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Josh Marshall: MAGA’s energy is focused on mass deportation and, perhaps even more than that, “the assaultive cleansing of American society, of both those who are ‘illegal’ and/or brown, but also white people whom through various forms of sexual license, gayness, uppity womenhood and non-traditionalism, are collectively standing in the way of Making America Great Again.”

This is why I will never support Republicans. They hate me, my friends, family and people I admire and see us as enemies of America.

Like FDR said: “They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

Republicans haul Netflix before Congress for being too ‘woke.’ Republicans love free speech — their freedom to say what they want, and their freedom to force you to say what they want.

Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein. “We’ve basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick.”

Epstein and Bannon thought they were running a global conspiracy to burn down global democracy and replace it with a network of fascist states. Maybe they were really doing it, maybe they were just kidding themselves.

Your Ring camera is an ICE agent.

Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of international espionage, deregulated finance, far-right politics, eugenicist race science, information warfare, and unfathomably intricate human trafficking networks. Epstein wanted to break the internet and, eventually, democracy, to cover his tracks and cash in on the chaos…. Were Epstein and Bannon really building a crypto-funded far-right coalition of pro-Russian dictators across Europe? Or were they just LARPing as kingmakers with each other over email?

— Ryan Broderick, Garbage Day

Now that I’ve split my meme posts into a separate blog on Micro.blog, I might migrate all my Mastodon followers to my Micro.blog account. I’m sure I will not regret it and change it back, like every other time I made that transition. I am also sure this transition is an effective use of my time.

I’ve decided to split this blog in two. I’m going to use mitchellaneous.net for the memes and other curiosities I’ve found on the Internet. I want to keep that ephemera separate from what I post here — when I resume posting here. I haven’t been feeling it lately because (gestures broadly to the world).

Those of you who receive my newsletter will now receive two newsletters. Feel free to unsubscribe from one or both; I view blogging as like having a model train set in your basement. Not everybody is going to be interested.

“It is the misfortune of Minnesota’s ICE contingent to have invaded the state with the second-highest levels of social trust, trailing only Utah…. stop spreading despair and nihilism. stop buying into the idea that nonviolent activism is useless, rather than (by far) the most effective form of protest…. “

Mecha Comet is a handheld, modular computer that runs Linux. It looks sweet, and it tempts even my Apple-pilled heart.