This is it for the curious:

This is just related:

First “Violent” undocumented immigrants.

Then “Non-Violent” undocumented immigrants.

Then trans people?

Then documented but deemed undesirable immigrants?

Maybe citizens who have done the worst possible crimes?

Citizens who disagree too loudly with Trump or Musk?

When do you suppose they’ll build the next camp?

When do you suppose they’ll get to “the gays” or “the blacks?”

When will they get to your neighbor? Or to you?

When will it finally be enough for those who voted to put him in power? Ever?

The laws will surely stop him this time. /s

(Not that I’m not glad they are making the gesture.)

What filthy fucking liars everyone in this admin is. Not that it’s surprising.

Article below is literally from yesterday:

Trump says he’ll abide by court orders that block parts of his agenda

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

Whew, better be a big firm. Do you think they can analyze all those posts before the heat death of the universe?

Well she certainly didn’t vote for the party that’s going to do anything about the backlog of untested rape kits.

https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/ending-domestic-violence/ending-the-backlog-of-rape-kits

Remember, do not let R leadership or magas in your circle get away with DARVO. It’s how they try to “Win” when you call them out. He’s doing it right here.

Deny

Attack

Reverse Victim and Offender

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/27/the-conservative-urge-to-be-a-victim-why-right-wing-victimhood-is-spreading-so-fast/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/4/2013907/-Great-acronym-Republicans-are-now-the-DARVO-party

https://www.aconsciousrethink.com/35543/the-darvo-pattern-narcissists-use-when-you-call-them-out/

Something something stallmanwasright.

WTH is this headline? Is this fear of reprisal?

Last line in the article is no less vague:

The answer to all these questions is: Who knows? As long as Trump and his GOP are in power, the American people probably never will.

So brave!

A CBS/YouGov poll found that nearly half of respondents want Musk to have little or no influence, with opinions split along party lines.

So literally what any of us would have predicted as the outcome to this poll, and it doesn’t matter anyhow, because Trump is fully in “whatever, I’ll do what I want” mode.

They didn’t go anywhere. You can get them.

And seventy some million voters suddenly forgot this was true as soon as they read about this great achievement from their God-king.

I only just learned of it in the past couple days myself, and I tend to agree.

This is worth reading, if you use the site. It gives a sense of how things might be going over there.

https://bsky.app/profile/alexckaufman.bsky.social/post/3lhjmiqzxls2b

Huffpo is owned by a right winger now.

I think it’s the third I’ve heard of, the death by cop guy, this guy, and I can’t remember the other but pretty sure there was.

I haven’t looked at the link yet, but whenever there’s a call for bodycam footage and police don’t wanna, it ALWAYS exposes that they lied in their initial report. ALWAYS.

Wanna build some trust back police? Stop LYING as your first reflex when something you don’t like goes down.

I will go read the link now, and we’ll see if I am going to have to eat crow about the contents. I don’t have much in the way of worry.

Edit: No crow yet, the article only covers that the finally released it. I remain unworried.

Edit2: Ah there’s the video. Don’t know if I missed it or if the embed didn’t load the first time.

Edit3: I saw no gun, just a guy running for his life, and another guy really thankful he didn’t get executed while laying down. The cop even says he “thinks” there was a gun. As soon as he says that and that it was sliver, the kid on the ground is even like “nope” - you can hear in his voice he just plain knows the cop is wrong.

Ah, the old high-pressure-sales “this is a limited time offer” or “I can’t promise this car will still be here when you change your mind” approach.

What a fucking sleazebag.

I’m almost more disappointed that his voters can’t see what a sleazebag he is than I am that they are willing to vote for fascism.

I mean… of course he did.

This is why I usually try not to label myself these days. Invariably there is nuance that I’m not aware of, or that some others interpret differently.

I’m NOT a democrat, republican, conservative, communist, socialist, liberal, maga, or anarchist.

But I lean left on social issues, often hard left, though I say that while also saying I’m firmly anti-authoritarian. And I don’t really put fiscal on a separate axis because there are fiscal impacts to any set of beliefs with regard to how various social issues should be considered. I’m also not at all conversant in the slightest bit of nuance regarding how the economy works.

I’m sure some folks would call me a leftist based on the above. Others would insist I’m a liberal. Am I a progressive? Not sure.