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The military isn’t law enforcement in the US. Full. Stop.
Men are allowed so much space to be self-centered that some of us really can't see how much weight we expect our partners to carry. "It's hard being a Black man." Absolutely. And not only do Black women have it hard TOO, but you expect them to give you grace you don't reciprocate.
And I thought “Meth. We’re on it.” would be the most ridiculous thing I would hear her say. I was sooooo wrong.
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
Being on social media is fine but if it’s getting in the way of you doing deep reading and deep thinking, then your balance of how you spend your time is off Lots of interesting threads here and none of them are a substitute for reading a good book or essay
So his daddy was the real menace…
Shout out to PuTTY…providing SSH/SFTP (and other needed PKI — such as key generation) for Windows peeps for years. Sure, Windows Terminal does that now via OpenSSH but what about before?
It’s “there a God somewhere” and…there’s a Gawd-ah somewhere-ah
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Population Concentration of Egypt More maps: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...
Someone recently pointed out that a huge portion of those who die from measles without vaccination are in fact those with other conditions. That is actually the goal of RFK Jr. It's a cull.
This was more about the city than it was about him… …effing brilliant.
Whenever it is actually happening, we're not going to know what to believe, because they've been lying to us constantly for years
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Caribbean Matters: The unelected 'junta' controlling Puerto Rico's economy www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
@LePapillonBlu2 Maya We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills. This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
Yup. Shit’s messed up and we need to find joy where we can. Later for those cats. The problems are still going to problem but that joy is a way to recharge so we can deal with that ish.
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
Pure, unmitigated rage coursing through my body over a call in a game I have zero investment in…football officially back 😍
An appropriate picture, witty text and an application to put them together is all you really need for some good memery. What is funny is that they think they will be immune from this shit going sideways. They won’t.
They dead ass “It’s okay to destroy the water table and poison Black neighborhoods for mid shit posting” We ain’t never getting free
Orange Caturday in full effect I see
Agreed. Some of this ish I can do…some of it, not so much.
not having easy access to Guys has forced me to become a tiny plumbing Guy, light electrical Guy, CAD and 3D printing Guy, computer and networking Guy, garden Guy, and Guy who has a bunch of random tools. I am ready to take my place in the Guy Economy
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
NEVER FORGET: The GOP Congress lack of interest in the breach of actual science at the CDC has made it CLEAR: they don’t care if we live or die.
The Bondi family business. Charges dropped…for those with the right connections.
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Which countries are the main producers of automobiles from 1900 to 2024? Interesting, in particular when you take into account the differences in sizes of these countries ... France hat quite a run in the 30ies. Screen capture from Stats Media youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXD...
Lindsay Graham thinks DC "is the most dangerous place on earth" because for him it is. Those in Dupont Circle who signed NDA's laugh about his many "private" birth marks. (he calls them his "love ants".) He lives in fear of exposure so yes, for Graham, DC is in fact the most dangerous place on earth
I expect wrong answers from dude but damn! Blowing it this bad takes practice…
Healthy my ass…
This.
Memphis residents had no input into the opening of Musk’s supercomputer facility, with some local officials learning about its arrival from the news. As a private business, xAI had no obligation to seek public feedback, the Chamber of Commerce said.
Oversight Dems raised the alarm on Lewandowski’s potentially-illegal control over Homeland Security last week. Now, there are new reports that he’s creating bottlenecks, which could put American lives at risk.
Heroes come in all kinds…some of them hit cops in the chest.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
As much as I love fresh berries and apples something about orchards/u-pik be feeling mad slavery-ish. Like im not about to be out there pickin’ for massa and aesthetic Instagram pictures. I’ll buy a bushel, some quarts, maybe even some cider but dassit. Respect to the ag workers but ive got trauma
I had chicken pox…those folks better run me my damn shingles vax next year!
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... What in the janky ass….
🗣️YOU NEED TO CARE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IT IS A PATTERN. HE'S GUTTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF BLACK LEADERS BUT THOSE BLACK LEADERS OVERSEE PARTS OF THE GOVERNMENT THAT AFFECT YOUR DAY TO DAY. #blacksky #econsky
Does the Fed have security? They should be protecting her from this illegal ass power grab…or at least try.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
It’s aight but nothing special.
He picked the Black woman because of course he did.
In case it is not crystal clear: THIS IS AUTHORITARIANISM.
Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles seems to have been just the start of an authoritarian takeover of American cities. This is not leadership. This is a scary, unlawful grab for power, and we should all be deeply concerned.
TIL Clemens is a .pdf
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
A conservative New Yorker analysis finds that Trump and his family have made at least $3.4 billion off his presidency, with the vast majority of that coming over the seven months of his second term. Most comes from crypto, including schemes that let people essentially just give him money.
Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
Let me get this straight. Maxwell spent days meeting with the Justice Department and didn't implicate anyone. But she got moved to a minimum security prison anyway. So, what exactly was she rewarded for? This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
genuinely difficult for me to get into the headspace of someone so insanely narcissistic that their response to criticism and dislike is to say "everyone who disagrees with me isn't an actual human being."
Not listening to Black women is going to be the reason America collapses. That is all.
And an infectious laugh and a real marriage and no felonies…
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Ghislane Maxwell didn’t just “betray” those girls. She wasn’t found guilty of extreme not girls’ girling. She sexually assaulted them too.
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
The issue isn’t that Maxwell lied throughout her entire proffer. She has been lying, deceiving and manipulating people her entire life. I expect it from her. The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
That’s part of why I didn’t mess with them too too heavy for a while. They gave some messy folks some oxygen.
i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo
#books are awesome.
“Ma, they’re using faux concern for the kids to infringe on free speech again!”
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Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
JD Vance on homelessness: "I don't know why we accepted that it was reasonable to have crazy people yelling at our kids. You should not have to cross the street in downtown Atlanta to avoid a crazy person yelling at your family. Those are your streets."
The Trump Administration has eliminated health care and food assistance for our families; unlawfully cancelled grants for our schools and roads; slashed funding for our universities, hospitals, and research institutions; and deployed military personnel to occupy the streets of American cities.
Today's the day. 406 years ago today, when a Dutch ship called the White Lion brought some "twenty and odd Negroes" who they'd captured from a Portuguese ship to the shores of Virginia. One year before the Mayflower, Black history continued on American soil
Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate. Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?
When they try to steal my joy… youtu.be/5JW9YeDaPo0?...
decades, generations, centuries... Our joy in the face of oppression is the thing that burns them up
Target could make Tabitha Brown the CEO and we’d still shrug and shop elsewhere. It’s over for them.
True but you know what…we will have our joy, dammit!
PBS / NPR are qwhite hwhite. I’m in agreement there. That doesn’t make Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers or 3-2-1 Contact or The Electric Company any less educational. Also, Sesame Street was never going to solve housing segregation which existed and was encoded into law before it hit the air.
The fact Nicole Collier isn’t a trending topic on this site and big brother is….
youtu.be/0FsP2F-pz28?...
So the Home Stenographer in glasses form…nah, I’m good.
Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery. Its roots come from Texas. Someone needs to remind those idiots giving TX Rep. Collier crap that slavery is indeed over.
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
“I want to try to get to heaven, if possible." Amid starvation imposed by Israel on Gaza and deadly bombings in Ukraine, Trump's narcissism is reaching a crescendo as he seeks to convince the public that peace is within grasping reach because he specifically stepped in.
Turns out most Americans (70%) believe US universities should be receiving previous levels of funding - or even more! - to advance scientific research.
If you use "A.i." to summarize something you haven't read, you have no fucking idea if it's fucking things up. And guess what: it is.
I’m glad Snyder’s gone so I can root for dude. Y’all have had a lot of players I appreciate over the years (Darrell Green, London Fletcher, Doug Williams, Sean Taylor RIP, Clinton Portis) but that name and that owner…yikes. That’s not on y’all fans though.
Dumbass’ tariffs have been invalidated m by an international trade court because they were illegal. Too bad the damage has already been done. Trade relations in ruins.
All of the people bitching and moaning that Harris didn’t adequately address “working class issues” during her campaign now happily overlook that MAGA was really upset about the price of eggs then but now doesn’t give a shit, so maybe the problem was the misogyny and racism.
He is a fictional character. That’s the best we are going to get.
He even sang a song about it…. youtu.be/rxgWHzMvXOY?...
Somewhere Louis Pasteur is saying (in French, of course): “is this what I did all of this mf’in science for?!”
For Oscar, yes.
I live 45 minutes from Kent State so I worry about there being a repeat…especially with our evil federal leadership and feckless state leadership.
“Out of the heavens/August 1-7/Sixty-nine/Born I Wonda Why/With the thoughts to rhyme” Wonce Again Long Island -De La Soul
Life comes at you fast