They keep calling it a war in Gaza. When casualties are mainly civilians, medics, and journalists, it's not war. USA should not be funding genocide. I support Israel and Palestine, but criminal regimes must go.
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They keep calling it a war in Gaza. When casualties are mainly civilians, medics, and journalists, it's not war. USA should not be funding genocide. I support Israel and Palestine, but criminal regimes must go.
Isn't that poster made from his mug shot?
I don't think anybody is dumb enough to attack the National Guard. Even heavily armed local drug lords and gangs. They know that would terminate their businesses.
Official racism in Dominican Republic, particularly against Haitian (dark skinned) immigrants, is well documented. Children born to Haitian parents in DR are not citizens of any country, for example.
He dropped out of school at 11 to sell eggs door to door, built it into a trucking company in Puerto Plata before becoming a Buffalo landlord and patriarch. Ignorant about current events and higher education, but not dumb, and not lazy about business. Just an example of the mindset we deal with.
A lot of people are just ignorant, because they only hear a few sanitized headlines from MSM. My Dominicano friend, a jeweler and property owner who speaks little English after 30 years in Buffalo, was surprised that I didn't vote for Trump. He thinks "they're just detaining the bad people."
I rode in my friend's Tesla SUV. It had a lever to open the door manually without using the electronic door lock. But opening the door manually required lowering the electric window an inch. So with no electricity you'd still be stuck in there. Idiotic design priorities.
The drive to get re-elected creates a built-in conflict of interest.
Sorry, I thought I was agreeing with your comment.
President Vance is a scary thought, and next in line of succession after him is Mike Johnson. We are so fecked.
The one in Buffalo was privately owned and operated. The city issued a mortgage and other incentives to enable the project.
That's pokeweed. Don't eat the berries.
Picking up road trash used to be done by people in rehab programs or work-release.
They're using woke to mean "aware about social injustices," which racists deem bad, because it's anti-racist. So the opposite of woke is "willfully ignorant."
Five painters and a supervisor for that? One Guatemalan painter would be miles ahead of them already.
The original idea of painting the fence black was so it would absorb solar heat and get too hot to climb. The MAGA geniuses didn't know that people climb the fence at night (or use ladders or ropes, or cut the slats with a rechargeable reciprocating saw).
They use DEI as a public euphemism for the ethnic pejoratives they use in private.
The term DEI has been co-opted by MAGA as a white supremacist dog whistle, and to criticize or eliminate highly qualified minority leaders and workers and replace them with mediocre or unqualified personnel who conform to their racist image.
He said he paid nothing for the shares, so not a purchase. More like a shakedown. "Nice business you have there, it'd be a shame if something was to happen to it." Intel is paying for protection (from competition, regulation, regime harassment).
Increasing the number of shares without adding capital divides the existing capitalization among a greaterer number of shares, hence theoretical value of each share is less, or "diluted."
Can Bolton sue for harassment or punitive or malicious enforcement?
nappy locks rock my world
Tourism was still a big industry in Washington DC in 2024. I'm curious to see what militarization will do to the numbers. Aggressive persecution of foreign visitors was already expected to harm the tourist industry.
Speaking with dead people can be dangerous. -King Saul
Tuberculosis was a rampant and lethal epidemic until pasteurization was mandated. E.coli and listeria are no joke either, and salmonella is a leading cause of death in infants and elderly worldwide. Pasteurizing milk prevents all of those!
She should be suing RFK Jr...
$1.25B ÷ 5k = $252,000 per detainee? Wouldn't it be good business to give them each a work visa and let them pay income taxes, rent, and sales tax? If some of them are actual criminals, the average U.S. cost of jail or prison is only $40k per year per inmate.
White supremacists importing more white supremacists.
Work release is not the same as work details outside the prison. In work details prisoners are assigned to do prison-related work outside the fence under supervision of correctional staff. In work release, prisoners sleep in prison but go to a regular job during the day.
If he's scared of carjackers, locking his car doors would make more sense than driving without a seat-belt.
Locking up the homeless will provide fodder for private prisons and concentration camps, which are very profitable for regime insiders.
So apparently the BOP considers Ghislaine Maxwell a "short timer." Her pardon is probably only held up until a moment when it won't cause too much backlash.
When I had a year left in Federal custody my security level was reduced from medium to "out custody." I had to leave my cushy job in the education department and be escorted outside the gate 5 days a week to work in the prison warehouse, unloading trucks, typing requisitions, and doing laundry.
Pediatricians have been recommending that kids get the HPV vaccine before age 12 for a long time.,. 60% of unvaxed adults have some form of HPV. The vaccine also protects from other HPV-related cancers in addition to cervical. I hope RFK Jr can't sabotage it's availability...
Very tacky. Cringeworthy.
If the Democratic lawmakers are in jail, there still won't be a quorum
I tried picking tomatoes in 1973. At 20 cents a bushel, the best pickers filled 100 baskets to make $20 a day (a bushel of plum tomatoes every 7 minutes for 12 hours). Minimum wage at that time was about $3/hr. I only lasted 2 days. Good luck getting Americans to do agricultural labor.
My fireman son tells me that cannabis legalization has caused a big drop in drunk driving incidents and opiate overdoses in his state.
So Trump was mad at Epstein for raiding his stable of underage Ivanka doubles, but Epstein remained his pal for 7 more years. Nobody knows yet if it was because Epstein had the goods on Trump, or just because Trump craved what Epstein had in trade.
Buena pronunciación mi hermano! Echa pa'lante!
Minimum security prisons are for non-violent inmates with short time left to serve, like months not years. So her pardon must be pending.
Amazing list of resources! It's in a google spreadsheet so it can be dynamically updated. So far I bookmarked the daily newsletter called "What the fuck just happened today?"
Alligator Auschwitz and the other concentration camp projects are a huge grift. The reported cost per inmate is 3 times the cost of existing brick-and-mortar jails and prisons.
So he definitely visited Pedophile Island multiple times.
Immunity would protect her from additional charges, and eliminate her right to plead the 5th. But to reduce or reverse her existing sentence would require re-sentencing or a pardon. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Usually immunity is contingent on full cooperation, and testifying to a grand jury. Failure to fully cooperate can cancel the immunity. But this interview is by Trump's crooked personal attorney, so probably contingent on protecting trump and his cronies.
I figured it was only a matter of time til Trump pardoned his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. She earned it by keeping her mouth shut.
You've confirmed my hopes. I hope he won't be able to drop the case before it gets to the discovery requirements.
I have boycotted LinkedIn from the beginning since I caught them forging emails in the names of members to fraudulently boost membership. When I was surprised to receive a personal LinkedIn invitation from a close friend, I called him to verify it. He knew nothing about it.
Malcolm X and MLK Jr. should still be alive today. I appreciate your contributions to the cause of justice. But I can't really imagine a scenario where we could overcome by armed resistance, unless the military joins in.
The Transportation Secretary's job is maintaining and upgrading public transportation, including the subway.
Grandmas are a main reason that humans advanced so far beyond other primates. Most primates have no menopause, so continue having babies indefinitely, hence don't become grandmas (repositories of knowledge & wisdom). [per Jared Diamond in the book "Why is Sex Fun: the evolution of human sexuality"]
The MAGA story that escapees from "Alligator Alcatraz" will be eaten by alligators and pythons is just hype. Children wait for their school bus 1,000 feet from the entrance.
"Rubber bullets" is a misnomer. They are typically steel coated with rubber. They're less lethal than lead bullets, but can still maim and kill, especially at close range.
Crooks have a twisted respect for each other.
This reminds me of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's purge of "pinheads." After a search of employee lockers to ascertain hat sizes, the 3 agents with the smallest hat sizes were fired.
Was this photo on a flight to Epstein's pedophile island?
They're just trying to obfuscate that Putin via Trump via Hegseth is quietly withholding military aid to Ukraine.
Most Federal inmates are already working in prison factories, maintenance, food service, etc. In the 1980's my own prison wages varied from $0.11 per hour in the kitchen to $1.10 per hour in a UNICOR factory (the highest pay grade at that time).
Amazon Prime is a scam that charges people to shop. I started boycotting Amazon years ago when I learned that Bezos was supporting Trump's first run.
Hegseth is another Russian asset. Willing to take the fall for his boss, Russian-asset-in-chief Trump.
Britain tried mixing government and religion in the 17th century, making Anglicanism the official religion. Other Christian sects were outlawed, preachers imprisoned. So what denomination will be in charge of US theocracy? Catholics? Baptists? Pentecostals? Methodists? (None agree on anything)
It sounds like the convict leasing of the Jim Crow era, where Black men were arrested for any reason or no reason, and leased out by county sheriffs to plantations and mines that had previously used slave labor.
It sounds pretty dumb too, politically. Like saying there are too many rescue workers.
Here in Buffalo, NY, I've learned to eat with my hands from neighbors from Iraq, Bangladesh, Liberia, etc.. Fufu is easy enough to manage, and rice dishes. But at a Somali Eid feast of spaghetti and various goat parts I wound up with spaghetti everywhere, even inside my shirt. But good!
The annual operating expenses were announced to be $450M per year for 3,000 inmates. That's $150,000 per year per head. More than 3 times the average cost of incarceration in a brick-and-mortar prison or jail in USA. That's a lotta grift.
Wait, didn't he deport all the "illegals" first, and now he's deporting legal immigrants and first-generation citizents? So how could there be "illegals" in the census?
A new political party started by a billionaire Nazi who brags about election interference? What could go wrong...
The cost is also staggering, $150k per year per detainee. That's more than triple the average cost of incarceration in an actual jail or prison (not a tent). Lots of room for grift.
How is it safe to deport people to Haiti while there is a complete breakdown of government and security. White nationalists are ratcheting up already-racist immigration policy, trying to make America whiter.
Ice agents already harass or assault anybody they want, with little fear of repercussions because they're anonymous and entitled. The historical parallels are horrifying.
It's just tents on the runway of the abandoned Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport. It's only 13 feet above "mean sea level." It may need to be evacuated sometimes during hurricane season.
By limiting potency of commercially available THC products they are limiting their usefulness, and driving people to make their own. It's impossible to regulate homemade concentrates like tinctures, extracts, hash, or infused oil.
The only way to really know what you're getting is to grow your own. And growing is good therapy in itself.
When I was in 4th grade in public school in Woodbridge, Connecticut in 1960, a Jewish student refused to pledge allegiance to the flag because it was against his family's beliefs. It was not a big deal, he was allowed to sit it out.
Hard to imagine that I agreed with Bannon twice in 2 months: Deport Musk. Investigate Fox as foreign agents.
They are just freaking because they were counting on the corruption of Cuomo or Adams, and they are pretty sure Mamdani won't play that game.
He always projects his crimes onto the opposition.
If course the fictional Gotham was largely patterned after NYC.
These cases would have been resolved a long time ago if Trump hadn't sabotaged comprehensive immigration reform.
I hope it's not in a shipping container on the way to NJ.
Failure to fight diseases overseas means they will hit us harder then they reach here. In the days of sail it took diseases months to spread between continents, now it takes days.
in an age of asymmetric warfare, Iran has a lot of options to strike back. It's probably not in their best interest to escalate the conflict though.
Leavitt sharing insider tips about running a totalitarian regime.
In USA we call that 36,000 feet, up there with the commercial jet traffic. This means greater range and better penetration of air defenses?
A government tracking device on everybody's wrist or forehead? Sounds apocalyptic. [see Revelation 14:9-10]
If they are able to eliminate Jasmine Crockett's district, she'll run for, and be elected to, a higher office.
Every B2 pilot has the president's cell phone #
I've seen 3 videos on this platform in the last week of brave civilians calling out "ICE agents" by telling them that they are not law enforcement officers if they can't identify themselves, and to get lost. In each case the "agents" turned tail and left. THESE ARE NOT FEDERAL OFFICERS! RESIST!
We don't actually know if they're federal employees or private militias or bounty hunters or impostors.
I thought lying to Congress was a crime. Can't Rep. Cassidy arrest him?
Rent slavery is an unfortunate feature of capitalism.
It did cross my mind that the missing Iranian enriched uranium could be in shipping containers in U.S. seaports right now.
It's pretty hard to identify the perpetrators when they're all masked. "Masked white males with beer bellies" is not much to go on.
I doubt that Hegseth can function at all in the morning until he's had a couple of drinks.
It's more important right now to probe the 2024 election.
Trump said he found a loophole to stay in power after his term is over: Somebody told him that a wartime president can't be voted out. It's not true in USA but he's trying anyway.
In other words, the enriched uranium stockpile was somewhere else. IAEA also announced that there was so far no sign of nuclear contamination.
The founding fathers were not all Christians, but they all remembered religious persecution of Christians by the official Anglican church in England, so they wrote into the Constitution that the government will have no say in religion (or lack thereof)
Iranian retaliation against USA didn't make the list. I hope they will not escalate the conflict. They are the underdog, but they are not powerless.