Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less
via sethackerman.substack.com
The constitution's design does not grant the president a kinglike ability to take the country to war by himself, lest he do so for self-serving reasons. That is the entire purpose of dividing that authority between POTUS and Congress. Guess what just happened? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Jesus. F*cking. Christ.
This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...
Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs
You can't sue the government if postal workers accidentally drop the glassware you ordered or lose a letter from your pen pal
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that this means you also can't sue if postal workers refuse to deliver your mail because you're Black
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The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.
RIP Éliane Radigue
Third part of the ‘Trilogie de la Mort’.
Work of ashes – Ashes of the illusion that has become light – Descending into the very depths of the sources of life. Where Death comes to life, where Death becomes birth. Actively recommencing – eternity of a perpetual becoming.”
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look if someone, somewhere misuses public funds that's proof we no longer need a welfare state. But if a right wing figure uses public funds for corrupt purposes well, he's just entitled, right?
The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
would have to go back but i thought it thematized the formation now gone -- maybe that was just how i understood it at the time
isnt this the argument of Jan Radway's book, too?
I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
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🚨 Chicago friends!
I’ll be doing an event on EXTRACTION hosted by @haymarketbooks.org and in conversation with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social this Monday! Come by if you can 😊
ofc she was right, but the answer is obvious: her strong support for genocide undercut her ability to occupy any kind of moral or political high ground and severely damaged the credibility of her judgment.
now that's the power of a union
BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
I think some people may have thought i was exaggerating the extremely gendered maga perceptions of liberal weakness. I offer this as a rebuttal. bsky.app/profile/radl...
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
FYI Johnson is absolutely wrong about borders in the premodern world. Wrote a bit about it in Trump 1
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Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
the times is so terrible
My 10yo just asked me out of nowhere if ICE was going to pick me up. I explained I was a US citizen so this is highly unlikely and that if they did, we would sue the pants off of them. Notably she did not ask her white father.
This is where we’re at.
Billie Eilish: "No one is illegal on stolen land"
