Nathaniel

The Extremely Poor Need Capital to Develop Capitalism requires capital. Providing new ways for the poor to access banking and to get small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.

The world’s poorest people want the opportunity to work in order to break out of poverty — but capitalism requires capital. As you’ll see in this clip from my travels in Ethiopia, providing new ways for the poor to access banking & small loans unleashes entrepreneurial energy and stokes development.

I do think politicians that are beholden to to corporate interests do not want to address this. It's definitely part of the problem here.

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

developing a shitpost theory that clinton never trusted epstein to keep clinton behavior secret and thus never did anything untoward because he knew ken starr was also a ln epstein friend

So “it turns out Spanberger took positions that strongly challenged Trump on immigration in ways that some Democrats have been reluctant to do.”

The @gregsargent.bsky.social analysis re VA’s gov race seems significant underscoring why Ds need to go on offense re Trump/Miller’s deportation regime.

BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

The concept of whiteness as "deputized" (h/t W.E.B. DuBois) is important for understanding the current moment.

The story of a college student calling ICE on service workers is not an aberration.

Several people have asked when this HUD plan would take effect. According to the NYT:

"By cutting aid for permanent housing by two-thirds next year, the plan risks a sudden end of support for most of the people the Continuum of Care places in such housing nationwide, beginning as soon as January."

More on the new internment camps here:

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

The cruelty and calculated degradation of this administration truly knows no limits.

"There are people who have been living in those units for five years, eight years. No one can wrap their head around the idea that HUD is about to kick 170,000 vulnerable people out of their homes. People don't know what's about to hit them." — Ann Oliva, National Alliance to End Homelessness

Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants

This is far worse than anyone expected.

Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.

All as mass internment camps are being built.

The goal of the republicans plan is to create a socially Darwinian society that allows the most at risk to die without being seen or heard.

It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down.

The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.

New: Diana Santillana Galeano, whom federal immigration agents dragged out of a Rayito del Sol daycare on Chicago's north side last week, has been released from federal custody, the law firm HSPRD announced Thursday.

The release states she will meet with Rayito del Sol parents on Friday.

It just ended. This judge is absolutely skeptical about Halligan's appointment.

In her southern drawl, she kept poking holes in the Trump admin's justification for putting this prosecutor on the case. I counted four times she interrupted the DOJ.

Judge Currie promised a ruling by Thanksgiving.

I'm at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, where a specially assigned judge will consider whether to disqualify Lindsey Halligan, the Trump defense lawyer > White House aide > prosecutor on the case against former FBI director James Comey.

No phones allowed. Story after the hearing @notus.com.

About 30 % of the nation is still trying to pretend Trump is their god. As soon as really bad Epstein information comes out involving Trump they just normalize it. Half of the Christian Nationalist movement have had fathers and pastors who committed or covered up the same crimes as Trump.

In December 2018, Epstein wrote about Trump: “I am the one able to take him down.”
Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration.
Weird coincidence.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Hague Convention cases are difficult and sad matters. I sympathize with Brito’s inability to enter the United States to visit his child. But the Hague Convention does not permit a court to adjudicate the merits of custody disputes. See England, 234 F.3d at 271; 22 U.S.C. § 9001(b)(4). As difficult as it is to be separated from a child, A.F.’s relationship with Brito in Texas is no different than it was after he moved to Spain: all interactions are virtual. It is not our province to consider his ability to see A.F. She left Venezuela when she was three. Her entire life as she knows it—including the last three years—is in Texas, and she has grown well-settled. The majority opinion today fails to provide sufficient deference to the district court and reshapes Hague Convention jurisprudence by creating a new emphasis on immigration. It relies on inferential leaps based on limited evidence to determine that a child—who lives a stable, happy, and enriching life in Texas—should be uprooted because of various hypothetical possibilities. This does not comport with our case law, nor does it fit within the purposes of the Hague Convention. I respectfully dissent.

A brutal 2–1 decision from the 5th Circuit forcing the removal of a young girl to Venezuela even though she has lived in Texas for years and it is the only home she can remember. The dissent verges on incandescence in its fury and despondency. Incredibly bleak.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

The feds under Trump are doing "Black Helicopter" shit at a rate that exceeds the wildest fever dreams of the paranoid right wingers of the Tea Party era. We've got dozens of Ruby Ridges every day, and the body count will likely soon approach Waco. And most of Trump's victims did no crimes.

I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.

A handful of GOP senators want a half million bucks each because their cellphone records were lawfully subpoenaed by Jack Smith. Imagine how much they’d be demanding if they were actually victimized by government thugs

Exactly. These emails are from the Epstein estate, not the DOJ.

This is also what the email senders and recipients felt comfortable enough discussing to put in writing.