DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while.

Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority?

ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles

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"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant" Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

🚨another🎯🧵shared by Dr Nicola Boyd (@DrNick4126 on Twitter) about Far-UVC tech:

"A 92% ⬇️in respiratory infections across 3 aged care facilities is just utterly massive.
That’s the effective elimination of all respiratory illness..."

Full🧵here:
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#FarUVC #UVC #IAQ

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

It’s 2024. In the unlikely event your semiliterate tween wants to crack a book, let alone one about gender identity or sexuality, pulling it from the local library is comically pointless as an access limitation. It’s just an impotent shriek of disapproval that these things are culturally accepted.

Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.

Running is a healthy activity! Especially when there is something dangerous chasing you, then it is incredibly healthy!

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

Every 8 minutes. That's how often a US Uber passenger reports a driver for sexual assault or misconduct.

But rather than solve the problem, Uber is just telling passengers to request a woman driver and hope that one is available.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Just wanted to add that perhaps the most infuriating thing in this entire rage-inducing article is the fact that Uber knew what patterns were most associated with sexual assault and refused to divulge that information because customers then might not use their services. Safety first, amirite?

It's incredible that all of the people who would shit on Wikipedia as a source because "lol anyone can edit that" are now 100% reliant on asking questions to the lying robot machine that no human has any oversight over

According to the Washington Post, "Big Balls" was beaten up by an unarmed 15-year-old boy and girl, who then ran off when a police cruiser pulled into the block.

The two suspects are now being held at a juvenile detention center.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents from President Trump’s first term, which caused a global outcry.

ICE officers told a couple they could leave the U.S. with their child and return to Russia, which they had fled seeking political asylum. Or they could remain in immigration detention but their 8-year-old son would be taken away and sent to a shelter for unaccompanied children.

Hamed AleazizNicholas Nehamas By Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas Aug. 5, 2025, 4:51 p.m. ET On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Less than four hours later, the agency abruptly canceled what was supposed to be a 30-day pilot program. “PLEASE DISREGARD,” Liana J. Castano, an official in ICE’s field operations division, said in a follow-up email to agency offices around the country.

🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.

no need for further discourse: you're working class if you have a bedtime

Masked federal agents apprehending people as they leave mandatory immigration court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning.

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”

This is pretty much the same in the U.S. and it is just one of the ways in which politics everywhere is coming unglued from reality, and one of the things that politicians would be punished for being truthful about

The right-wing of the USA is exactly mimicking the playbook of radical Islam to turn young, uneducated, desperate men into lemmings. The irony meter has fully broken.

Foreign born civilian labor force is down 1.8 million in 4 months -- a massive supply shock

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Okay you can officially get ready for an attempt to cook the books.

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

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