Pablo (he/him)

I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.

So they're... Doing what they campaigned on?? Scoundrels!

I wanna see South Park's take on the Supreme Court.

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Thinking about this today amid reports that federal datasets are disappearing on everything from disease to labor statistics to inflation.

Yes, they did, and we can't do the same because big money is on the side of big money. Big money will never work against its own interests, at best it'll just put up symbolic displays of false resistance.

"You can believe that I lean left because I say I do in order to write puff pieces for hard right nut jobs!"

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

The cloture vote on Bove was 50-48 last Thursday, all voting Dems plus Collins/Murkowski were nos. Seems quite likely he'll be confirmed this week. But since that was two whistleblowers ago, probably worth anyone with a Republican senator making one more call.

Love it! I also went to my first pickles game this week, and I'll definitely be going again!

Venezuelan makeup artist returns home, describes torture during El Salvador detention A makeup artist who became the face of more than 250 Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison arrived home to his family on Wednesday after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death."

Andry Hernandez, a gay makeup artist deported by the U.S. to El Salvador's most notorious prison, arrived home to his family after what he described as "an encounter with torture and death." He said prisoners were beaten, shot with rubber projectiles, held in dark cells, and served rotten food.

Welcome to America, where the convicted sex offender president is about to pardon the convicted child sex trafficker whose client he was.

Lowkey this has been my concern with folks evaluating US conduct in WWII et al. Yes war crimes, yes concentration camps, yes Jim Crow, yes hypocrisy—no genocide. No moral equivalence with Nazism.

When we say “we were always this bad” we risk losing the urgency of what the IDF, ICE, etc. are doing.

The result—an increase of executive power at the expense of legislative authority-does not stand alone. Just last week, this Court granted another stay allowing the President to ignore a federal statute. That decision permitted the President to push forward in dismantling the Department of Education, even though Congress created that agency and tasked it with performing vital functions. See McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. (2025) (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). If the majority had any valid basis for taking that action (relating, say, to the breadth of the District Court's preliminary injunction) it did not appear on the face of the Court's unreasoned or-der. See id., at _ (order) (slip op., at 1); id., at (SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 18). That order simply signaled that the President could carry on, even in the face of a conflicting statute. So too does this order, and with the same lack of care. The majority has acted on the emergency docket—with "little time, scant briefing, and no argument" —to override Congress's decisions about how to structure administrative agencies so that they can perform their prescribed duties. Wilcox, 605 U.S., at _ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 5). By means of such actions, this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another. Respectfully, I dissent.

By a 6-3 vote, SCOTUS lets Trump fire the Dem members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who are protected against removal by statute.

Dissenting, Kagan says the majority is undertaking a “permanent transfer of authority” from Congress to the president.
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And Acosta got a little job perk from Cheetolini after the fact, too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

TN woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried

BREAKING: Thanks to Tennessee GOP’s grotesque “Medical Ethics Defense Act,” a pregnant mom was just REFUSED prenatal care for the “sin” of being unmarried. Republicans wrote a law that lets doctors turn away patients like bouncers at a club — in a state with the nation’s worst maternal mortality.

A 'Redskin' Is the Scalped Head of a Native American, Sold, Like a Pelt, for Cash

I remember commissioning this story from my friend @baxterholmes.bsky.social 11 whole years ago. It is not a complex decision when you know any history at all. And now Trump is trying basically criminalize being against this racism.

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Peoria sushi shop owner faces deportation after 21 years of living in the US Kelly Yu, who does not have legal status in the U.S., is in ICE custody in Arizona, leaving her business, customers and family behind.

"Her businesses, known for donating meals to homeless shelters, supporting local police, providing funding for high school baseball teams...

“She gives back to the community, creates jobs for young people, pays taxes. Why would you want to remove someone like that?”

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Guy who posted this tried to avoid felony charges in four jurisdictions by arguing that presidents are absolutely immune from criminal prosecution

I'm not sure it's "nice" to hear Republicans come out in a defense of Bill Clinton, exactly, but it's something.

... Oh, that's not what he meant?

Sadly, I think the corporate media is beyond redemption at this point.

America in a nutshell.

Just out of curiosity, do you always address your electeds by first name?

Florida Supreme Court Greenlights DeSantis’ Congressional Map that Eliminates Black Representation Read more here.

The Florida Supreme Court upheld a congressional map drafted by Ron DeSantis — even as it acknowledged that the map weakens Black electoral power in the state.

The 5th Congressional District, held by Black representatives for nearly 30 years, was dismantled at DeSantis’ request in 2022.

Today someone asked how much I would pay in taxes to ensure everyone had housing & healthcare

I don’t know, whatever I could? This isn’t the “gotcha” folks think it is

If we taxed the rich properly, the rest of us wouldn’t need to pay exorbitant taxes to ensure every single person was provided for

They just hate/fear their fellow man, and proximity gives them the ookies. Also, any evidence of government working well for public benefit. The idea of gvt services.

i’d say this is likely to impact tiktok’s user activity negatively, but all evidence suggests that no matter how evil, racist, or surveillant a social media app’s owner is, people will find ways to justify sticking around.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities