Keep in mind that Matt Shea wrote “a ‘how to’ manual consistent with the ideology and operating philosophy of the Christian Identity/Aryan Nations movement and the Redoubt movement of the 1990” lawandcrime.com/politics/if-th…
“Muslims, journalists & critics ... are ‘supporting tyranny’ if they don’t support his view that the United States is ‘a Christian nation.’ Critics fear that Shea, an Army combat veteran, has begun employing that same principle to justify violence” theolympian.com/news/politics-…
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Since Musk’s latest claims about his timeline for Mars exploration are trending, it’s worth remembering the origin of his fascination with the red planet. Nazi scientist turned US space program engineer Wernher von Braun wrote a book called “Project Mars” in 1953 🧵1/6
In that book, a crewed mission lands on Mars & discovers “the red planet inhabited by indigenous Martians whose society is organized along technocratic lines and led by an executive figure known as an Elon” 2/6liberationnews.org/fascist-futuri…
Musk’s father even claimed that von Braun’s book was a direct inspiration for choosing the name Elon (starts around 3:16) 3/6
“Forgive them, for they know not what they do?” As the second Trump administration proceeds to crucify the US economy, the people pulling the strings know EXACTLY how much pain they are inflicting 🧵1/14
Project 2025, the latest iteration of Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership” (blueprint for incoming GOP administrations that began in 1979), provides almost 1,000 pages worth of backbone for a continuation of Reaganomics in the US 2/14medium.com/@nurselawyer/p…
Silicon Valley technocrats like Elon Musk hold the keys for unlocking control of both the public & private sectors. The Trump admin hit the ground running with the Project 2025 gameplan while deploying Musk’s shock troops of DOGE to purposefully “move fast & break things” 3/14
For 40+ years neoliberalism has treated Economics as a high priesthood of solemn esoteric knowledge beyond the grasp of ordinary people. This stance is manipulative & wrong 1/6
Even trained economists may fall into the trap of thinking in absolutes about the discipline 2/6
Politicians & pundits also try to frame Economics in mathematically based black & white terms (think Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “There Is No Alternative” to neoliberalism), but in reality Economics is a social science 3/6
Pro Israel Magen Am or “protector of the nation” is private security for Jewish communities. It began in LA but has spread to AZ. At the beginning the organization offered its services free of charge #UCLAProtest @TinaDesireeBerg 1/7forward.com/news/470196/la…
The head of Magen Am is Rabbi Yossi (Yossi Eilfort) a Chabad affiliated rabbi, MMA fighter, rent-a-cop, and NRA instructor who earns $142k salary for his noble work 3/7
Is forcing people back to work while they are sick really good policy @CDC? That is what doing away with COVID-19 isolation recommendations has accomplished🧵 1/20
In the short term employers have warm bodies to fill jobs & they save on sick pay, but in the long term an already beleagured population that has suffered numerous covid infections is being pushed to the brink 2/20
COVID-19 is still in the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States. Both the flu and RSV aren’t in the top ten. @CDC’s purposeful minimization of the risks of COVID-19 in both the short term & the long term will backfire spectacularly 3/20 salon.com/2024/03/06/not…
Aside from Blinken’s ability to arbitrarily declare an “emergency” allowing him to bypass the Arms Export Control Act (ordinarily Congressional oversight is required) & do things like expedite 14K tank rounds to Israel, there’s the US weapons “stockpile” in Israel issue 🧵1/16
Billions of dollars worth of US military equipment sits in closely guarded warehouses in Israel. Supposedly it is for US use in the event that war breaks out in MENA, but the Israelis have been permitted to access & use it in “emergencies” 2/16
“Israel now appears to be receiving munitions from the stockpile in significant quantities for use in its war on Gaza, yet there has been little transparency about transfers from the arsenal” 3/16theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…