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just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

not voting for anyone who isn’t in the streets after this

This is the way. Any 2028 Dem candidates need to start saying that on Day One: (1) all ICE agents fired; (2) pensions/benefits defunded; (3) forced to pay backpay as restitution to victims; and (4) only way to avoid prison is to become a cooperating informant

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

More unemployment and poverty will likely lead to more violence. More police will not stop this.

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

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[In the imperial core as violence is visited upon the periphery] haha fuck yeah!! yes!!

[As the violence visited upon the periphery returns to the imperial core] well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

there are still a bunch of plain facts you can't publish in the newspaper, such as "the Federalist Society is a conspiracy by fascist billionaires to overthrow American democracy and reinstate Jim Crow."

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

A headline that reads "Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change".

Four maps. 2015, 2017, which shoe substantial pollution, 2020 which shows it reduced a good deal, and 2024 which shows it reduced even more

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A train is rallying folks with a US flag, while standing on a paper crown. The words surround it: No Kings, Only Trains.

A train is rallying folks with a red flag, while standing on a paper crown. The words surround it: No Kings, Only Trains.

Doing my part for the No Kings Only Trains rally

112 people died daily in vehicle crashes throughout the US on average in 2023—almost 41,000 people over the course of the year.

Sometimes trivia is just that: trivial. Some other times, though, it cracks the world open a bit, into something a little less disenchanted. Such is this trinket about my local stretch of the Mississippi River as it bends its way through St. Paul, and the giant from which it emerged.

As you might notice upon visiting the Twin Cities, the Mississippi’s valley can be rather narrow or strangely wide, depending on the part of town. (An informal survey of friends and colleagues revealed this is, in fact, quite often not noticed.)

To understand why, you might first look north and West, to the Red River Valley along the North Dakota border. The Red River flows north into Canada and, eventually, Hudson Bay, but “valley” is a real misnomer; locals believably claim this to be the flattest place on earth.

You also need to look to the past. Driving through the Red River Valley feels akin to being at sea, the earth and sky stretching to their fullest in all directions.* This is not entirely a coincidence; the land here is flat because it was once the bottom of a vast, shallow, ancient lake, Lake Agassiz, formed by melting glaciers. (*Or it feels depressingly dull. Mileage may vary)

Among Giants: A Brief Hydrological History of the Upper Midwest: https://streets.mn/2024/12/20/among-giants-a-brief-hydrological-history-of-the-upper-midwest/

just one more administrative burden bro. I promise bro Just one more means test and it'll fix everything bro. bro. Just one more administrative burden. One more means test and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro cmon just give me one more administrative burden I promise. bro bro please.

Over the past 30 years, and especially since 2008, U.S. cities have been steadily shifting money away from social services like housing and parks and putting it toward policing. Why is this?

one of the things that the South Korean crisis has brought into sharp focus is how American elites are cowards.

Get rotated idiot. Get absolutely spun

UBI is proof that we do not actually care about evidence when it comes to policy, because I struggle to find a better example of something so consistently shown to be beneficial

and yet it’s never even brought up as a serious option outside of endless pilot programs that all tell us the same thing

Mornin friendos

death to america and all that but when it’s olympics time? USA USA fucking destroy everyone let’s go!!!

Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

left of center parties surveying the history of trying to appease reactionaries rather fight them head on

Here's a quick rundown of how each automaker handles customer location data requests:

Idk how anyone can deny climate change is real when cop riot season is starting two whole months earlier than usual

You can tell none of the UT students are armed and dangerous because the cops are there