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Historian here Happy Labor Day to those who claim to believe in American exceptionalism: you donβt believe in a constitutional democracy, the rule of law, civic nationalism beyond ethnicity, a prosperous healthy educated middle class and scientific progress that made the US the envy of the world!
Ooh, did the parents go into "executive session" at the end?
Has anyone checked the roof yet? Maybe he got stuck up there.
I've been rooting for stroke live on stage since midway thru '24.
Russian TV would cancel normal broadcasting to play "Swan Lake" during times of political crisis.
Greedy. Who needs two kidneys?
Thanks for this, always good to have certainty.
With anyone else, I'd say, "Jesus, Elon, just say the 14 words already," but at this point, I honestly can't remember if he has or not?
"We all know how it went down with Britney Spears" is a masterpiece of journalistic cowardice. Yes, we do all know she was relentlessly harassed by the press, treated horribly by her boyfriend, and her family took advantage of her mental health and institutional misogyny to steal her agency & $.
"Doesn't even have a wife. Poor, deluded Joe."
Don't volunteer us as tribute. Maybe a deranged ally cat could adopt him and they could yowl at each other.
Lol at comparing their customer base to people who use Google and Facebook, two websites that have notoriously been toiling for several decades now to find some way to monetize their services, which users continue to resist and thus the only viable revenue stream they have is "ads."
State of DC: ICE and MPD are starving out Mt Pleasant community members - people are too scared to come to the weekly neighborhood Catholic Charities food distribution. Traitors to the city they swear to protect.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administrationβs failures.
New: Lizelle Gonzalez is suing officials who wrongly charged her with murder for an abortionβand depositions with investigators show that, if given the chance, they would handle future cases the same way Police and sheriffs have so much power to ruin peopleβs lives by manipulating the legal process
ICEstapo was kidnapping folks off the street in Columbia Heights today, 14th and Park NW or thereabouts. You could also visit the site of the Historic Big Balls Teenaged Ass Kicking on 16th & U while you're up there.
There's no dignified way for Democrats to participate in a process where their negotiating partners insist on the right to cheat and steal. And, in a bigger picture sense, there's probably no way at this point to build a working democracy through normal politics. www.offmessage.net/p/gut-check-...
But this is how Trump opens the gate to broader excesses. Stop conceding his claims of emergency without pushing, probing, demanding, and relentlessly challenging the premise of his power.
we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid
i will die on the hill that the original Nazis were just as silly as our modern versions. Hitler based his plans for the invasion of Russia partly on cowboy novels written by a con-man.
I'm born and raised American, spent several years in a post-Soviet kleptocracy. I've been explaining to everyone I meet that they have no earthly idea how far we've got to fall, even now. It is a long, long, long way down.
Cherry picking one study that, as @cmkisicki.bsky.social mentions, only says zoning reform is not a silver bullet, is unserious and not interesting You know what is interesting? Portland's middle housing reform that produced nearly 1500 units in only 3 years. Avg sales price 250k less (!) than SFH
This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America. Congress must act now. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if youβd like to callβ¦ HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775 HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000 PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well. NONE of this is okay. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Protesters in NYC blocked the street in front of 26 Federal Plazaβwhere ICE is inhumanely kidnapping and detaining peopleβto demand their release. Refusing to budge until people were released, more than a dozen protesters were arrested by the NYPD while they screamed, βLet them go, or we stay too!β
I hope all their marriages fail and all their mistresses become friends and form a polycule coven of satisfied harridans and all their paychecks are garnished for child support hence forth forevermore. Ramen.
BAYONETS!
Also, FFS. Get out of my mentions with your AI defenses. I am talking about literature in my magazine. Not about cancer research or whatever the fuck you are twisting into a justifcation about using programs trained on stolen art and writing to make crappy stories to flood my submission portal.
Oh no, it definitely did not and does not make me in any way cool. I know what I am.
Huh. I'm also a suburban-raised 90s teen, and I feel like we've been hurtling towards this for my entire lifetime. Course, I was one of those 90s teens who had a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook, so.
Guess the "Become Elon Musk's 15th Baby Mama" Plan isn't working out then?
You know *exactly* what happened, you have the logs. We can all see it was a deliberate act to remove those specific passages, because that material was stripped from multiple pages. You have just confirmed that you are craven cowards, in addition to being followers of illegal fascist orders.
$3.29 in suburban MD, has been for months.
Yeah, this is basic IR theory, has been for 80 years. It's called the nuclear umbrella, they teach it in undergrad.
bigballz can't own the libs. He can't even own a teenager.
Lying for the regime is a bad look.
This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. Thatβs not enforcement. Thatβs racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
I could do this for every decade. 1880s "Sausage curls and tight lacing, so ugly!" 1920s "Bob and bangs are evidence women are insane!" 1930s "Ugh, who even *cares* about fashion, let's rob the banks and shoot anyone who tries to foreclose on my mortgage!" Okay, the 1930s kinda slapped.
"Remember macramΓ© and shag carpets? Weren't they dumb and ugly? Kitchens with matching appliances in "avocado" or "sunrise mustard", what was that about? Why does my toilet need to be a color other than white? Why does it have to have a rug on top?" That's what this dude sounds like.
Oh, he knows the law. He and the rest of the regime all know the law. They hope if they lie about it often enough and loud enough, they won't have to follow the law. These people aren't ignorant. They are malicious liars.
I've managed to find a great neighborhood with lots of kids my kid's age and they have a roving bicycle gang thing going on, they hang out by a creek and throw rocks in it, swing sticks around, all kinds of stuff. We are very lucky.
Fake, fake, fake: www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.
Increasingly understanding "energy dominance" to mean energy authoritarianism. Rooftop and community solar helps democratize energy production, putting money in consumer pockets instead of centralized utilities. Illegally cutting these grants disempowers lower-income communities, in every sense.
Bringing a knife to the fight is step 1. Step 2 is being willing to actually stab someone. They are still workshopping that part.
Happy Montgomery Riverfront Brawl Day to all who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYaC...
He's presidenting from the roof today. Has been a for a few hours now.
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
The MAGAt project is at base re-segregation project. They are having limited success because there are still a lot of white people who believe in segregation. And hell, I'll go there: plenty of wealthy non-white people also believe in it, they just have a slightly different vision.
Dunno about UK bureaucrats, but US ones are subject to FOIA requests at any given time, so the instinct and training is not to put anything remotely inflammatory or petty in writing unless you are at the end of your career and DGAF.
Make no mistake: Trump's big ugly bill is designed to take from the poor and give to the rich. But this law is going to impact everyone. You can't cut over a trillion from Medicaid and SNAP and not seen an impact to communitiesβfrom grocery stores to hospitals.
Bove is genuinely still on the hook for possible criminal contempt charges. Which, if the DC Circuit ever gets off its ass and does something about its "administrative" stay (since APRIL), may require him to testify under oath, despite being a judge. Unprecedented situation.
Opinion | Critics say Trump is politicizing independent agencies. Hereβs why thatβs a good thing. by Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh
The Republican controlled Senate just destroyed our judicial system and gave the πto the rule of law. Every single R Senator must never be reelected to any office in this country, let alone the U.S. Senate. They lack the morals and ethics to serve. May they all rot in hell.
Bootlickers. How's it taste? Like freedom?
Feds illegally impound UNC's grants/federal funding, UNC sues, the whole thing ends up in court (but not as a class action, thanks SCOTUS!) and in a year and a half some funding is restored. Faster track if they choose the Columbia route and just roll over, but the funding will still be curtailed.
Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.
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The man exercising the powers of the presidency is a convicted felon and a probable pedophile (these two facts somehow unrelated???), and heβs picking up beloved pastors with no criminal record to deport. Itβs fucking sick.
Because they see children and women as property for them to use and abuse as suits them. They are the top of the hierarchy pyramid as defined by their god, and their theology states that exploitation of those below them on the pyramid is piety. This is the core belief of christian patriarchy.
With federal civil rights protections in flux, Maryland has released a clear and accessible guide to help residents understand and defend their rights.
It's not at all alarmist to expect that the new network of detention centers will be used to confine unhoused peopleβand to extract free labor from them. Everything in this executive order points in that direction.
I've worked in homeless outreach for nearly a decade. Everything in that EO is the exact opposite of best practices in the field. Housing First is the standard in the field, as prioritized by HUD. Here's research on it, also from HUD: archives.huduser.gov/portal/perio...
βI was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didnβt give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
Only (*cough* former) college professor I can think of who goes about wearing ironic suits is Jordan "Lobster" Peterson.
Yeah. It's abjectly horrible. It states homeless people are mentally ill addicts who are "sexually dangerous" (yes, really), demands that federal grantees (which is a huge number of providers, plus every state and city) abandon Housing First principals. Urges widespread civil committment.
Trump 47 really is more efficient, it took him over three years to get a moment like that with Fauci.
I work in social services, and my only response to this is: FUCK.
Western MD counties, where the floods happened, went 60-70% for Trump in 2024. State reps for the two counties in question, Allegany and Garret, wrote a letter to the gov of WV a few years back asking to be freed from their blue state prison to join the bucolic red state paradise.
The fear is, I think, is that there's nothing rational here to argue withβthat whether or not ICE detention is making anyone wealthy, we will continue to lock more and more people up, and the motivation is not complicated: it's punitive.
Just as perceived "modern" conditions like allergies and autism have always existed, we have been ever thus. The internet just makes picking bitter fights with passionate randos and indolent trolls over stupid bullshit more efficient.
WATCH: βThe current system is broken. Indiscriminate raids are tearing families apart and punishing hardworking people.β 1 of 3 marine sons of a landscaper viciously beaten by ICE testifies before Congress.
Don't forget his was a union-busting scab, cause Jesse Ventura sure hasn't.
No, what's missing is the Strom-Thurman-esque hidden mixed-race child, except with usual Trump extravagance he'll have 12 of them, and 6 will be currently imprisoned by DHS because their mothers were undocumented.
Those imprisoned by the Trump admin in El Salvador without due process "felt dead." A hunger strike was put down with rubber bullets and pellet guns. They were never allowed outside in four months. When they asked for lawyers, guards would say "that word doesn't exist here."
The 1994 movie did not disappoint, but then again, I knew what I was getting with that one.
Of course no one is issuing actual instructions. "We have no guidance from agency leadership on implementation" is a sentence I've heard from federal workers at multiple agencies, so that tracks. The regime hacks won't put any of their illegal orders in writing. Motto of the regime, at this point.
Noem blames sanctuary city policies, but the whole point of the Laken Riley Act was to bypass those policies by requiring DHS to send agents to arrest anyone released by those cities. DHS is simply not following the law, or even attempting to.
I ask you to please conceptualize that women's rights *are* trans rights: bodily autonomy, self-determination, the right to work, own property, be in public spaces, all of these are rights women have to fight for, and are also the rights of trans people. Because they are human rights.
I ponder the Hapsburgest of the Hapsburgs, Charles V, and the Merovingians too, siring children in their teens and dying before they turned thirty for several generations until the Pippins had to step in. I wonder if the people actually running the kingdoms kinda hoped for child kings and idiots
David Horsey, Seattle Times
in honor of @crampell.bsky.social, the π, leaving wapo, hereβs the video of her decapitating stephen moore live on television
Thank you, Judge Xinis, for continuing to demonstrate that some members of the judiciary aren't gibbering in terror at the a-legal tantrums of a 34x felon and his lawless cabinet.
Zia, an Afghan interpreter who risked his life to help U.S. troops, is being detained by ICE in Massachusetts. He's been living in the U.S. LEGALLY for fear of retribution if he returns to Afghanistan. Targeting Zia and other Afghan allies is dangerous and wrong.
this will sound like some defensive posture about the media, which i donβt mean it to be. media failings are a part of this. but thereβs a component too where conditions have to be right for things to break through. the media absolutely can set agendas but itβs far from an absolute power
what this makes me think about - with regard to right now - is how so much of the information about Trump and Epstein thatβs resonated in recent weeks is old stuff, widely and publicly reported. but a lot of it didnβt break through to lots of ppl in their information environments
No, it's a deliberately humiliating power play. They know that we know that they know they are all corrupt, venal, incompetent assholes who have no effective policy or ideas. So they waste time renaming things to try and manifest the grandiosity they feel entitled to but are incapable of achieving.
Visit the interactive tracker here: www.justsecurity.org/117267/anti-...
No words left for this engineered horror. "More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."
π₯ This is a powerful message. ββ¦ you canβt deport a movement.β π₯
Yes! I'm a historian who studies my country's history of genocidal violence in the late 19th century (especially how we remember it) and I can promise you that it's far too late if you "leave it to history." Understanding how it happened is good. Stopping it when it's happening is better.
I see that my foolproof Never Lose Your Flashlights and Scissors By Having One of Each in EVERY ROOM method has been independently derived more than once.
She negotiated an agreement with Jefferson while in Paris and pregnant by him, regarding freedom for the child she was bearing and the future ones she would conceive if she returned with him to VA, because under French law, she and brother were free and didn't have to return. She was 16.
Not even producing that much, just hired to be "room meat" because they are white guys.
You clearly know *nothing* about the life and circumstance of Sally Hemmings. She was Jefferson's dead wife's enslaved teenaged half-sister, sent to Monticello as an infant upon her father's death. Sally had three white grandparents because her mother, Betty Hemmings, was also a product of rape.
𧡠Sooner or later, we're all going to hear of good people being forcibly detained by ICE in our back yards. Mohamed Naser of Greensboro, NC, was grabbed by agents, who believed him to be from Iran. (He's not, he's from Libya). Mohamed entered the US legally... greensboro.com/news/local/a...
Cursory Wikipedia skimming leads me to conclude that the AI animal depicted is intended to be a crocodile, so what we have here is a pedophile on a crocodile.