Andy

This bookstore is the best SFF bookstore in the Cities, this guy is a lovely person, and you can get awesome shit there, including signed copies of some old stuff.

"When Police Shoot Civilians, the Passive Voice Is Used

The Curious Grammar of Police Shootings

avoid active verbs, active voice, and human subjects of sentences “to publicly deflect responsibility for police shootings.”

have no trouble writing clearly when they want to assign blame to a suspect:

Epidemic abuse:

"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"

"White nationalists pervade law enforcement

10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")

"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"

"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year

"50% of municipal budgets

"Afraid of appearing partisan, the Obama administration looked the other way when it came to prosecuting war criminals and torturers. The lack of confrontation is coming back to haunt us."

fellowtravelersblog.com/2018/03/13/a...

i cannot believe he provided sympathy for federal immigration agents in the same breath as sympathy for Alex Pretti. disgusting.

Bombs every 8 minutes, handouts to Wall Street/Silicon Valley, prosecuting whistleblowers, flaccid contention with the GOP, 2.5 million deported, murdered weddings, hospitals full of people and US citizens without trial. Broke what could have been a meaningful NBA wildcat strike and kingmade Biden

Really can’t stress enough how much I hate Barack Obama.

Matthew Yglesias C @mattyglesias Follow .. • • The smearing of the victim by top officials is the most indefensible part, and the only solution is to defeat them and have a governing regime that is not composed of vicious and immoral people. 6:23 PM • Jan 24, 2026 • 113.2K

You sure that’s the most indefensible part Matt

the r/nursing subreddit altered its profile picture to feature Alex Pretti, seen in scrubs by an american flag.

appeals to bipartisanship are how you signal to donors youve got their back and to voters that you dont

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.

When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL

I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.

The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

They'll shoot you dead in the street for literally nothing and then slander you as a terrorist but God forbid you suggest anything beyond a fair trial as justice for that

Feels so lib to say it but Kathy Griffin may be the most vindicated person on earth

It's so annoying how you can't just post the obvious things that need to happen to these animals to ensure they pay for their crimes against humanity and are unable to ever do it again

give us what we want or we kill another hostage

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

fuck border patrol. fuck everyone who watched the minutemen movement salting drinking water in the sonora desert and decided that was what they wanted to spend their one and only human life promoting

If a liberal assaulted a Republican congressman it would be front page news and every democrat would be asked to condemn them within an hour.

Screenshot from a New York Times live blog entry by Ernesto Londoño: “Superintendent Evans said federal officials have refused to disclose the identities of federal agents involved in Saturday’s shooting, as well as the names of federal agents who have shot people in recent days in the course of the continuing immigration crackdown.”

Just escalation after escalation

nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

The nurses are pissed

Oh, that's an easy one, AI guy. They care because they're good people who understand and care about the world around them, which is why it all seems so alien to you.

Because they’re not subhuman AI shitheads like you

Me reading all the Erika Kirk cheating scandals and conspiracy theories

no matter how bad you are at your job, no matter how crazy things might get, very few people in modern history have ever been more over their head while in charge of a more fucked up situation than kristi noem

People did similar coverage for Renee Good and I do absolutely believe that it makes a difference. It reaches a lot of low-info voters who don’t consume much political media, and it isn’t framed as political news coverage. it’s framed, correctly, as coverage of an innocent person’s murder

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.