Neephos

Of course I did not just walk through the back hall of the hospital quietly chanting to myself "be gay do crime" with accompanying cheering motions and the fact that you would insinuate such is slanderous...

An unwrapped tamale.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

Those 8 Democrats are not “weak,” to their corporate donors, they are incredibly strong.

Corporate money in politics is the problem.

There's a ton of incompetence in this admin; we see that every day.

But *this facet* of the Trump regime is about lawlessness, cruelty, corruption, manipulation, & retribution—& it is EXPERT-level, running circles around Ds & courts.

Ds, he (& his lapdog Rs) cannot be trusted.

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Important to remember that none of these W. Era neo-cons ever redeemed themselves, they just demonstrated their own lack of basic foresight in their horror at Trump's exploitation of the mechanisms and narratives they championed

Well, hell. Looks like I'm going to need to drink more coffee. Dick Cheney died and I'm going to need a full bladder for the funeral.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Yes, this is it - BORING!

The US captivated global fascination while it was this place where a future *never seen before* was being created.

Now it's just trying to adopt and resurrect stuff that's painfully familiar to the rest of the world.

We know how this goes - we already have it at home!

Why you should care about @karenattiah.bsky.social’s firing: ‘It never stops just at black people when our voices are being silenced. It never stops when it’s just marginalized people being silenced. It is always a test case for what is possible to other people’

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

I will forever say, there are times that call for high risk activities.

But there are NEVER times that call for doing high risk activities with The New Guy, especially if The New Guy proposes them.

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

So, a child was losing weight (the implication is the stress of the Alpha School's methods) so much so her pediatrician recommended additional snacks, and the School's untrained "guides" (who are not teachers) withheld those snacks from the child until "she met her learning metrics"?

In case you haven't heard, thousands of Starbucks workers could be going on strike soon and it should be much bigger news

Andrew Cuomo Is Going Out the Way He Came In: as a Vile Bigot Vote for Zohran, not the moron.

ZOMG, @jeetheer.bsky.social coming off the top rope! :)

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

...at some point around the middle they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out, because it kinda seemed like that dude belongs in prison.

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

By far one of the best parts of the culture I was raised in.

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South Ta-Nehisi Coates said going to Palestine, shortly before the Hamas attacks, was ‘a huge shock’ – and he felt a responsibility to yell about what he saw there. In The Message, he does just that.

Imagine being a minority lawmaker funded by modern day Jim Crow.

In the SCOTUS oral argument about gutting the VRA because it might violate white people's right to be over-represented in Congress, there's a glaring irony in the fact that the lawyers arguing for racism are getting out-balanced time to speak without anybody acting like it's weird.

Sigh.

ICE/gestapo is at Bayview Medical Center for people that is important information for.

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy Calling for civility is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly.

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility is about exerting power. It is a way of reminding the powerless that they exist at the will of those in power and should act accordingly. It is a demand for control.” [nytimes.com]

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

When JD Vance brags about the U.S. blowing up alleged drug boats and says, "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world," he's really saying:
"We're so reckless and dishonest that fishermen should worry that the U.S. will murder them and then falsely accuse them of drug trafficking."

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

Family guy color chart meme with “pray for the confused Christian boy” written on top and “revengin’ time” on the bottom

What will happen is the same thing that happened when it turned out the Trump shooter was a disaffected young white man.

No corrections, no apologies, and within a month at most, they’ll be back to pretending that it was a radical trans leftist. Kirk was only ever a tool to them. So is his death.