Conor Gleeson

@conorgleeson7.bsky.social

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29, Bi, FOIA Analyst. I paint Warhammer and write in my spare time. Birds are pretty great, owl eyes useful for watching domestic extremists.

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Biden-Harris admin announces that recently announced policy protecting eligible undocumented spouses of US citizens will be open for applications on August 19: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Expand Opportunities for Latino Communities and Ensure Every Family Has a Fair Shot at the American Dream | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov President Biden and Vice President Harris are working to ensure that all Latino families and communities can achieve greater opportunity. Over the past three years, the Administration has taken histor...

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The Hawley/Vance pseudo-populist messaging on labor and "antitrust reform" are a 100% hollow performance by stuffed suit authoritarian bigots, but the press is incapable of making that clear to the public because sources, some readers, and ownership might get mad

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teamsters twitter account briefly spoke the truth then deleted it

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These people really don’t get what happens if Trump takes power again.

NYT's immigration beat reporter examined Trump's plan for mass deporation thru the lens that policies and rules and courts matter The people she interviewed are in that same bubble They don't Trump and Miller aren't going to follow laws. They intend to wreak havoc and expect no one to stop them

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Change in Headline

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jesus FUCK www.cnbc.com/2024/07/16/e...

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I’m sorry we have an imperfect candidate but maybe if the party nominally opposed to Trump actually opposed Trump instead of turning on itself like a pack of hyenas we could surmount a polling deficit of a couple of points

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It’s clear that as soon as we found out the shooter was Republican, the NYTimes lost interest and reverted to the “Biden old” narrative.

Incredibly, despite the RNC and the assassination attempt (which they don’t even mention!), the New York Times is still flogging the dying narrative horse that is Biden Old

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JD Vance opposes the Biden Admin rule barring law enforcement from having access to your medical records about reproductive health (menstrual cycles, endometriosis, miscarriages, pregnancy, etc.) so that state laws limiting abortion and/or contraception can be enforced against you!

JD Vance, Menstrual Surveillance Hawktalkingpointsmemo.com This Spring HHS finalized new regulations under HIPAA to limit law enforcement...

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The 14th Amendment rhetoric in relation to abortion is a way of obfuscating that they are going for a national and absolute ban on abortion and contraception. We have to make this explicit, because the reporters sure aren't.

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WSJ has fired Hong Kong-based journalist Selina Cheng after she was elected chair of a local journalism union. She was told advocating for press freedom “would be incompatible with my job.” Cheng’s full statement (posted via twitter):

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For those freaking out about Project 2025 now and how the word pornography will be weaponised to silence and imprison people, spare half a thought for the sex workers who have been ringing the alarm bell on this for decades.

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Texas has been under GOP control for 25 years. Every single statewide office held by Republicans. Texas ranks last in quality of life, worst in health insurance. Power goes out often; people die of heat or cold. The infant death rate is rising; women die giving birth. These are features, not bugs.

Anger grows as some senior facilities left without power for days: ‘It’s horrible what the state of Texas is doing’ | CNNwww.cnn.com As Tina Kitzmiller sat inside her sweltering apartment, windows and doors open in the hope of catching even the slightest breeze, she was frustrated and worried for her dog and her neighbors.

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And I mean, I get it, I absolutely do this too when it comes to “channeling raw rage and terror about the election into being a shitlord online” - but it’s an explanation for the Bad Vibes pretty much everywhere online.

Thanks to the US election, a LOT of people are staring down the barrel of months of raw existential terror and rage which they feel powerless to stop in any meaningful way. battling on social media is a VERY appealing, easy mechanism for taking that energy out on opponents you can actually reach.

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No one should be able to spend $45 million a month to get their preferred candidate elected. Absolutely broken system.

News that should shock no one: After assassination attempt, Elon Musk claims he'll donate $45 million a month to super PAC that backs Trump; Bill Ackman officially endorses; other Silicon Valley players and venture capitalists decree the "taboo" of supporting MAGA movement is gone.

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

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Don't give me hope Postie. The hardest part of the last 12 years has been having to accept my state went Red like Texas on the back of Jeb's and Scott's legislatures gerrymandering the fuck out of the state. I have always felt we were still a purple state by population and was close to acceptance...

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In the latest example of the RNC's big "unity" message, Kari Lake is on stage pointing to the "fake news" reporters in the stands and telling them "they lie about everything."

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cybersecurity standards in the US are almost all either optional, run by private actors like credit card companies or cloud providers, or limited to certain government contractors the ransomware epidemic is partially a deregulation crisis. many people opted for fast profit over safety, over years

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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burger head

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I would say partially because he’s black but honestly, mostly because he listened. He would respond to anyone. There’s this belief of “I yell at my allies rather than my enemies because they listen” but lots of people just want to yell and scream, and he was a great target because he would listen.

Okay one more thing. Jamelle Bouie was not the only new york times employee, not even the only regular poster with an opinion column on this website, and I think people should do some real self-reflection on why he was singled out for the sins of that fucking newspaper.

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Call your reps today to tell them you support this and expect them to vocally support these efforts as well as AOC’s articles of impeachment for the compromised justices. It only takes 5 minutes, and you often don’t even have to speak to a real human! (Negative/doomer replies will be blocked)

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

I have decided the only way I will survive the next five months of existential dread and terror is by being aggressively optimistic and forcing myself to believe the people still have collective power over our government, a thing I’m not sure is true but refuse to accept.

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"You know what else is really old? The United States of America. Vote for that on November 5th. We don't need the young new fascism. It'll hurt you and the people you love."

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Quinta Jurecic

I am but a random internet person, but I feel like this is a conversation for the party to have had intensively and privately two weeks ago, resolved by now, and to definitely, definitely not have in front of donors

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This election, everyone must confront it. We know who Trump is. We know how damaging he is and was to the fabric of society. He wants to target your neighbors. He's shattered basic institutions and checks on his power. Is that what we want America to be? Because this time it will not be repairable

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They say it's harder but more rewarding to be kind than to bitter and angry, but IT BE A GREAT KINDNESS TO SLAY THE LOATHSOME BEAST WHEN THE VERY AIR IT BREATHS IS WAISTED ON ONE AS BOOTLESS AS HE! CURSE YOU BAAAAAAAYLE!!!! IM COMING FOR YOU! THE NEXT HARPOON WON'T FAIL TO PIERCE YOUR PUTRID SKULL

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i hope the second biden admin nukes crypto from orbit first because it’s bad but second because i want these pigs to squeal

It's about the crypto money, Pelosi and Schiff voted against Biden's crypto regs bill.

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A King may move a man, a father may claim a son but remember that even when those who move you be Kings or men of power your soul is in your keeping alone When you stand before God you cannot say "But I was told by others to do thus" or "Virtue was not convenient at the time" This will not suffice

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One of the guiding premises of my research is that most people -- even extremists -- think of themselves as the good guys. @intelwire.bsky.social's Extremism goes a long way in explaining why/how this is so. mitpress.mit.edu/978026253587...

JD Vance and >90% of the people at the RNC convention think of themselves as the good guys. Ascribing to them self-consciously evil intent does not help us understand what they are up to, nor does it help us reach the sorts of people who might vote for them but are still reachable.

Extremismmitpress.mit.edu What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to de...

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you could almost feel the deflation in the atmosphere.

As soon as we learned that Crooks was a registered Republican it was clear that the assassination attempt was going to be a two-day story.