My childcare costs actually exceed my paycheck. We're working on moving somewhere cheaper, but this isn't sustainable, and childcare costs are rising. The "normal" being advocated by Vance et al is a pretty clear project of keeping mothers out of the workplace. (im a mom btw)
A Biden staffer sent me this picture from inside a campaign bus in Austin yesterday. Said these pro-Trump trucks slowed down in front of the bus, trying to stop it on the highway or run it off the road.
ironic khive posting is unironically the most energized the twitter Dem electorate has been in about a year and I think there’s probably something optimistic in that. call yourself ‘coconut-pilled’ or whatever. declare yrself a context fan. we might actually twet thru this one
my weirdest moment of today was, while walking around in a black dress moments after the announcement, having an older woman shout “Biden won, vampire girl!” at me in an upbeat tone. still can’t determine whether this was pejorative, or friendly outreach to goths
everyone predicting a post-pandemic athleisure renaissance is way off, everyone in New York today is dressing like they’re headed to a 5-year high school reunion
“Multiple sources within the postal service told Motherboard they have personally witnessed the machines, which cost millions of dollars, being destroyed or thrown in the dumpster.”
Mesa County, CO clerk Tina Peters and one of her deputies just got indicted on a combined 17 counts for an alleged breach of their own county's voter data. Peters is accused of leaking the data to conspiracy theorists before giving a speech at Mike Lindell's "Cyber Symposium."
Two men accused of driving with an AR-15 and a Samurai sword in a Q-bedazzled SUV to a Philly vote-count center are facing new legal woes after they were accused of participating in the Capitol riot while out on bail:
To the Members of the NYPD:
What you’ve endured these last couple of days and nights—like much of 2020, so far—was unprecedented. In no small way, I want you to know that I’m extremely proud of the way you’ve comported yourselves in the face of such persistent danger...
Two groups convened in VA on Thurs. to protest trespassing charges. An anti-ICE group got arrest papers. A Boogaloo group breaking an open-carry law got milk and a PA system from cops.
Yesterday the National Butterfly Center announced it was closing its doors for three days due to a weird encounter with a GOP candidate and an upcoming MAGA rally. We got audio of the brawl with that candidate and it is ... something:
i'm buying the dip, i'm meditating i'm listening to 3 audiobooks a day with titles like 'be the wolf: thinking like a billionaire,' i'm accidentally locked in my tesla and i need the sheriff to come get me out soon please, i'm taking my multivitamins, i'm bullet journaling
"hey folks, it's me: the biggest expense in your life. just checking in to underscore that the rent i set is arbitrary and exploitative, and to firmly associate myself with one candidate. have a good one!"
remembering fondly the prominent news anchor who complained to an editor when i said police posed a greater risk to reporters than protesters did. i’ll delete momentarily, but i did want to Say
School board meetings in IA, MI, PA, and ME have heard urban legends about furries. Parents are using furry fears to harass foes. Politicians are citing furries in school crusades. The right's dumbest new moral panic just dropped:
this thread from a bond hearing of people charged with "domestic terrorism" at a Stop Cop City music festival is nuts. denied bond for having legal support phone number on them. extremely common (often advised as best practice!) at protests of all stripes
jesus. the next person is denied bond. being held against them is the fact that they had a jail support number on them. that's being painted as evidence they came to commit a crime, when in fact, it's evidence that we live in a horrifying police state
should i transcribe these interviews, or should i buy a plot of rural land under a shell company, drive there in a stolen car, and slip from this identity like a hand from a glove
Conservative PAC-backed newspapers are showing up in mailboxes in competitive districts. The papers look local—but the writers and billionaires behind them are located out of state.
teens will mock this assignment, but it's absolutely derailed the groupchat where i play a 25-person 1820s-themed geopolitics board game with a bunch of dads, so who can say whether it's good or bad
Protesters in Utah face life in prison for alleged vandalism, after the DA they were protesting gave them gang-related charging enhancements. It's the latest incidence of prosecutors ratcheting up charges against activists:
In 2006, the FBI compiled a report on white supremacists in police forces, then redacted it so heavily that most of its contents remain secret. There's a new push to release the investigation in full and update it for 2020:
TikTok influencers love HOME HACKING, the COOL TRICK that lets you LIVE FOR FREE by PURCHASING PROPERTY and charging TENANTS inflated rates! HANG ON, you say—isn't that literally just being a LANDLORD?
Footage from Sunday night shows Atlanta police arresting a clearly marked NLG legal observer at Stop Cop City protests. The NLG and SPLC say one of their lawyers was arrested while working as an observer, and is now facing domestic terror charges:
This story about the digital Pokemon Go debris that U.S. troops left in Afghanistan is wild. A cartoon monster turf wars geotagged to memorials for people killed in irl wars, veteran talking about going back to Afghanistan to retake a Pokemon gym one day:
And here’s a preview of what those plexiglass barriers look like inside the debate hall. VP Pence will be seated stage left, with Sen. Harris seated stage right
look, it’s really simple: we’re making mail-in ballots widely available because of the pandemic, but cancelling the democratic primary because of the pandemic, but keeping downballot races because we shan’t interfere with the voting process
(Also, to be clear: Downballot primaries are still on. Those are not canceled! I just said the presidential primary was canceled in my original tweet, but I see some folks are misunderstanding that)
Guess who came in to receive his Concealed Handgun Permit today? 🎅
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Incredibly revealing leak of Oath Keeper communications from November. In it, members share tips on recruiting law enforcement, while talking about "executing lefties openly and violently" and "killing the news media live on air."
Libertarian political candidates are dropping out. Entire Libertarian state parties are dissolving. It's the result of an intra-party battle between an old guard and a new hard-right faction that swept internal elections this year:
This is a big deal. Much as Trump et al want, domestic groups like the anti-fascist movement can't be formally labeled terror orgs. But tying them to foreign groups like the YPG (based on <12 people, incl. those who don't ID as antifa) opens them to otherwise-illegal surveillance
DHS is gathering intelligence on activists in an attempt to tie them to foreign militant groups, per intel report leaked to me.
One target was Brace Belden, co-host of the popular left-wing podcast
@TrueAnonPod
:
New: a massive leak of Boogaloo chats, first published by
@UR_Ninja
reveals a violent movement that, for all its public anti-cop talk, has disturbing ties to law enforcement:
Mark Meadows has an all-timer narrative arc. Congressman till 2020, pivots to WH CoS for a few months till his boss lost reelection, talks about overturning the election, now getting recommended for contempt charges by former colleagues in Congress. Real Icarus shit
Proud Boys held a flash rally in Philadelphia. Afterward, a large caravan of cop vehicles accompanied them back to their meeting spot, where Proud Boys were filmed chatting and shaking hands with an officer—an "extra friendly" sendoff, the city's DA says:
An ex-SEAL who posted Soros conspiracy theories is accused of throwing IEDs at protesters. Other ex-SEALs share QAnon content with threats to act on it. What happens when violent theories reach special forces?
America's worst city council race is happening in Huntington Beach, where the former councilor (an anti-vax ex-MMA guy) endorsed a far-right figure who attended an anti-Islam event with the Rise Above Movement and stormed a Jewish center with Baked Alaska:
It’s 2/22/22! My book is out today! I am emotional and very very grateful to a lot of people who made this happen! 🌎
Available online and in bookstores:
the Rogan vax+climate disinfo stuff undoubtedly sucks, but there’s got to be someone smart writing about how so many US political conflicts are just proxy battles thru customer service complaints
Ahead of the Capitol attack, the Oath Keepers attended violent D.C rallies, called for civil war, and organized other far-right groups. They did so while explicitly claiming to work with armed cops, and advertising 1/6 on a politician's livestream.
Can't undersell how insidiously dumb it feels to watch the coup powerpoint. You click through and some little animated arrows swoosh around like it's your 3rd grade presentation on giraffes, but it's Trump officials arguing to declare a state of emergency and invalidate votes.
Some novel prosecution moves here. Pretty easy to envision this kind of sweeping, conspiracy-style prosecution being used in states that are currently trying to criminalize abortion funds and/or the act of driving a person to get an abortion. (Texas has recently tried both!)
Georgia charged 61 people with RICO related to the Stop Cop City movement. Among them are a legal observer arrested while monitoring a protest, bail fund organizers, people accused of distributing fliers, and people accused of trespass or property damage:
the two discourses online today are "if you're a woman who doesn't want to be photoshopped into exploitation material, simply never be photographed or perceived" and "cut the guy some slack for cranking hog in front of colleagues"
Student journalists on the radio shouting “where do we go?” at police who are closing gates and telling them to leave. “I don’t know how we comply.” “No one is left here to document”
One of the anti-ICE protesters had been handcuffed by armed cops in her Philly home in front of her two young children, detained overnight, and extradited to VA on trespass and litter charges. The law just doesn’t work the same for everyone.
“the Portland operation involved clandestine aspects...Several members of the US Marshals Service (USMS) sent to Portland claimed to be affiliated with a private firm called ‘Strategic Oil’” and “did not identify themselves as law enforcement.”
Feds intercepted protesters' phone communications in Portland this summer, intel sources with knowledge of the operation tell me.
“You’re getting an inside view into your targets, who they are, who they’re talking to—the hierarchy."
The "pro-natalist" movement claims low birth rates will bring societal collapse.
Those rates reflect declines in teen pregnancy. If they want adult women to pick up the slack, it's time for governments to start paying moms like the world depends on it.
BREAKING: The
#azaudit
draft report from Cyber Ninjas confirms the county’s canvass of the 2020 General Election was accurate and the candidates certified as the winners did, in fact, win.
Three current and former military members who allegedly planned violence at a protest were followers of the Boogaloo movement. The emerging Boog scene is full of service members and veterans:
Stone's list includes: evoke Insurrection Act, declare martial law: arrest Zuckerberg, Tim Cook & Clintons, send federal agents to "physically stand in the way" on Election Day, seize NV's ballots; take Harry Reid into custody; "nationalize" NV police, arrest Daily Beast staff