What if it includes mine, but I don't want it to 😭
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What if it includes mine, but I don't want it to 😭
This is it.
Fantastic - and long - thread here. Policies on crime, just like the other serious issues we face as a nation of 340mil people (abortion, vaccines, etc), should be based on *data*, and not simply be a way to launder the personal preferences or weird moral hangups of the last person holding the mic.
Yes, of course military occupation will for its duration reduce visible street crime. That's what Bukele in El Salvador is all about. Fascists want us to dispute that instead of emphasizing the military occupation *is* crime in so many ways & does more damage than all the muggers in the world.
I agree with this reading. This isn’t a “can you believe he said that” moment. It’s a “he’s saying it and doing it right now. It’s happening” moment.
Another hopeful and inspiring story. Reporting on the first HIV cure study conducting on the African continent. So far one woman was remained in longterm remission two years after the study. While not a home run the FRESH study brings hope that there is progress. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
What??? 😳
Maple syrup sticky buns. I bake to take my mind off the abyss.
Especially if he said it with such LOW ENERGY, gosh, where is Jake
It's like nobody remembers Ganymede...
Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police, "long associated with the struggle for transitional justice and historical memory" has become "a casualty of intense government hostility," suffering from drastically reduced funding & restrictions on public access, per @nsarchive.bsky.social 🗃️
Not yet. But there's some kind of tipping point coming. And I'm not thrilled about that either, because whatever happens next is going to be pretty bad, no matter which "side" one is on.
Or "domestic opposition to crush," bc honestly I only see one side doing any fighting right now 🙃
Does it make a tingle down his leg tho
ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...
I was lucky to grow up in a school district which, while still majority white, had us watching Roots and reading/hearing other first person narratives. This was 5th grade. But of course, lots of people who were in that class with me still didn't "get it."
Welcome to our new series: Enemies of Labor. Enemy #1? Andrew Carnegie. He built a name on libraries and philanthropy — but built his fortune by exploiting workers. Carnegie’s steel empire violently broke the Homestead Strike, slashed wages and fought unions at every turn.
Check this guy's underwear gusset 😬
My opinion: a lot of Ds seem to feel they needed "cover," for someone else to go first so they wouldn't have to be the one to stick their necks out. I wish Pence's words could do that for former GOPs (Congress & staffers) who are now the MAGA party, no matter what party they think they're in.
This is just sickening.
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It has gone where you can't follow
Omg we just finished that last night. Annual back-to-school thing, y'know. Anyway, sorry, I can no longer recall the taste of good tv.
I can only add one new tv show per decade, so this one will probably have to wait. But I appreciate the endorsement... of a sort? 😂
A cadence of snark? You don't say.
I may be wrong, but I recall some feeling that Alexei Navalny was also deeply imperfect as a politician, but he gained so much support and fame for this exact reason - he was the one willing to show up and get loud. Not directly comparing the two. Not yet at least...
I think you misunderstood. He's not waiting for permission, he's threatening basically a dead-man switch.
I have never watched even a moment of a single episode. People keep telling me to watch it and LOL that just makes me want to not-watch it even harder.
vibes vibes vibes
I met him at a Hillary event in 2016 and he was still the center of attention there. He's good at what he does, for better or worse.
Yup
I'm going to run out of ❤️s to leave on this thread so I'm doing the honorable thing and also 🔁ing it
And county-level/house-district-level Dems have zero support from the national party, so they crumble under the weight of voter disaffection and administrative corruption. (My view from ground level.)
NPR did a whole podcast on Trump taking over DC, and threatening to do the same with Baltimore and Oakland without saying the word Black.
And then, of course, there is the PTO...! Lol
Yeah, I'm struggling (a lot) with fear right now, but I need the truth more than I need fairy tales.
Right, I don't mean to be ungrateful to teachers who go above and beyond - it grosses me out that they have to do that when they barely get paid enough. But sometimes classroom decorations are like over-the-top insane, when something much simpler would be fine, and less stressful for the ND kids.
I was ready to add this point, so thank you. It was brutal for my severe ADD kid. They would get up and wander because there were things all over the walls drawing their attention, then get in trouble for being distracted 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
It reaches out it reaches out it reaches out
It asked me to upload copies of, iirc, "original cashier checks"? I don't even know what that means. So I didn't go back and finish the process.
This closing paragraph is 🔥
Honestly, even the skulls and skeletons of things like deer & dogs look eerie enough without actual dinosaurs having actually existed.
This isn't "journalism." This is a collection of gurgles and moans escaping journalism's reanimated zombie corpse.
That's ... not deportation, right? That's extraordinary rendition.
Late stage capitalism & social media are good points, but also in the post-atomic era, humans have had fewer of the kind of "limited" wars which once allowed for more rapid political & demographic realignment. Also much less adventurous colonialism = fewer ways to remove "problem" men from society
Thank you for this framing. You did a stranger and Mental Health favor today 🤜🤛
I can turn on notifications now, which means I'll get a little message every time you drop divine wisdom like this
Sometimes I get testy about it because I watched it happen - the gutting of this whole state - and it's upsetting. There used to be some hope here. 😐
Did you skip the parentheses? I think I'm aware of that 😉
Seconded from Ohio, which I tell folks isn't a "red state," it's a hostage situation. (Although this many years into our horrific gerrymander, the state's political identity has shifted in direct proportion to the self-inflicted Brain Drain.)
Yeah, I agree. It's not very farfetched when you remember his entire career was made up of mob stuff.
For folks up in Northeast Ohio, Bill Seitz - tapped by DeWine to head the working group on tax relief - is a long-time ally of both Tim and Diane Grendell. Anyone familiar with my previous work might remember Diane's "anti-CRT" ed. bill from a few years back. TLDR, there are no good guys here.
A friend of mine accidentally hit him in the head with a giant inflatable [body part] during her bachelorette party. Nice guy.
Masterpiece Theater presents "Ow My Balls"
🚨 🚨 As if the recent obsession with “Alligator Alcatraz”—and the images and memes popping up all over social media in celebration of it—isn’t grotesque enough as it is. A 🧵 Just look at the images our own government is putting out: 1/
Bacon. I come from a hearty group of hog-farming hillbillies and omg I'm over it. Stop putting it in everything, it's greasy and it doesn't accomplish enough, culinarily, to make it so gd popular, I'm tired of it
I had the same problem - except besides only making me stupid and not helping the headaches, it also wrecked my kidneys for a little bit.
Rep. Abdullahi is so real for this. We need to get her to Congress.
Oh, Sarah... Our current Rep and former state school board member, who was, herself, homeschooled. The OH statehouse is an unfunny caricature of what a real government could be.
Don't ignore the fig leaf of "at least." It's like they couldn't decide how hard to commit to the bit.
He lies and says he's a loyal Dem... (etc)
The parade today by contrast moves west to east, outside to in. It starts at the Pentagon not Arlington National Cemetary. It follows the symbolic route of troops entering to quell or occupy the city, not leaving with love and thanks. 8/
I am, too, so I'm very thankful for you posting this, kind stranger. I suppose my good news is that I had my first migraine Botox injections today? Fingers crossed it works. ❤️
Copperhead traitor politicians from the Ohio River Valley. Same as it was in the 1860s
Learn more at Long Lead's feature THE PEOPLE VS. RUBBER BULLETS, which highlights victims who have been injured by rubber bullets while exercising their First Amendment right and the history of less-lethal munitions: rubberbullets.longlead.com
“If the district wasn’t forced to use a portion of its transportation budget for private- and charter-school kids, every public-school kid would have access to yellow buses.” Read the full story on how public resources are being allocated away from public schools here ⤵️
Why it’s hard to take comfort in a distracted head of state. From Michael Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism.
You know, I'm sure there's a specific list. 🙄
I spent years reporting on the activities of a Geauga County Commissioner who is now Chief Deputy Sheriff in PoCo, and likely involved in this. Didn't move the needle. I'm not sure what will, but thank you for highlighting this. People need to know even their local elections have consequences.
My kid, too. I would hope that universities are able to provide locked-down (non-AI-accessing) computers for kids like ours to take tests on. But maybe not. AI is just ruining everything it touches. Now our kids have to compete not only against their own disabilities, but against this, too.
It's odd that I'm not seeing shortages stories due to Trump My kids are going to start their baseball/softball seasons without jerseys because the vendor is "behind" My local gas station doesn't have lids for cups because their vendor is "out of stock"
At States Newsroom, we relentlessly report on how changes at the federal level are affecting people at the state level — and how state governments are responding in this volatile political climate. We post new stories each day; here are just a few.
Pitching a new Apple TV show where Camina Drummer gets stuck coaching a belter footie team on Callisto
Trump and the GOP are adding trillions to the debt they claim to care so much about. Same as it ever was. They scream constantly about the deficit, but the second they get hold of the national credit card again it’s party time. And they’ll insist with straight faces this is what people voted for.
Hey Texas’ 21st Congressional District, please keep in mind that yesterday afternoon your Rep. Chip Roy voted for the same reconciliation bill that he had been against for months edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/p...
"Hopefully" is a heavy lift here
I'd love to give local govt some attention. People think govt=politics, which isn't true. But that way of thinking leads to the crazy "cat litter in schools" nonsense. Maybe if people were more aware of the day-to-day normal stuff in their community, they'd be less likely to embrace extremism. 🤷🏻♀️
Yes. I would love to see a "50-state [podcast] strategy." Legit. Local news isn't dead, it's hibernating.
Opinion from Plain Dealer Editor: Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman is again showing his contempt for the Ohio constitution, as he continues his assault on the Board of Education, which voters created with a constitutional amendment in 1953. www.cleveland.com/open/2025/05...
Oooo a menage d’état
The Jedi Knights coming in right under UUs? haha
Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 rioters who injured more than 140 police officers in one of the biggest mass attacks on law enforcement in American history
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
No strings attached?? He's practically dangling from them at this point. What the FUCK is in the water at the NYT?!
Yes! THIS is a statement to embroider on a pillow!!
Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
This. Exactly this.
Calling him a "globalist." Wait until they find out what "catholic" means, if they ever do.
Someone should tell Dave Joyce! I know, I know, you'd have to shake him awake first. That office couch is pretty comfy.
at least some of what’s fueled “ai” is the assumption that anyone *should* be able to write professionally. It’s obviously not true, but the work seems easy when you don’t know what goes into it. It’s specific to writing—no one thinks it’s a problem that they’re not getting a tryout for the Mets!
This captured so much of how I'm feeling at the moment: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Me, too. Thank you for sharing it.
Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
Plausible deniability except it's not plausible