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Bruce Wilson
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I've been so privileged to meet and interact with you all. When Twitter goes down, I'll be at mastodon .au/ (remove spaces)
Journalisttalk2action.orgJoined February 2008

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In 2017 I wrote a long piece exploring the ramifications of Donald Trump's meeting with William S. Lind, who helped inspire neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Breivik as well as al Qaeda's 2001 terrorist attacks (he suggests), and publicized the far right's favorite new conspiracy theory
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William S. Lind is the far-right strategist who crafted the new unifying narrative for the Christian right, white supremacist, neo-Nazis, Tea Partiers, militia people... Lind's "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory is gradually pulling them closer together. 4thgenwar.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/tru
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I encourage all resisters, pro-democracy warriors, pro-Ukraine, anti-racist, anti-bigotry folks to join Spoutible. It’s absolutely refreshing to be on a platform with no trolls, bots and MAGA idiots.
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Hedi Lamarr was a Viennese Jew with a passion for technology, theatre and cinema. She fled Germany to avoid the Nazis. The "most beautiful woman in the world" was also a remarkable communications engineer, who invented and patented a remote control system for missiles.
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I'd noticed this distressing drift at The Nation, coming from the very top.
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Russia and the US Press: The Article the CJR Didn’t Publish – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2023/02/04/rus
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Over 7% of adults living in the US have reported having long covid (symptoms lasting 3 months or more.) That's at least 18 million people.
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Replying to @Angry_Staffer and @loscharlos
Doctors are very concerned about long Covid and what we’re going to see in 3/4/5 years in those who have it.
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Yup. Such state coercion was always in the plan, since they conceived it in the 80s.
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im a small government conservative and my top choice for president wants to make trans people illegal and my second choice wants to force you to submit your daughters menstrual history to the state for approval
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I can't recommend this essay highly enough, all the more because, although it's coming from someone characteristically pessimistic, it finds hope in the gathering wave of Bidenomics, which the author sees as an antidote to the rising threat of American fascism.
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I just published America’s Future? It’s Bidenomics Versus the Third Wave of American Fascism eand.co/americas-futur
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Judicial Watch and The Federalist Society need to be charged for insurrection. They advocate fraud, lies, and illegal attacks on the government. They tried to illegally overthrow Congress to have donald continue their Republican kleptocracy.
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"They made their death-dealing weapons of war into gods that they worshiped over all of their deities."
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So now we know who’s been handing out those AR-15 pins republicans have been wearing on the House floor. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R - NRA), who said the January 6th attack on the Capitol was a “normal tourist visit.” 🤦‍♂️ The GOP is a terrorist organization. thedailybeast.com/andrew-clyde-r
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"Dear citizen, you have been recorded singing and dancing in public while deviating from your assigned gender..."
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Arizona bill, SB1698, would ban "dressing in clothes other than your assigned gender" while "singing, dancing, and monologuing" in public. 15 year jail sentences and sex offender registry. I sing, dance, and monologue to my kid all the time. This would criminalize me.
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12. "DRAG SHOW" MEANS A SHOW OR PERFORMANCE FOR ENTERTAINMENT DURING WHICH A SINGLE PERFORMER OR GROUP OF PERFORMERS DO BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING:

(a) DRESS IN CLOTHING AND USE MAKEUP AND OTHER PHYSICAL MARKERS OPPOSITE OF THE PERFORMER'S OR GROUP OF PERFORMERS' GENDERS AT BIRTH TO EXAGGERATE GENDER SIGNIFIERS AND ROLES.

(b) ENGAGE IN SINGING, DANCING OR A MONOLOGUE OR SKIT IN ORDER TO ENTERTAIN AN AUDIENCE OF TWO OR MORE PEOPLE
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Finally, an informed commentary on the Chinese spy balloon broohaha.
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Let's talk about the Chinese spy balloon that's somewhere over the Northern Continental US now. There's a lot of speculation by folks (see Fox and Friends) who have zero experience with this. So, let your friendly neighborhood defense analyst have a crack at it. 1/n twitter.com/axios/status/1…
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Not saying historically low unemployment's a bad things, but... the ongoing pandemic has taken millions out of the workforce by giving more than 7% of adults in the country long covid.
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BREAKING: The economy added 517,000 new jobs in January and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4%—the lowest since 1969.
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One store to rule them all. One store to find them. One store to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
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"Amazon has long wanted to become not indispensable, but unavoidable. The key difference there is that a company is indispensable through quality of service and affordability; a company is unavoidable simply by being in the way" -@ddayen prospect.org/power/amazon-b
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We need to send a National Guard helicopter to lower Tom Cruise onto the giant Chinese spy balloon so he can poke a little hole that will gradually let the Helium out.
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Venus *should* be attacked. Who knows what threats lurk there.
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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Clearly, firearm-enabled rogue murder of estranged spouses constitutes robust evidence of "well regulated militias".
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The Fifth Circuit strikes again: Unanimous panel (Jones, Ho, Wilson) strikes down the federal statute prohibiting possession of firearms while subject to a domestic violence-related restraining order; holds it violates the Second Amendment under Bruen: assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicy
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The #GOP ideological pathology on this goes almost beyond belief.
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NEW: Even with 54% of Mississippi's rural hospitals in danger of collapse without Medicaid expansion, Gov. Reeves urged Republicans not to “cave under the pressure of Democrats and their allies in the media who are pushing for the expansion of Obamacare." mississippifreepress.org/30720/as-missi
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Maybe it's b/c Elon fired so many Twitter engineers (who might have known what's going on?) but whatever the reason, it seems like Twitter's big RW accounts are falling into an accelerating gravitational field of self-destructive paranoia.
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amazing things are happening on twitter dot com
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TL/DR: it's a scam. The changes are mainly cosmetic.
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Today marks yet another harmful National Prayer Breakfast. Every year, the President and Congress "send the none-too-subtle message that US society is—and will continue to be—dominated by Christians, and saturated with Christian privilege." It's got to go. opendemocracy.net/en/5050/nation
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the funniest thing about this whole netflix debacle is that they think password sharing is what’s losing them money when in fact it’s the dwindling selection and cancelling popular shows after like 1 season lmfao
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