Mere Smith

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Everyone the day after it finally happens.

why is there interspersed dialogue in the same paragraph, I’m going bananas

Kushner and Saudis back hostile takeover of Hollywood giant Jared Kushner is funneling $24 billion from Middle Eastern governments to back a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—all while advising President Trump on foreign policy.

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game

Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation.

It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

when we bludgeon things past a binary, where it’s not only just yes/no, but FUCK YES/HELL NO

there is no room for nuance or context in discussion — and that limits possibility

limiting possibility only benefits fascists

(there is, however, no nuance to the fact that Fuentes is a fucking Nazi)

sidebar but

actually what Fuentes says, when asked if he’s ever had sex, is:

“No, absolutely not.”

I point this out because it highlights, to me, the fascists’ detrimental culture of absolutism

he could have just said “no,” but instead he makes it a vehement rejection of the idea altogether

the Ivy League: affirmative action for whites

“Oh, yeah, colleges used to be co-ed, but you know how it is, boys just couldn’t keep up”

I must've missed ABC News’ official statement supporting reporter Rachel Scott, who was insulted by Trump yesterday. I guess ABC is still busy drafting a rip-roaring defense of Scott, because no ethical employer would let a staffer be harassed like that without addressing the issue.
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To a certain extent, i think access to cheap consumer goods has papered over a lot of structural problems like housing costs and income inequality and they just ripped the bandaid off an open wound.

these guys are turning me into a 1950s dad. shut up, stop whining, and get a real god damn job

CPS! CPS!!!!!

they made him walk the plank

that man is nearly 72 years old

if that’s middle-aged, I should be getting my first period any minute

The cool S (which normally has a sharp hexagonal shape) but with rounded corners so it looks mostly like a regular S

Introducing the Cool S, For Her™

yeah just what I want in the airport, more sweaty pits guys who can’t do a real chin-up to save their lives

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

The person driving had previously received 40 TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS but somehow still had a license & a car

And as @dariaphoebe.com points out, our media reports this as a “pedestrian crash” as if the victim was at least 50% at fault

Idc, I believe in hell hard enough to put them there

ICE agent shoves a home security camera as she approaches a home. Masks aren't enough. They don't want you to have any record of their behavior. Even the tiniest threat of accountability is too much. Keep recording anyway.

Ring camera captures Burnsville ICE raid that leaves 7-year-old without parents, according to family ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.

"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said.

He said all four are U.S. citizens..."

www.kare11.com/article/news...

ProPublica did. he hung up on them.

never underestimate the prison-for-profit motive

@kshay.com hey there! thank you so much for joining!

FBI agent working as a Population Control Police is caught smashing a small business owner's surveillance camera. Why? Because the PCP does not want their crimes on camera.

Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?

A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.

nailed it

of course she's Black. of course she is.

Found in the Densho Digital Repository

A photograph of the Wanto Co. grocery store in Oakland, CA. The owner, Tatsuro Matsuda, placed a sign reading "I AM AN AMERICAN" on the front of the store on December 8, 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor raid. The photograph was taken by Dorthea Lange sometime in March 1942.
🗃 #skystorians

If it hasn't been said, I'll say it: No woman of color would ever be defended in this "she's just a smol bean" fashion & many Black, Latina, Asian & Indigenous women have had their lives & careers destroyed for nothing, or for far, far less. Same goes for trans women. These are just fucking facts.

calling Nuzzi's comeuppance a "lynching" certainly tells me I don't have to listen to this person's ideas