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If you are in LA and want to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, join organizers in the streets tomorrow at 10 am to say ICE & cops out of care and get one of these gorgeous signs based on art by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social for @interruptcrim.bsky.socialโs toolkit - or make your own!
Tom Metzger (founder of WAR) was a chapter leader and spokesman for the John Birch Society, Gerald LK Smith was a paid organizer for JBS. Also members: David Lane, Willis Carto, Pierce, Ben Klassen (RaHoWa), Wesley Swift, William Potter Gale, and tax resister Gordon Kahl,
Many years ago, I was on a panel for some BBC show with Dr. Ben Carrington and he said this smart thing about how most elite athletes are not actually healthy. They are often pushing their bodies in ways that are extreme in order to play and win. I think about this all the time.
Love @jaubrey.bsky.social's entertaining deep-dive docos. Latest drop is on Peter Thiel, Alex Karp & Palantir's rise to the destructive force it is today, & the critical role it plays in the surveillance state that endangers the privacy & freedom of every single one of us. ๐บ youtu.be/F1ML3c9C4m8?...
Pardon #FAIL: it IS unconstitutional. "The idea that a president could pardon someone tried and convicted in state court has no precedent in American law, would be an outrageous departure from what our constitution requires, and will not hold up." โ Colorado Atty General Phill Weiser ๐งพ is.gd/DCNevL
๐งต 1/3 Thought vid: see @timmiller.bsky.social's intro re: the elites that enabled #Epstein. None wanted to be *the moral scold* to call out the evil bc of the social benefit of proximity to power & celebrity. Our culture has morphed to similarly "look the other way..." ๐บ youtu.be/v-QDoXgONkw?... ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ
Re: Allen & #Epstein, it "deepens Qs about the sexual morality & judgment" of a man who: - married his gfโs adopted daughter; - made a romcom about a middle-aged writer involved w/a 17-year-old girl; - has an adult character in Annie Hall joke about sex w/16-year old twins. ๐งพ NYT: is.gd/DBFOMH 1/2
๐ฅThis is unreal. Must watch & read โ a disturbing press-freedom story: after a Mother Jones reporter asked the Pentagon Qs re: an advisor to Hegseth, Jack Posobiec (MAGAt now in the Pentagon press pool) then sent the reporter threatening emails... ๐บ youtu.be/-IjICJfnrIs?... Article after the jump โฌ๏ธ
Since Grandpa Chaos is watching, he may think Fox is turning on him and he'll call Pappy Murdoch & rant, or he'll think it's a hint to put RFK Jr. on the January dump list. RFK Jr โand the persistent anti-vax BS on Fox โ are to blame. ๐บ bsky.app/profile/noth...