@sposas.bsky.social
Lawyer, nerd, Latino Jew, leftist. He/him.
βand Iβd do it againβ
23.10.2025 05:48 β π 428 π 40 π¬ 1 π 0This was worse then you could possibly imagine. Holy fucking shit.
Holy shit.
The Sun-Times is reporting Border Patrol took at least two teenage boys today when they hit Little Village, again.
One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.
the Platner discourse has frustrating echoes of the Newsom discourse, in that people seem to want us to just give up now and lock in without waiting to see if something better turns up. this isn't blackjack! we can keep asking the dealer to turn over more cards for like another YEAR
22.10.2025 19:51 β π 1007 π 247 π¬ 2 π 0*screams*
22.10.2025 19:25 β π 6752 π 1900 π¬ 58 π 130thereβs a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply βit was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.β it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten itβs just an ahistorical oversimplification.
15.10.2025 20:40 β π 3052 π 271 π¬ 67 π 35This is such a tedious misdirect. Yeah while weβre here letβs check everybodyβs 1040 before they take the Staten Island ferry. If you make more than $200,000 a year thatβll be $3 please.
23.10.2025 16:16 β π 504 π 46 π¬ 18 π 2"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."
22.10.2025 05:12 β π 2585 π 464 π¬ 54 π 36look mom, i got quoted in vanity fair
21.10.2025 20:00 β π 534 π 33 π¬ 3 π 2
Ashlee and Erik Dahlberg of Lowell, Indiana, lost their 8-year-old son, Liam, to a vaccine-preventable disease in April. βI thought having the vaccines would protect our children,β Erik Dahlberg said. βUnfortunately, it did not because other kids, other adults, need to be vaccinated as well in order for it to work.β Liam was particularly vulnerable because he had severe asthma and allergies. He was vaccinated against Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, but it caused his brain to swell and killed him less than two days after he complained of a headache. Hib is transmitted by respiratory droplets, often spread by coughs and sneezes. Doctors said Liamβs case likely stemmed from someone unvaccinated, Ashlee Dahlberg said. With two other children, the Dahlbergs worry about living in one of the many U.S. communities with low immunization rates. State statistics show one in five kindergartners in their county donβt meet vaccination requirements.
Jesus www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
21.10.2025 20:42 β π 116 π 45 π¬ 3 π 1Thatβs called burying the lead
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The application to be a federal corrections officer now has several essay questions, including one (#7) in which applicants are expected to explain how they would advance the president's executive orders in the role:
21.10.2025 20:04 β π 114 π 57 π¬ 13 π 2
A garment worker peeking out behind some sewing equipment.
There are, of course, ways to save money in this business. Many US clothing factories run on what's known as a "piece rate" system, where workers are paid per operation, not by the hour. This system allows factories to skirt minimum wage laws.
It's also how we get US sweatshops
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.
The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.
It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
β Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
β Against raising the minimum wage
β Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
Tech CEOs loathe former FTC chair Lina Khan for breaking up their monopolies and protecting consumers. Antitrust could play an even larger role, with subsidized or state-owned stepping in to increase competition. From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/8OkqU1R
07.10.2025 17:00 β π 58 π 18 π¬ 3 π 0Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if thereβs a compelling public interest
Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)
Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
we have financialized the entire process of existing and convinced people to call the result Freedom, incredible stuff
07.10.2025 17:21 β π 147 π 40 π¬ 4 π 1Dadβs books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending itβs their own fault. So I hope Kemiβs taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
07.10.2025 12:46 β π 7818 π 1986 π¬ 141 π 38
Twitter user TheMatrixStorm: Absolutely winning. Measles is a natural symbiotic so-called pathogen that makes susceptibility to certain cancers greatly reduce. Getting it while young as we used to gives you lifelong immunity that the vaccine cannot ever provide. You people that think measles cases are bad have started out assuming measles is bad. Lots of things kill weak people. But the vaccines cause autism and all kinds of other neurological and immunological disorders along with all the other toxic and poisonous things were exposed to in the modern day. Measles goes through most healthy people when they're young asymptomatically. Anyone who doesn't know any of the above needs to update...
07.10.2025 13:14 β π 415 π 34 π¬ 59 π 12We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in.
If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.
I know this isn't all just about health care BUT the health care is the most egregious shit. They're literally closing rural hospitals to give millionaires a beach house.
02.10.2025 19:23 β π 38 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0For whose benefit? Some of the richest people ever to live.
They're literally stealing health care from some of the poorest Americans to give the wealthiest 1% ANOTHER tax cut they don't need.
Yep. Ultimately it just feels like Klein and Coates have different goals.
Klein wants the left to win elections again.
Coates wants to stop Americaβs slide into authoritarianism.
These may sound the same, but theyβre not.
I think with βthe lineβ those are kind of your choices: change your line to appease those in power, or recognize the solidarity with the oppressed and the marginalized, the ones that have been othered. And I think this is a struggle for some people, and I think itβs out of fear.
29.09.2025 06:38 β π 25 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
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