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Stupid and powerful is the most dangerous.
Along those lines, does anyone know where the crime data in DC coming from? Thereās apparently like a huge drop in auto theft and violent crime according to the admin and the mayor has agreed butā¦ Iām skeptical.
I worry about a few things right now w/this: 1) whatever is happening with trumps health potentially shielding him from accountability 2) 3 days until this press conference is a long time. They should have 24/7 protection. 3) some intentional escalatory distraction w/the guard in DC or elsewhere
1000%. And data centers, AI compute ops, & crypto mining should be required pay more AND fund renewables that sustain some majority percentage of their ops or be shut down.
I really hope Ensign was truthful and aware of the facts when he said no planes had left or if they had they turned around.
I get there are likely many reasons a waiver could exist (including something like a wrongful conviction or pending court action) but the fact that a sex offender waiver is being used on someone like Maxwell is absolutely abhorrent
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If we canāt detect it it doesnāt exist! ššš ā¦ so much greatnessā¦
Iām also now questioning it furtherā¦ rendering aide could imply some type of physical interaction. Is this to get ahead of something? Is your DNA on this other person and you just lost in some fight? This is weird.
100%. My take was perhaps an āescortā was in the car with him and was also injured? The detail seems completely irrelevant other than cover for something.
I feel like the whole āstopped to render aide for a domestic abuse victimā is cover for āhad a prostitute in his car at the time of the accident who was also injuredāā¦ like it doesnāt really make sense why they included that in the release.
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Cheap AND incompetent. Not a good look.
Absolutely insane and just so below any type of decent and humane treatment of these kids. Is there a way to place a department under like court control and supervision because of incompetence or defiance? Like a receivership type thing? š¤¬
ā¦ her removal. At what point is the entire department put under the control of someone else due to the sheer incompetence and total lack of transparency? Like can a government department be placed under some type of custodial order and how? The shit theyāre trying to get away with is insane.
Wow. Thank you @annabower.bsky.social for sharing this. This should be required reading for every American still questioning the fuckery this administration is doing behind the scenes. This is appalling. When is Barbie Noem getting dragged in front of the court? This should be grounds forā¦
I hate to be a mean gayā¦ but I get why he wears mascara nowā¦ thatās a tough look to have to gussy up to a VP level
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ā¦The āhanding off of responsibility to a deityā isnāt part of prayer, itās part of spinelessness, stupidity, and immorality.
Iām an atheist but to me prayer itself isnāt problematic. Itās ok to wish and hope and dream of something better. But prayer followed by inaction or followed by contradictory action is whatās evil here, like sending thoughts and prayers to school shooting victims then voting for wins for the NRAā¦
I canāt in good faith argue that fighting a rat with a Californian would even be a fightā¦ in my experience, the interaction would be a simple ārun awayā moment to avoid the fight altogether. But on the weed front a/ a Californianā¦ donāt plan to do much of anything after.
Youāre not nit picky. This is just not good. And makes my little designer heart sad. š
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialās @mizzwelch.bsky.social
I think this way about AI: There is no benefit to AI worth the ecological destruction, educational disruption, job losses, & reduction in human talent/knowledge it brings with it. Limit AI to scientific research & throw the trillions of dollars @ clean water, repopulating bees, and replanting trees.
A great thread with a practical path forward on the RFK front. We need more people on the left channeling the collective freak out energy into this type of response, planning, and brainstorming.
Chad @unitediparty.bsky.social was looking into this and I think may have gotten a start!
Itās always been one side reflecting in good faith and the other having zero reflection or self awareness and not caring about eitherā¦ at least for the past decade.
@drjessicaknurick.bsky.social ran across your videos on Facebook and so glad I found you here as well! I really appreciate your super clear breakdowns and responses to so much of what is going on. How do we get you a regular spot on @maddow.msnbc.com? Thank you!!! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Ah man! We needed this when subway Sam hit the ICE officer š
Letās be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no senseāitās not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
When youāve lost Ammon Bundyā¦
It definitely feels like weāre prepositioning troops under the guise of ālaw enforcementā for some strategic advantage purposeā¦
Iām not banking on this but I agree that some nationally centralized dictatorship is unlikely to succeed. I do, however, think states and localities have immense power to make peopleās day to day lives miserable and think weāre gonna see a lot of variable responses on that front.
I wonder who was in charge at the time? Dem president or state leadership possibly? Otherwise yeahā¦ it seems a weird thing to release given their current initiatives with the Smithsonian
It seems really easy to just find these roaming pods of ice & hsi new hires. What an insane fucking waste of resources.
Absolutely fascinating that we will spend trillions of dollars developing and sustaining this AI mess to find new discoveries and spark creativity when for much less we could just educate PEOPLE, give them food, shelter, & time to exist, and make everyoneās lives infinitely more enjoyable.
š„ STEWART: āThis is the lie they tell you ā that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefitā¦. That government intervention for corporations is our āFREE MARKETā, but government intervention for workers is āSOCIALISMā.
It is somewhat clarifying that in this moment a good portion of the Dems are treating this like a marketing campaign for fucking cheese balls. Instead of finding an authentic voice to unite behind theyāre censoring themselves based on focus groups. š© thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Ooo... I think I got her to block me. That was fun :) lol.
Sadly, today I found out that you are obnoxious and extremely unreasonable. Keep that attitude up of dismissing peoples concerns and youāll have ZERO rights. Apparently you think the way to save democracy is to compromise on the rights of the most vulnerable. Your perspective is really pretty gross.
I somehow ended up following them probably from a āstarterā pack or something. No longer following but I am curious to see if they change their position (pretty sure that will be a no But š¤·āāļø). Extremely jarring how quickly the trans hate gets spewed or maybe I just wasnāt paying attention. Yuck..
These things really impact people. That you think itās all about sports tells everyone here that you really have no idea what issues the community faces day after day. Your oversimplification and dismissiveness is evidence of your lack of giving enough fucks to even attempt to understand. Try harder
Newsom has ample opportunities to support the trans community and he repeatedly shows a stance of opposition, even on days like to day where he merely had to not āvetoā a law both the state assembly and senate passed. bsky.app/profile/secr... ā¦
And this encapsulates all the reasons I still consider newsom a shitbag. Happy to see him fight back for California against trumps bullshit, but this reeks of a long term defensive move for a presidential run, so no conservatives can say āhe votedā for trans rights.
ā¦ GOP needs to be abolished along with all things MAGA. If conservatives want power in any way moving forward they need to create a new party that has actual ethics and isnāt so easily dismantled by a reality tv star as a last grasp attempt at maintaining their minority control over the country.
Iām very happy about the progress in this & hope this effort leads to a full closing (and documentation/investigation into abuses that occurred here) we have a bigger problem given the shut down is the result of an environmental lawsuit and not simply human decency. The ā¦
@rbreich.bsky.social absolutely loved your Fresh Air interview on the book and have enjoyed seeing you pop up on all my favorite shows to promote the book. Iāve always appreciated your insight and perspective but right now it feels appropriate and important to amplify. ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Red states rely on the money from Blue states to function. This can all be over the second Democratic governors actually wield their power.
Iām not rooting for trinity-broadcasting-network but Iām REALLY not rooting for dr. Phil. Theyāre both fucking frauds.
What in the shell-optional snapper sex-party Turtle freakoff? ā¦ lol Think they know Diddy?
My random TOTD: one of the great failures of US led R&D in capitalism is the sheer amount of technologies our government (+our tax $$$) has paid for & developed that are then sold back to us at insanely inflated rates, while in other countries it simply benefits everyday people.
Not sure all the details of the convo & donāt wanna wade into a fightā¦ just sharing that Israeli citizens must serve in IDF so most are former mil by default. I believe for some there is also compulsory reserve service. Itās not necessarily like the US where you make a conscience choice to join.
What is so incredibly short sighted is by taking up the fight on part of the pro-business, anti-labor side they are just reawakening the much more populated labor movement to give a fuck like our great grandparents did when they fought for a fucking weekend. This never ends well for the oligarchs.
LAPD is clearly broken, but to hear it from them, their union, and the LASD the problem is our āliberalā run city and state. Looks like they need to clean up their own house and stop bankrupting the taxpayers.
The only logic behind the tariffs that makes sense to me: create a massive slush fund of unallocated $$$ for Trump initiatives / personal piggy bank. Control the $$$ mechanics with DOGE. Accumulate tons of new $$$ with tariffs. None of it is or was intended to benefit you and me.
The only logic behind the tariffs that makes sense to me: create a massive slush fund of unallocated $$$ for Trump initiatives / personal piggy bank. Control the $$$ mechanics with DOGE. Accumulate tons of new $$$ with tariffs. None of it is or was intended to benefit you and me.
The only logic behind the tariffs that makes sense to me: create a massive slush fund of unallocated $$$ for Trump initiatives / personal piggy bank. Control the $$$ mechanics with DOGE. Accumulate tons of new $$$ with tariffs. None of it is or was intended to benefit you and me.
The only logic behind the tariffs that makes sense to me: create a massive slush fund of unallocated $$$ for Trump initiatives / personal piggy bank. Control the $$$ mechanics with DOGE. Accumulate tons of new $$$ with tariffs. None of it is or was intended to benefit you and me.
Wonderful! Iām sure their manipulated republican alternative dataset of facts and stats can prove it as well.
šÆā¦ I think Hilary, among many others, called this out almost a decade ago from information from US intelligence agenciesā¦š
I have a feeling (I hope this is true) the ultra-wealthy and political elite are coming to understand that the vast majority of people tolerate them, we are not beholden to them. The anger in some of these town halls is palpable and very real & that pot will eventually boil over w/o real change.
There have got to be governments across the world advising citizens NOT to travel to the US right now.
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I think for some here the examples you mention are to some level abstract. They are āover thereā & we have a clearer pictures of whatās right and wrong. The view here of ourselves is very intentionally muddied and overly nuanced by powerful groups making seeing right / wrong feel almost impossible.
There is little to no line between āallowed toā and (professionally) ārequired toā in this headline when talking about cooperation between LEAs. Is an officer who is āallowedā to share information but chooses not to obstructing the law? Hindering an investigation? This is gonna create problems
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Gross and disappointing but not surprising
Itās interesting: in my mind itās not something that is inherently problematic. In a healthy system, diversity of opinion & ideas helps identify blind spots or weaknesses in proposed policy and law. It becomes a problem when itās treated as disunity to eradicate instead of differences to resolve.
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In case you missed it, hereās the fuck that flipped around and sprayed the guy filming before letting the other agents tackle and handcuff the guy. Not sure what happened before hand, but he clearly wasnāt perceived as a threat if they were walking away with their backs turned.
ššš Itās not the show of strength republicans think it is and those opposed to this administration shouldnāt help him by buying that narrative. Itās šÆ desperation. Letās laugh at it like everything else theyāre doing so poorly.
I wonāt pretend to love gavin Newsom or always agree with his approach or politics. I mostly hate his podcast but listen to it anyway. I DO very much appreciate his standing up and leading the way to fight. Everyone against this admin need to take notes and start bringing this vibe to the table.
I feel like this era of the āwe donāt need to explain ourselvesā decisions from the court will be looked back on as a big turning point. I know these arenāt necessarily brand new but it feels like the frequency and the ābecause I said soā vibe is not gonna age well in history.
Can we start some new trend of throwing baguettes and sandwiches at things we disagree with? Like when Trump shows up to a sporting event? Thousands of bagettes get thrown. (ā¦if you care to say this is impractical just let me dream pleaseā¦.)
behavior to supply a highly untrained new slew of ālaw enforcementā officers in private systems with zero transparency in to how or why data was collected or accountability for when they get some criminal prediction wrong. ā¦ š ā¦ weāve got some work to do
data like statistics are being removed or openly manipulated for political purposes which will only create more āvibesā based decision making in the future. At the same time you have Palantir and a whole army of surveillance data companies aiming to profit of detecting āsuspiciousā predictiveā¦
Whatās absolutely infuriating and so dangerous in this moment is the mechanisms and tools we use to accurately track and record stats, like crime data, are teams of people this admin has been intent on dismantling, demoting, firing, or reassigning. Much like the changes to the BLS, objectiveā¦
I get that weāve always thought way higher of ourselves as a nation than most of the world views usā¦ but this is just so far beneath any office at the national level. What an embarrassmentā¦
Tom Homan would sooo empathize with these guys. Old clip butā¦ seems relevantā¦
I would be shocked if he wasnāt part or formerly part of some police force somewhere in the country.
Wellā¦ I found where our tariff tax dollars are going
Thatās it. Ya Nailed it. lol. Bottom lineā¦ Alaska is on the table. Anything is for that matter.
Itās kinda the forever Trump playbook though, eh? Always always always delay everything forever when the facts are annoyingly unhelpful
Happening today. 5pm march from Placita Olvera to the DTLA federal detention center. Come support if youāre in the area.
Feels like a Freudian slip to me. Maybe heās already exchanged Alaska for peace in Ukraine? Idk.š¤·āāļø nothing would surprise me at this point.
Fascism is here. We are not āgetting closerā or āin danger of.ā This matters because it frames our discussion: We arenāt trying to prevent it, weāre trying to defeat it. Itās not taking over our institutions, itās taken them over. Otherwise, weāre always behind, fighting a past weāve already lost.
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Heyā¦ thatās an expensive pun right there. š
No notes in this part though: š āTeeny weeny mushroom cock piece of shit cankles mctaco titsā referring to Trump
I think a lot of people didnāt take the conservative Christian authoritarian movement seriouslyā¦ but theyāve been there growing, flying under the political radar, producing good little Christian homeschooled bigots for 50 years. like Madison Cawthorne. Watch Happy Shiny People. It explains a lot.
implement whatever they think is fit. They canāt change others, but they can change the national legal context with which others have to live. Happy Shiny People (mostly season 2) does a great job of breaking down the current groundswell of āwell-meaningā Christian authoritarianism.
Iām also an atheist. But raised fundamentalist Baptist. The danger here is not that heāll change peoples minds like ours. The danger is him and his ideas are being elevated by the most powerful people in the country indicating that they subscribe to this kind of thinking. And those people could ā¦
Interesting. Does anyone know how this turned out? encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Testing the waters? Trying to get a lawsuit so it can work its way to SCOTUS? Desensitizing Americans? All of the above?
Now finish you 3way and go get some Graeters Ice Cream
At some point soon weāre going to have to stop dropping the āwould-beā ā¦ I think he is fast becoming just a plain vanilla tyrant.