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Every time I see this guy I think of the @kenwhite.bsky.social quip, "Kash always has an expression on his face like he gambled on a fart and lost"

alright here's a Take: checks and balances (and federalism) were supposed to protect against tyranny. But instead they just prevented a "tyranny of the majority" from doing universal health care and gun control, and it turns out they do basically nothing to stop an autocrat

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion – AsAmNews The accomplishments of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat unit and the 100th Infantry Battalion have been removed from the Army's website.

Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.

jordan peterson is having that dream again. he's standing amongst row after row of communist chinese man milking machines, all tugging away. he tries to cry but his face won't stop smiling. a pleasant warmth washes over him. he's flat on a table now. I DON'T WANT TO BE MILKED he lies, jolting awake

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE.

In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

Period.

A Tumblr post by "laxsara" tells a WWII story about unarmed shells and a note, reflecting on harm reduction and hope. Transcribed Text: the meaning of life is summed up in the story elmer bendiner tells about how when he was a pilot the second world war, his plane was hit with a barrage of anti-aircraft fire from the nazi forces but the crew survived. and how everyone was saying it was a miracle until they investigated the shells that got in the fuselage and found there was no explosive charges in any of them. in one they found a note scribbled in czech, written by the person who had been forced to manufacture the shells, and it just said ‘this is all we can do for you now’. every time i see someone acting tough online about how harm reduction is pointless and in some convoluted way worse than doing nothing i think about that person in some soul-destroying nazi factory in occupied czechoslovakia removing all of the explosive charges from their anti-aircraft shells and writing a note that they must have known would probably never be read, just to say ‘this is all we can do for you, and we’re going to do it’. _they are trying to make us kill you and we refuse. i do think that maybe it’s all going to be okay.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

These are the same picture.

Kent Cooper Kent Cooper 15m Edited I worked as an insurance underwriter, rate maker and compliance officer for over 30 years. As a compliance officer who made insurance form filings with state insurance departments I can tell you my position was one of having his head on the block constantly. I was told many times to make a filing with some state that absolutely violated state law. One of my last ones I had the balls to take a photocopy of the law that my company wanted to ignore into a senior vice president's office and ask him to sign at the bottom. He told me to get the f*ck out of his office. I did, returning to my office to put my resume together. My insurance career making $100k per year would last less than a year after that incident. I became a medical records clerk in a hospital making $10.50 per hour, but I slept better at night. Even then insurance companies invaded my sense of morality. They would send their nurses into my hospital and ask to review records of patients in the hospital. I pulled those records (back in the day when they were primarily paper) for those nurses who would review them and then inform doctors which of their patients they would have to release the next day or payment would be shut off. I don't believe in violence, Elad, but that said non-violence is not always effective. Can any of us imagine non-violence when America was founded? If we had been non-violent we would be singing God Save the King today. Right now 17,3% of our GDP goes towards healthcare. With that kind of disparity what sort of non-violent action do you propose? Should we all refuse to buy health insurance? Should we refuse to take prescription drugs? At some point violence is the only answer. I write this as a 78 year old crippled Vietnam veteran who is entirely dependent upon social security and Medicare for survival. Perhaps the real heroes among us are simply those who are willing to do the violence that isn't sanctioned by the Empire.

Epic comment on my latest piece.

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers:

Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users.

That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

People are disappointed that the guy was just doing it for weirdo reasons and not because of class consciousness but the class consciousness was literally the friends we made along the way. It was everyone in america saying that dickhead deserved it. It was us all along.

They were brought to this friendship over their shared love of cars killing people

Just insane that the left treated the tech industry with increasing hostility just because they undermined organized labor, flouted the regulatory state, and bragged that they were going to get rid of everybody's jobs for a decade straight.

The Replacements sitting on the roof of the Stinson home. This photo became the cover image for the album "Let It Be"

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

All told, Seth has around 1.1 million followers across several social media platforms. Among his current and former followers on social media are several of The Avengers (the actors portraying Captain America, Ms. Marvel, The Vision, and The Hulk, for instance); several West Wing cast members (Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, and Josh Malina); former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey; U.S. senator Mitt Romney (from his "Pierre Delecto" sock-puppet account); 2016 Trump national security adviser George Papadopoulos, who made Seth one of his very first follows on Twitter; celebrities including Ricky Gervais, Mark Hamill, John Legend, Seth Rogen, Ed Norton, Anna Kendrick, QuestLove, Dan Harmon, Courtney Love Cobain, Wil Wheaton, LeVar Burton, Grimes, Elijah Wood, Deepak Chopra, Jeff Daniels, Cher, James Corden, Sarah Silverman and hundreds of others; and too many major-media journalists to name, from Nicolle Wallace to George Stephanopoulos, Erin Burnett to Chuck Todd, Jim Sciutto to Chris Cuomo, Stephanie Ruhle to Kristen Welker, Van Jones to Ronan Farrow, Bill Kristol to S.E. Cupp. At points Seth came tantalizingly close to finding a partner for turning his political nonfiction into a multi-season true-crime series; Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men and The American President) and Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot and Homecoming) have expressed interest. Multimedia rights for the 3,000-page, five-book, national-bestselling "Proof" series (see below for more) remain available.

Since childhood, Seth has needed to wear medicated pants. Upon achieving puberty "more completely than any boy to that point," his childhood doctor administered a whole-body x-ray and told his mom, "I'm afraid it's going to get stuck like that." In 2019, Seth underwent surgery to add ribs to his ribcage to stop him from sucking his own dick. The Advance Placement Dean of the Harvard School of Yale Medicine described the procedure as "singular, groundbreaking and a total failure." In 2020, he was chased out of a White Collar fan convention by a torch-bearing mob after being named "Most Reviled Mozzie." Seth is afraid of all large birds because they fly him back to their nest and sit on him. A court ruling determined that he is not allowed within 1000 feet of Robert Mueller or any Jonas Brother.

Seth Abramson's bio is, hands down, the most incredible thing I've ever seen.

Sad to report that Dennis Prager tried to suck his own dick and buckled like a folding chair. He fell down a very long flight of stairs and smashed his dick n' balls on every step on the way down. Thoughts and prayers.

I've talked to a few folks this morning who were talking about stopping work on their creative projects. Because it's "not important anymore."

I don't know who needs to hear this, but DON'T DO THAT.

We win by living our lives as loudly and truly as we can. That includes your "silly" art project.

And boy oh boy, do we hate the houseless. We'll pass damn near any bond measure, but prop 5 goes down by 10 points

I've gotten more anonymous phone calls today than I have in the last week. The election is over, who the fuck are these assholes?

Sarah McBride becomes the first out transgender person elected to Congress McBride, a Democrat who served two terms as a state senator, wins Delaware’s only House seat, NBC News projects.

Expected, but still a big fucking deal: Sarah McBride will be the first out transgender member of Congress

"Who is allowing people to do this to United States citizens?"

One of Life's Great Mysteries, I guess

People always point out that taxing the super-wealthy wouldn't actually raise all that much revenue, but it's becoming clearer that the primary benefit is just taking away their money.

Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.

Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics.

The DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement. boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...

RIP Reverend Cecil Williams, the first church-related person that made me feel like maybe I belonged. You were amazing, and without you, I don't know that I would ever have found peace