After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
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After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
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This dystopia looks way different than I'd expected
Half of all children died in Roman times. Half of all children died in Saxon times. Half of all children died under Good Queen Bess, and Farmer George, and even dear old Victoria. Until we learned to do modern medicine.
It is VIOLENCE. It is gleefully destructive. It is backpacks with inhalers, it is documents you need to apply for jobs, and most importantly it is the homes your most marginalized neighbors have pulled together from almost nothing. It is often the entirety of their possessions.
while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.
Thats also before we even get to the fact that Southern society was so infused with it and attached to it that even non slave holders were complicit.
I was fine but now I'm overwhelmed with nap envy
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
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Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
cuomo's campaign strategy, from what i can tell
Loni was in Black Sabbath?
Blessings on your ministry!
Andrewes, Taylor would be the other two I think
Accurate take by @laloalcaraz.bsky.social
I tried to write about it
how many times can i post "it's always the ones you most suspect" before you all kick me off this site
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
As usual, his points seem more calibrated to apologizing for conservatives than helping liberals
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Once again, will spend money imprisoning and harassing people without jomes when we could just GIVE THEM SHELTER
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
For my money, the Senate Democratic caucus seems to be one of the most serious foreseeable hurdles to any project of constitutional restoration. Not because of a pivotal member or two getting cold feet, but rather a pervasive sclerotic disbelief at what time it is.
"Why Black people don't call the police." And "Why cops make the murder rate go up." Part 1000. Award winning musician GloRilla's house was burglarized by home invaders who knew she would be performing at a concert. Police showed up and... searched her house for drugs...🤔 And charged her.🤡
If the future of education is teachers using AI to grade homework, that was prepared by students using AI, what exactly is being learned?
Also any teacher who uses this is just going to be training their replacements eventually.
As someone who just left education, i can 100 percent confirm this. Virtually everything done by for profit entities in school systems is about this.
Crazy that the President who was constantly sued and fined for discrimination in housing would do this
A lot of visitors, and seeing more kids, which is always good for the energy in Church!
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It’s sad how the same folks who taught us to sing, “Jesus loves the little children of the world” now choose silence when thousands of little children in Gaza are bombed and starved to death. They are precious in Jesus’ sight too.
really don't care if you disagree with me, i think constantly filming everything everywhere is bad, i think the widespread deployment of facial recognition is bad, i think the fact there are cameras everywhere inside of arenas & that increasingly you have to use your face to buy a hot dog is bad
He went to pedophile island with the other pedophiles committing sex crimes, but he was totally chaste and innocent including NOT reporting said sex crimes.
they will not stop at trans children. they want all children unable to refuse or escape their abuse
Lucy from Peanuts should be their mascot
If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.
Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
Homeland Security has all but stopped investigating child exploitation and human trafficking cases in order to shift resources to abducting nannies.
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
Niemöller was never the moral guide. He got the memo too late. Our job is to to understand that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING IS PRECIOUS and to act accordingly NOW
At this point, it’s basically impossible to tell conventional stories without being “woke” because we’ve reached the point where saying please and thank you and washing your hands after you wipe your ass is “woke.” Complete devolution to barbarism.
I've been working bivocationally for a while, but now I am shifting into full time ministry work. Very exciting times for me!
#booksky
Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”
Please believe me when I tell you: Double the fuck down on your spiritual practice now. You are going to need it. And no, that doesn't have to be a prayer-god thing. The thing that sustains and nourishes you. That makes you more alive to yourself, the world, others. More present. More:
In a new op-ed Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe writes: Churches like ours, protected by the First Amendment and practiced in galvanizing people of goodwill, may be some of the last institutions capable of resisting this administration’s overreach and recklessness. #Episcopal #tec ⚓️
Which is the main idea. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. 1. There's too much crime. We need more cops/jails! 2. We need to cut services to things that actually deter crime to fund cops/jails 3. Crime inevitably goes up because services are gone 4. There's too much crime! We need more cops/jails
And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.
The new ICE budget is $160 billion. The Marine corps budget is $57 billion. Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan. And here we are. heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man
Right when you thought you couldn't love a director more, you learn stuff like this.
they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know
“They blocked traffic outside the U.S. Capitol and prayed until they were arrested.”
It's really telling how much of the conversation around AI boils down to, "Is there any value in humans being able to think?"
A republican assassinated Democratic legislators two weeks ago. There have been 500 op-ed about “Zohran promoting intifada” since then.
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
You know what ? It’s actually fucking okay to let people be angry for a minute It’s not noble or inspired to force people to look forward immediately Especially is their sorrow sadness or tired comes from YEARS of you make deals to save your ass at their expense
Bringing this back because the problem with catching up on old bills...is the newer ones. Essentially, I've upped the goal to reflect about a month and a half of bills, which would get us to not behind. gofund.me/1eb4c013
The cities that payroll all the red states?
The answer here is malicious compliance. If parents also try to opt kids out of flag salute, military celebrations, copaganda, etc they'll have to try something else
I cant stop laughing at this
One thing I really think needs to be hammered into “libertarians” & other right wing freaks is the cost of helping other people is almost always less than the cost of not helping them. Because we live in a society & we are all connected & you are SO MUCH CLOSER to being sick and poor than you think!
Here's a cool idea. Hire a robot to train for sports for you. And then describe that training for you. Then you go play the sport. You'll lose, immediately, like a fucking clown, because you didn't actually train. This is that, with learning.
he's right and he's right to say it
This is beautiful. Children of Abraham represent, love for everyone!
all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat
Two Things: 1. This is an astounding victory for democratic socialism if it can translate to polls. 2. At this point we must view elements of the Democratic Party and establishment as a potentially antagonistic fascist apologists in thrall of capital. Yet again, we are in exceptional times.
Same, I'm encouraged for once
"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.
He hasn't built any viable successors because he can't tolerate anyone having attention and power other than him.
Also sneak peek thanks to Julie for helping me with graphics. I am collecting books for Bluestockings Bookstore and I am hoping that lots of people will help me meet my goal of 2500 gently used and new books by 9/1! If you want to organize your own book drive in your area, reach out.
I've been saying it for a while, but if this is allowed people will have no choice but to violently resist ICE. You can be under arrest in the USA or deported to a strange country, some will choose the former.
for 15 years or so, my entire post law school era, ive warned anyone that will listen that the constitution probably doesnt say what you assume it does, and that it needs to be completely thrown out because structurally it is an impending disaster, well its here now dawg, do you hear me now
Measles. It’s a wild story. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
This is like an I Think You Should Leave segment, where the person goes wildly down a seemingly improbable rabbit hole for a strange reason
The himbo skin pack?
On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then will I declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me, you evildoers." 🕯
It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column
CARTOON OF THE DAY… 🇺🇸
the 5% all work for legacy media outlets
“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
Pope Leo at Mass for Feast of Body and Blood of Christ: “In the face of the misery of many, the accumulation of wealth by a few is a sign of indifferent arrogance, which produces pain and injustice. Instead of sharing, opulence wastes the fruits of the earth and of human labor.”
I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck
Three months in jail for most Americans would mean losing your job, losing your apartment/home, and all your shit in a storage unit you'd have to not only come up with the back rent AND storage costs to redeem, but have only 3 more months to do so. It means losing everything.
It's great seeing everyone's tips for keeping cool. Here's mine. i) Take a trip to the mountains. ii) Spend some time in a cooling cave. iii) Find an underground lake. iv) Get undressed. v) Hunt the silvery fish and eat them raw. vi) Forget the torments of the evil face in the sky.
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
It’s time for a major shift toward thinking about preserving knowledge in hard copy for the Canticle For Leibowitz -scale long term, before this guy turns all our accounts digital information into self-reinforcing White Genocide propaganda. Buy books, is what I’m saying.
I am sharing this rant that the great @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social posted elsewhere, as it should be read far and wide:
I'll say it over and over. I do not believe in gate keeping. I do not believe in pulling up the ladder. I believe in kicking the wall down like the Kool-Aid man, and making room as I go for those who come next. Just because it was hard for me, doesn't mean it has to be hard for anyone else.
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 ![Engels on 'Social Murder' When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2jtg3q5qxrf6zwcnlrhjmgm/bafkreiheiipjqdhlty3vc4tmw26kgcd2io254qjcbo7m4qxlwjslwjrfsq@jpeg "Click to view full size")