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"Silicon Valley was once viewed as a tool for liberation. Now, from blocking apps to banning groups, it is helping the White House suppress dissent."
Named here as agents helping Trump suppress dissent: TikTok, Apple, Google, Meta, Facebook.
~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
#Trump #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #TikTok #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook
/11
"Frst you get Epstein, which gets you Greenland, which gets you ice in Minneapolis. which now gets you raiding the Georgia [election board]. I mean, the distractions are actually piling up the scar tissue that's being pulled apart here."
~ Joe Trippi
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
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Minneapolis Mayhem: What Comes Next | Two Joes Podcast with Trygve Olson
Founding Lincoln Project Advisor Trygve Olson shares what he saw in Minneapolis last week.Joe Trippi (Lincoln Square)
"Destroying our ability to reality test is the only way he can maintain his own delusion."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
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"The Department of Homeland Security is now walking back a Saturday statement that described Pretti as having 'violently resisted' Customs and Border Protection agents and suggested he intended to 'massacre law enforcement.' A DHS spokesperson told NBC News that the initial account was based on chaotic and incomplete reports from CBP personnel on the scene."
~ Aaron Parnas
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth
/8
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Major Update: White House Officials Throw Each Other Under the Bus as FBI Raids Georgia Election Office and DHS Walks Back Pretti Claims
The knives are out in the Trump Administration this afternoon.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"It’s hard to know the truth when everyone is so biased [the grandmother says]. The college student near me, who spends most of his time in the events center — and, based on the evidence, a lot of his other time as well, chewing the skin off his fingers — tells me, 'People need to comply with the police.'
That’s it. The subject is changed."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth #Iowa
/7
Liz Dye reports on what she experienced at Trump's rally yesterday in Clive, Iowa:
"When everything is always a lie, the truth eventually escapes. What does it do out there in the open?
When I gently bring up Minneapolis and what’s happening there to the people around me, the grandmother two chairs down frowns and says she doesn’t believe most of what the media reports."
#AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #murder #execution #lies #truth #Iowa
/6
You don’t get much more official than executing a #judicial #warrant. Concealing #evidence after the fact is a separate offense that also fits what is publicly known about both the #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti cases. The resulting #criminal penalties would attach to anyone who conspired in that concealment. This could reach more senior figures in the #Trump admin who acted to hinder #justice by using #lies & #slander to deflect responsibility &—worse—to score political points from the deaths.
#law
When even Jonathan Rauch admits it….
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/19
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.Jonathan Rauch (The Atlantic)
"The point of the regime’s counter-attacks was to muddy the waters, causing the media and the MAGA base to focus on the victims’ actions and their alleged politics instead of the crimes committed against them. It’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim for what she was wearing. And unfortunately, for a significant portion of the MAGA base, it works."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/18
"For many people, one of the more shocking parts of the White House response was its quick leap to blame the victims and to smear them as 'domestic terrorists' and violent assailants who, by inference, got what was coming to them. But this move is only surprising if you’re unfamiliar with Cohn’s second rule: always counter-attack."
~ Jay Kuo
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/17
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The Roy Cohn Playbook Is Failing
The Trump regime leaned hard into Roy Cohn’s playbook in Minneapolis, but the strategy is backfiringJay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"This is unprecedented in the United States of America, a governor believing that he must use his powers to call up the state national guard in order to defend and protect the citizens of his state from a federal militia that has invaded the city of Minneapolis as if its armed and masked members are an enemy army."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/16
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First step in a civil war
This is an image of the Minnesota National Guard moving into Minneapolis to assist local police in enforcing the law.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"This is not immigration enforcement. This is extortion. This is the use of state violence to seize control of elections in a swing state. This is the thing itself, undisguised, in plain sight."
~ Mike Brock
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/15
Sullivan says,
"With what amounts to civil war raging in the United States, we desperately need clear, fearless truth-telling that doesn’t pull its punches and doesn’t hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
/13
Margaret Sullivan notes that in a single article, New York Times can run a headline saying that video evidence "appears to" refute the Trump regime's lies about Pretti's exeuction and then state in the article that the evidence“directly contradicts” the regime's lies.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism #NewYorkTimes
/12
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Defensive caution can’t compete with right-wing propaganda
Is it so hard for journalists to clearly state that the Trump administration is lying?Margaret Sullivan (American Crisis)
"Both times, the same spokesmen smeared the victims as 'domestic terrorists.'
This is a tactic that I recognize: blaming the victims for their own deaths has long been standard practice in dictatorships."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/11
"In the past several weeks, masked federal agents dressed as military officers have killed two Americans who were peacefully protesting their violent attacks on immigrants and U.S. citizens. Both times their actions were recorded on video cameras. Both times, government spokesmen made false statements, directly contradicting the video evidence."
~ Anne Applebaum
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/10
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Minnesota Winter
A second murder, a second set of lies and an ominous letterOpen Letters, from Anne Applebaum
"The regime’s mind-blowing dishonesty is ultimately a way to demean and mark those who resist. They function as fascist solidarity, signaling that partisans can and should do anything and everything to political enemies, no matter how violent, cruel, or unnecessary."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
"Trump and his lieutenants are working to codify a new, more sinister right, one that they reserve selfishly for just themselves and their pals: the right to murder other people’s loved ones with impunity – in broad daylight, on camera – and to then immediately have a good laugh about it."
Asawin Suebsaeng
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/8
First Draft: Murder Inc.
Trump's DHS escalates its reign of terror and killings, pro-gun groups are pissed at Republicans, and the 'Middle East's only democracy' cracks down on the free press... again.Asawin Suebsaeng (Zeteo)
"If you are, you get to rule, dominate, exploit. If you are not, because you deviate from MAGA’s vision of what 'real America' is supposed to be, you have forfeited not only your rights and protections as a citizen, but also your humanity, your very right to live."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/7
"There is no act of violence committed by the agents of the state they won’t defend – no victim they won’t slander and vilify. ...
Here is the clearest encapsulation of Trumpism as a political project: Redraw the lines of who belongs, who is legitimate, who is part of the 'Volk.'”
~ Thomas Zimmer
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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The People Struggle Against Tyranny
Another execution of an American citizen. A regime that has no strategy but to lash out. The struggle against Trumpist authoritarianism is only going to get bloodier.Steady
compared it to conflict zones she has seen in other countries.
“My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. What I’ve seen here is what I’ve seen there – a powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people.”
~ Rachel Sayre quoted by Rachel Leingang
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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‘You ask us for peace, we get shot in the face’: Minneapolis in turmoil after federal agents kill second US citizen
Federal agents release chemicals into the air and arrest people after shooting and killing a 37-year-old manRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
"That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived."
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
/3
"After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe."
~ Masha Gessen
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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"Let me break it down. There is one story: our country is on the brink of an authoritarian takeover. "
~ Francine Prose
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #murder #execution #violence #lies #Minnesota #fascism #authoritarianism
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America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distractionFrancine Prose (The Guardian)
"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed."
~ Michael and Susan Pretti
#AlexPretti #Trump #DHS #murder #execution #lies #truth #fascism #Minneapolis
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Major Update: Pam Bondi Demands Voter Rolls in Exchange for Removing ICE as Alex Pretti's Family Blasts Trump Administration
We have a major update this evening, and well, surging ICE agents to places like Minnesota may not have been able immigration enforcement after all.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"Vice President JD Vance is currently leading the disinformation campaign. Meanwhile, the GOP is creating distractions and running interference for Trump. And the king of threats and smears, Donald Trump himself, has been lobbing some doozies."
#Trump #JDVance #Europe #Minnesota #ApprovalRating #disinformation #distraction #lies
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Marcy Wheeler notes:
"The AI slop the White House released yesterday really embodies what Pam Bondi’s DOJ has become.
Bullshit all the way down."
She also notes that Bondi went personally to Minnesota to see Nekima Levy Armstrong and others arrested, and the FBI initially arrested the wrong Black woman. And:
"The AI slop will make it far easier for [Nekima Levy Armstrong] to argue this is vindictive."
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The Armstrong photo didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the latest entry in what has become a defining feature of the second Trump administration: the systematic deployment of AI-generated and digitally manipulated content as official government communication. …
The White House would very much like you to focus on the fake tears. What they don’t want you thinking about is why Nekima Levy Armstrong was protesting in the first place" — the murder of Renee Good.
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The White House digitally altered the image of Armstrong’s arrest to manufacture the appearance of emotional breakdown. There was no disclosure, no indication the photo had been manipulated. It was posted as though it were real, with a caption labeling Armstrong a 'far-left agitator.' Vice President JD Vance amplified it to his own followers."
~ Parker Molloy
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
/6
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They Faked Her Tears
The administration's response to getting caught digitally altering an image of a civil rights attorney: "The memes will continue."Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
The need to lie to defend or promote a cause you purport to be righteous gives away the game — that is, that the cause isn't righteous at all.
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public."
~ Don Moynihan
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warningDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
"The White House's flippant response was obviously drafted by someone whose parents failed to teach them the difference between right and wrong. Trying to cover up a lie by describing it as a 'meme' is unworthy of a high schooler—let alone a presidential spokesperson."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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The first photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong was posted by Kristi Noem of DHS. A half hour later, the White House posted the second image — taking Noem's image, darkening Armstrong's skin, and making it appear she is crying.
When asked if it had digitally altered the first image, the White House responded with a tweet by Kaelan Dorr, deputy communications director, stating, "The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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"The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found."
~ Sam Levine
#WhiteHouse #Minnesota #AI #lies
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alterationSam Levine (The Guardian)
Earlier Rep #TedLieu (D-CA) kicked some #GOP ass for their #lies & #hypocrisy.
Lieu called out his Republican colleagues for choosing to hold a hearing on #JackSmith’s probes into #Trump instead of an oversight hearing into #DOJ’s slow release of files related to the late sex offender #JeffreyEpstein.
#law #House #Judiciary #propaganda #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution #PeacefulTransitionOfPower