weaselproof

The opioid crisis the Sackler family intentionally began costs the United States roughly $4 trillion a year.

“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

in chicago, the police did not help anyone who was being targeted by ice; rather, they provided a line of defense for such agents

it would be nice if people actually internalized that the police are under no obligation to help anyone, as the supreme court stated

So, just to be clear, in addition to sending queer people out into the cold to starve or freeze to death, the SA also:

- provides food services for ICE
- provides correctional services to the carceral system
- union busts

They’re almost comedically evil.

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Laser pointer nose

Just sayin'

Peaky Blinders meme: Tommy Shelby shouting, "No working with Nazis. No fucking working with fucking Nazis!"

@democrats.org (and all liberals)

While I hope the free buses go through, at a minimum they are a fantastic bargaining point to negotiate for victories on every other transit front

The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind.

The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.

they're going after holocaust survivors

Whatever truths there might be in that your average white Union soldier grunt was A) probably still pretty racist B) likely didn't start as a committed abolitionist

there are *plenty* of stories of them getting radicalized as they entered the South and saw the reality of it and went "oh FUCK this"

HELLO IS THIS THE TRUCK NUTS COMPANY I HAVE AN INCREDIBLE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU

In one of my astrophoto groups, a guy posted a photo that shows some non-celestial stuff in it and someone said it’s satellite constellations and another person said that astronomers really hate those and several men have weighed in to say actually astronomers think they’re fine

Me: WE DO NOT

🔭

A cow who is feeling happy because I have taken the photo it will use for the cover of its psychedelic debut LP which it feels confident will get a five out of five star rating in Rolling Stone magazine.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Big set piece fight in House On The Rock where he's grabbing the increasingly display guns and using them on his assailants

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Evelyn Normielib is coming for this administration and its goons

I feel like you could do worse for a political message than “they’re stealing your money so they can buy your teenage daughter”

Every single one of them has to face voters in under one year. Remind them.

MONACO IL SUPPLI • MADElI® CHARLOTTE FOOD AND DRINK 'They're not chasing criminals.' Manolo's Bakery owner closes store to protect customers Updated 5 hours ago POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship Updated 5 hours ago

LOCAL Super G executive in Pineville describes agents dragging out teen store employee Updated 5 hours ago LOCAL 'Just walked up to them.' Border Patrol questions people at a Charlotte Walmart Updated 6 hours ago LOCAL Federal Border Patrol sweep across Charlotte sparks fear, closed shops and protests

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage:

“Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers”

“Church members flee as federal agents arrive”

“Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee”

“Border Patrol questions people at Walmart”

“Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.

ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.

We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Well MacArthur must feel extra proud today

This is brilliant.

All bad things lead back to Reagan chart