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DHS uses federal alert system

artappraiser — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:43:50 +0000

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DHS uses federal alert system for 1st time in a year to warn of domestic terrorist threat

The warning comes in the days after Biden's inauguration.

By Mike Levine @ ABCNews.com, January 27, 2021, 1:28 PM

Using a federal system designed to warn all Americans about terrorist threats to the U.S. homeland, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning that anger "fueled by false narratives," especially unfounded claims about the 2020 presidential election, could lead some inside the country to launch attacks in the coming weeks.

"Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence," according to a bulletin issued Wednesday through the DHS National Terrorist Advisory System -- or NTAS..

The system was last used to issue a public warning a year ago, when DHS issued a bulletin over potential retaliation by Iran for the U.S. assassination of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq days earlier. A year before that, DHS issued a bulletin through the same system to highlight the threat from foreign terrorist groups like ISIS or al-Qaida.

But over the past year, domestic terrorists "motivated by a range of issues, including anger over COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 election results, and police use of force have plotted and on occasion carried out attacks against government facilities," and "long-standing racial and ethnic tension -- including opposition to immigration -- has driven [domestic terrorist] attacks," the bulletin issued Wednesday said [....]

I Want to Call the Capitol

artappraiser — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 23:13:37 +0000

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I Want to Call the Capitol Rioters ‘Terrorists.’ Here’s Why We Shouldn’t.

New antiterrorism laws could end up targeting people of color.

VIDEO of Adama Bah @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 25. Ms. Bah is an immigration activist; entire accompanying text:

Adama Bah was just 16 years old when FBI agents stormed her family’s Harlem apartment in 2005 and arrested her, falsely accusing her of being a potential suicide bomber. She was held for six weeks in a youth detention facility before being released with no charges. This was post-9/11 America, when ordinary Muslims were routinely targeted by laws intended to prosecute terrorists. In the video op-ed above, Bah argues that although we do need to combat white supremacist violence in America, creating new antiterror laws to do so — and expanding the War on Terror — will only backfire on innocent Black and brown people.

I imagine more support for

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:58:25 +0000

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I imagine more support for the Feds this time, though we may lose Idaho in the process (which would free up a star for Puerto Rico).

Thinking about 2 Senators from each, that'd kill Republican support for statehood. I'd favor maybe a 1-, 2- or 3-Senator setup .

I know you all are sick of

artappraiser — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:28:49 +0000

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I know you all are sick of Bundy, but... https://t.co/JYj1Y45pCf
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 24, 2021

Use the latter with

moat — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:13:00 +0000

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Use the latter with moderation.

This is gonna require

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:10:00 +0000

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This is gonna require diagrams and absinthe, won't it? (pls say yes)

That is a suitable mnemonic

moat — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:36:56 +0000

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That is a suitable mnemonic device but doesn't capture the lack of situational awareness I was focusing upon. It deserves its own Venn diagram.

Breaking Bad does have many helpful parallels. The bathtub crashing through all the floors is one. The different dynamics between street dealers and cartel owners is another.

Dipping into his own product

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:16:00 +0000

In reply to Yes. In my Venn diagram,

Dipping into his own product - like Breaking Bad without the hint of ethical limits.he occupies the crazed center of that Venn diagram.

Barr is quite smart somehow, and seems to know where his lies will take him, and which exit to take, not that he doesn't have support teams in each iteration. McConnell is single minded, and with this amoral/immoral crew it works.

I got side-tracked and started thinking of FMs as "feral monkeys" - is that an acceptable pseudonym?

Yes. In my Venn diagram,

moat — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 18:45:43 +0000

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Yes. In my Venn diagram, Trump was a PO who eventually had to be expelled because he was dipping into his own product too much. The other POs thought he would be useful to the very end. Trump thought the others were also FMs, working shoulder to shoulder to achieve the goal. He didn't read the prenuptial agreement carefully enough.

In retrospect, none of them appear to be geniuses. McConnell and Barr jumped off the merry go round before the contraption burst into flames. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the result they were hoping for.

One big difference being

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 18:07:22 +0000

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One big difference being Trump & some others conspired over weeks/months in ways that are slowly or quickly coming out, while the majority of the morons were recent impulsive converts.