Riley Casey

A long list of societal benefits vs a driver might get mad is the pedal note of American politics writ both small and large

Seems like a good time to remember that under Eisenhower the top US marginal tax rate was 92%. The 1950s, a time when by any modern Republican metric America was really great. Taxing rich people substantially makes for a good economy. We have the receipts.

You might wonder which Maryland law requires people on the sidewalk to yield right-of-way to drivers crossing the sidewalk in a driveway.🤨

When people wonder at the excess cruelty during revolutionary France's Reign of Terror after centuries of wealth & power providing impunity I can only say I'm ready to guillotine quite a few people after just a few decades of it.

The heinous crime of not being in a car

The Dems have always had FDR in their back pockets in much the same way the Republicans wish they had Lincoln but instead they want to be the party of Wall St

As I remember it a few Germans and Japanese political and military figures did go to the gallows. It was Sherman, hardly a flaming racial equalizer who came up with 40 acres and a mule.

Hanging Davis, Lee and the secessionist leadership would have been a good first step. Dispossessing the slave owner aristocracy and redistributing the land to the former slaves would have under cut the resources that went into the resurgence of the southern conservatives in the 1870-80s.

I realize that we are all watching as the republic is collapsing around us but just in the nick of time we are reminded that curling exits and that takes at least some of the edge off.

The entire Star Wars endeavor was merely a set up for the almost Shakespearean in comparison Andor series

We’re gonna run out of leopards at this rate

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

Anyone who has watched the film Casablanca understands how our diversity was viewed during WW2.

Meanwhile MAGA revels in Kid Rock and white bread christian rock. The left thru out history has understood the power of music to build solidarity. A confederate veteran once commented that had the south had the songs the Union troops sang they might have been more successful.

Same as it ever was

Technically sending masked agents armed with military style weapons to shoot civilians in the streets is illegal but what can you do?

We’ve heard now from several reliable sources that federal agencies may remove a substantial chunk of the 15th St NW protected bike lanes near the National Mall in February, possibly as early as next week.

Reenactments of the retreat from Moscow are what we all need right now 🙄

The decorative rings they leave on the countertops are signs of a skilled cook

Glad to see that comedy is not dead on Bsky

Am I angry?
Yes.
I ride my ebike for climate and sustainability reasons, fully aware that I could be mown down from behind by one of my neighbors at any time.
And then everyone will treat it like an “oopsie” and let my killer keep driving

This is DC & Baltimore even ten days after the storm while nearby suburban residential streets are cleared curb to curb

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

An e-bike with 2.5 inch tires certainly pays off when the need to go to the grocery store exceeds the reluctance to ride thru the snow in single digit temps

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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

That's the thing- you *do* have to explain tear gas & police brutality to your 8 year old. That's the world they're growing up in now, & you should prepare them. Sure, you might've managed to get away w fairytale version of police as a kid, but your kids are facing much tougher odds than you did.