Friday Open Thread

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1. Laura Loomer Catfishing Trump?

   Where's Melania? You know things are off the rails when you've lost Empty-G.

    

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   1. How bad do you have to be for Empty G to say that you suck?

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2. Stand down and stand by Project 2025 Josh at TPM

   Stochastic Terrorism. The packaging of the “immigrants eat dogs” is designed to incite violence. Remember the riots in Britain after a fake news site posted a false arabic name to an attacker. As Marcy Wheler says, it is a neo-fascist packaging intended to cause harm, not an urban legend big-foot hoax.

   This whole article is important:

   Public Menace: How Trump Mobilizes the Violent Extremists in His Midst for Political Ends

   Trump’s movement is filled with violent extremists and radicals. They have a demonstrated willingness and eagerness to commit acts of violence against their perceived partisan enemies (mostly Democrats, but also any obstacles to Trump’s will). “Stand back and stand by.” Trump is not simply incautious in his remarks about this fact. He actually mobilizes that propensity for violence as a political tool. It’s already distorting and degenerating American civic life. And he’s not even back in power yet.

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      • ABC says "More threats in Springfield, Ohio: 'We need help, not hate,' mayor says

        The mayor said there's a lot of fear in Springfield."

      • Local newspaper "Springfield City Hall, schools, county hit by bomb threat tied to Haitian issues"

        City Hall evacuated, county offices closed, parents at one Springfield school asked to pick up children early

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