@toddpatrick
People of a certain age might know me as "Todd P" I live in NYC and talk+consume mostly politics and news on these kinds of apps My involvement in music is largely janitorial /facilities maintenance these days, I'm more or less retired from show booking
I’m listening to ABC talk about how incredible the Israeli intelligence is and how detailed it is. If that’s the case then Israel and America just purposely murdered 85 elementary school girls. Think about that.
Looking up Todd P SXSW parties just to feel something.
a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice
mattmikalatos Tell you what, let's do it like this: Let's put every person in the Epstein files in private prisons "until we sort all this out" and have time for court cases, and we'll keep all the immigrants loose and running around until they commit a crime. Just change things up a little. mskathykł Can they be arrested in the middle of the street, pulled out of their cars? Or send armed thugs to their doors without warrants to break down the front door and drag them out in their underwear?
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
NEW: The “centrist” Abundance think tank pushing Democrats toward deregulation is run by a registered corporate lobbyist for OpenAI, Larry Ellison’s Oracle, and a crypto think tank.
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
The whole world is about to watch as a country of people get forced into starvation for no reason
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
🧵 In response to my posts on X today, DOJ 1) unredacted an FBI file that LABELS two individuals as co-conspirators 2) unredacted a file that lists several men who might be implicated 3) tacitly admitted that Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
the investigation
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
900,000 times I can forgive, but
There are only three political positions in America today
1) I like the fascism
2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)
3) I oppose the fascism
The rest is details
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
New from 404 Media: the DOJ released completely unredacted nude images of women or girls in the latest Epstein dump. The photos were incredibly explicit. We held off reporting this before DOJ finally took them down. A massive error from DOJ.
www.404media.co/doj-released...
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."
"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
If they're sending masked, unidentified goons to likely disappear you to an offshore slave prison without any process or redress, there's no reason to not use any means necessary to resist their kidnapping.
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell Nick Miroff.
Fun experiment if you don't believe the political discourse is powered by bots:
Try posting something on Twitter about being frustrated with the weather, including the sentence: "Fuck ice."
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop.
It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities.
I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
The question is whether Trump / Miller have the political savvy and total (enough) control of the media narrative machine to pull off the next stage - eliminate their street soldiers before their idiotic overreach destroys them, and secure the support of the military establishment.
These DHS ICE + Border Patrol dufuses are closer to the SA Brownshirts than they are to the Gestapo / SS (so far) - low level loser street thugs who are dumb true believers
It's some consolation to know what became of the SA as Hitler consolidated power
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
