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Meanwhile, the U.S. rushes into greatness by mandating coal, horse drawn buggies, and measles epidemics.

Stress Break, dat smile edition

MAGA, why was convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell moved to a minimum security prison in Texas shortly after meeting with Trump's former personal defense attorney?

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

Posting about it is how I cope 😄 That and video games

It sucks. There's no silver lining. A lot of stuff I was taught in law school is now indistinguishable from fairy tales

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Genuinely crazy how much we went from debates about body cams to "is the camera rolling? good. now watch me assault this dude."

Miller aspires to be Goebbels. Ridicule him, mock him and RESIST in ways that are public, visible and don't give into a single one of his evil dreams. Turn him into Bull Connor.

Vance is responding to a purported quote from Joy Reid THAT SHE DIDN’T SAY.

Left is Vance quote-tweeting a BS MAGA account. Right is my transcription of the video. She’s talking about HER PARENTS’ EXPERIENCE OF RACISM NOT HERSELF. SHE’S QUOTING HER MOTHER.

Vance didn’t listen / doesn’t care.

This should be the whole point. It is an outright lie to vote for appropriations or legislation, of any kind, in a situation where the acts of Congress aren't really binding. It makes any possible "deal" worthless. The whole exercise is a sham. Dem votes would do nothing but legitimize the pretense.

LOL

Nice, @mcbride.house.gov.

The government is shut down. For those just tuning in, here’s what happened:
 
1) We said we needed to help Americans pay their health insurance bills.
 
2) Republicans hated the idea and stonewalled us.
 
3) They shut down the government (which they control all chambers of) without negotiating.

Rest well, and thank you, Jane Goodall.

I love Bryan Stevenson. the racism he describes here is just wrong.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Smh what are you waiting on dude
It's literally Mamdani or Cuomo or the maga dude which is basically one in the same with Cuomo. 🙄

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Justice Clarence Thomas says legal precedents are not 'the gospel' Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court should take a more critical approach to settled precedent. It is not "the gospel," he says.

Let's see if he's for overturning LOVING V. VIRGINIA

Let's see if his wife Ginni agrees with that one.

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Wowwwww these people SUCK

Let me be clear. As someone who has been professionally involved with the biodefense / biosecurity sector for nearly 20 years, and has worked on biological risk analysis for Covid-19 since early 2020, reducing one's risk of being infected is not health anxiety. It's just smart.

If anyone knows anything about this ICE agent, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

No Votes for CR Unless Supreme Court Rescinds Trump’s Immunity Text SIGN PSTZSC to 50409 to send this to your officials.

No more compromise. Sick of what the Supreme Court did? Time to shut it all down until immunity is rescinded by SCOTUS.

Call Congress 202-224-3121

Send the context: Text ‘sign PSTZSC’ to 50409 via @resist.bot

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I'm seeing a lot of evidence lately for my longstanding conviction that America's elites are awful. Just awful.

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Smiling man holds Let’s Be Brave sticker

L’Shannah Tovah!
Last night @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joined (((one of the city’s most progressive synagogues))) Kolot Chayeinu for Erev Rosh HaShanah services - and my stickering friend got a shout out in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Sec. 2. The Gold Card. (a) The Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish a “Gold Card” program authorizing an alien who makes an unrestricted gift to the Department of Commerce under 15 U.S.C. 1522 (or for whom a corporation or similar entity makes such a gift) to establish eligibility for an immigrant visa using an expedited process, to the extent consistent with law and public safety and national security concerns. The requisite gift amount shall be $1 million for an individual donating on his or her own behalf and $2 million for a corporation or similar entity donating on behalf of an individual. (b) In adjudicating visa applications, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, treat the gift specified in subsection (a) of this section as evidence of eligibility under 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(1)(A), of exceptional business ability and national benefit under 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(2)(A), and of eligibility for a national-interest waiver under 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(2)(B).

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa.

Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

Group of workers reportedly detained while working on roof in Naperville, homeowner says A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.