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Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade

He is risen

Ohh boy. It's like Iraq without any pretexts

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Immigration Agents Coming to Raleigh Tuesday, Sources Say Democratic legislative sources briefed by Gov. Josh Stein’s office told The Assembly and INDY agents are coming to the state capital.

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents will be deployed in the Raleigh area on Tuesday, Democratic legislative sources briefed by Gov. Josh Stein’s office told The Assembly and INDY on Monday.

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South Boulevard Home Depot being used as a staging area. Activity also being reported on Central.

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

How Chicagoans Are Helping Kids Have A Safe — And ICE-Free — Halloween This Year Neighbors are organizing indoor trick-or-treat events, candy drives and candy dropoffs to protect vulnerable families. Two Logan Square blocks that attract thousands of trick-or-treaters may shut down...

children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Could he have grown and evolved? Sure, but the comments about sexual assault are only 4 years old and he's not exactly rushing to remove this tattoo so...you lie to yourself if you want to. I won't. "But what about room for progress?" He can have the room without a Senate seat. Just saying.

I am late doing my birthday reflection because the fascism & my powerlifting, tbh. But I have one after %#!? years on earth:

Some people make you feel good. Some people don’t. If you work hard to spend time with the former and little to none with the latter, about 70% of your problems go away.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

America has a sociopath problem.

It’s impossible for me to explain how Duke he is.

This is a through-line of everyone in any position of power in America now. A generation of leaders who have zero understanding of why anything in society is done the way it is for a reason, and a revanchist zeal to tear it all down because they don’t see how it benefits their power personally.

"My worm went in my mouth and then I ate it."

Someone smarter than me (probably also Tressie) recently said that everything is an act now because everything is a stage. So they were all summonsed to stage a photo opp. Spectacle.
She called it:

So Hegseth. One, I told y’all it was a meeting that could have been an email and I really want my credits.

Two, when all you have is a tv face, you have to turn your job into a tv show.

It’s a theme of this administration.

This is not just a fascist power grab although it is certainly that. It is frothing at the mouth, howling at the moon, eating bugs and bats for breakfast insanity. The question is whether it will produce in us the fear he seeks or the kind of fear that mobilizes us to save ourselves.

Reminds me of how the Cons are re-inventing Maoist collectivism:

All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.