ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.
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ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.
New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Capitalism.
A god amongst men.
"I never stood with Bibi."
We demand that the international community and all organizations concerned with journalism and media worldwide condemn Israel’s crimes, pursue accountability in international courts, bring Israeli perpetrators to justice, and apply serious pressure to stop the genocide, protect journalists in Gaza -
Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)
Absolutely disgusting.
Carney is so fucking worse than my worst fears.
Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk. But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk. Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right
It's all shell game. Nvidia cannot let coreweave go under or it could collapse the entire AI market. Coreweave has far too much debt and not enough cash flow to remain solvent for long. This guarantee can be put on the books as an asset to keep them going. It can't keep going forever though.
And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.
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this is sickening. fuck these fucking fuckers!
@governor.ca.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @elizabethemay.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social This is just one of many states that will have rural closures! virginiaindependentnews.com/health-care/...
somebody remind me what the New York Yankees tribute to Heather Heyer looked like
Kirk received $1.25 million from a billionaire supermarket heiress to arrange bus transportation for people to attend Trump’s January 6, 2021 rally in DC devoted to overturning the results of the election he lost.
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Lots of people revising history and acting like Charlie Kirk wasn’t a political figure today and was “just a podcaster”. Charlie Kirk was the founder of the far right ‘organisation’ Turning Point Action which runs troll farms, pushes far right rhetoric and was heavily involved with Jan 6.
Propagandist is a better description
This is one of the many, many reasons we should all condemn the celebration of political violence, as Kirk did here: You often don't get to decide when to dismount the tiger. It eats you first.
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
I saw it live when it happened, streamed by his girlfriend. I've never been the same.
I saw Philando Castille die live on Facebook. I've never been able to watch a video where someone could die again. I still see it over and over again.
I am praying for charlie kirk, despite everything
Although this is true, it's quite predictable. You can only violently push people so far before they violently push back.
And FTR, whether or not you believe he “deserved” to get shot (few victims of gun violence “deserve” it), these are his words: "I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”
So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...
In the 1950s, Alabama went after Civil rights lawyers in the NAACP for challenging segregation. Now they're going after trans lawyers for challenging anti trans laws. Nothing ever changes.
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
Politicians and pundits are trying to convince you that straightforward problems are somehow too complicated to solve. They do this to protect the people paying them. It’s a lie. Pass it on. www.levernews.com/its-just-not...
The Abundance Guys are selling fake solutions in order to protect the oligarchs funding their fancy conferences, their think tanks, their new Substack blogs, and their speaking tours. Pass it on.
Nobody’s applied so we may have to skip this month. It’s free rent money yall lol
Trump admin is considering a strike on Venezuela if its government doesn't adopt certain policies re drug cartels, military sources tell me. Leaked ICE memo sheds light on the buildup to war: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/war-with-v...
This is the way.
It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.
It's depressing to me how my friends are trying to hook me up with single friends they have. They never did this in the 25+ years i was single before I met my husband. What's changed? I'm thin.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
In her 1990 divorce deposition, Trump’s first wife, the late Ivana Trump, accused Trump of having assaulted her, including pulling out handfuls of her hair, pushing her to the floor, and raping her.
It shouldn't be overlooked that Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissent on greenlighting racial profiling in ICE raids as she's the only one on the court who could be profiled by ICE and detained solely for how she looks lest she be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?
Ah ok! And all I would be thinking is can I crash for samosas?
I don't see it.
Here is the @uaw.org statement on the arrests at Hyundai (h/t @lfelizleon.bsky.social)
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
It's what Carney did in Canada.
The 2nd part of my essay on the benefits of UBI is now available. I am no expert but as Canada gears up for projects in the national interest, UBI is by far the best bet overall. #ubi @scottsantens.com andrewkoster.substack.com/p/canada-nee...
BLACK PEOPLE: Please get vaccinated. Recall RFK Jr.’s horrendously racist and pseudoscientific belief that we as Black people do not need vaccines because our immune systems are stronger and pointing at slavery as his proof. He & his rhetoric mean you nothing BUT harm.
No.
Fuck fuck fuck.
Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.
I unfollowed the ones that immediately did personal attacks against Taylor. It was an aggressively defensive posture that lost my trust and interest. They acted like children.
As a widow, I'm taking this time to explore what I'm calling my slut era. I finally have a body people are interested in and I'm taking it out for a test drive. I'd rather have my husband but I'm alive and he's not and I'm going to live dammit.
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
Trump act of ordering 8 military jets to perform a low-pass flyover during the Epstein victims' press conference is a DARVO surrogate. It's a form of gaslighting. It's an act of intimidation. It's an admission of guilt.
I'll never understand people who refuse to block and then complain. Blocking is the best tool.
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
The same generation that had Flowers in the Attic in school libraries.
In response to a suit by @maketheroadny.bsky.social a federal judge has blocked Trump’s expanded use of “expedited removal.” The courthouse abductions w/o due process that we’ve been protesting are illegal—and must stop. We’ll be back next week to make sure they do. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
In Punjab province, all three major rivers overflowed simultaneously, for the first time in the country’s history.
Please tell me some news producer is going to open their story on this tonight with The Clash: “Tar-eef, don’t like it.”
Chicago has most the lead pipes in the country. A team of excellent reporters and I mapped them all on a searchable tool. Huge s/o to @juanpab.bsky.social @keertigopal.bsky.social @peteraldhous.com and @compatibilism.bsky.social for this monumental effort. Relevant links threaded below!
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I don't understand why. He's awful.
I loooove dad jokes. But I'm weird.
He's so good i want to buy a record player to listen to him.
New York Times reporters repeatedly witnessed bribes being passed out to Chinese-language reporters at Adams campaign events, but said nothing until another outlet broke the story of one of their reporters being offered a bribe. Why? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
NYT (pre-election): Vance is right, Haitians are straining resources in this Ohio town NYT (post-election): oh, forcing the Haitians to leave is crashing the economy of this Ohio town
👀 NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America. www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m...
Give it to me.
one forgotten reason about why newsom blows ass is that time he vetoed a *unanimous* vote in the legislature that would've capped copays for insulin at $35. stated reason was because CA was going to start making its own insulin. that veto was in 2023. CA still ain't making its own insulin.
Yes. I also felt this way about the assassinations in Minnesota. In fact, I continue to feel this way about the assassinations in Minnesota.
Finally a plan!! After 2 weeks of trying, I finally got a date with the first man to excite me since my husband died. It's good to remember that I'm not the one who's dead.
Robert Kennedy Jr. has a clear personal financial interest in going after vaccines and undermining science and public health authorities. He’s a longtime anti-vax profiteer—author of anti-vax books, founder of an anti-vax group that paid him big $ and will bring him back after his time at HHS.
A former CDC director on RFK Jr: "Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands...
If I can actually get it started!! Took a week to identify a day.
To explicitly draw a Holocaust comparison, this is the same exact rulebook from which deniers pull, "Actually, most Jews weren't killed by Nazi Germany, they just died naturally of diseases [brought about by horrific conditions in concentration camps]." This is genocide denial and nothing else.
I'm currently trying to organize a date with a man who isn't attached to his phone. Like, what even is that? And how do I learn this sorcery?
once again "ai" is just many underpaid overseas contractors in a trenchcoat and every once in a while sam altman pretends to be scared of its awesome power in order to drum up more funding
People keep telling me I'm overreacting but I'm terrified of this.
Air Canada is cancelling flights and placing the blame on the union striking but before the media manipulates people losing their ability to travel keep in mind that workers are reporting having to eat leftover flight meals because they can't afford groceries
They want life to be a video game.
This is extremely dumb. Costco never sold mife. To the extent you're not clout chasing, way to be hoodwinked by a bunch of anti choice jamokes taking credit for nothing.
“Look, I get it. [more white noise]”
Thanks for the reminder.
I'm crying. It was so lovely.
Even when all they have to do to win so do nothing, they can't even do nothing!
If you’re a cable host interviewing a Republican this week and you don’t come prepared with the crime stats from their home state or city, you’re missing the easiest dunk imaginable.
How about sitting in the air conditioning with some good food? That's my favourite.
Trump is a rambling mess at this press conference where he’s announcing the militarization of DC, ostensibly bc of crime. CNN chyron tells the real story
Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.
Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
A Canadian company, GardaWorld, is staffing Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" -- and Carney's government awarded it MILLIONS in contracts. They also told me they won't rule out working with the company in the future. Here's what I dug up in my first-ever column for @thetyee.ca:
Marketplace platform that enables Nazis and fascists under the guise of free speech has now passed the big banks to become the most valuable company in Canada. Shopify’s leadership will now have even more resources to push for extreme right-wing political causes in Canada.
So after 16 months, I finally had sex and it was incredible to feel someone touch me again. My husband would approve of me taking care of me, but I won't share this with others because I don't want to justify it.
As a widow who is intensely independent, I struggle with how those who love me monitor what I do and judge me - both good and bad. Isolation is normal when you lose a partner because you just don't want to deal with people's opinions when they can't possibly understand.