Alan Ferkinhoff

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The party that has claimed virtually all public shootings are false flags created by liberals to rally people to their cause just had their presidential felon "shot at" at a rally. Hmmmmmmmmmmm... No. Couldn't be. Neat photo. Bet it won't be used on fundraising scam mail or anything.

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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I wouldn't normally blame an assassination attempt victim for their predicament, but if you've spent your entire political career fantasizing about political violence and then send a violent mob to kill Congress, you broke it & you bought it. To be clear, tho, I condemn this act of violent idiocy.

it's not the details. it's the general weakening of norms against political violence.

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People who are assuring us that this means Trump is going to win are clearly unfamiliar with the deeply weird lore of this country's THREE mid-seventies presidential-candidate assassination attempts.

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THE MEDIA IS ABOLUTELY CORRECT! Violence is never the answer. Except in the case of fascists, of course. The rules are different for them. Because they don’t leave much choice.

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Considering: www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

Trump Mocks Hammer Attack On Pelosi’s Husband In Incendiary Speechwww.forbes.com The former president also called for retail thieves to be shot and said he’d use the DOJ to investigate “radical” local prosecutors.

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Gonna be fun to see if the RNC decides to try to stop their gun-fucking attendees from carrying this time.

And guns are allowed everywhere at the RNC. Thanks to the state legislature forbidding a gun prohibition.

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Remember: here's the breaking news handbook. All of these are good rules to stand by at the moment.

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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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The GOP has *never* "loved the troops" And the troops they love least are veterans. We are expensive (because service is hard) and many of us vocally disagree with them; visibly, for being hypocritical shitheads. www.rawstory.com/project-2025...

Project 2025 will rob veterans and active duty troops of billions in benefitswww.rawstory.com The Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump administration would plunder veterans' benefits and shower cash on private contractors.Right-wing policy makers led by the Heritage Found...

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Washington Post has more on the story first in Politico the other day about the clashes between the Christian right and the Trump campaign/RNC on platform drafting. It's getting heated, but what will it amount to? 🧵1/x www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Tempers flare as Trump team revises abortion plank for Republican platformwww.washingtonpost.com The former president wants the platform to endorse leaving the issue to the states rather than a federal ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.

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Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/j...

Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Jim Jordan helpfully published intelligence analysis of how Trump's narcissism poses a risk to the United States.

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They are seeking to create a state run exclusively by a particular kind of Christian supremacist who ensures the courts impose "biblical" law. How far have they already come? the-looking-glass-1.ghost.io/what-the-ten...

The Real Goal of Ten Commandments Mandatesthe-looking-glass-1.ghost.io They are not seeking to create an official church of the state. They are seeking to create a state run exclusively by a particular kind of Christian supremacist who ensures the courts impose "biblical...

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From the weekend: The Egyptian national bank subpoenaed for information about a suspect $10M transfer to Trump in fall 2016 told DOJ some of the material was inacccessible under Chinese law. www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/23/a...

An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net A bank owned by Egypt said it couldn't comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected payment to Trump during the 2016 election, in part, because China's laws would prevent that.

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Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

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New in PN: Louisiana Republicans write a guide for Alito and Thomas "They passed a law that, like the abortion ban in Dobbs, is designed to be challenged as unconstitutional. It’s the surest way to give SCOTUS a chance to erase the line between church and state."

Louisiana Republicans write a guide for Alito and Thomaswww.publicnotice.co Their Ten Commandments law has a small but powerful audience.

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“On Tues the SC BoE will impose a centralized + expansive censorship regime on every K-12 school library in the state. The new regs cld result in the banning of most classic works of literature… The rules were championed by SC Supt of Ed Ellen Weaver, who is closely aligned with Moms for Liberty…”

South Carolina poised to impose draconian censorship regime on school librariespopular.info On Tuesday, the South Carolina State Board of Education will impose a centralized and expansive censorship regime on every K-12 school library in the state. The new regulations could result in the ban...

@openargs.bsky.social today's episode won't download as the handshake isn't working.

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I’ve used this explicit argument with other Black people I know personally to be anti-Trans. “Hey, remember how Florida made a big deal about getting books out because they said they were pornographic and then once they got the power they just erased Black authors with it? All the same fight.”

The richest people on earth believe they can create so much hatred and disgust for trans folks that it can be used to roll back women's rights, queer rights, privacy rights, rights to public education, rights to free assembly. It's all the same fight. I wish more of y'all saw that.

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If this was a LEGITIMATE cranial trauma, the male body has a way of shutting that whole thing down. Furthermore: What was he wearing? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Woman hits man holding sign saying women ‘deserve to be raped’ with baseball batwww.independent.co.uk A video shows the moment where the Arizona preacher was struck with the weapon

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abc7.com/hottest-12-m... The vast majority of humanity was affected by unusual heat over this 12-month period, researchers found, with 7.3 billion people - 90% of the global population - experiencing at least 10 days of high temperatures "with very strong climate fingerprints."

Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years, report saysabc7.com Scientists have compared this year's climate-change fallout to "a disaster movie" - soaring temperatures, fierce wildfires, powerful storms and devastating floods - and new data is now revealing just ...

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We have decades of evidence showing what far-right governments do, we have so many on-the-record quotes from current far-right politicians promising persecution, violence, even genocide, and yet so much of those in power or in top positions of media refuse to talk about that for fear of "bias."

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Martha-Ann Alito is like

Mrs. Alito says she's "from Germany." She was born there while her dad was serving on an Air Force base. They moved back when she was a toddler. Her parents were from Oklahoma & Kentucky. So for her to say "I'm from Germany" suggests a real deep reason to identify with something about that country

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For a sense of perspective we casually misplaced $12b in cash in the Iraq war like if a dime fell out of your pocket amp.theguardian.com/world/2007/f...

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish | World news | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com Special flights brought in tonnes of banknotes which disappeared into the war zone.

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Right-wing media spread another misleadingly edited video of Biden www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rig...

Right-wing media spread misleadingly edited video of Biden to claim he isn’t fit to servewww.mediamatters.org

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"The proposed change could make it vastly more difficult for residents of states with abortion bans to obtain abortions by traveling out-of-state, legal experts say" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Conservatives tied to Trump want to limit insurance coverage for abortionswww.washingtonpost.com The proposed change could make it vastly more difficult for residents of states with abortion restrictions to obtain abortions by traveling out-of-state with private-employer health insurance, legal e...

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After yesterday's vote blocking the Right to Contraception Act, Josh Hawley scoffed at the notion that Griswold could be overturned. Don't believe him. My latest at MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Republicans’ sneaky strategy to undermine birth controlwww.msnbc.com Just as with abortion, conservatives are willing to take a patient approach to overturning a constitutional right.