Mastodawn

The White House’s real aim is self-censorship by everyone else watching. The goal is to get us all to temper our speech in response.

On the new dark age of censorship: https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-new-dark-age-of-censorship

The new dark age of censorship

And how to beat it

If you can keep it

Texas Observer Jun 20

Earlier: The GOP-controlled #Texas Lege passed a biennial state budget that will effectively halve the amount dedicated to its multi-billion-dollar #border security operations—from a proposed $6.5B down to about $3.4B. Still, that remains 4 times higher than the $800M that Texas budgeted prior to Operation Lone Star. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-quietly-downsizes-border-security-spending/

#immigration #TXlege #news #politics #USpol #Republicans

Texas Quietly Downsizes Border Security Spending

But outlays remain far above state funding prior to the Operation Lone Star era.

The Texas Observer

misomunje Jun 18

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jun 18

Take the masks off. Show your badges. This is America.

misomunje Jun 17

Mastodon Migration Jun 17

Are we sleepwalking into a war against Iran?

Maybe people have forgotten in the lead up to the disasterous war in Iraq it was widely recognized the war with Iran would be catastrophic. Iran is huge, 3x the size of Iraq. They have 1 million soldiers and much more heavily armed with relatively modern weapons. Also, there will be no coalition of the willing when it comes to Iran. It will be the US and Israel going it alone.

misomunje Jun 16

Aaron Rupar Jun 16

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

misomunje Jun 15

Matv1 Jun 15

The reporting on #nokings by #cnn is puzzling. Been watching for the past 2 hours. The only shots they are showing is from one intersection in #losangeles where the police are chucking some gas canisters towards demonstrators. And one corner in #newyork where nothing happens except some 300 police standing around waiting, plus a decidely dissapointed #shimonprokupecz trying to stir things up.
No shots at all of the hundreds of thousands I know are marching in #portland or #philadelphia etc
Weird

misomunje Jun 14

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Aaron Jun 14

@SyHoekstra @xankarn I won't lie, it was nerve-wracking on the way there, because I had no idea what to expect. But it stopped being scary as soon as I was actually standing there with my sign. I had turned it into this complicated picture in my head, but the reality of it is simple and direct: Hold a sign for people to read. Speak truth. Chant if you want. Smile and wave if you want. All you really have to do is just *be there* and make it clear *why*, in whatever way you prefer. And even one or two people standing with you eases nerves, so just standing next to people holding the signs and chanting can really, really help.

misomunje Jun 13

Laffy Jun 13

Keep 'em coming

Via NYT:

Seven partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher — a prominent law firm that cut a deal with #Trump to avoid a potentially punishing executive order — announced that they were departing to join a firm that helped successfully challenge one of Trump’s orders in court.

misomunje Jun 12

Quinn Norton Jun 12

I just watched Alex Padilla get thrown to the floor and cuffed after trying to ask Noam a question at a presser.

The Senate is meant to be only second to the House of Representatives in power in our system of Democracy. They are fewer, older, and meant to be the wise body of the government, serving longer than presidents, and running less often than reps.

If you're waiting for the sign that things have gone too far, it's passing you by.

America is neither safe nor free.