Lemme get this straight
A civil rights group is being criminally charged for paying informants to get info about the KKK & neo-Nazis that was then shared with law enforcement?
That's basically what the FBI does!
Should they prosecute themselves?
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He's only sorry for how it might impact his income and relevance, not the harm he caused.
What is the antifa "energy policy"? 🤌
I wouldn't be shocked if death threats go out by the end of the day. Are they trying to get informants killed?
the extremists the govt alleges have been paid snitches for the SPLC for years are not named in the indictment but there is enough info to identify them if you have some knowledge of the organizations involved... a couple of racists are about to get a lot of angry phone calls from their friends
The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.
More generally, "you took donor money for this ideological goal and did stuff we think is politically misaligned" isn't the law. Org might even be dumb and ineffective in its chosen strategy, but that's not a crime. Has to be a specific factual promise about what you will or won't do with the money.
"Send us money to help build a border wall" and then instead buying yourself 18 more rumpled polo shirts to wear simultaneously, that's donor fraud. "Send us money to help research and track extremists" and then spending that money on obtaining information about extremists groups is... not fraud.
Worth noting how many organizations like SPLC neutered themselves and the work that they do, trying to avoid this very moment. Especially since Trump won again. But MAGA was always going to come for them. And eventually, we'll all be targets. No matter how much we tried to remain nonpartisan, etc.
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Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.
During Trumps first admin I interviewed Carlson and talked to him about how his rhetoric specifically hurt my life and he treated it like a big joke. Remorse that only comes when it’s convenient isn’t remorse at all.
The SPLC tried to lay low in Trump's second term to avoid harassment from the government, but you can't placate hate so you might as well fight it with your dignity intact. How do people not know this yet?
Yes!
Current Dem leadership is to the right of Ronald fucking Reagan. In the time between since Reagan took office Dems have discarded all their deeply held beliefs for money and power. The party only exists to be an emergency pressure valve to the excesses of the right, nothing more.
The point is that corporate Dems have one purpose and that is to protect capitalism at all costs, even if it means working with Fascists. Neo-Nazis still actively communicating antisemitic conspiracy theories are more acceptable to them than leftists with actual good faith critiques.
A tent big enough for Nazis, conspiracy theorists, neocons, and hate propagandists, but too small for trans people, Palestinians, or the left.
2 hours, nothing received yet. 💕💸
I either do something about the horrors or I abdicate responsibility for the world I live in. If your legacy is only numbers in a bank and stuff you collected I think you've wasted your time on this planet. Try to make a positive difference.
At 1:10 Ben talks about WHY he's doing what he's doing. I've spent years doing something different in outting hate propagandists and hate group members, but the motivation is the same. If I see some horror I can fight and I don't, what am I living for? It's that simple.
I finished reading this over the weekend and it is phenomenal. Highly recommend this book, especially for our current times.
everywhere you look, they’re adding rate limits and raising the price per token. it’s almost as if the bill is coming due and they can’t keep throwing money at making something happen that isn’t happening.
Tucker doesn't have a conscience. He does have ambitions.
Feeding Liz Truss to waterfowl:
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Homelessness isn't eradicated not because it's too expensive, but because the rich and powerful want poor workers to see what will happen to them if they pass up their subsistence jobs. Homelessness is a visible threat to those at the margins not to ask for more.
It’s no surprise to anyone that ‘free speech absolutism’ only applies to those voices they agree with
Instead they'll bust out hologram Dick Cheney to reach out to disaffected neocons riding the fence; all six of them and get none.