They need to deflect as much responsibility from themselves as possible after having gutted taskforces focusing on far right extremist groups and reassigning agents from white supremacist and far-right threats to focus on immigrants and left-wing groups.
That's the play.
SPLC, while still being Zionist, is essentially the equivalent of J Street (liberal Zio lobby) as it relates to AIPAC (conservative Zio lobby). It'll do for the Trump admin's mission to blame "the left" for the current insurgency of white supremacy...
Unlike SPLC, the ADL pivoted almost exclusively to going after anti-Zionist/pro-Palestinian groups and individuals. That's why Elon Musk and MAGA loyalists almost never speak ill of ADL anymore. So they needed another bogeyman...
We knew they were going to come after c3s that even peripherially challenge white supremacy and capitalism. Here it is. It was never going to stop at "antifa" and the "radical left." They're going after mid liberal orgs too (listen to us radical leftists, libs)…
DOJ indicted SPLC on fraud because they paid informants to infiltrate right wing domestic terrorism groups. Ok? SPLC said they keep the FBI in the loop about their operations. And the FBI pays informants of extremist groups all the time. So what's the problem?
What Trump's Justice Dept just did was out a bunch of paid informants inside dangerous and violent white supremacist organizations, but they've spun this into accusing SPLC of funding (and manufacturing) far-right extremism. x.com/i/status/204...
I don't doubt there is fraud and corruption at SPLC (like there is at most every American nonprofit) because that's the nature of this corrupt beast of a country.
However, the narrative the Trump admin and right-wing media are going with is actually fucking insane. ⬇️
FDA approval for psychedelic treatments sounds great but no one will be able to afford treatment. Trump is kicking an additional 4m people off health insurance coverage and millions more will remain in prison on drug-related offenses. Another useless PR stunt to court insufferable shroom people.
NEW: The rise of 'neo-Kaczynskiism,' the surveillance state they're building to protect themselves, and why acts of individualist vigilantism are insufficient to build a better world. open.substack.com/pub/anotherg...
US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk
We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline
Democrats could very easily have a "Joe Rogan of the left" but liberals are too reactionary and right wing to ever fully embrace those who could actually do that. The liberal center is not designed to counter and defeat the right. It's designed to manage and sheepdog the left.
Liberals continue to believe they can win over the hearts and minds of fascists and racist pig people when what they really need is the resurrection of Joseph Stalin and a gulag.
1) Hates "others" bc he was smashed in the head with Christofascist nationalism his whole life.
2) Believes his "way of life" is threatened by immigrants and refugees.
3) Cheers on US-Israeli wars of destabilization that create more immigrants and refugees.
The eternal necon.
"Epstein also didn't pull people into his web and then corrupt them. The club existed. He fit right in." newrepublic.com/article/2068...
An artificial intelligence researcher conducting a war games experiment found that the three most-used AI models – Anthropic's Claude, OpenAl's ChatGPT, and Google's Gemini – deployed nuclear weapons in 95% of the scenarios he designed. www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Really never beating the brain damage causes people to be right wing allegations.
Tom Nichols, former Naval War College professor and Reagan voter. You know, a super-leftist.
Jeffrey Epstein was a fucking idiot with the intellect of an inbred goldfish who couldn't type a single email without butchering the shit out of it but we need everyone to believe he was a polymath for reasons of national security. defector.com/jeffrey-epst...
They convinced your idiot boss to replace you with something that can't do your job *AND* it's poisoning our air and water and will collapse the economy very soon. Probably under a Democratic administration because it's all pre-planned that way. Fuck this nightmare carnival ride.
I think the New York Times has become a psychology experiment in which they see how many times they can poke their remaining subscribers in the eye before they finally walk away
WSJ Edit Page for my entire adult life: Spy on everyone. Jail everyone nonwhite. Better everyone making less than $75,000 starve than I pay $10 in taxes. Crack that immigrant’s head. Steal her baby. Make that 15 year old give birth. Invade, bomb and pillage across the world.
Also WSJ Edit Page:
Just got pushed an ad for Fox News and then Crocks. I need to get the fuck out of this country.
And to burn down the ones already built.
Voting will never stop the obscene military spending by the United States. Other means are urgently required.
DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
ICE is buying up 'mega' industrial warehouses to use as detention camps & leaked documents reveal over a dozen secret watchlists targeting not just immigrants, but American citizens. Continuing to fund and grow ICE is enabling what we all know is coming next. open.substack.com/pub/anotherg...
Melissa and Mark Hortman were murdered last June by a fake cop who showed up at their door dressed like this guy.
NEW from me: How the ultra-wealthy weaponized bigotry and manufactured crises to distract from the largest wealth consolidation in American history.
anotherguypod.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
"Billionaire-backed networks criminalizing homelessness, corporations profiting from mass incarceration, the Supreme Court dismantling constitutional protections … they are creating a detention apparatus that will inevitably find new populations to cage." open.substack.com/pub/anotherg...