Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Just finished Act I and this is very aspirational
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.
Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c
1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES
42% for abolish ICE without an iota of mainstream elected Democratic buy in, this could be over 60% if they tried even a little.
I know this is corny to say but this is the real America, man. This is what it’s all about. This is what those freaks are trying to destroy & we won’t let them
Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
Too many comparisons between Trump and the Nazis are going in one direction. Quite a lot about the Third Reich makes a lot more sense if you dispense with the 'German efficiency' stereotype and think of them as a bunch of Hegseths and Noems.
Freddie please. Please Freddie.
No contest
Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.
Another day, another reminder that Democratic leaders chose to forfeit the Presidency rather than desisting from genocide.
I'm trying to nap!
“I get arrested at 26 Federal Plaza. Pretty rough arrest as everyone could see in the video, and they take me back in a hallway, and then they take off their masks. The first guy is a Pakistani Muslim immigrant who lives in Brighton Beach. The first ICE officer, and the second guy is an Indo-Gaianese immigrant who lives in South Ozone Park. And one guy says, yeah, my wife really wants me to quit my job. I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage. And then the Pakistani Muslim guy says, what's Mamdani like? He's been to my mosque a couple of times, and I'm thinking of ranking you guys. And I'm just like, I don't know what to make of this. I mean, there's a whole broader issue. Like these guys were not born brown shirts, but Donald Trump and the times that we're living in are making them brown shirts.”
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
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Two weeks have passed since a Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested the Honduran immigrant client of Magdalena Cuprys of Cuprys & Associates. “He was stopped at a weigh station in Tampa because he owns a construction company, and he was required to stop for his truck to be weighed,” Cuprys told me. “The client had a valid Florida driver’s license. The patrol officer called Customs and Border Protection on him. The client called me, and the officer took the phone from him and spoke with me.” She asked why CBP was alerted. “I was advised that the client looked Hispanic, had a Hispanic name, and now they are collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP, and their orders are to call CBP any time they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant,” said Cuprys. “I asked if they would have followed the same process if it had been me driving, and the response was it depends if you look Hispanic.”
“It depends if you look Hispanic.”
From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
happy 31st birthday shohei ohtani you're in much better shape at 31 than i was
“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
The people standing up to those Nazi fucks in LA are heroes.
It's insane. Gaming is a $200 billion dollar industry that cannot stop laying off employees while raising prices and now there are like, two remaining independent news outlets covering it.
My politics are a contradictory mess but my guiding rocks are "don't be a monster" and "don't enable monsters" and like 70-90% of the time that leads me to socialism.
companies listening to what people say they want instead of making art and just giving them something has been ruinous for games, movies and more for the last 10-15 years
I'm sympathetic to people who "Don't want to hear about politics all the time" but unfortunately "politics" for the average person will probably get much less abstract in the near term. It's going to get harder to get through a day without going "Wait it's legal for them to do that?"
With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier
Bands that rip off Zeppelin: Cringe, embarrassing
Bands that rip off Sabbath: cool, titans of their genre
This is a hilarious way to say “we haven’t figured out how to make AI do anything useful”
