Ben Hayes

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

ICE to open second Tennessee immigrant detention center in Lebanon • Tennessee Lookout Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has purchased a facility in Lebanon to house detained immigrants, an agency spokesperson said Friday.

Tennessee

"No details about the size, scope, purchase price or street address of the facility in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville, were immediately made available Friday, and news of the purchase took state and local officials by surprise..."

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The entire ethos of the Trump administration is that nobody who disagrees with them, nobody who fails to support them, is legitimate or entitled to any rights in any way. It is the ethos of thuggish tyranny.

This is a pretty brutal Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Y’all the thing is that the only value Andy Ogles carries is his ability to get you to screenshot his dingbattery and spread it to the masses. He doesn’t craft legislation, he doesn’t even pretend to serve his constituents. I beg of you to stop giving this clown oxygen.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

You could either have wings and watch the game with friends and family or you can be alone, sweating, making sure your 10 Amazon kindle fires are all streaming the rightwing halftime show, not because you like the music, but because this is all you have

This entire administration exists solely to kill and torture brown and black people and to protect and promote the Epstein Class. That's the entire job of this Federal government. Why should we fund this

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

When I said "I've been down this road before" I meant being lost. I've never seen this road in my life.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

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These are the people abducting children and taking them to concentration camps.

The Guardian (Photo) A woman holding a child gets into a federal immigration officer's vehicle on Tuesday in Minneapolis. Photograph: Adam Gray/AP.

This was today. Bovino and murmurs about Noem and Stephen Nosferatu are all distractions.

No reforms. No concessions.

Abolition.

Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity If you'd rather be like them than like him, it's time to take a look in the mirror...

Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...

I think the solution to this worry is to knock all this dumb shit off

This is how we’re going to defeat fascism. Mass nonviolent civil resistance works.

So many of these right wing grifters and their wives are failed actors or failed reality TV show stars. Once you start seeing it, you can't stop noticing it. They're people who shamelessly chase the spotlight.

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

NFD and MNPD are opening all Nashville Fire Stations and Metro Nashville Police Precinct Community Rooms, except for the Central Precinct and the East Precinct, as warming locations for residents affected by the current cold weather.

These locations will be open 24/7 until further notice.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

It’s striking that we’ve treated political leaders on right as principled opposition with just a different view of how things ought to be.

When what these people really are—and have always been—is a gang of power-hungry fascists who care nothing about anything except power.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal