the ben keeps the flores

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

"If the existence of an enemy has made a soul destroy in itself the thing nature put there, then the only remedy the soul
can imagine is the destruction of the enemy."

In case you haven’t read it

These freaks yell “just teach the classics” but they’re all illiterate or otherwise just don’t read, because there it is: the single greatest writer in the history of the English language reaching 4 centuries into the future to read them for the grimy, hateful filth they are.

Oh no I didn’t molest children with the notorious pedophile, I merely wanted access to his money and influence

BARI WEISS: Well, time to hire another new correspondent for CBS News. (Starts flipping through a huge tome titled “The Big Book of Pedophiles and Their Contact Information”)

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

I hope that whatever marginal gains the Democrats accomplish as the minority party with respect to ICE are just the beginning, though I fear they'll be an end. ICE was bad under Obama. It stayed. It was bad under Biden. It stayed. But ICE is bad because of what it does, not just how it does it.

I want to start out by telling you how excited I was to see you holding a Q&A with your constituents concerning the egregious actions of ICE in MN these past 3 weeks. However, I was quickly horrified when I saw not only who your guest speaker was, but heard the things he had to say. DHS is currently buying warehouses to turn into concentration camps. In a country already littered with detention centers. People are being grabbed off the streets and disappeared. Americans are being executed. And you thought having a former assistant secretary for DHS to explain how no matter how much we suffer, ICE and BP are necessary, was a good idea? Maybe you are oblivious to what ICE and BP have operated as since their inception, but many of us are not. I taught for 7 years in Texas before moving to Brookline. I watched my students lose fathers, brothers, aunts, even boyfriends, to ICE and deportation. And when I say lose, I don't just mean they were deported. MANY were killed in the process, whether stateside through mistreatment in detention centers, or murdered once sent to countries with zero support or protection.

I cannot begin to express how disgusted I felt listening to Nunez-Neto describe how necessary ICE is. Truly. It's one of the more disgusting things I've heard from an official of a democratic administration. And I am deeply ashamed to have you as a representative, presenting that man and his beliefs as the correct stance in this moment. All this to say: Abolishing ICE is the moderate position. That is the bare minimum you must work towards as a representative of this community. ESPECIALLY when the MAJORITY of Americans want ICE abolished. Anything less, and you might as well be a fascist with Trump. Because you are ignoring the desires of the majority of this country. That is not democracy. Please don't try running for a democratic seat in this state again if you are just going to push xenophobic strong border nonsense like what I had to sit through last night. Shame on you. Abolish ICE. Prosecute ICE.

Note I sent to @repauchincloss.bsky.social this morning concerning that heinous Q&A last night

They need to be a lot clearer about unmasking agents. The impunity these agents feel being masked is a very real thing. I predict a lot of agents will quit the force if they’re forced to do the job unmasked knowing they won’t get peace anywhere.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

It sure is convenient that every bad thing that happens is "senseless." If we could figure any of it out we might have to do something about it

"Sorry sorry trying to delete." Besides the moronic if not totally disingenuous absurdity of this statement, I am so sick of these people calling murders "senseless." Every one of these crimes makes sense. Calling them senseless just lets you off the hook for doing anything about it

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.

Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.

Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.

ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Where do you guys come up with all this bullshit

Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.

Even in this abhorrent right wing victim blaming fantasty in which the conservative male is the perfect subject of compliance, the hero cop still must be treated like a frightened rabid animal lest he lash out and kill as is his nature

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

Fantasty. Snacks for fans

Even in this abhorrent right wing victim blaming fantasty in which the conservative male is the perfect subject of compliance, the hero cop still must be treated like a frightened rabid animal lest he lash out and kill as is his nature

Last person they murdered didn't

It had nothing to do with him having a gun. The presence of a gun merely provided a convienent lie for why they murdered him, which they did because they enjoy doing it. It's why they do this job. They like hurting people and they take any chance they can get

I have been thinking all day about the number of times unarmed Black people were killed by police on the pretext that their cell phone looked like a gun. And people would say “oh but you just don‘t know what the truth is.” Well here it is.

What they’re saying is okay vs not okay