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Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God
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ICE hitting firefighting crews 👀
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
ICE hitting firefighting crews 👀
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
🗣SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS!
❝…the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.❞
I Am An AI Hater | moser’s frame shop - https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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Trump announced Monday that half of the restaurants in DC had been closed due to crime, and he's gotten them open again. As Adrian Carrasquillo notes, chef José Andrés responded:
"I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military #WashingtonDC
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-strangling-the-life-out-of-washington-dc-restaurants
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U.S. Reps. Scanlon, Lee denied entry to #Pennsylvania #immigration detention center https://penncapital-star.com/immigration/u-s-reps-scanlon-lee-denied-entry-to-pa-immigration-detention-center/#Fascism
U.S. Reps. Scanlon, Lee denied entry to #Pennsylvania #immigration detention center https://penncapital-star.com/immigration/u-s-reps-scanlon-lee-denied-entry-to-pa-immigration-detention-center/#Fascism
yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
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"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about power, pure and simple. Trump is expanding his own personal power in every direction he can — over Congress, over universities, over civil society, and over American business."
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Kate Riga notes that "the standoff the Supreme Court left the door open for is here" with Trump's determination to seize control of the Federal Reserve:
"The Court’s right-wing majority has been largely gleeful to cosign Trump’s rampage through the federal government, the weakening of executive branch agencies being a special hobbyhorse for Chief Justice John Roberts in particular."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
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“root causes”
I hate linking to The Hill, but here we go:
RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September
No, he fucking won’t. He literally shut down actual studies working on such things, because as with all fundamentalist-approach cardboard science, anything he does is driven by producing the answer he wants, not any answer that’s actually real.
So given all that, here’re a few key lies about “causes” I think we can expect:
- “Overvaccination,” which isn’t a thing; it’s just a wedge to start rolling back vaccination in favour of “wellness” horseshit and pseudoscience that doesn’t fucking work;
- High-fructose corn syrup, which in its most common formulation – for those who don’t remember – is chemically identical to honey. There’s literally not a way to tell filtered honey apart from 55/45 HFCS. This is also why filtered honey is fucking awful; once you filter out the water and the pollen remnants you don’t have any flavour other than sweetness.
(This may be substituted out for artificial colours and/or flavours, he’s got bugaboos about those too.)
And finally:
- Hormone-based contraception.
Yeah. I think there’s a pretty good chance they’ll go there. I can’t be sure – this is all speculation, I assure you – but it’s been floated around in christofascism on and off for a while. Not as strongly as other lies about “the pill” (christ they’re so old) causing breast cancer (again: a lie), and being an abortifacient (again: a lie). So why not here? Why not go for it?
It has the added bonus of blaming the woman, which is another thing they always want to do.
Maybe I’ll be wrong. Maybe they won’t. But he used one word in particular that makes me think I’m right. That word is “interventions,” as in “interventions” that cause autism. That’s a word I’ve heard plenty of times before when fundamentalists talk about birth control, and also by the new age crowd that merged in with them, calling hormonal birth control an “unnatural intervention.” In other words, both upstream forks of his anti-vax “wellness” following have a history of using that word to describe hormonal birth control.
And here it is again. That word. “Intervention.”
Really could be a coincidence; really, genuinely could. That word is used by a lot of actual medical people for good and real medical treatments; it’s not one of their own made-up words.
But … they really do have a history of using it that way. And the orange fuckfash muttered on about “a drug or something” as the intervention at work, so… yeah.
I’m smelling an attack on birth control.
They’ve really been wanting to go at it, and given the increased… severity in tone… that we’re seeing out of the fascists, it feels like they’re slamming the metaphorical pedal to the metaphorical metal, and they might just go ahead and go for it.
Stock up on your meds, folks. Clock’s ticking.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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Previously: “He has never been imprisoned or had a criminal record. His life has always been marked by hard work and integrity. He has no connection to the Tren de Aragua case.” https://www.texasobserver.org/a-venezuelan-was-detained-as-a-documented-gang-member-by-ice-which-refused-to-provide-proof/
#ICE #immigration#HumanRights #politics#USpol#Texas #news #fascism
Kim Perales
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“#DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants.”
The #TrumpRegime’s inhumane policies are akin to the #Nazis.
#Immigrants#Sadism#Fascism#Protest#USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/08/27/dhs-fema-undocumented-immigrants-aid-groups-grants/
"I've lived here for 33 years, and it's a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety...but restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people...making people afraid to go out."
Carrasquillo adds,
"Andrés is right. Trump’s deployment of 2,300 National Guard troops and 500 federal law enforcement agents has hurt foot traffic, chilled business, and made people cancel trips and nights out."
"It is slowly choking the life out of Washington, D.C. restaurants, which were still struggling to gain their post-pandemic footing just as Trump returned to town and started firing tens of thousands of their customers."
Trump announced Monday that half of the restaurants in DC had been closed due to crime, and he's gotten them open again. As Adrian Carrasquillo notes, chef José Andrés responded:
"I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military #WashingtonDC
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-strangling-the-life-out-of-washington-dc-restaurants
"I've lived here for 33 years, and it's a flat out lie that half the restaurants have closed because of safety...but restaurants will close because you have troops with guns and federal agents harassing people...making people afraid to go out."
Carrasquillo adds,
"Andrés is right. Trump’s deployment of 2,300 National Guard troops and 500 federal law enforcement agents has hurt foot traffic, chilled business, and made people cancel trips and nights out."
Kim Perales
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"So this woman is brought to the US when she's 8 yrs old, becomes a schol univ student to become a nurse... & is then seized by ICE, & kept in harsh captivity for 6 months -which wouldn't happen to most actual criminals."
-W Stancil
A Bustillo-Chinchilla💔appeared in a final hearing on Tues, where she informed the court that she wished to withdraw her asylum petition &🚨leave vol.
#Immigrants#Coercion#Detention#Deportations#Racism#Fascism#Sadsim#DHS#Protest#USPolhttps://www.wfae.org/race-equity/2025-08-26/after-six-months-in-ice-custody-charlotte-woman-chooses-voluntary-removal-to-honduras
"This isn’t about the city of Washington, or crime or public safety. It is a highly symbolic signal of his intent to subdue American democracy itself to his whims, and turn America the free into an authoritarian police state."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #dictator #military#WashingtonDC
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Trump announced Monday that half of the restaurants in DC had been closed due to crime, and he's gotten them open again. As Adrian Carrasquillo notes, chef José Andrés responded:
"I understand why you are confused...all your time in DC you haven't eaten ONCE outside the White House or your own hotel."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #military #WashingtonDC
/21
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-strangling-the-life-out-of-washington-dc-restaurants