Lucas O’Connor

Update: TN-9 Rep. Steve Cohen (who did not respond to requests for comment before this story was published) called me and defended his record "[Pearson] sometimes thinks he's the voice of today and the future. I was that voice 35 years ago. He's got a ways to catch up to me."

'I was the voice of the future last century' is such a wild vibe

Purely on the messaging front, it's notable to me how explicitly this is the opposite of what Third Way is pushing

Welp I guess there’s no way to earn the votes of young men other than by courting and vocally backing the three fraudulent industries that are absolutely ruining their lives.

lmao DAN GOLDMAN is saying ABOLISH ICE? that's so funny. amazing work from Lander and proof the act of primarying matters, no matter the outcome of the election. some really influential people could stand to internalize that.

I get how it happened. I watched it and lived it and know some predicted it when I was still in grade school. Still a hell of a thing to actually play out.

The inability/refusal to take seriously anything one hasn’t personally experienced is really a remarkable outcome of providing the world with an internet of all knowledge.

Basically every issue collapse of the last few decades directly corresponds to living memory of the alternative dying out

It’s wild that an administration so obsessed with projecting fake strength is now so desperately projecting fake weakness

I struggle to think of a single credible argument that attending this specific SOTU serves the Constitution, the future welfare of the nation, or a single constituent of Kelly's. We need to seriously reconsider how we define 'doing the job'

So often the core moral conflict for people is simply being forced to see the consequences of their actions.

See this all the time in homelessness response too - the imperative is just to get them out of sight regardless of whether they're housed- just don't make ppl face what shit capitalism does

Agree, and actually really appreciate every time I see him doing one of the junky Black Phone/Purge type things to help keep all the rest of this stuff alive.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

It used to be an annual legislative action, then Lorena Gonzalez started voting against it and shaming people over it and it stopped for a while. Now it’s a proclamation from the Governor without a vote because he just loves Reagan that much.

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.

It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.

The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0

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Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to confirm them.

I know this seems like it should be impossible, but both of these statements are true: Trump's judicial nominees all refuse to denounce the January 6 insurrection or say that he lost the 2020 election, and ALSO, some Senate Dems keep voting to confirm those nominees to life-tenured judgeships

Photo of a large group of JFREJ members holding Brad Lander for Congress signs, and posing with Brad Lander.

One shift on the doors, one shift doing ICE-watch: that’s the goal @bradlander.bsky.social has set to ensure his campaign is not just about electing him so he can fight for New Yorkers once in office, but also about fighting alongside New Yorkers right now! Learn more: bradlanderforcongress.com

Another good occasion to note that a big sign of Trump’s cognitive decline and lack of energy is that he’s surrounded by losers constantly losing and doesn’t care (or often even know) anymore.

There’s absolutely no way for gambling and sports to continue this way

On Monday a federal judge ruled DHS likely violated the law keeping lawmakers out of facilities without at least a week's notice of inspection. POLITICO says the ruling applies to the 13 Dems in the lawsuit so...? Vargas says he may also have to sue

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

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The elites don’t need those values to be functional, the rest of us do.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Common sense reform is abolition.

Exactly five Dems voted yes. If those five voted no it would have failed. These votes are all orchestrated w Republicans to keep the Trump agenda rolling.

Thank you for your attention to this matter inDEED

Turns out local police can do things if they want to, and the leaders saying otherwise are full of it.

👀 Looks like the husband of the woman ICE abducted called his lawyer, lawyer called the cops, then the police chief went and got her & took her home

Article says it may be the first time local Minnesota PD "intervened in a federal law enforcement action" since Trump started terrorizing the state

Yeah! Or else Senate Dems will do nothing! Take that!

Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.”

Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”

These are the reported tentative Democratic demands for funding DHS:

- DHS required to cooperate with state probes
- CBP stays at border
- Warrants for arrests
- IDs, bodycams
- ICE out of churches, schools

NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS FIXES THE BEHAVIOR BELOW.