zenmuppet
Formerly evilzenmuppet. Trying to shed some of the Bird App negativity.
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- Reposted by zenmuppet🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
- Reposted by zenmuppetWithin a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.
- Reposted by zenmuppetNEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
- Reposted by zenmuppetMy friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
- Reposted by zenmuppet“(This is how men behave.)” It is not how men behave. It is how creeps behave. I swear to god, nobody is as eager to torch the reputation of men as men are.
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by zenmuppetThis is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
- The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
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- Reposted by zenmuppetAmid the debate about whether bodycams do or do not add to accountability, @unraveledpress.com just IDed a particularly abuse CBP officer, Michael Sveum, by matching his phone lock screen, as seen in bodycam, to a 2021 tweet. 🤣 unraveledpress.com/identified-t...
- Reposted by zenmuppetThis is damning. The Treasury Secretary just admitted that it's "up to the President" whether the DOJ sues or investigates Warsh if he fails to follow Trump's direction at the Fed. They're saying it out loud - Trump will only accept a sock puppet as the head of the Fed.
- Reposted by zenmuppetImmigration agents have shot a dozen people since Sept--yet police are often skipping any investigation. After agents near Chicago killed a man, an officer asked if chief who would investigate. The answer: “You’re not going to investigate a federal officer”
- Reposted by zenmuppetThe State Department's Human Rights Report was, too, until it was gutted in 2025
- Reposted by zenmuppetA bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
- Reposted by zenmuppetAmazing. If a professional wrestling crowd is chanting "fuck ICE," it suggests to me that large swaths of the culture are not just upset over ICE tactics, they're coalescing against mass deportations as a broader ideological project. newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by zenmuppetCan’t stop talking about this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social piece about the ways the tech industry has tricked us all into trading connection for convenience and how to break free of it. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Reposted by zenmuppetIt is said those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But what of those who suppress the past, distort it, sanitize it? They cannot not be held blameless. A true warrior knows that hiding from the past is cowardice, and deliberately hiding the past is malice, and a grave dishonor.
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- Reposted by zenmuppetSorry, but rape is something working class men also do. I know people have spent about a decade trying to delegitimize any analysis of women as an oppressed class, but reality can't be mooted for the sake of trends.
- Reposted by zenmuppetActually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.
- Reposted by zenmuppetSo, is Nicolas Maduro getting the Ghislaine Maxwell deal to lie that Venezuela magically hacked the 2020 election (don’t ask how) or at least to not contradict it? Decent chance this is dumber and less planned than that, like other attempts to validate something obviously false Trump made up.)
- Reposted by zenmuppetReally nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by zenmuppetIt feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
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- Reposted by zenmuppetThey like him and want to help him
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- Reposted by zenmuppetJust to throw this in at the end: if you can afford a donation, the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund is helping detainees post bond and get them out of custody ASAP. A worthy cause.
- It cost me $66.70 to get this transcript. Money well spent. I don't need anyone to reimburse me. But, if you got something out of this transcript, please consider making a $66.70 donation, or even $6.67, to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund, which posts bond for immigration detainees. mibfc.org
- Reposted by zenmuppet“But what do you want Democrats to do….” I don’t know stuff like this?
- NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY. Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
- Reposted by zenmuppetThe chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
- Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
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- Reposted by zenmuppetOh, the pearl-clutching that will commence when future US leaders take steps to remove Trump constructions in DC. "How could you insult..." and "you have to accept that..." and on and on. Ignore it. These are aberrations, illegal, a stain. We the People, not tribute to one anti-democracy figure.
- Reposted by zenmuppetsomething i would like to know is what, if any, role jeff bezos is playing in the trump administration's acquisition of giant warehouses across the country.
- Reposted by zenmuppetTexas man arrested after he started fight with high schoolers who walked out of class to protest ICE www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
- Reposted by zenmuppetMarty Baron suspended Felicia Somnez for telling the truth about the allegations against Kobe Bryant. He was part of this long slide into fascist-enabling. He can have all the seats.
- Reposted by zenmuppetSuburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
- Reposted by zenmuppetthey don't have enough guys, and if the response in Minnesota shows anything it is that trying something like this is going to drive a much larger backlash than anything they hope to gain out of it "oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by zenmuppetMacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
- Reposted by zenmuppet1. It most definitely does not "break their hearts" to say 2. How many different ways can billionaire pro-natalist freaks make clear that they plan to subjugate women and girls by any means necessary?
- Reposted by zenmuppetI got in SO MUCH trouble for this hugely viral tweet back in 2018 (from MAGA types mostly) but I stand by it (and in fact at the time the Auschwitz Museum defended me when people yelled at me that Auschwitz was a “death camp” not a concentration camp). My DENTIST congratulated me for this one
- Reposted by zenmuppetIn the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
- The media didn't tell them he was serious either.
- Reposted by zenmuppetElizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.
- I just subscribed! Encourage all the DMV folks to do the same.
- 6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
- Reposted by zenmuppetVoter intimidation isn’t new, and the counters to it are well established. Black voters in the south, for example, faced some at various times. Ideally, use early voting to make intimidation harder. Otherwise, show up to vote on Election Day, braving whatever they try. Not sexy, but it works.
- Reposted by zenmuppetStriking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)
- Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by zenmuppetI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by zenmuppetWe are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
- Reposted by zenmuppetLessons from other eroded democracies show there’re multiple ways to destroy the free press.Yes, you can arrest/intimidate journalists like last week.You can also buy news organizations, destroy their credibility and gut their newsrooms. You can sue frivolously until newsrooms can’t afford to fight.
- Reposted by zenmuppetOur founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Reposted by zenmuppetThis is good news overall, but it also once again underscores the hard reality that roughly 1/3 of the U.S. population is comprised of fascist pieces of shit.
- Reposted by zenmuppetNow, more than ever, we must remember the cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.
- Reposted by zenmuppetDenaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes.
