“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Wasn't this in a graphic novel "Who grifts the grifters?"
ICE procurement activity since August 22, totaling ~$19M. Companies highlighted in yellow are new to the "Who's Profiting from ICE?" map, available here: bit.ly/3TgUZEq Source: USAspending.gov
Newsom to Desantis:
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Or a sidewalk....🙄
The citizens the orange asshole is supposed to be serving just being collateral damage in his destructive small-minded spite.
Also, why are we treating this like a REAL question? We already know the Trump *actually* doing this to get petty vengeance on Dem politicians in general and Black Dems in particular.* There's no need to "cover" for Don the Con when he's already blown that anyway.
😒 Here's a "crime problem" the national guard hasn't helped with.... bsky.app/profile/mpow...
Only militaristic force can keep us buckled up for safety! 🙄 bsky.app/profile/phil...
People, this is what the somnambulist movement (I'm sorry, I meant "anti-wokeness") is actually about. It's people who hate being aware of the world around them and are infuriated that the plebeians keep "waking" them instead of letting them sleepwalk their way mindlessly through dreamland
"Yeah, yeah whatever, I just wanna beat up some kids, man! That'll make me look 'tough' and 'valiant', right?" 😒🙄
Except they're *clearly* not going to let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games, so tough shit for him. 🤷♂️
They have been trying to do that anyway (psst! It's why Washington hasn't "done anything about it" already.)
This is us right now....😏
To be fair, part of the issue is that AI is kinda shitty, so as "tempting" as it is, you can't take the immediate results at complete face value.
The "punchline" here is that Washington could have "done anything about it" a long time ago if they weren't so gleeful about using this technology to oppress their constituents and invade their privacy. But they weren't so, oh well....🤷♂️
I don't know if "liberals" are as excited about Newsom as the ones who keep letting him live rent-free in their heads like a "kept" little sidepiece. 😉
That's money that could going toward lining the pockets of grifters and flunkies! Oh, I'm sorry, I meant building inhumane, shoddily constructed, sure-to-be-shut-down concentration camps! That's *much* better....😏
It makes sense because Lord knows (much like cats and mice) inmates and prison guards *never* had beef before Mamdani came in the scene.
"It's all Mamdani fault that having a police state clearly doesn't make anyone safer...wait I think I got something mixed up there...." 🙄
Ahem.... bsky.app/profile/mpow...
The administration itself has already admitted that 70% of ICE's victims have no criminal record (that's just what the confessed to: the *actual* is way higher for sure.) So the cat's already out of the bag on that.
And then magically *disappears& because there is *no way^ they spend over 200 million dollars on some cots and cages.
Oops, you accidentally put "can" instead of "should", Politico. You should fix that error right away. 😏
I see the mourning period for her career has already started. 😏
To be fair, "skill and everything else is second" is pretty.much the motto of this administration.
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
And yet...I'll bet you this doesn't get half as much public grumbling about "wasting our taxpayer dollars" as *anything* done to help the homeless.
It's not like sticking a gun in a cops face prevented a person from being arrested (or worse) after all.
Because most people are not superman, dear. Many of these ice raids involves like 100 heavily-armed and armored agents swarming over one person. You might as well defiantly ask "Why aren't people bulletproof with super-armor?!"
Starting with her political career!
"....if you don’t know how to become a scheming courtier and get your beak wet." That's certainly not due to a lack of trying on her part.
I guess when she said we're all going to die anyway" she meant her career. (I know! I too am SHOCKED that smug little retort somehow didn't enamor her constituents to her!)
Dear Floridians, We spent all our money on a concentration camp we knew was illegal & would be closed by the first judge to review it, but we had a badass name for it (if you drive a pickup truck taller than 8 feet). There will be no hurricane recovery money available this year. Love, Ronny D
Especially since the media already seems to be getting the jump on it:
Would you vote for the proposal he drafted for us to vote for? That's the actual important question in all of this.
Again Newsome's current surge of popularity is based on him "DOING SOMETHING", an aspect faux-gressives had spent years yelling at the Democrats to embody, and then quickly backtracked from when someone actually called their bluff. Should have been more careful wishing on that monkey's paw. 🤷🏿♂️
😒🙄 People being irritated or annoyed with you is not "cult-like devotion." *Unlike* our our current would-be dictator no one is "punishing" you for saying your piece about anyone, misguided though it may be. That's...not really cult-like behavior.
It's just utter silly exaggeration. bsky.app/profile/mpow...
The point is that "BlueMAGAT" stuff doesn't exist and is vapid hyperbole, the COUNTRY actually lost here (feel free how the country is benefiting if thi isn't true)), so if that's the price that's acceptable for you pretending to "pwn" a person, than I guess that's what you value 🤷♂️
She didn't resign. That little morsel pf misinformation was due to the Tines doing it's "stellar" journalism effort, as usual.
Which, hilariously enough is the thing that (supposedly) STARTED the impetus for ICE to invade DC in the first place.
“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He *claims* "everyone" likes him in Florida, which, whatever, Hannity. 🙄
It's too bad that he's probably making it up (as part of his "SO MUCH FOR THE "TOLERANT LEFT" schtick since he's totally someone deluded enough to think this would be a *criticism* of NYC.)
This is an aspect I feel people keep ignoring: bsky.app/profile/mpow...
"Right on, sister!" --Jamie Sommers
They could just be "fiddling with the parking brake" if ya know what I mean. ("Gotta make sure it's in an upright position...for...um... safety sake, of course.") 😉 See, totally innocent behavior! I think you owe these guys an apology, Josh. 😁
Come on, Josh! Remember the LAST time someone was "just sitting in their car" in Rex Morgan M.D.? 😏 (P.S., check Corey's neck for strangle marks, because Lord knows the police won't do so!)
Seriously! The idea that stuff like thus isn't registering as"crime" for some baffling reason is really skewing the statistics on people's outlook of it.
When it comes to crime, I think a gunmen murdering two children in a Minneapolis church is more concerning than a nanny taking kids to a playground in Los Angeles or a homeless person laying on a bench in DC. Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
😒 We're still doing this silliness, huh? bsky.app/profile/mpow...
I'm repeating myself but the key to explaining Trump's love of tariffs is: He literally believes any money coming into the Federal gov't belongs to *him, personally*. So when importers pay tariffs, *Trump thinks he gets richer*. The fact that the cost is passed on to Americans is irrelevant to him.
I "love" how, despite that, they are still calling these things "detention centers."
Some of you white people have failed to understand; it is not Black against white, it’s Blacks against racism. Take all the time you need with this………
Just to point out Trump has a "cult" because those people will put up with a lot of actions and decisions they personally hate just to "spite the libs." I can promise you that people are not going to defund their schools or whatever just to "pwn" you. You do not factor in the decision making at ALL.
Like people are praising Newsom for what he's doing. You may disagree with that, but that doesn't in and of itself make anything a "cult" or anyone "stanning" for him (unless you are incapable of complimenting a politician *without* succumbing to a cult of personality first.)
I always laugh when people say stupid shit like this, because, yeah, the Dems have such cult-like devotions that the frog-marched their nominated candidate our of the running. you know, just like "cults" do. 🙄.
😒 "Gone With the Wind" fantasies and plantation weddings say, "well..yeah!"
Also we have to pretend this is some mid-2000's reality show and "they're not here to make friends" and thus cannot act cooperative with each other at any time. (and outside forces, MUST try to manufacture "beef" between them.) 🙄
Probably because he constantly lives in your head, rent-free. 😉
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You, of course can only DO SOMETHING if your one action solves everything instantly. Also, you can tell this action is not going to have any affect by the way that the GOP is already spending billions trying to defeat it. 🙄 bsky.app/profile/alis...
Just gonna slide this under your door.... bsky.app/profile/mpow...
Oh man. Embarrassing for Dean Cain. ICE posting his training session like it’s some kind of “Man of Steel” flex. Although it tracks with the incompetent, undertrained ICE agents we’re seeing on the streets.
They are SO MAD that someone "DID SOMETHING" and called their bluff. 🙄
Good morning: As you watch police & ICE Agents brutalize citizens that are innocent law abiding Americans I just want to remind you that Dylan Roof after murdering 9 black citizens in a racist rage, in a church no less, upon capture the police bought him lunch. Yeah I ain’t letting that go. EVER!
I think some of the issue here is that people are being a teensy bit dishonest on where their "principles" actually lie(as seen here): bsky.app/profile/samd...
One of those "principles" is defending democracy (particularly our voting rights), which, as I pointed out, is something that Newsom is doing right now (do you *not* support voting rights and representation because Newsom is doing it? Is that where *your* principles lie?)
Just to point out though that this was a hypothetical question. Newsom is who was brought up here, but the question still stands in any case.
Except for the time when he is, then sure.... bsky.app/profile/mpow...
I *will* say I support Newsom's fight against Republicans' gerrymandering scheme and support him not taking that lying down (as I would anyone else who would do that) 😏😉
I think a better question is would *you* defend democracy, free speech or a civic society if it meant supporting Newsom?
The current strategy of letting Republican wreck the country to prove a point is a worse defense of those things, so....🤷♂️
Then those "better candidates" better start upping their game and DOING SOMETHING in a way that is publicly and relatably notable. 😉
To the White House, apparently (it's where they "drain the swamp" to after all.) 😏
It's basically just another version of this in a nutshell.... bsky.app/profile/mpow...
This is a moot point anyway, since the actual reason is simply that the person acting the way people keep bemoaning they want Dems to act (fighting fire with fire, with the same energy as they receive) is someone you don't like, so now you hate it and it all has to be reduced to strawman caricature
😒 But...Newsom *has* Done Something and utilized his power as governor. Like right now. Were you so busy complaining about Dems actually following advice about "messaging" in ways the common person can react to that you missed it?
In addition,The "two month" time frame would only be a "problem" if we put our eggs in one basket. After all all those other Dems fighting back in the "proper" way are ready to take the baton and run with it once Newsom's moment to shine is over, right?
Um...isn't the accusation usually about how Dems DON"T attack Republicans and just roll over for them? That they don't ridicule him and immediately apologize if they actually do (shade of Walz pointing out how "weird" Trump's entourage is before consultants told him that was a "no-no")?
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"Full-time workers can still rely on food stamps." Not for long, if Trump has his way.
"Like is us faux-gressives have been screaming at Democrats to do since forever, but then ignore when they actually do because we're too busy building up strawman arguments to make Libs "pay." 🙄
I guess we should be glad that the parents AREN'T there to console them. Olive's Mom: "Oh Vicki, don't feel too bad. I tend to 'go under' a lot, as well (flashes her husband A Look.)
To be fair "Heather" there probably "can't believe it" because Olive DIDN'T "save the day." That was actually due to lifeguard McHunky. Olive did endanger herself and pointlessly made the lifeguard's job more difficult, and that's certainly something "Blondie" can do as well. 😉
Olive's *actual* power is her inability to shut the fuck up about her "specialness" for five freaking minutes.
ISWYDT! 😁
Musk was too pathetic to even do *that* much since he continued to give a party he said consisted of a bunch of pedophille money. 🙄
The "bluster" over DEI is the fact that white people weren't "allowed" to treat brown people like second-class, second rate citizens. They handicap people and then get mad that they can't lie that the results are based on their own merit.
From the "no shit, Sherlock" files. "Reverse discrimination? In spite of the MAGA bluster over DEI, data shows white Americans are still advantaged" 1/ theconversation.com/reverse-disc...
Funny how the "only happy talk" rule about America that is going to be enforced on museums about history is not going to be enforced against false depictions of contemporary cities as crime-ridden hellholes.
It's nice that Coca Cola decided to sponsor their own brand of fleshlights (comes pre-lubed with corn syrup!)
"Earned" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. 😏
That guy is *clearly* expecting people not to do so. We are simply supposed to be "outraged" that Black people didn't want to tolerate racism. 🙄
Er...yes and no. bsky.app/profile/did:...
Lord, people, that Bush guy media was praising for being so "macho" was a cheerleader for crying out loud . 🙄🤦🏿♂️