Skeets Of The Day

 

Today in Trump's American police state --

 

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

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— Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM

 

Supreme Court clears way for deportation to South Sudan of several immigrants with no ties there apnews.com/article/supr...

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— Samantha Brennan (@samanthabrennan.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM

 

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM

 

Texas flooding -- 

 

When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM

 

The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott. That is exactly what they getting.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM

American vampires --

 

We must not leave this out of the account of what they have done. What Musk and Trump and Vought did. What Johnson and his band of sycophants allowed them to do. What tens of millions of fellow Americans endorse.

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— Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM

You can understand how people in different cultures independently came up with the idea of vampires, of things that look like humans but exist only to consume humans in order to extend their unnatural lives.

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— A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM

 

NYT sanewashing Trump, collaborating with white nationalists --

 

"I'm thinking we arrest the farmworkers, then sell them back to work on the farms. But not for pay, because they're slaves now. Like slavery. We're gonna do slavery." - Donald Trump "Trump Floats Innovative Farm Labor Plan" - New York Times

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM

 

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

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— Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM

 

Indeed, the story here isn't "South Asian person from Uganda didn't have a specific box to check," it's: @nytimes.com promoted race science using hacked personal data, and apparently didn't even google the neo-Nazi they granted pseudonymity.

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— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM

 

The "stealth" flyover 😂 -- 

Tomorrow he's going to tell us they were stealth jets so you can't see them

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM