚡couldn't have designed a better statement to convince Judge Menendez that Operation Metro Surge is meant to coerce policy changes.

                                                                                                                                                                                ⚡have ruled repeatedly that🚨THE FED GOVT CANNOT COERCE STATES TO ENFORCE FED . Nor is it illegal for states to decline to do so.

                                                                                                                                                                                And the menacing🚨“PLAYING WITH FIRE” is exactly the kind of stmt " is coming” that worked against the admin in court earlier this week."
                                                                                                                                                                                -K Cheney

                                                                                                                                                                                Trump's post about: playing with fire!:

                                                                                                                                                                                Alt...Trump's post about: playing with fire!:

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                  You don’t get much more official than executing a . Concealing after the fact is a separate offense that also fits what is publicly known about both the & cases. The resulting penalties would attach to anyone who conspired in that concealment. This could reach more senior figures in the admin who acted to hinder by using & to deflect responsibility &—worse—to score political points from the deaths.

                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                    "Everywhere we’re seeing signs that ICE, the White House and its virtual army of influencers, agitators and generalized degenerates are losing control of the public narrative surrounding the murder of VA ICU nurse and activist Alex Pretti."

                                                                                                                                                                                    ~ Josh Marshall


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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                      "When you have multiple videos showing ICE agents simply shooting a man to death with no justification whatsoever you need a pretty wild story to equal things out. But that story — that Pretti drew his weapon and was opening fire when federal agents killed him — is going to be just as brittle as it is powerful, liable to snap at any moment."


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                                                                                                                                                                                        "And when it snaps, what you’re left with is a pretty horrifying series of videos in which a man very intentionally takes no aggressive or violent actions and is over a matter of seconds violently beaten by multiple agents and then shot to death."


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                                                                                                                                                                                          "No matter how Americans get their information, there’s a good chance they heard about federal officers killing Renée Good and Alex Pretti, harassing and violently repressing people, and generally acting like the Gestapo, like figures Americans think of as villains from movies and history. The more who hear about this and recoil, the weaker the regime gets."

                                                                                                                                                                                          ~ Nicholas Grossman


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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @wdlindsy@toad.social

                                                                                                                                                                                            "It won’t happen all at once, and things will likely get worse before they get better, but Team Trump’s authoritarian project is failing. They apparently imagined Americans would cheer or cower in the face of violent repression, but the opposite has happened. The regime’s secret police force is having trouble handling America’s 16th largest metro area."


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                                                                                                                                                                                              "But as Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News posted, 'Nothing in this carefully worded statement by DHS denies the crux of the reporting that Bovino was demoted to his previous job, lost social media access, will leave Minnesota and may retire soon.'”


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                                                                                                                                                                                                "They wrote that he had 'been removed from his role as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.'

                                                                                                                                                                                                DHS is denying that the report is true."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                  Joyce Vance:

                                                                                                                                                                                                  "It was clear to Republicans that Americans had no intention of letting this go.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Tonight, it appears that the days of Gregory Bovino strutting around Minneapolis streets in his greatcoat may be over. The Atlantic reported earlier tonight, 'Greg Bovino Loses His Job.'"


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                                                                                                                                                                                                    But as Peter Rothpletz reports, though noting the freedom DHS employees give themselves to lie,

                                                                                                                                                                                                    "Last night, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin tweeted: 'Chief Gregory Bovino has NOT been relieved of his duties. As @PressSec stated from the White House podium, @CMDROpAtLargeCA is a key part of the President’s team and a great American.'"


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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                      And:

                                                                                                                                                                                                      "While CBP appears to be leaving, the operation itself will continue.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Tonight Alvarez and her colleague Michael Williams reported that DHS had suspended Bovino’s access to his official social media accounts."

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Similar reports:

                                                                                                                                                                                                      MS Now

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      Jem Bartholomew

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        Nick Miroff reported yesterday "Gregory Bovino loses his job."

                                                                                                                                                                                                        theatlantic.com/politics/2026/

                                                                                                                                                                                                        As Heather Cox Richardson says this morning,

                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Then, this afternoon, CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez reported that Bovino and some of his agents are leaving Minneapolis and returning to the sectors from which they came."

                                                                                                                                                                                                        heathercoxrichardson.substack.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                          "CNN confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has suspended Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts after he spent the previous day responding to critics and promoting unverified claims about the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                            Conflicting reports this morning on the fate of Greg Bovino, Nazi poseur and head of CBP. Aaron Parnas reports:

                                                                                                                                                                                                            "Bovino has now been fully sidelined, and DHS has suspended his access to social media. Despite the backlash, ICE enforcement operations will continue, including a visible ICE presence at the Super Bowl."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Videos are the start. They show what happened but not why. We still need context, analysis, and investigation to understand the whole story. And that is the last thing Trump and his enforcers want. They know people will recognize: a) that they lied about what happened, b) what happened was illegal, and c) those responsible will likely not be held accountable."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                "The internet and social media are often maligned for spreading disinformation, negatively impacting mental health, and perpetuating screen addiction and cyberbullying. Amid all the issues with pervasive distraction, in the time of Trump, the technology that lives in our pockets has become one of the most useful tools to combat the administration’s stranglehold on the 'truth.'”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                ~ Dan Rather


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "Illinois Governor JB Pritzker instructed everyone to 'video everything.' Fellow governor Tim Walz of Minnesota echoed this advice.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  'Carry your phone with you at all times. And if you see ICE in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans — not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution,' he said last week."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Are we living in times, a.k.a. ? As democracies come under fire by forces, when are told as , an “end time” looms. Indifference to truth is a sign of the who arrives at end times. bit.ly/4qibcrU

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "As a journalist in this moment, I will not hide in a fictional 'grey area.' I am not afraid to tell the truth: Alex Pretti was murdered. It is the media’s responsibility to use accurate language, and that is the accurate term."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        "Added together,🚨Trump has said the windfall from his tariffs will help cover nearly $6T in costs. That’s >22X more than the admin’s own estimates for how much revenue his taxes on imports will generate this year."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        -S Lincicome

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Trump's lies🚨about "his" are egregious, but his lies about the cold-blooded murders he incited & condoned are ABOMINABLE‼️


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                        $6T: total revenue needed to cover Trump's promises... such a number isn't even possible. from the WP

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Alt...$6T: total revenue needed to cover Trump's promises... such a number isn't even possible. from the WP

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "Some people hold to the idea that because our mainstream media still underwrites some quality journalism, we should stand behind it. Or they console themselves by saying 'well, at least some of what they say is true' as a contrast against the officials of the Trump Administration, who do not even lie with facts, but lie with lies."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ~ Timothy Burke


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "(As one spokesperson said today about the White House having used a doctored photo, 'the memes will continue.')

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I can’t console myself that way. In fact, I am more angry about lying with facts, because it’s so highly intentional. It is the gravest of sins."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            N.B. Burke wrote this on Jan. 23, before Pretti's execution.


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Alex Pretti was murdered on Saturday in Minneapolis.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              It was immediately evident in the first video we all witnessed on social media.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              And the Trump administration started lying to us about it immediately."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ~ Michael Mora


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]William Lindsey :toad: » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "So the pre-scheduled appearance of wannabe Amon Göth, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, on CNN’s State Of The Union ended up being quite confrontational. …

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Bovino drapes himself in Temu Totalitarian garb, and his minions kill with impunity as they target marginalized minority communities. People knowing history and being able to identify where it rhymes in real time is not 'heated rhetoric.'”


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "We are in a national crisis here. Why do I say that? And it's really not the first time we've been in a crisis when Trump's been the president. But for this one, this one is different.And it's different because the administration is straight up lying to us about what is crystal clear to those who have clear minds."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ~ Frank Figliuzzi,


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "It’s maddening that people are still waiting for a line to be crossed. We passed that line years ago."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "This is not immigration enforcement. This is extortion. This is the use of state violence to seize control of elections in a swing state. This is the thing itself, undisguised, in plain sight."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ~ Mike Brock


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        "This is unprecedented in the United States of America, a governor believing that he must use his powers to call up the state national guard in order to defend and protect the citizens of his state from a federal militia that has invaded the city of Minneapolis as if its armed and masked members are an enemy army."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ~ Lucian K. Truscott


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "For many people, one of the more shocking parts of the White House response was its quick leap to blame the victims and to smear them as 'domestic terrorists' and violent assailants who, by inference, got what was coming to them. But this move is only surprising if you’re unfamiliar with Cohn’s second rule: always counter-attack."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "The point of the regime’s counter-attacks was to muddy the waters, causing the media and the MAGA base to focus on the victims’ actions and their alleged politics instead of the crimes committed against them. It’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim for what she was wearing. And unfortunately, for a significant portion of the MAGA base, it works."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              When even Jonathan Rauch admits it….

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                "We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, Soviet as well as Nazi, and from attempts to replace the rule of law with personal tyranny.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                It is the logic of lies and of lawlessness."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ~ Timothy Snyder


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "The media’s overreliance on official accounts has long been a scandal. It has allowed law enforcement to get away with murder, literally. Journalists must stop relying on the accounts of officials they know are liars. Simple as that."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    "After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe."

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      "That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        compared it to conflict zones she has seen in other countries.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        “My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve seen there – a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        ~ Rachel Sayre quoted by Rachel Leingang


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          "There is no act of violence committed by the agents of the state they won’t defend – no victim they won’t slander and vilify. ...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Here is the clearest encapsulation of Trumpism as a political project: Redraw the lines of who belongs, who is legitimate, who is part of the 'Volk.'”

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            "If you are, you get to rule, dominate, exploit. If you are not, because you deviate from MAGA’s vision of what 'real America' is supposed to be, you have forfeited not only your rights and protections as a citizen, but also your humanity, your very right to live."


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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              "Trump and his lieutenants are working to codify a new, more sinister right, one that they reserve selfishly for just themselves and their pals: the right to murder other people’s loved ones with impunity – in broad daylight, on camera – and to then immediately have a good laugh about it."

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