Mister X, PhD

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When a black person is telling you that something is specifically targeting black people, piping up to be like "Well, actually" and "Nuh, uh" is literally the most annoying **** in the whole universe.

Granddaughter vows justice as nursing home giant shirks $1.6b claims - The Boston Globe Genesis HealthCare, a troubled nursing home chain with 49 facilities across New England, has a history of violations and low ratings.

Private equity drove a nursing home chain into the ground.

Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients.

Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it.

@blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.

Provision in government funding bill allows senators to sue over secretly obtained phone records Government funding bill includes provision that would create pathway for senators to sue the government if their phone records are investigated without their notice.

Let this increase your rage against the 8 Vichy Democratic "Centrists"

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Joy Reid on her ouster from MSNBC: ‘In this moment, not being a part of corporate media is a gift’ After the ex-host of the ReidOut was forced out in February, she launched her own streaming show on YouTube

Thank you @jeremybarr.bsky.social and @theguardian.com ... truly enjoyed this conversation! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A House You Can Buy, But Never Own African Americans in the same neighborhoods decimated by subprime lending are now being targeted with new predatory loan offerings, a lawsuit argues.

And it’s reinventing the “contract for deed” rent-to-own scams that targeted African-Americans in the 50s and 60s and popped up again after the subprime crash www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

Just heard about a case in my city where a woman was assaulted by a man claiming to be a police officer and threatening to report her to ICE for deportation if she didn’t open her door. Luckily, family members convinced her to report it and he was caught.

Hell isn’t big enough.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

This right here.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Senate hopes for shutdown breakthrough Sunday Senators believe enough Democrats are ready to reopen the government.

If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...

These 8 useless Democratic Senators are all wealthy and have feathered themselves a lovely retirement nest.

They don't need to be in these positions anymore.

They can amble away into the privileged nothingness that defines their spinelessness and lack of courage.

Demand more and better, folks.

How long till we learn American, United & Delta worked the phones on Senate Dems?

Centrist Dems CAVE For a MAGA "Inshallah" That Will Never Happen

Who needs corrupt, cruel MAGA politicians when we have weak, centrist Democrats willing to cave for lobbyists and throw their own party and base under the bus?

With @muellershewrote.com

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Dem base that gave them a blue tsunami: DON'T CAVE

Majority of Dem elected officials: DON'T CAVE

The majority of Americans blame the GOP for the shutdown and higher costs...

8 Dem Centrists (and you better believe Schumer knows what's up): Nah, We'll cave.

I guarantee you calls came from donors.

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.

It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Not enough people are talking about this:

Even before Trump cut off SNAP funding, he and Republicans in Congress made the biggest cuts to food assistance in U.S. history.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Aside from absolutely everything else having to do with them, I am ecstatic to see the end of Giuliani, whose name I mistyped every freaking time, and the arrival of Mamdani, whose name is crazy easy to type.

left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER

right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH

Without people of color, Spanberger, Shirrill, Mamdani and others wouldn't win with their huge margins.

Just look at the cross tabs.

It was "the woke" who got it done.

Majority of white voters didnt go for them.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Sometimes you don’t win, but you scare the living crap out of ‘em.