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When I first read skimmed this I thought you were talking about geopolitics using funny names, took a second to parse. Sigh.

05.03.2026 15:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats on the festival premiere. Travel tip: I strongly suggest visiting Dame's if you are not vegetarian/vegan. There will likely be a line. Go early. dameschickenwaffles.com

26.02.2026 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This isn't going to help anyone.

Now they can manipulate footage with AI to counter observer footage and observations. Like they did with a photo of the detained reporter Nekima Armstrong to make her look like she was crying.

And record observers to be added to the surveillance database.

03.02.2026 02:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ICE Out? No. We are saying Abolish ICE.

And if you aren't for eliminating ICE I don't want to vote for you. ICE can't be reformed.

ICE is a recent department (Bush II era), its duties can be covered by boarder patrol and other agencies, agencies that can't be as easily turned into secret police.

02.02.2026 17:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

If you ran for office I'd vote for you if I could. Nicely done.

31.01.2026 06:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is also why evangelical Christians are involved, it is all a doomsday cult.

30.01.2026 20:20 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here here. I am so tired of people saying that demanding a candidate you actually want to vote for is the equivalent to a "circular firing squad" and dooming us to a Republican win. I think the opposite is true, this is what democracy is.

30.01.2026 16:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you are not for abolishing ICE then you are not pushing for real reform and accountability. We have immigration enforcement outside of ICE and can create a better regulated alternative if needed, the same way ICE was created in 2002.

25.01.2026 19:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If they were reporting on another country it would be "Death squads execute second dissident"

25.01.2026 02:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you Senate Gabe. I don't know how I started following you but it helps to read your posts, it is a good sanity check that I am not nuts for my perceptions of Dem ineffectiveness and collusion. My friends are like "but they are in the minooority!" and giving them a pass. It is disappointing.

25.01.2026 01:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was on my radar they would surge here because they want to provoke something so they can justify using the insurrection act. Trump hates Gov. Waltz, it is a place with many immigrants and has a history of aggressive protest (George Floyd). People are being peaceful in their protest so far though.

24.01.2026 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd take my nephew out to the theater to see that. I think I am the target audience, an oldster who wants to watch a movie with a kid who plays with my old he man figures.

22.01.2026 19:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just the obvious stuff. Never mind the insider trading that went on with the tariffs being on again off again, I'd like to see that investigated, among other things.

22.01.2026 04:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICE has arrested four children in same Minnesota school district School district officials in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, say their sense of security is shaken and their hearts shattered after four students from the district have recently been taken by officers wi...

Have you heard about this yet? "Federal agents used 5 year-old boy 'as bait' after detaining him" So much horror happening. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

22.01.2026 02:28 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I remember when presidential candidate Howard Dean was chased off the national stage because of an exuberant scream. This is bonkers.

20.01.2026 20:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is it though? As it is, all the democrats looks spineless and oblivious to the seriousness of the situation. And given all of the garbage going through Congress I'd say wasting time is a-okay and they should be doing more of it.

07.01.2026 02:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So why haven't you called for an impeachment? The lack of substantive push back is bordering on complicity.

06.01.2026 23:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I don't give a damn about the price of coffee. I am primarily worried about our democracy evaporating. Talking about "kitchen table economics" makes democrats look petty in light of what we are facing as a country.

06.01.2026 21:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Technate of America Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library

Gender is one of many stupid reasons. This map is interesting - Elon Musk's grandfather on his mom's side was involved in the Technate movement. Matches up well with the places being targeted, I wonder if it is an influence. digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...

06.01.2026 02:53 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

This is a proposal (a terrifying one, because I expect they are going to extend this to citizens travelling out too eventually). There is still time to object. Hopefully tourist industry groups throw some money around to block it (since that seems to be what it takes these days).

12.12.2025 15:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Graeber (and Wengrow) book is good. It almost made me want to teach anthropology again, just so I could use the book in a class. My primary critique is that it did C Crumley dirty, one footnote at the end when they were basically using the same ideas the whole time is bs.

21.11.2025 14:53 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Grand Theft Auto makers accused of union-busting after firing employees in Canada, U.K. | CBC News The company behind the Grand Theft Auto games fired more than 30 employees last week in what a union leader called an egregious example of union-busting, with some effects being felt in Canada.

Yeah, they had to push it back after they fired a bunch of the dev team probably because they were about to make a push to unionize. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

19.11.2025 21:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And also, the Dems should feed people! Free pancake breakfasts in impoverished areas instead of attack adds. Hand out donuts at local concerts. Campaign volunteers also working at food banks. The DNC should be committed to doing good things outside of government to demonstrate their values.

05.11.2025 14:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And the Great Lakes, so the middle of the country. People forget that as well. Chicago falls within the 100-mile zone that is a maritime border on the Great Lakes. So the border laws apply there too.

14.08.2025 14:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They are Christian evangelicals which isn't inherently bad but they invited Bundy to speak in 2019 and then backtracked. They have also had RFK giving an anti vax speech. Sketchy. I was upset when I found out about it, but there are better places to buy seeds (with better germination rates too).

06.08.2025 16:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I hate to tell you this... seeds even! it just doesn't end: Baker Creek is known to be very right wing, racist and duplicitous about GMOs in their catalog. They invited Cliven Bundy to speak at one of their open houses.

06.08.2025 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Agreed. And people are writing books, etc. on the topic. Including this research article, which I found mildly encouraging: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

14.07.2025 16:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A citation standard for AI is the least of higher education’s worries.

Studies critiquing AI also need to cite AI, a citation standard is just documentation and I’d rather see more of that with AI related topics/use than less.

23.06.2025 21:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is giant military parade happening on flag day basically at the behest of our wanna be dictator on his birthday. It is a good day to protest regardless of who is supporting it. No one is sponsoring my time or my sign.

13.06.2025 13:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kristi Noem just referred to elected officials as "burdensome" and desecrated the first amendment. Trump sent marines to stand against peaceful protestors. This is a budding dictatorship. You are doing NOTHING to stop it.

It is past time to bring articles of impeachment. Our democracy is at stake

12.06.2025 19:40 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0