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ProPublica
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social · 2d ago
Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump --- Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-counterterrorism-plan-ignores-far-rights-gorka?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Terrorism #Trump #USPolitics #Violence #Security #Extremism
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palmoildetectives
Palm Oil Detectives
@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk · May 06, 2026
#Study finds #palmoil expansion in #WestPapua isn’t just fuelling #deforestation but also colonialist-style #landgrabbing #violence and systematic erasure of #Indigenous #Melanesian cultures and languages. #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔☠️🩸🚜🔥🧐⛔️ @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://palmoildetectives.com/2025/06/22/greasing-the-wheels-of-colonialism-palm-oil-industry-in-west-papua/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Palm Oil Detectives
@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk · May 05, 2026
#News: 🚨 #SOCFIN #palmoil and #rubber is linked to sexual #violence, forced #labour, #landgrabbing #deforestation in #WestAfrica🌴🔥🤢☠️🙊🚫 French tycoon Vincent Bolloré profits while communities suffer. 💀✊🏽 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2025/10/22/socfins-african-empire-of-colonial-abuse-how-billionaires-profit-from-palm-oil-and-rubber-exploitation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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wdlindsy
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 28, 2026
"A close reading of the Justice Department’s charges Monday afternoon against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all. In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all. ... Here is what to me is a more likely scenario than what the government is telling us so far:" ~ Garrett M. Graff #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #violence #shooting #DOJ #ColeAllen /1 https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-justice-department-lying-about-saturday-s-shooting
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 27, 2026
"Nobody in the history of American politics has weaponized incidents of violent crime to turn them into political capital like Donald Trump. His campaign’s use of the incident in Butler, PA as well as the Laken Riley murder in sick and perverse ways were instrumental in returning him to the presidency." ~ Ron Filipkowski #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /1 https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-358-42726
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 27, 2026
"Now he’s is using the incident at the WHCA dinner to justify his deeply unpopular ballroom monstrosity. Trump, members of his admin, Republican members of Congress, as well as right-wing TV hosts, podcasters and influencers went on a full-court propaganda blitz today to use the latest incident to justify not only construction of the ballroom, but even a demand to have taxpayers now foot the bill." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /2
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 27, 2026
"He lies. And the press corps accepts it. This dynamic is a part of strategy that's gotten clearer since Saturday. Instead of using the shock of violence to bridge divisions between Americans, the president is enlisting the press corps in creating a reality with which to divide us further." ~ John Stoehr #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /3 https://www.editorialboard.com/cole-allen-is-not-anti-christian-trump-lied-about-his-faith-and-the-press-corps-accepted-it/
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 27, 2026
"The Republicans love to gaslight the public into believing that the Democrats are inciting violence when they tell the truth about Trump. In fact, it's the president who is the greatest source of incitement. That his life has been threatened three times should be proof enough." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /4
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 27, 2026
"Yet the press corps plays along, accepting Trump's claims uncritically – he was told to get down when he actually fell; Cole Allen is ant-Christian when he is actually deeply Christian – as if the constant mainlining of deceit into the body politic is not going to bring tensions to an even higher boil." #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #Trump #Republicans #violence #media #ballroom /5
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wdlindsy
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. ... The past 10 years have witnessed a shooting at a congressional baseball practice, a deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville," (continued in /2) ~ David Smith #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /1 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-covering-trump
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
(continued from /1) "the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and the killings of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Political violence is rampant and on Saturday, in a fancy Washington ballroom, Trump and the media glimpsed the edge of the abyss." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /2
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"My first thought wasn’t shock. It was recognition. Because I had spent the better part of this Saturday documenting exactly how we arrived at a place where something like this could feel — in the most sick and twisted way imaginable — not just possible but almost inevitable." ~ Kristoffer Ealy #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /3 https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/corporate-media-chaos-trump-the-whcd
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"I fear violence will become a defining characteristic of the next few months, leading up to the midterms. It is the lexicon of what now passes for debate in the Trump era." ~ Gene Weingarten #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /4 https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/i-blame-trump
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"There is a close relationship between Trump and violence — not just the attempts on his life but also the violence he’s unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and Border Patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers." ~ Robert Reich #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /5 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-last-nights-correspondents
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"When the president was asked at a press briefing late Saturday why he’s been targeted by several attempted gunmen now, Trump said he’s 'studied assassinations,' and they often target 'the most impactful people' and 'the big names.' 'I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot,' he said. 'We’ve changed this country, and there are a lot of people that are not happy about that.'” ~ Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /6 https://zeteo.com/p/trump-evacuated-white-house-correspondents-dinner-dc
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"He also used the shooting to promote his ballroom (bunker) and MAGA, of course, blamed 'the left' and said this is why Congress should fund DHS, and by extention secret service. Unfortunately, STAGED was already trending on Twitter before we received all of these details." ~ Wajahat Ali #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged /7 https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/behold-the-ridiculous-unbearable
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incites an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while, people don’t believe him and create their own narratives." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged /8
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"Trump took to the podium a little after 10:30. Referring to the threat of a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner—which has never happened before—he said: 'I will say, you know, it’s not a particularly secure building, and, uh, I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House.'" ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /9 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-25-2026
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"'It’s actually a larger room, and it’s much more secure. It’s got— It’s drone proof. It’s bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That’s why Secret Service, that’s why the military are demanding it. They’ve wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today’s, uh, a little bit different, because today, we need levels of security that probably nobody’s ever seen before.'” #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /10
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social · Apr 26, 2026
"In response to a question about why Trump thought attempts on his life happened so frequently—a reminder: there is as yet no information about what the man’s plan or motives were—he responded that assassins come for 'impactful people' and boasted of how much he has done for the country." #Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media /11
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