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Prison vs car abolition is one of the more toxic intra-left discourses on this site.
21.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No one has flopped harder at being a Catholic than JD Vance.
21.02.2026 03:51 — 👍 1658 🔁 306 💬 35 📌 9You’ll recall that Renée Good was murdered after that jackass waltzed in front of her vehicle, and then pretended to be in danger while shooting her three times.
21.02.2026 03:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Back in 2014, Border Patrol agents had gotten so out of hand with putting themselves in harm’s way, then using the resulting situation to justify force, that the border chief had to tell them to knock it off. (🎁 link)
www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/u...
Even taking the DHS reports at face value—which no one should ever do—these officers violated policy and put themselves in the path of the vehicle.
21.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It’s funny that the New Yorker had to print a cartoon portrait of him for the header of its exclusive interview.
21.02.2026 03:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Like, you still need someone to answer phones and write contracts and actually get off their ass and look at whether a vendor has performed a job.
21.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Management-level decision making is already heavily influenced by big data analytics. It’s a short hop from there to entirely replacing management with a machine. But management decision-making is, what? ten percent of what actually happens in an office?
21.02.2026 02:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0One thing that’s happening here is that people whose white collar jobs involve the sorts of things that LLMs could take over are assuming that every other white collar job involves the sorts of things that LLMs could take over, which is really not the case.
21.02.2026 02:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests
20.02.2026 15:27 — 👍 4347 🔁 736 💬 42 📌 16Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him
20.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 9092 🔁 1455 💬 341 📌 97Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
21.02.2026 00:51 — 👍 9597 🔁 3269 💬 86 📌 108My event in Portland today went well...
21.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 266 🔁 25 💬 12 📌 1An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
20.02.2026 23:46 — 👍 10537 🔁 4496 💬 137 📌 76sometimes I throw an Obamanian "uhhh" into my sentences just for fun.
20.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can remember specific Bush and Trump phrases, but I also think Clinton and Obama had two of the most distinctive cadences of any public figure of my lifetime.
20.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0counterpoint: "I feel your pain."
20.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the Court is going to strike down a couple of Trump's more heinously unlawful moves, but you'll notice that these decisions will happen to align nicely with the interests of people with enough disposable income to purchase a small island nation.
20.02.2026 19:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Starting with the 2024 decision that gave President Trump substantial immunity from prosecution and continuing through a score of emergency orders provisionally greenlighting an array of his second-term initiatives, Mr. Trump has had an extraordinarily successful run before the Supreme Court. That came to a sudden, jolting halt on Friday,
counterpoint: no it didn't, and you're a fucking mark.
20.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence
just as surely as the sun rises in the east, every Supreme Court decision that fails to uncritically uphold the mad king's most insane whims is going to be read as The Triumphant Return Of The Majesty Of Judicial Independence.
20.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
20.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 10232 🔁 2630 💬 79 📌 80sight posted on a door reading DO NOT SOLILCIT ANY RELIGIONS TO MY DOOR! I ALREADY WORSHIP MY WIFE *photo of an older blond woman with her hair parted in the middle) JUNE 3 1987 - FIRST KISS AUG 9, 1987 - FIRST PHYSICAL EXPRESSION OF OUR LOVE NOV 7, 1992 - MY MOMENT OF WEAKNESS (I COMMIT ONE HARM TO MYSELF EACH DAY EVER SINCE TO ATONE) MYWIFEISGOD.COM 1HARMEACHDAY.ORG
ATTN
19.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 644 🔁 103 💬 21 📌 17pixel art with a purple-black checker background: a white cat distorted into pixel-like square shapes through the distortion of a tiled glass window, leaning up with paws at the bottom of the window, its green eyes also square with dark pupils facing outward comically. To the sides of and just above the cat, there are lines of white and pink/brown following the square pattern
photo of a white cat distorted into pixel-like square shapes through the distortion of a tiled glass window set in a wooden door, leaning up with paws at the bottom of the window, its green eyes also square with dark pupils facing outward comically. To the sides of and above the cat, the background of the room and lines reflecting the color of the cat are visible and also distorted by the window.
Tiled Window Catte
#pixelart #ドット絵
Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy
19.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 2992 🔁 687 💬 36 📌 30there's something grotesque about the fact that the most high-profile arrest connected to the Epstein files to date is not for sexual abuse, but for compromising global trade.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Wow the "dismissive of sexual abuse" coalition includes libertarians AND a French guy? There's no stopping this freight train
19.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 683 🔁 71 💬 3 📌 0If she’s anything like Gavin, she let a shady nonprofit funded by corporate health insurance companies pay for the trip.
19.02.2026 01:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Obviously better than nothing but I want to see these people in jail.
19.02.2026 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0