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"And I don't mean that in a bad or irresponsible way." YES. YOU. FUCKING. DO. Don't piss on my boot and tell me it's raining. You're rushing out something you don't even fully understand -- by your industry's own admissions! -- because you want money. Fuck off and suffer, trash.
"It is unlikely there will be a protrans candidate" Then don't expect my vote. It's that simple.
A US appeals court ruled that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. The case is widely is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court reut.rs/47l6pz9
A year ago, I heard that Oklahoma City had approved a plan to build Legends Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the entire Western hemisphere. Why were we building the Tower of Babel in the Heartland? I decided to investigate. This essay is the result. (gift link) thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...
But for a college with over 2,000 students in a city of 8,000, being ranked #2 in community service in the entire country? I'm just not seeing them out there. And between my health issues and financial situation, I'm in a position to see them out there if they were.
And look, if students are volunteering at the hospital, great. If they're volunteering at, say, Community Action Agency, great. If they're volunteering at one of the local food pantries, great.
What with the college hijacking the city council and running off dedicated city employees with campaigns of lies and vitriol, not to mention no real effort to make up for the fact that they, being a non-profit educational institution, don't pay any property taxes despite being the largest landowner.
*What* community? Because it sure as hell isn't Hillsdale. The relationship between the city and the college is just as toxic as it's ever been right now. hillsdalecollegian.com/2025/08/prin...
Since her name is trending again, here's your reminder that Ashli Babbitt was a Nazi terrorist and traitor who got exactly what she deserved, and everyone who participated in the "rally" and / or attack on the Capitol that day deserved the same.
The NRA should be dissolved and its principals tried and imprisoned for treason. They laundered Russian money to Trump in the 2016 election. That is proven fact.
That's the whole point: destroy the system by overwhelming it.
That's the whole point: destroy the system by overwhelming it.
Agreed 100%.
By the way, kudos to @apnews.com for NOT referring to the airport as "abandoned." I have seen far too many news outlets and commentators getting that wrong. It was NEVER "abandoned." It was still an active training airport right up until Ron DeathSentence stole it from Miami-Dade County.
By the way, kudos to @apnews.com for NOT referring to the airport as "abandoned." I have seen far too many news outlets and commentators getting that wrong. It was NEVER "abandoned." It was still an active training airport right up until Ron DeathSentence stole it from Miami-Dade County.
Then it needs to be destroyed and the airport restored to county control. Ron DeathSentence had no authority to steal it in the first place.
Then it needs to be destroyed and the airport restored to county control. Ron DeathSentence had no authority to steal it in the first place.
It's called accountability. Susan is finding out.
It's called accountability. Susan is finding out.
WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools. www.wired.com/story/purgat...
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So my encouragement to Attorney General Nessel is simply this: Drop the fucking hammer on 'em.
In other words, the University of Michigan ALSO constitutes a public SERVICE under Michigan's civil rights law, which ALSO means that it cannot refuse gender-affirming care.
...a political subdivision, or an agency of this state or of a political subdivision or a tax exempt private agency established to provide service to the public[...]" The University of Michigan is a public agency, with its own public board, owned and operated by the State of Michigan.
Additionally, the same section says: "'Public service' means a public facility, department, agency, board, or commission, owned, operated, or managed by or on behalf of this state...
...whose goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations are extended, offered, sold, or otherwise made available to the public." In other words, U of M Health IS a public accommodation under the state civil rights act, and cannot refuse gender-affirming care.
"'Place of public accommodation' means a business, or an educational, refreshment, entertainment, recreation, health, or transportation facility, or institution of any kind, whether licensed or not...
For another, the act EXPLICITLY mentions "health"as protected. MCL 37.2301(a) explains...
For one thing, our state supreme court ruled in 2022 that our state civil rights act protects the rights of transgender folks on the basis of sex. We voters codified that into the law in 2023. Michiganders don't put up with discrimination for ANY reason, least of all capitulation to Nazis.
I'm not sure how the state courts will come down on this, but I have to agree with AG Nessel: this isn't just *likely* illegal, this is ABSOLUTELY, UNDENIABLY, IRREFUTABLY illegal.
Oh, so you CHOOSE to be this stupid. That's even sadder. š¤£
The Nazi Republicans are so incompetent that they CAN'T indict a ham sandwich. Or at least not a guy who threw one at a non-cop. (Non-paywalled link: web.archive.org/web/20250827...)
Well, well, well. Who's the plant now, Plastic Gavin Stans? š¤Ø
š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ You mean the "news" channel that is second only to Fox Nazi Propaganda Channel in how much money it owes for spreading lies about the 2020 election? My sincere condolences about your brain damage.
I'm not comparing anyone to Hitler. I'm just saying, it's very interesting that the people who behave like Nazis, who Holocaust survivors warned us behave like Nazis, and who reportedly idolize the Nazis (in secret or in the open), are embracing the same style of architecture the Nazis embraced.
Not to engage in hyperbole, but you know who also loved neoclassical architecture? Hitler. š
Because of course š¤£ "The college hired McCrery Architects for the design of the Spencer Classical Education building, the same architect that will design President Donald Trumpās Big Beautiful Ballroom at the White House."
I'm offering $500 (which I do not have) to anyone who can definitively prove with hard evidence that Shrinkface has ever had sex with a woman. And no, marriage and offspring are not definitive proof.
I'm offering $500 (which I do not have) to anyone who can definitively prove with hard evidence that Shrinkface has ever had sex with a woman. And no, marriage and offspring are not definitive proof.
Oh Candace, honey, are you not familiar with the term āyou reap what you sowā? Trump isnāt coming to your rescue, Princess - he can barely rescue himself.
Sure can. All it takes is enough of the homeowners saying "screw you, I'm not paying."
You're probably right about that.
The New York Times, being the absolute trash that they are, has spent the past decade attacking trans people, particularly trans women and children, in furtherance of the genocide (and yes, it IS genocide, that is not up for debate). Now they want to pretend they care. Fuck the @nytimes.com.
I don't necessarily disagree, but it's not really going to resolve much, it'll just add to the conflict.
It's the same Guard. Same organization. The feds have the authority to activate them at the federal level. So you would have a National Guard in Illinois that would have to choose who to obey. Instant constitutional crisis. Not that we aren't already living through several.
And here I am, fully in agreement with Jeff on everything, but I still hate the remodel and rebrand because it's overly plain and takes all the character out of the place. Including the good character. They could have changed things up without losing the down-home vibe. Just a bad corporate move.
Same goes for Florida.
Same goes for Florida.
I'm sure this won't cause any supply chain issues whatsoever.
And "Russia Russia" was not a hoax, either. We all watched it play out. That caller is a fucking idiot.
That would take the governor of Illinois to do, not the mayor of Chicago. But given that the sitting governor is no fan of Trump's, that's a definite possibility. Then again, Trump can just federalize the Guard like he did in California, so... that option is questionable.
He wants another civil war. That's the point of all of this. He's daring people to fight back violently, as opposed to the peaceful opposition in Los Angeles and Washington, so he can declare them enemies and use full military force against any and all opposition. That's the plan here.
Rest in piss, bigot.
That's a really stupid brand name.
āi think they want to dieā is one of the most evil things ever uttered and it wonāt even be a headline.
This new piece by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has everything. A conspiracy to pervert science, a prominent spokes-doctor with a perennially lapsing medical license, and a curiously close relationship between the ADF and the New York Times.
Is it guillotine time yet?
Thereās money for ICE Thereās money for concentration camps Thereās money for tax cuts for the wealthy Yet thereās no money for healthcare, housing, food assistance, social support, or public broadcasting. Thereās no money to help the sick, homeless & starving Suffering is a political choice
Little to no cis people Iāve talked to as of lateā even outspoken alliesā seem to really grasp the severity of trans genocide as it currently stands. It sure feels like a case of collective amnesia and denialā one of the failure of liberal politics to protect civil rights as it stands.
system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended
It's so telling how Newsom explicitly says that he never paid any mind to these people because of their homophobia but suddenly started to when they shifted to transphobia. It just shows how much people are willing to throw their principles in the garbage when it comes to trans people.
Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
When are we storming this concentration camp to liberate its prisoners?
President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy ā Rosie OāDonnell ā that he is āseriousā about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
if this doesnāt turn into a meme response to all those articles then america really has irretrievably lost its way
They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
In other words, the Nazi Republicans "ICE" recreation of the Gestapo just murdered someone.
Does being a far-right fuckwit really deprive one of any design sensibilities whatsoever? Because I notice this pattern over and over again with these fake "Christians."
What is with these Nazi "churches" having absolutely zero visual aesthetics? That cinder block wall is pathetic. And it's not because he's preaching in a strip mall unit. My grandfather was an ordained minister with a church in a storefront, and his church knew how to dress the place up nicely.
Short answer: badly, like all Nazism.
Short answer: badly, like all Nazism.
Really important video that anyone calling themself leftist or progressive should watch. If youāre calling for disabled people to be killed or celebrating knowingly killing/maiming disabled people you are not progressive, you are a fascist. Disabled people do not owe their oppressors ākindnessā
NEW: A newly completed investigation by Wyomingās most populous county found no evidence of noncitizen voting in the 2024 elections, undermining claims used to justify the stateās controversial proof of citizenship law. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
"Swag?" What is this, 2012?
Tear-gassing farm workers. Trumpās America. ššŗšø
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action. www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...
ICE clearly doesn't want anyone looking over their shoulder or knowing what they're doing inside detention facilities. newrepublic.com/post/197698/...
And then he had the shameless, gormless gall to preside over a committee that questioned the new NOAA chief nominee. Rafael Cruz Jr. is an inhuman sack of shit.
And then he had the shameless, gormless gall to preside over a committee that questioned the new NOAA chief nominee. Rafael Cruz Jr. is an inhuman sack of shit.
Since January 20th, 2025, this is what has been done to the Stonewall National Monument website. We started with LGBTQ+ people. Then, they removed 'TQ+'. Now, they've remove 'B'. I'm no longer trying to tell people they're coming for everyone. I don't have to. They already have.
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
I don't know what precise circumstance has led Texas state senator Angela Paxton to divorce her husband, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, but simply the fact of him being Ken Paxton should have been horrific enough to justify it all along.
REMINDER: It's not "Alligator Auschwitz" or "Alligator Alcatraz." The PROPER, CORRECT name is "Dade-Collier Traning and Transition Concentration Camp."
What do you mean "what if" and "maybe?" There is no doubt.
Things we all knew would happen before the Gestapo's first kidnapping victim ever arrived. This facility must be destroyed.
Things we all knew would happen before the Gestapo's first kidnapping victim ever arrived. This facility must be destroyed.
Hillsdale has long fueled the notion that they want to be "the conservative Harvard." They don't reject elitism or money, they eat both up like a fat kid at a candy store; and I can say that because I was both a fat kid at a candy store AND a Hillsdale College employee. It's ALL about ideology.
Hillsdale has long fueled the notion that they want to be "the conservative Harvard." They don't reject elitism or money, they eat both up like a fat kid at a candy store; and I can say that because I was both a fat kid at a candy store AND a Hillsdale College employee. It's ALL about ideology.
Walz should have been at the top of the ticket to begin with.
Democrats won't be the ones to do it. We The People will. And it will take more than just winning elections.
āHamas, to my great regret, is Israelās creation,ā Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
As evidenced by the fact that he didn't lie and tell people he went to Hillsdale, which he's now intimately involved with, and about which grads who are true believers in right-wing ideology PROUDLY proclaim they are alumni of. But that's not Hillsdale's fault, it's those damn "elite universities."
As evidenced by the fact that he didn't lie and tell people he went to Hillsdale, which he's now intimately involved with, and about which grads who are true believers in right-wing ideology PROUDLY proclaim they are alumni of. But that's not Hillsdale's fault, it's those damn "elite universities."
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
Well firstly, nobody believed Epstein himself kept a client list. He'd be stupid to do that. But the FBI absolutely DOES have a list based on evidence. That's what they're refusing to release. Secondly, everyone knows Epstein was murdered, because there is no such thing as coincidence.