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Account just for cataloguing new/current affairs etc. Retweets/likes not endorsements etc.

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

The most underreported story of the last decade is how conservatives weaponized free speech and civil liberties to seize power, then suppressed speech more than anyone in American history. It’s underreported because the press won’t admit their role in it.

[Jim Roberts @nycjim]

We certainly don’t need another reason to be outraged by Donald Trump … but here’s another one.

https://t.co/Isb1CD2OXI

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

"The bomb was dropped on a city with almost no military value"

Yea that's false.

Second General Army Headquarters: Commanded the defense of all southern Japan

Second Bureau (Intelligence Division) of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff (these guys did Communications Intelligence (COMINT) intercepting analyzing B-29 radio traffic to calculate strategic threats and flight vectors too Japanese fighters to intercept US bombers)

IJA Shipping Command Headquarters

Fifty-Ninth Army Headquarters
Chugoku Area Army Service Command

IJA Fifth Division (第5師団 - "Carp Division") Headquarters & Support Elements

Ujina Air Base which was designated as part of the Shimbu-Tai under the Sixth Air Force which in turn was part of the Akatsuki Corps which was the operational arm of the IJA shipping command tasked with pre-positioning obsolete aircraft to be repurposed as Kamikaze planes. Akatsuki Corps specific was tasked with the training of 15 to 19-year-old men for land air and sea suicide raids.

There also was the IJA
1st through 30th Shipping Special Attack Units (Sempaku Tokubetsu Kōgekitai) with the Maru-Ni (Type 5 Motorboats) which were manned Kamikaze explosive boats.

40,000 Imperial Japanese Army and Navy personnel stationed in the city between the above mentioned units of which 20,000 died in the explosion when the bomb landed less than 900 m from the Hiroshima Castle which was being used as the second general armies headquarters.

Hiroshima was literally a military city.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A county clerk in northern Michigan started purging voters from the rolls this year with no legal authority to do it... using data from an election denial group instead of the state's own voter file. The secretary of state ordered her into compliance training and cut off her access to records. Her husband is now under criminal investigation for using her work computer during a public meeting.

That's one office. The New York Times found at least 25 more like it since 2024, on top of 69 already seated, in counties that will decide who controls Congress this fall. Some have fake elector indictments still pending. Some voted to delay certification and called it "making a statement." A few just want to hand-count ballots because the machines that have always worked suddenly can't be trusted.

Decentralization is supposed to be the system's strength. Nobody in the Oval Office can flip a switch and change an outcome. But you don't need a switch when you can just quietly stop counting the votes you don't like, one county board at a time.

[This You? @Thiss_Youu]

WELP!

[sean @_sn_n]

voters be like

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Tommy Robinson keeps proving that he only cares about women and girls when the wrong'uns aren't white.

Here are two examples of the same situation.

In the clip, Tommy Robinson agrees with a white predator called "The Midnight", who boasts about waiting until after midnight to target drunk girls and "scoop them up". Tommy even says "good answer" when he explains his name.

In the screenshot, Tommy is calling out two brown wrong'uns for doing the exact same thing, preying on drunk girls.

It's literally the same situation, but he has two completely different energies depending on the colour of who is doing it.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

“In 2014, Fauci managed and directed the funding for research for an Ebola vaccine. When a Dallas nurse caught the virus while she cared for a dying man, Fauci put onprotective gear and went into the isolation room himself. Eight days later, he walked the nurse out in public and hugged her.”
https://t.co/l9YOCpBXXh

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

That's a big kick in the guts.

Payrolls is much weaker, and the U.S. lost -23k jobs in March, well below expectations of +80k.

Huge downward revisions, too: May now +63k (instead of +129k), June now +20k (down from +53k).

Very bad news. Revise down your views substantially.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 98.5%.

[Appodlachia @appodlachia]

They yearn to breathe

[Acyn @Acyn]

MSNow: President Trump is also pushing so that his family is immune from audits. It looks like it may go forward.

Trump Voter: No. Fuck that. No! How does he get to do that and we don’t?

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

This bill just passed the Senate, 86-11.
It will do very little on sanctions, but it will give Trump huge & unprecedented new powers to place 100% tariffs on many of our allies

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

JFC. A Kansas police department used Flock cameras to track down a local resident after he wrote a critical guest column about the department. “The police connected him to political posters hung in the city and followed his movements.”

[Sam Stein @samstein]

We've had mass deportations for, what, 1.5 years now. JD Vance and Stephen Miller said it would be a boon for US workers cuz it would free up jobs. And yet, the labor market appears incredibly bleak. Per WSJ:

"In recent months, almost three in 10 of the unemployed have been looking to work for more than six months, the greatest share since the pandemic recovery four years ago."

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Hard not to notice the contrast between the MAGA GOP and Democrats here. The GOP is so poisoned with bloodlust that it goes so far as withholding funds from states that didn’t vote for Trump, whereas Dems like Ossoff can still rise above petty partisanship for the greater good. It’s not difficult to figure out which party would be better for the country right now.

[Matt Fuller @MEPFuller]

Susie Wiles has avoided a lot of the self-enrichment accusations tarnishing other people swarming around Trump.

Which is why this story about how the White House is pushing a conspicuous change that greatly benefits her son-in-law is so interesting:

https://t.co/5tzzEb43zz

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Welp. It’s happening.

Bulldozers and heavy equipment arrived in Big Bend National Park today. The most rugged, pristine lands in the lower 48. Trump’s border wall is coming. CBP is refusing to inform residents, park superintendents, landowners, business owners, or Texas legislators what is happening. What we know is that they are now paving new roads where there were none, erecting fencing and walls to protect those roads, and then planning to install technology and border patrol agents in an area where close to zero people ever cross the border.

Ironically, depressingly, they will be spending billions of dollars to destroy this pristine American land while literally making it easier to access, which means easier for coyotes and border crossers to actually traverse the region if they wanted to. Before this, there were no roads, just desserts, cliffs, and cacti, which made it all but impassable.

A few miles upstream, the first border barriers the administration just erected were washed away in the first flood of the season — not even a bad one — but hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, literally floating down the Rio Grande. A few miles downstream, near Eagle Pass, razor wire and debris are washing up ashore from the first floods there, making this critical water source inaccessible for Texans or any wildlife enthusiasts.

Right now, as we speak, $4 billion is flowing to contractors in Trump’s orbit to cut Texans, including me and my family, off from the most critical water source in the state. All for what? Big Bend is 25% of the patrolled southwest border and accounts for less than 1% of all border crossings. Border towns, businesses, tourism — all about to be destroyed. Nevermind the irreversible wildlife damage, the feds stealing land from private citizens via eminent domain, and all the money wasted that could go to actual solutions to secure the border or support these communities.

Ever since I first visited my family here when I was 13 years old I wanted to make a life in West Texas. Three years ago, after so much hard work and planning, I spent my savings on building a home there. One I hoped my son would inherit. A home in one of the most beautiful, rugged, untouched, places in the country. Also one of the safest.

Now, everything that makes this special place special is being upended — for an illogical, wasteful, stupid plan that won't work and won't help the country.

A genuine gut punch. So depressing.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.