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Freeze peach

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Kim Kelly (GrimKim)

[MarjaE]

Emma Goldman was illegally stripped of her citizenship and deported to the Soviet Federation because she became an anarchist after immigrating and becoming a citizen. Not that it would have been right if it were legal, but it shows how little the law-and-order factions care about law.

[jerwin]

the republicans like to play these sorts of games.

Virginia voters in GOP primary must sign statement saying they're Republican

[Wanderfound]

Good Intercepted podcast this week.

Intercepted Podcast: Who’s Afraid of the Alt-Deep State?

Barrett, welcome to Intercepted.

Barrett Brown: Thank you for having me.

JS: Give an overview of how you see this moment that we’re in right now in the United States.

BB: I think the most important part of this is that this illusion, this bipartisan, sort of center-moderate cozy illusion that our institutions are generally sound, that the authority of the United States government and its institutions is just, and that this is a republic that can sustain itself as a moral enterprise over the next few decades: That’s all been sort of torn asunder.

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JS: You know, there are some very radical Assange and WikiLeaks partisans, who sort of argue, well, the Don, Jr. DMs, that’s just evidence of the kind of fifth dimensional chess that Julian was playing with the Trump people. And I sort of viewed it more in the same way that I saw one of your comments, I sort of look at that and I say, “Why on earth are you assisting what is essentially a fascist force or a fascist-enabling force that, you know, has taken power in this country.”

BB: They’ll find several different things, depending on who they are. Some of them, like Kim Dotcom, openly support Trump and think it’s totally appropriate for him to have done that. There’s others who will not acknowledge that this was actually supporting Trump, and they’ll tend to address one or two portions of a conversation that has really six or seven actual aspects to it.

The most important aspect of this, the most critical one is Assange saying that the “kicker” of this scheme whereby Trump Junior would provide Trump’s taxes to WikiLeaks, you know, would allow him to change the “perceptions” about you know him being “pro-Trump and pro-Putin,” which he goes on to claim is a canard put forth by the Hillary Clinton people, here he is talking to the Trump people and eventually giving them advice about contesting election and earlier providing them information about a political action committee that he wrongly thinks was also a pro-Iraq political action committee, and denouncing it as libel, that he’s pro-Trump.

Beyond that, this thing about him giving the tax returns to Assange. But WikiLeaks does not, in my memory, release documents that have been given to them by the institution in question. There would be really no point for that. WikiLeaks has always been something where a leaker provides information about an institution and forces transparency on it.

So presumably and it’s pretty clear in this conversation it would not be an exception, obviously it wouldn’t change perceptions about Assange or Trump if it was known, if he comes out and said, “Oh yeah, the Trump people gave me this and we’re releasing it.” It would serve no purpose. So clearly this was going to be a fraud against everyone, in which they were going to sort of pretend that they had gotten it via their usual means.

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the republicans like to play these sorts of games.

Yeah, I know.

You could make some good ads out of that if you did them as table-thumping rants about the GOP stealing democracy. The linked ad was not that.

When you have a political faction pulling that sort of bastardry, lack of voter education is not the key problem.

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Vox (voxdotcom)

Kashana (kashanacauley)

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https://twitter.com/peoplevolunteer/status/939903019109433344

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Same take I had when I read Brazille’s excerpt. Posted the YT link since videos on twitter are always borked for me.

[Wanderfound]

As usual, posting to demonstrate why the Black community aren’t “grateful” for the Democrats.

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[LearnedCoward]

Nomi is the shit. Let’s hear more of her

[LearnedCoward]

EXTERMINATE  

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Andrea Purse (drepurse)

[LearnedCoward]

Boston is a very racist and classist city. It’s just less overtly racist than the South, but they’re at least equally as racist. Unless you’re in Dorchester or Roxbury, you will go weeks there without seeing a person of color.

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Probably the single most famous segregation political races happened in Boston.

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Jabari Brisport🌹 (JabariBrisport)

[mindysan33]

Thanks, always important to remember.

[mindysan33]

I have a friend of color in Boston. He’s always talking about how super racist it is there…