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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Indeed. But Nine, via the Age, is also reporting that US rubber bullets are now autonomously intelligent

"US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was reporting on a situation she said was rapidly deteriorating when she was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet".

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ZFLTG @siarapita.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It bears repeating…. @elienyc.bsky.social is right.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Using the threat of violence as a reason not to rule against illegality effectively legitimises both the illegality and the threat. Potential perpetrators who might've perceived violence as a last resort now know it to be on the table as one of their recognised options.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Emergent media genres by Trump inauguration 2017: "We're 2 working class folk in a Ohio diner. We feel forgotten, so that's why we voted for him" 2025: "I voted for him to hurt those people. But he's hurting my people too. Stop abusing us, Mr President" 2029: ????

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The ethos of this regime is "as much harm as possible to as many as possible for the benefit of as few as possible".

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's always been about connections and prestige to these people

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I see your "everything is chess and we must be mindful of our moves" and raise "it's actually a battering ram of awful things all equally designed to crush the democracy in one go"

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/01/2025

“Those most enthralled with Donald Trump were not at the very bottom — the illiterate, the hungry,” she writes. Rather, Trump’s biggest fans could be found among “the elite of the left-behind,” meaning people “who were doing well within a region that was not.” www.vox.com/politics/369...

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Trump’s biggest fans aren’t who you think

A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Lesser-discussed of late is how the Democrats extended so many overtures to the Republicans in 09/10 that they were effectively advisers to the government. It afforded them so much dignity and standing that it provided cover for all the "death panels" and "birth certificate" horseshit.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters.
That's what it's all about.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/02/2025

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Nazis already want autistic people dead, and their idols are the ones trying to explain their bullshit as autism. It's the non-nazis, the people who claim they disagree with the Nazis, whose perception is swayed. And whose apathy is necessary for atrocity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2025

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So much of the media's behaviour over the past 12 months suggests the contradiction between their imperative for politics-as-entertainment (or clicks) and their trained vernacular in politics as process and policy.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today in "no, the two parties aren't the same. Voting for the lesser of two evils does mean vastly less evil visited on the world".

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

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Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics

Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I suppose one day to reduce the non white birth rate is to screw with the FAA so comprehensively that nobody wants to fly in US airspace at all.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Classic "I see the chess moves nobody else is making and see the game they're playing". It's possible for Trump to both sincerely direct State and Defence to begin resettlement/cleansing procedures, while also providing cover for the coup. They're not mutually exclusive.

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Redback @redback.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The headline here in Australia

Australian newspaper headline:-
Trump just dressed up ethnic cleansing as a real estate opportunity, and blew up 'America First'

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

4. Already, he is attacking trans and gay people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, women, political opponents, journalists .... For the far right, the list of potential victims never ends. Either we stand with all those they target, or we will be picked off one by one.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

3. Trump has openly and disgustingly mocked people's disabilities. He's said to have a horror of people with missing or damaged limbs. We don't know how far he is willing or able to go, but we know what the far right has done in the past. We must stand in solidarity with all his potential victims.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I obviously wasn't around for JFK, the Reagan assassination attempt, the fall of the Wall, was only 5 when the towers fell, 7 when W did his daddy proud and so on. But today feels like one of those all time historic days. And that's terrifying. It hasn't been two weeks.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's possible to both castigate the Democrats for gallivanting around with the Cheneys and being too deferential to Netanyahu and so on and so forth but also recognise that the 77 million who voted for this are absolutely awful people for their decision. It's not either/or.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Billionaires, fascists, misogynists, transphobes. Nothing mutually exclusive under their awful sun.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We need to be more specific. "South African billionaire" will never not sound like it refers to awful people. "Billionaire" too at this point.

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jeremyz @jeremyz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

no call to action, no specific policies mentioned, no plans, can't leave a voicemail because his inbox is full. we elected him to the safest blue seat in the senate and the most he can manage is vague platitudes. what a complete waste.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Vance and Isaacson also owe the world far more than an apology for their fawning biographies.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Few days away from submitting mine. Not American (Aus) but it's concerned with the US far-right. Could've taken it to somewhere in the US for a postdoc. Now? No. No. No. Can't imagine how much worse it is for people actually in the US.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The unelected Prime Minister conferred with dictatorial power by the bored and indifferent King, keen to play with his military and tariff toys instead.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The "DEIA" memes about to circulate ask people to believe that FAA and all international ATC agencies somehow don't have extremely rigorous screening and training procedures. It is literally easier to get a WH gig destroying FAA than it is to be given airspace in a tower.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Starting to think the human race didn't evolve to have a supermassive autocratic regime continually engineering news cycles to drown out everything else happening in the world

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"The terminations are the latest example of the Trump administration reshaping the Justice Department since the inauguration last week, transferring or firing veteran career officials who the president’s allies believe would impede or interfere with their agenda." A lot of words for "retaliation".

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration. Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

All that "executive time" means he isn't even around much to notice the effects of his executive orders except if it shows up on TV. So it's all about how much the TV media are willing to put starving patients at the NiH on TV. How long is that supposed to hold as a status quo? /2

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

One of the more insidious elements of the crisis escalating day by day is the president does not do a lot of work. He's a lazy bastard who watches TV until late in the morning, does a few hours of abuse in the oval, then goes back to the residence. Kelly called this "executive time". /1

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Watching Bsky periodically debate the sophistication of The Hicks is enlivening because we get closer to a consensus each time that The Hicks actually understand the world they want to live in. Nobody's forcing them to vote for the guy who speaks in prejudiced authoritarianism.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

thinking about how no amount of information asymmetry can explain wilful ignorance and indifference to the malice of the most transparently malicious candidate in history. how quick we are to rely on structural factors to explain the consequences of bad decisions. egg prices don't make bad choices.

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The leader dared his followers to defy him on this most audacious and stupid wish. Only three defied him. Bodes well for everything else that's coming. And I'm not convinced Mitch would've voted no if the numbers (with Vance) didn't ensure success anyway.

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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

i do not understand the ideological impetus for this policy (or the NIH research freeze). it’s not clientelism, his constituents are the main recipients. it’s a death maximization strategy. like he’s entered a contract with some dark god and must deliver them souls

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Nick @nick14813.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

There's some twisted "pick your battles" logic implied in Booker's words. If they pick their battles, then they can have a more targeted campaign in 2026 and 2028. But the real reason is they don't want to be hammered by the regime.

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