It’s astonishing that Americans seem to have no idea where their food comes from. There is very little you can eat that has not been picked, processed and/or packaged by immigrants.
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It’s astonishing that Americans seem to have no idea where their food comes from. There is very little you can eat that has not been picked, processed and/or packaged by immigrants.
Using big words like “destabilizing” really gives away the game. Its 3 syllable or less to stay authentic.
Get some hydrocortisone itch cream and use it and now you are on corticosteroids which is an exception. Also former smokers. Ever tried smoking? Yes makes you a winner too. Congratulations. Get your shot.
For a bunch of people “too expensive” is anything at all that might restrict their ability to take cruises or fly or give up literally anything at all, even if it dooms their kids and grandkids to suffering. You know, the supremely selfish kind of “too expensive.” It’s disgusting.
That’s the moment I would suggest to the judge that taking a lawyer’s word for such a thing is wildly inappropriate and we should get the person who said it to testify on the record. Watching the blood drain from the face of opposing counsel was always such a bonus.
Classic lawyer ass covering.
“That’s what I’ve been told” is nothing but lawyer ass covering while making an assertion for which they don’t really know if it’s true or not.
I feel like someone should nominate him anyway because the ridicule would be marvelous.
If you imagine changing the Defense Department into the War Department gets you closer to a Nobel Peace Prize you may need to review the application a second time.
Shareholder value is all that matters.
It isn’t really socialism when the profits are privatized and only the risk is socialized. Farmers keep their profits AND get paid for their losses. That’s capitalism.
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center.
Some of our greatest treasures and legacy for the future are having some trouble. #NationalParks www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel when the best interview you can get is Gorka. Who cares what thought is in his silly head.
The astonishing thing is, despite scientific consensus, for 35 years oil companies have maintained the status quo by paying off American politicians and gaslighting the crap out of the rest of us. They still aren’t done.
Vandalism requires damage and chalk art on the street does no damage. There is no crime. It had to get dismissed.
Americans utility bills are rising due to the unrestricted growth of data centers using massive amounts of power.
You know you’re the worst kind of horrible person if people spontaneously erupt in celebration at the rumor of your death. #Trump #Monster #MAGA
It seems to me that the models have been good predictors of the effects but the timelines have been far too conservative by about 25-30 years.
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 29, 2025 ~ This is a life of extremes. "Our planet is now on the verge of an irreversible climatic disaster as more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere." www.thedailystar.net/opinion/view...
“I don’t have any choice” is exactly the same as “I was just following orders.” When that was over we hung the “following orders” nazis anyway.
Church of Satan does some heavy lifting in this area. They just sue for equal access and the zealots change their hymn. Being both scary and offensive to some is a potent brew. You need a scarier sounding church. thesatanictemple.com/pages/legal-...
Mental illness exists worldwide but only we get the mass shootings so that’s obviously not the explanation.
Just dial 911 and report armed men with masks assaulting people. Don’t assume these masked clowns are cops without proper ID. All you really know is in the first sentence. Stick to what you know and don’t give them the benefit of the doubt that they deny everyone else.
She doesn’t really seem like she would be fun at a party. Kind of a pooper even for a prosecutor and they aren’t that fun.
Your 'doom quote' for today: "Quite possibly, then, this era, which so congratulates itself on its self-awareness, will come to be known as the time of the Great Derangement." www.amazon.com/Great-Derang...
Is it simply arrogance to imagine you are the best person for the job when you hit your 80s?
Absolutely delusional.
He will start a war if he thinks it will help him but that might make it tougher to get that Peace Prize he craves. (He wants one because Obama got one and that’s annoying.
Pissed that s got added to intention causing a grammar error. This is why we proofread Tim!
Bail works great for child molesters who often have some resources. Always cool to have them back on the street simply because they can afford the bail bond.
Thank goodness these guys are so inept or we would already be at war with Europe over Greenland 🇬🇱 Their very bad intentions is thwarted by their own mediocrity.
I’m guessing it isn’t what they had in mind and the recruitment and retention numbers are going to get awful as a result.
Incredibly disrespectful to those guardsmen and women who left their families and real life jobs to pick up a little trash in DC. Ya think that’s what they signed up for?
So happy that despite their awful intentions, these incompetent knuckleheads are poorly informed unserious people. It makes them slightly less dangerous.
The People of Iowa can’t figure out any way to stop poisoning their own water. They have some issues. . ☠️ 💦
This is the way.
Whether a person ever faces the DP is almost completely dependent on what county you happen to be in when you murder. It really is that random…. And unjust. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/death...
Complete disrespect to take those citizen soldiers away from their families and jobs for such trivial, concocted nonsense. Not one of them signed up for this.
Of course it’s a fir, not fur tree. (Took 3 times to type that without autocorrect error)
Two beautiful fur trees lost to the beatles in the PNW this summer. Neighbor trees are dying too. Such a shame.
Yet another example of how oil production privatizes profits and socializes risk. The people who took the oil are long gone leaving the mess for us to clean up. Same story everywhere oil is pumped from the ground.
America’s property insurance crisis could make 2008 look small. Insurers fleeing entire states, premiums tripling, millions of homes becoming uninsurable. $1.47T in property losses projected by 2055. The hardest truth: managed retreat is inevitable. New post: open.substack.com/pub/paulinaj...
It’s a terrible irony that Israel is committing genocide but it’s also undeniable.
Apparently this is not as well known as it should be but the Nazi soldiers who committed crimes were tried at the end of WW2. Their defense was that they were “just following orders”. Turns out that’s not a defense. They were convicted and hung for their crimes. Pass it along to your ICE friends.
Fed Governors are paid by the Fed. They don’t get paid by the treasury. They aren’t federal employees. I don’t think he has any authority to fire her at all.
She is paid by the fed and not the treasury though. She doesn’t work for them.
These kinds of stories and headlines are becoming a bit surreal because the experts have been accurately warning us for over 30 years. It was never “Sci-fi”. We just didn’t want to hear it.
All those years in tv and as president and he still doesn’t know tv stations are licensed but networks are not.
Headlines expressing some sense of surprise like that are astonishing only because the same experts have been saying this is what will happen for 30 years. Has no one been paying attention?
The power of privilege. Happy to see it used for good.
If the old hippies come out to say you suck it’s past time to evaluate your life choices. ✌️
Your actually is true but that isn’t the audience. The quote, like the book, is aimed at privileged Americans for whom it is a generally accurate statement.
Some of the hardest working best people I have ever known. Like everyone, simply looking to improve their lives. We have jobs for them. We need more immigrants and we need to start treating them with dignity and respect. They build our houses and provide our food in America. Let them live.
Live your own life like today is your last. Smell the smells. Taste the tastes. Notice the wind on your face. And tell the people that matter to you that you love them. Live like today matters. It’s all we’ve got. #stoics
you cant deter crime thru relentless force. the longer it’s applied, the more visible errors accrue & the more citizens feel occupied. distrust in authority dissolves cooperation and you can’t solve crimes without citizens’ help. when police are a community’s enemy solving crime there is impossible.
This is one of the primary concerns of sanctuary cities. It encourages immigrants to report crime and appear as witnesses which leads to lower crime rates overall improving the community for everyone. People won’t report or cooperate if they are afraid of the authorities.
The storm is upon us. Keep holding on.
Let’s check our egos at the trailheads and boat launches, and leave the earth’s natural beauty alone. Stop stacking rocks in wild places. gearjunkie.com/news/stop-ro...
This is not the time for purity tests. Take whatever resisters have to offer and keep moving toward the goal. Those whining need to get with the program or get the hell out of the way. We have a country to save here.
Indiana only has the population to have 9 members. They aren’t going to magically gain population to get more seats than 9 or 2 somehow snag the two dem seats in Gary and Indianapolis. They aren’t big enough.
Canada, Europe, Siberia and the US. The increasingly huge wildfire problem encompasses the entire planet. 🌏
Water. Everything is going to literally boil down to one thing - the need for water.
That list is heartbreaking.
Everything Maxwell said could easily be verified if they would RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
If that were true they should have no trouble releasing the entire file.
“Who the fuck is we?” - Black American proverb
Yes: "Zen pretty much comes down to three things—everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention." Jane Hirshfield
She is such a bad lawyer. It's astonishing that she also comes with such an unearned sense of superiority too.
We continue to burn oil at record rates with no plans to reduce it in a time frame that will matter. The US is fully going in the opposite direction. It makes all past, present and future tipping points irrelevant since we really aren't trying to stop warming before passing any of them.
The work the FBI and others are publicly doing is so loathsome it has got to hurt recruiting for the FBI, National Guard, cops and military. The only ones with no trouble hiring is ICE because they have no standards at all.
Trying to harass their favorite governor.
“No see ums” cause you can’t see them. Your ankles just start itching. I bought this little device called Katchy that helps a lot. Good luck with them. Katchy Indoor Insect Trap - Catcher & Killer for Mosquitos, Gnats, Moths, Fruit Flies - a.co/d/1db1pjt
CA and NY can yield more seats. Many GOP states don’t have the population. WY will never have more than 1 seat for example. I think the democrats have a clear advantage if they don’t mess it up.
Perfect use of privilege for good. Excellent for white women and their old dudes. Everyone else should take their passport.
Border Patrol in the National Parks is the perfect grotesque example of how far from a free country we are now and why fascism needs fighting. Imagine immigration checkpoints in Yosemite or Yellowstone. It’s not coming to America. It’s fully in place now.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
You’ve got the ‘why?’ wrong. It’s deportations and the resulting fear driving agricultural workers off the job.
The faceless gestapo trying to assume authority they do not possess. They violate our constitutional rights. Tape the press and all other citizens being abused. It’s the only thing holding them back from violence. TAPE EVERYTHING. It’s irrefutable evidence.
If you are going for the felony, may I suggest processed cheese food slices would work like magic.
Nepo baby Alina Habba is the ultimate patronage appointment. Totally unqualified for the job. Now voided by a federal court. Rays of justice still shining through.
It isn’t a dangerous place if they let the President go walking around there at night. Totally undermines their own stupid argument for having troops there in the first place.
Convicted on state charges so he can’t pardon her.
That quoted sentence is the bleakest, darkest one I have ever read and I’ve read some pretty sick stuff in my life.
Someone should tell them the paint won’t be hot most of the year, never at night and when it is hot, there are gloves. The stupidity is staggering.
If the 90 year old hippies are coming together to say that you suck it might be time to re-evaluate your life choices.
Stripping our economy of an essential workforce. That’s what we’re doing. Economic sulfide when combined with tariffs
All that capacity being gobbled up for AI and crypto mining data centers. Yipee! bsky.app/profile/carl...
Now you know why people don’t climb on icebergs
This makes me sick. The abject cruelty.
Wrecking your state’s economy because brown people are scary. 😱
Imagine destroying one of your biggest industries because you are afraid of brown people. They have no construction guys for the same reason.
What kind of person hates old stupid white hippies?
She needs a good Government Employee Lawyer. There are First Amendment issues. Mark Zaid’s firm is as good as they get. markzaid.com
Will Venezuela end up being America’s Ukraine? I expected Greenland. Did we lose interest in Greenland? #invasion
There is a very small niche of people that would be allowed to survive in fascist Miller’s perfect world. He would happily gas the rest of us.
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 20, 2025 ~ ethical pessimism "...observed present trends indicate that the future we face is one of accelerating planetary transformation, with catastrophic consequences for human society." lithub.com/embracing-et...
