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Weird how an extremely corrupt administration says all of the programs that help working class people are corrupt

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?

I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.

You can take almost any graph of "thing in America goes to shit for all but the very rich" and put a vertical line at the start of it labeled "Ronald Reagan takes office."

You will be right >90% of the time.

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

these belong to the people. their whole point is that they belong to the people.

It's a microcosm of the problem on a national level. There's a somewhat progressive candidate and the Democrats are pulling out all the stops to install an objectively bad human being instead. Better a sex pest and racist than a leftie brown guy.

We really want the Old Guard Democrats to lose.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

The common trend in the arrests of Sen Padilla, or Comptroller Lander, or Marcos Leao, or any other US citizen, is that they are immediately released. The admin knows they have no legal standing. They know a legal challenge would create a bright line bar. It’s about the chilling effect. Full stop.

another data point for how trans hatred is taught: consider that Christine Jorgensen's front-page story in 1952 was framed as an astounding accomplishment of modern science

I do not like AI in Slack
I do not like AI on Mac
I do not like AI in Zoom
I don’t want AI in my room
I do not want ChatGPT —
please stop, AI, and leave me be!
I don’t want AI here, or there;
I don’t want AI anywhere!

(… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

Congress should be required to use Medicaid as their insurance.

Fascinating and informative thread about the Pinkerton and the evolution of crime fiction.

"Why are you tired" can be retired as a person to person question for the duration.

The thing is? We could rethink policing as a public service rather than a public force. We could re-imagine the work of policing as a practice that restores broken trust and amends the consequences of harm. Hands that nurture rather than boots that stomp. But we didn't.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

It's crazy to me how the country that celebrates the Boston tea party as a patriotic event is always aghast at property destruction during a protest.

Hey.

When someone brings up a book, do not reply with internet archive links to that book. That makes you a giant asshole.

Libraries exist. Lots of them have provisions for people without service in their area. You can even read lots of books electronically through a library.

What to expect next:

– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

Check on your friends in civil service and government today, to make sure they have seen all the best jokes

An extremely quick Summer Reading recs post only this time with books that actually exist, because I'm fussy like that.

kjcharleswriter.com/2025/05/20/s...

Leave AI at the bottom of the grave it hallucinated for you.

It’s not ageist to want your president to be young enough to thoroughly understand the problems affecting the generations of the working class, or to be present enough to be able to respond to all facets of the job. It is ableist to not want your president to need a wheelchair. Do we all get this

Check out my lap barnacle. She has many premium features.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Colem... & * Follow @RepBonnie Since DHS has been lying about this, allow me to correct the record. This scuffle, during which an ICE agent physically shoved me, occurred AFTER we had entered the Delaney Hall premises. We entered the facility, came BACK OUT to speak to the Mayor, and then ICE agents began shoving us. This is not how we entered the facility. We were escorted in by guards, because we have lawful oversight authority to be there.

Important update that Rep. Coleman says she had already been allowed into the facility (again, it would be have been illegal for ICE to have denied her and other Members access) and then *after that* the incident occurred.

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

new pope!

*crowd goes wild*

American pope!

*crowd boos*

woke for an American!

*crowd goes wild*

bad on protecting abusive priests!

*crowd boos*

hates JD Vance!

*crowd goes wild*

I was thinking the same thing!