gm Off to work at the Idiot Factory

I wonder if, just once in human history, the lesson 'getting caught up in a reactionary moral panic led to disaster' could be, y'know, *remembered* and maybe even *applied to the next reactionary moral panic*.

Not the first such lawsuit in recent months involving right-wing figures making potentially defamatory statements about unassociated people.

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'Fox News, Far-Right Podcasters Sued For Linking Wrong Man To Neo-Nazi Shooting'

MAGA Gov. Kristi Noem was banished from the Rosebud Indian Reservation in her own state of South Dakota on Thursday, the fourth Lakota tribe to bar her from its lands in recent months.
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Just in: 🧵The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that priests have an absolute 'property right' that shields them from lawsuits related to allegations of child sexual abuse.

The WH says its support for Israel is 'ironclad' as it braces for a possible strike from Iran in retaliation for it's presumed strike on the Iranian Consulate in Syria.

Peter Alexander is joined by Hala Gorani, Colin Clarke and former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos to weigh in.

'Oh Captain! Qi's Captain!'

“If we really believe in democracy as a political system, we need to have commitments to giving people the material conditions and autonomy in their economic and social lives to be able to meaningfully participate.” It was great talking to students about public service.

Several journalists including a CNN stringer have been injured after Israeli forces surrounded & attacked Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving one in critical condition. Per TRT bureau chief in Jerusalem, Israeli tanks launched a “targeted attack” on several journos.

Another tragic casualty of Russian disinformation, Texas man Russell Bentley went to Eastern Ukraine in 2015 to 'get them Ukrainian nazis', ended up pushing propaganda for the Putin regime, even being gifted a Russian passport.

Nine years later, too bloated from alcohol and…

I have not watched this entire thing, but from the first few minutes, this dude is spot-the-fuck-on about basically everything.

The stories about these things told inside Team rooms in the SEAL Teams line up exactly with what he's saying.

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NCA officers found converted weapons, imitation firearms, 174 rounds of live ammunition, a quantity of spent ammunition and multiple tools used to convert blank firers.

He’s right about one thing. Our culture is passionately pro-death. That’s why we don’t want kids to have nutrition, we don’t want pregnant people to have adequate time off, and we want anybody and everybody to be able to kill people in schools, night clubs, and music festivals.