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FUCK THE YANKEES!

The admiration, the bat flip, the zoom to Fried 🫡

Trump’s Defense Plans Are a Reagan Redux Both men granted the Pentagon blank checks to spend on their outlandish national-security obsessions.

Hey it worked for Reagan! foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/22/t...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look' The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“That thing you’re mad at me for voting for was performative anyway” is not the defence he thinks it is

trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

Same vibe

“Starbucks Is on the Ropes,” Says SBWU President Lynne Fox, Who Is Eyeing a Strike "Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned," Fox writes. "This i...

Starbucks workers are threatening to strike nationwide if management doesn't grant them a fair contract

Everybody opposed to oligarchy & authoritarianism should be ready to go all-in to support their big fight this fall

inthesetimes.com/article/star...

pritzker with the perfect parry

it's absolutely unsettling to realize how long the legislature has been so dysfunctional that people assume the Supreme Court ruling on whether the Constitution guarantees something forecloses any other action

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Mainstream’s supporters believe the Labour government is struggling to communicate the coherent vision, policy and strategy needed to change the country. They acknowledge the huge electoral threat from the populist right in Reform UK and believe Starmer and his top team “seem lost and unprepared to develop and champion a popular left alternative”.

This (from: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...) seems correct. I'd add that I presently believe that the ultimate cause of this is that the leadership of the party rn are ideologically opposed to popular left-wing things, while also in genuine sympathy with anti-trans and anti-immigrant sentiment.

This absolute banger

we’re not getting hit with the imperial boomerang so much as we built an automatic imperial boomerang-throwing device and loaded thousands and thousands of boomerangs into it

Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen.

The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words.
The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives.

Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.

LA city government remains one big HOA, more concerned with protecting wealthy elites from apartments than solving homelessness, overcrowding, and rent burden. Glad to (mostly) see socialists in office vote against the city's opposition to SB 79 and support apartments near transit.

Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...

“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”

Assault with a deli weapon

These are also the people who insist they care about women’s sports

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

Everyone should notice how a relatively conservative (by the standard of universities, which ofc heavily lean liberal) public university is thus far putting up more of a fight than nearly any of the private universities Trump has targeted.

Public universities are structurally better at this.

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

I spent a night in a field an hour outside Kitchener getting an up-close look at the worm industry. Our tiny corner of the province exports all of North America's bait worms: it's a curious business run by families and powered by immigrant labour, and every fact I learned enchanted me a little more🪱

Congrats Paul!!

Wild that anyone thought “brown guy not from here” would play well in the most multicultural city in the world

Comparisons Between Life in the UK and the USA For most of my life I have lived in the UK, but for six years I lived in the United States of America. Somewhat erratic and unpleasant polit...

I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA.

sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...

Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking Long Beach cop while off duty Isiah Hodgson, 29, was charged with resisting arrest, battery and weapons offenses for the drunken incident on July 7.

Update: The Border Patrol agent charged with drunkenly attacking a Long Beach cop while off duty was involved in the controversial arrest of a U.S. citizen last month. www.latimes.com/california/s...

WendyFry @WendyFry_ Per a senior @DHSgov official: DHS agencies’ immigration enforcement operations are ongoing in Los Angeles. Since operations began in June, ICE and CBP have arrested 2,792 unauthorized immigrants in the LA area. 11:14 AM · Jul 10, 2025 · 5,752 Views

There are at least 900,000 undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County alone.

After a full month of largescale immigration operations which sent extraordinary fear through whole communities and caused measurably drops in school and work attendance, DHS says it has arrested under 2,800 of them.