Julian

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

I identify.

My wife recently converted a lot of our front and back yard into garden. It’s not the grounds you describe, but it’s pretty good

Just in from the ICE facility in Portland

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I hope you can get some rest.

When Karl Rove is the voice of reason, you know things have gone off the rails.

Noooo! Hope you don’t have a bad case and can get some rest. We recently had COVID at my house, and it was not as bad as the earlier variants.

The West Coast does some things right.

Nexstar’s Decision To Drop Jimmy Kimmel’s Show From Its ABC Stations Indefinitely Comes As It Seeks FCC Approval For Major Merger The station group's decision followed comments from the FCC chair.

Critical piece of the Kimmel story:

Nexstar (owner of many ABC affiliates), wants a favor from Trump. They want to do a $6.2 billion mega merger that flaunts anti-trust laws.

In return, they took a top Trump critic off the air.

Brazen corruption.
deadline.com/2025/09/nexs...

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

That hair.

Are you a cyborg?

I thought you were going to retire early.

Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.

"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.

The Topeka Witches Coven Answers Questions about the Upcoming Union Vote to Join the United Auto Workers Can I still pay my union dues by sacrificing goats, bartering homemade macramé, or offering to house-sit while the high priestess is on vacation in...

One of the joys of "Topeka Witches Coven" is that it's clear that Katy Hayes has gone through a union drive, and understands the technicalities of the process under modern American union systems.

It's a lovingly hilarious portrait of the union movement.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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Precarious Employment in Precarious Futures - Uncanny Magazine At the start of Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation, the young, gifted mathematician Gaal Dornick arrives on Trantor to accept an appointment at Streeling University. The conditions of his employment cont...

Over the past decade, one of the major focuses of this blog has been the depiction of labour unions and the struggle for workers’ rights in science fiction and fantasy.

Let's share some articles about the subject, and talk about some works of SFF that tackle workers' rights well.

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This is amazing.

Ghouls are in charge.

Yes!

The jazz they play kind of leans to older tastes.

The homepage of the website for the local jazz station is 90% obituaries for jazz musicians. It’s not very uplifting. They should cover some living musicians too.

Elmo sings Elvis: “Elmo’s caught in a trap, Elmo can’t walk out, ‘cause Elmo loves you too much baby.”

I’m reading a biography of Elvis. At one point he has a religious revelation while driving through the desert in which he sees a cloud that looks like the face of Joseph Stalin turn into Jesus. This is what happens when you take too many amphetamines and don’t sleep.

Yes you are!

I think a lot about important things like this.