@bantorture

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Close Guantanamo, prosecute its architects.
Free Julian, Chelsea and Stephen Donziger. Neither #QAnon nor #BlueAnon.
Linguistic PostureStrict Grammarian
Greatest TraumaGame 7 1960 World Series
Position (Former)Second Base
Favorite WorkBreakfast at Tiffany's (novella)
Show threadbantortureMar 21, 2022
@scap So this isn't the first time the Democrats have used the rotating villain strategy to con the #BlueAnon rubes?
bantortureMar 21, 2022
scapMar 21, 2022

The DNC Executive Board (all lobbyists) and Biden will continue to hide behind Murphy, Manchin, Sinema, & Gottheimer, as long as you let them.

This is deliberate. They follow a script.

https://prospect.org/politics/democratic-partys-biggest-problem-conservative-wing/

The Democratic Party’s Biggest Problem Is Its Conservative Wing

Rep. Stephanie Murphy got everything she wanted, and it’s a disaster, so she’s retiring.

The American Prospect
bantortureMar 21, 2022
Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 21, 2022
Equating people with the actions of their authoritarian governments is never a good idea.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/anti-war-hacktivism-leading-digital-xenophobia-and-more-hostile-internet
Anti-War Hacktivism is Leading to Digital Xenophobia and a More Hostile Internet

The horrific Russian military invasion of Ukraine has understandably led to a backlash against Russia. The temptation is to label anything Russian, from state media and students to cats, as bad and block it to signal outrage and ostracization. This type of thinking has infected the open source and...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
bantortureMar 4, 2022
scapMar 4, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Ron DeSantis is now fundraising off bullying high school kids who were wearing a mask at one of his press events and playing the victim.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/503683-mask-rant-ron/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tomaskenn/status/1499472118278406144

Ron DeSantis fundraises off his scolding of masked high schoolers

'The leftist propagandists in our media had a meltdown and called me a "bully."'

Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.
bantortureFeb 23, 2022
SenseOfOutrageFeb 23, 2022

RT @[email protected]

To assume that I am pro #Russia on the basis we voted against #Ukraine Package which contained Neoliberal 'Reforms' + gifts for corrupt Ukrainian elite is a bit of a stretch - We put work into scrutinising what we vote on, would be good if media did same..
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/abolish-nato-says-independent-mep-mick-wallace-1.4809378

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1496553116375920640

Abolish Nato, says Independent MEP Mick Wallace

Richard Boyd Barrett condemns Russia but says Ireland should ‘not line up with Nato’

The Irish Times
bantortureFeb 23, 2022
SenseOfOutrageFeb 23, 2022

RT @[email protected]

I covered Pine Ridge for NPR in the 70s, when the FBI used the rez to launch its SWAT team. From 1973 to 1976 the rez was a SWAT training site for more than 2,000 agents. According to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Indians had "a genuine fear the FBI (was) out to get them."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/McKiernanKevin/status/1496179928609574921

Kevin McKiernan on Twitter

“I covered Pine Ridge for NPR in the 70s, when the FBI used the rez to launch its SWAT team. From 1973 to 1976 the rez was a SWAT training site for more than 2,000 agents. According to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Indians had "a genuine fear the FBI (was) out to get them."”

Twitter
bantortureFeb 22, 2022
scapFeb 22, 2022

Eric Adams's plan to keep New Yorker subways "safe" involves bullying the homeless.

What a surprise.

https://abc7ny.com/subway-crime-safety-plan-eric-adams-violence/11585338/

Mayor Eric Adams' subway safety plan begins after several violent incidents in New York City over the weekend

Mayor Eric Adams' new subway safety plan goes into effect Monday, which includes police issuing summonses for fare-beaters.

WABC-TV
bantortureFeb 18, 2022
@flugennock He's using the word in a loose sense -- for example, he calls the Watergate hearings a show trial. I see them more as a form of public education. When I think "show trial," I think "Stalin," "Lubiyanka" and "executions." That's not what he's calling for.
Show threadbantortureFeb 17, 2022
@SenseOfOutrage That's the strategy that worked for law-breaking telcos in the U.S. in 2008, courtesy of then-Senator and noted apostle of hope and change Barack Obama.
bantortureFeb 17, 2022
SenseOfOutrageFeb 17, 2022

RT @[email protected]

Is it unreasonable to expect a policing organisation to obey the law? The illegal collection of data by @[email protected] has been well known for quite some time. Is their strategy simply to ignore the law, sit it out, and hope it will be retrospectively changed?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1489647548495192075

Clare Daly on Twitter

“Is it unreasonable to expect a policing organisation to obey the law? The illegal collection of data by @Europol has been well known for quite some time. Is their strategy simply to ignore the law, sit it out, and hope it will be retrospectively changed? https://t.co/9OJ1qNWQMw”

Twitter