Universal basic bitch

Trying to work up the courage to ask my friend group if they’re ready to take the next step and become a survivalist cult

Wild on

I  know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.

great thread. Modern times have brought even greater clarity to the rights of all people

“Maybe you only get 2 anime for Christmas instead of 30 anime” should go over really well with his base

The Kentucky Derby should be more like pro wrestling. Like the horses should be made up in skeleton makeup, and have names like the Equine Reaper

Decided that I finally need to watch some of the cultural touchstones of film

Before DVDs took off I think you could get VHS tapes where they would tell you to adjust the audio to all L or R channel to hear the commentary vs the movie.

It’s called the Motte-and-Bailey and frankly it is indefensible

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

not everyone capable of thinking deeply is funny, but I've found that the marked inability to be funny (while trying to be!) really underscores that person's lack of ability to think deeply

I had designed a website to make audio commentaries indexable and playable so fans can discover and play them along with any streaming service but I’m afraid of getting sued. Wet Hot American Summer has an all fart audio commentary track that would make all of this worth it though

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Wow, our authoritarian overlords are so kind, that when they throw us in prison for ten years with no due process, we can cut our sentence down to 5 years if we just sew t-shirts every single day

Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

New wife guy just dropped:
“The state secret wife texter”

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids

Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation?

Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.

An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."

The other said, "Take him anyway."

So they did.

New — The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont.

The Trump-Vance administration ignored such an order previously, when it moved Rumeysa Ozturk out of Massachusetts to Louisiana.

SCOTUS: you can’t imprison people without trial
White House: how about if we put them in a foreign prison
SCOTUS: you cant put them in a foreign prison
White House: how dare you meddle in foreign affairs!!!

Prestige publications love publishing 100 thinkpieces a year decrying made up cultural phenomena like this. I’d love just one thinkpiece about the cultural phenomenon of reactionaries making up a guy to be mad at

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

BRING HIM HOME!

Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.

SMART General President…

Why aren’t people producing more babies to fuel our nations baby-grinding machines??

How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech

This is great. Can we get like Sabrina Carpenter or Chappell roan to read this out