Blackavar

Big Balls had better never be able to live this down for the rest of his life

*gets up to use the restroom*

"do you need a marine escort? should we call the FBI?"

The job of policing is to keep people in their designated spaces. They’re at the National Mall to signal that the mall is understood as a place for particular people.

Ol Big Balls called the mods

screenshot of a Facebook post by Sam Brody: "What is happening in DC right now would not be happening if DC had been made a state any time Democrats held both the presidency and Congress in the last 30 years. Adding states to the union is much easier to do than amending the constitution. It requires nothing more than an act of Congress, and only needs a simple majority to pass. The Obama Senate could have easily done it when they had 59 senators. But the party leaders thought, I dunno, it wouldn’t be sporting or something. Not fair to the Republicans to use power to do things. The pundits might call it “overreach,” oh no, not that. Biden could have tried to do it - everyone was already saying it was necessary democracy reform after Trump I - but he pre-gave up because Manchin and Sinema said they just had to respect the ancient and immortal filibuster, so what can you do? Best not to try. So now we have millions of US citizens with no representation at all under naked authoritarian rule by an unchecked federal law enforcement apparatus. And the pundits have all forgotten the word “overreach,” which only applies to Democrats when they win by much greater margins than this and have much larger and more representative majorities than this."

And its homeless population that's in the first line of fire? Over 90% Black.

Reminder that fascism is violently dangerous and it is also always and everywhere the dorkiest cringiest fucking nonsense you ever goddamn saw

Airdropped aid is not enough
It's not a solution,it's a symbol of how deeply broken the system is
No one should have to wait for food to fall from the sky to survive.
No one should be forced to run, scramble, and risk their lives for a bag of flour
gofund.me/345e1bc0

“We have had the police knocking on every door,” said a dog walker and resident of Dean, as a helicopter buzzed overhead. “They wanted the names of everybody living there and details of their social media. I know several people refused. We asked them if they were protecting us, or Vance. At least they were honest and said it is for him and that it will all be passed on to the American security people.”

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Reporter: Here’s that article, chief!

Editor: Great! We’re gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you!

Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess it’s worth it if they read it.

Editor: Haha, don’t worry, they won’t. Here, let me throw that away for you.

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

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We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.

Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.

www.wedonotcomply.org

A thing I fear a lot of blue city mayors are about to realize is that their cops who they’ve shoved money at for decades with no accountability are going to easily turn against them.

Like you’ve funded the brownshirts who are just waiting for a chance to take over

This is the first time I have no words, as if my soul is being brutally and bloodily torn away.

Can co-sign this. She is also super manipulative which is why all the people who didn't experience outright abuse walked away from her, including me

I just.. I gotta ask. When you set out to become a journalist was this the kind of work you were hoping to do?

You know you can do better, right? No one can really stop you, not even your producer

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

Apropos of nothing,…

”That’s made street-level journalists…more important than ever. They are arguably the truth’s last line of defense, keeping tabs on community activism right at the moment when legacy newsrooms are increasingly walking away…They can’t be bought, so they are bloodied.”

Also no mention of the three other journalists who were illegally detained alongside protesters after LAPD sent folks scattering under a barrage of batons—I personally witnessed at least two officers swinging them like baseball bats and pointing out which protesters they wanted to pick off next

16 people cited after unlawful assembly declared during downtown LA protest Friday The demonstration began earlier Friday with supporters demanding the release of an ICU nurse and community activist who was taken into federal custody in San Pedro.

Gonna try this again with a bit less anger, lol. It is disappointing to see a major media outlet reproducing police statements about what happened on Friday without doing a shred of due diligence to verify those claims.

The 2 people transported were not “pretending to be media,” they *were* media

E.U. nations must recognize legal gender changes across bloc, top court rules The court sided with Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a transgender man who sued his home country of Romania for refusing to accept the gender identity changes he initiated in Britain.

Top E.U. court rules that member states must recognize gender identity changes - “Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity,” the court said in a news release accompanying its ruling.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

I have so many horror stories about @/yourfriendpiper that I have no idea where to start. All I will say for right now is that Piper is a danger to survivors and is not a safe person to advocate, mediate, or provide support in any capacity.

In February 2024 I published a survivor statement against my ex, Huitzil, after enduring years of severe abuse extending well after the breakup. This was a difficult choice, in part because I feared my callout would endanger her then-girlfriend, Piper.

you don’t see that triumphalism anymore. the sheer magnitude of how much was reversed in such a short period of time — and we’re not talking ca. 2020 cultural politics but even basic gains from the 90s and earlier — suggests that the triumphalism was always built on shaky ground

Y'all can we take turns doing personal security for this guy because I have just had a vision of us all dressing up in our best tacticool gear and just insisting on doing dramatic spy rolls into bushes before saying go go gadget mirror and checking around the corners for threats

We need this

The first rule of paradox club is not the included in the set of all rules of paradox club.

I don't think you would be telling the truth if you WEREN'T deep-cynic. We need to be honest about the limitations of the law, especially against certain kinds of power. All the judges who refused to meaningfully charge Trump have betrayed us. We HAVE to reckon with that truth.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sister, Madeline Cuomo, helped attack his accusers on social media, New York Times reports The New York Times says Madeline Cuomo worked for two years with grassroots activists to smear her brother's accusers.

AI might be involved, but it's also known that Cuomo's sister runs a cadre of low-rent posters-for-hire. They targeted his victims with similarly bad material. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Booooo [laudatory]

I'm getting a vasectomy on Tuesday morning and I'm going to be so annoyed if traffic sucks because of the National Guard