Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

It's April 25th! The #PerfectDate

I’m watching “I’m Still Here”

A timely reminder about what fascism does to people’s lives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Still_Here_(2024_film)

"President Trump told Time magazine that he is essentially doing nothing to comply with the Supreme Court order to bring back wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the CECOT megaprison in El Salvador.

In an interview published Friday, Trump said he hadn’t asked Salvador President Nayib Bukele to release Abrego Garcia because 'nobody asked me to ask him that question.'”

~ Malcolm Ferguson

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #SupremeCourt #AlbregoGarcia
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https://newrepublic.com/post/194398/trump-wrongly-deported-immigrant-abrego-garcia

@void
I was thinking of the US, but the answer to your question is just “yes”

You know this is just normal stuff because if they •were• authoritarians, they’d be putting together massive centralized lists of disabled and divergent people, probably Jewish people too for no apparent reason, and they’d be blaming every problem in the universe on whatever extremely vulnerable marginalized groups are handy, like, say, oh, I don't know, trans people and immigrants

@jenniferplusplus @grimalkina
I don’t think you’re unusual at all in that regard. I think out culture — especially our screwed-up notion of masculinized “genius” — makes us underestimate just how much trust and respect come from “Here’s what I’m thinking” and “I don’t know” and “Could you explain that?”

Just a totally normal, not-at-all-wannabe-authoritarian president taking judges as political prisoners. Nothing to see here, totally normal stuff, move along, move along

Rest of the world (except for a few dictators): "Trump has poisoned the U.S. & turned it into a pariah state. It no longer makes sense to buy its products, invest in its bonds, trust its research, visit its sites, or study (or work) at its universities."

MAGA: "Yeah! We're number one! USA! USA!"

@dalias @thewhite969 @paninid

My suspicion is that they do actually attempt the whack-a-mole with hate speech, which keeps generating bad press, but there’s just •so• much of it in the training data

@sbi @ramsey
To be clear, I meant it was the case that people believed it — not that it was actually a thing we needed to do

@tomknuf @jn @sue
Ah, yes, I misunderstood you!

@dekk
Nice work!

@ramsey
Yeah, that was for sure the case when I was growing up in the Reagan era. I wonder how much it’s still true. Surely greater than zero, but….

@steve @chocobo13 @FrChazzz @sue
Ironically, I have some kind of weird sensory disorder that leaves me averse to the smell of all fruit — including fresh tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber, and peppers. So this discussion really hits close to home for me!

(P.S. No worries about discussing this all in my mentions, just as long as I don’t have to smell any of it.)

tell this fucking ACAB and ex-CIA pig, to shut the fuck up about woke and stop throwing Black people under the bus.

if Democrats are gonna use “woke” like the N-word, cut them off the knee STAT and make them feel the pain. scorch the earth around these fascist-lite, anti-Black, pieces of shit.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/slotkin-has-a-war-plan-to-beat-trump-dont-be-weak-and-woke-00308176

@blogdiva

So... Slotkin's "war plan" is "Be Republicans".

Fuck her.

@paninid
Smells like manual intervention to me.

@elCelio @tomknuf @jn @sue
I mean, yes: I think a lot of people have got through life by bullshitting everything, and that’s why they truly don’t understand why a bullshitting LLM can’t just do everyone’s job now.

In the right-wing exurbs, I know that wouldn’t fly. But I’m genuinely curious about how the truly rural US would react to it.

Have any serious pollsters done a deep investigation of the popularity of “tax the living shit out of billionaires” as a political platform in heavily red rural areas?