Dr. Ashok Karra

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

This anti-unhoused bullshit makes me SO ANGRY.

If seeing unhoused people bothers you, maybe try advocating for affordable housing, jackasses.

And now she’s talking about the difference between “beach and urban” environments, and how Huntington Beach should be careful of the urban people from Long Beach.

I got a warning from Pat Burns for calling out “that’s racist.”

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

More parallels to the Redemption Eta — arresting politicians and refusing to allow people to take office who wouldn’t support full throated Confederacy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

You know, if the Democrats were actually doing a good job of fighting back, I might at least emotionally understand why people are like “don’t criticize their historical complicity” but also they’re a fucking dumpster fire right now

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Facilitator at a work conference: What do you hope for this group one year from today?

Me: That we're not in a gulag.

It’s not exaggerating to call this a death threat. There is only one way to prevent a person from ever speaking again.

The one choice that's always in your hands is to live a principled life

not to skate over the dumb homophobia here but there’s this bizarre delusion in America that cities (people living close together for communal and economic reasons, a mode of living as old as civilization) are unnatural while suburbs (hermetic sprawl invented circa 1950) are natural

analytic philosopher, continental philosopher, African Studies theorist

When Hospitals Act Like ICE - Type Investigations

"As Soledad hovered near death, she had entered a hidden medical netherworld, one where the failures of our healthcare system meet the cruelties of our immigration system." www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

*gotta, not German for god

Love Lindt truffles or Ritter sports (cornflake is the stuff). Need the right tea or coffee to really take the chocolaty-ness in over time. gott be savored

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

Man…man.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

In a town that’s 70% republican. Someone has a petition to rename a street after Kirk. Local councilman does an informal poll of residents: 400 for it, 1100 against

The Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist pastor, “has also protested at the Broadview facility on several occasions. She, like Black, said she has been shot multiple times with pepper bullets, including while she was praying w/her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole.”

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very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

yet the airport is still operating. i did not know you could…do that.

imagine getting a pep talk to "do the fucking news" by peter thiel's hand puppet. i would simply turn to dust.

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen