Andrew

Sheesh
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Pie chart showing that 1 in 3 people behind bars is in jail, and 70% of them are unconvicted.

The U.S. spends $13.6 billion every year locking people up who haven't even been convicted of a crime.

The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF's routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts at the militarised distribution points set up by the US-and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). "In basic training for the army, we all chanted 'means, intent and ability'," Capt Yotam Vilk, an armoured corps officer, says in reference to the official IDF training guidelines stipulating that a soldier can fire only if the target has the means, shows intent and has the ability to cause harm. "There's no such thing as 'means, intent and ability' in Gaza," Vilk says. "No soldier ever mentions 'means, intent, and ability'. It's just: a suspicion of walking where it's not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40." Another soldier, identified in the programme only as Eli, says: "Life and death isn't determined by procedures or opening fire regulations. It's the conscience of the commander on the ground that decides." In those circumstances, the designation of who is an enemy or terrorist becomes arbitrary, Eli says in the documentary. "If they're walking too fast, they're suspicious. If they're walking too slow, they're suspicious. They're plotting something. If three men are walking and one of them lags behind, it's a two-to-one infantry formation - it's a military formation," he says.

The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him

And they should, given this is his fault.

it’s really because they are mad about their own flights being delayed lol

I fucking hate these people oh my god

Abolish the Senate.

It's antidemocratic, anti-Black, and classist. It exists solely because the racist founders thought the House of Representatives was TOO democratic and because the southern slavers demanded a house of Congress where they'd have outsized influence.

Get rid of it.

He's already declaring victory.
Elected Dems, you are so stupid.

Boy those old +12 R districts sure look good* in hindsight, don't they Greg Abbott?

can we stop playing the oldies please

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Absolutely insane.

Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.

Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.

The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

”your struggle is ours, too” is such an amazing moral vision and an actual alternative to those who cant abandon marginalized people fast enough

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody."

"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.

Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report suggests Researchers attempt to calculate the number of deaths attributable to the war on terrorism, across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.

Dick Cheney, Powerful Former Vice President Who Served Four Republican Presidents, Dies at 84 The national-security hawk was an architect of the post-9/11 U.S. war on terror.

When you look for who embodied American hatred, who exploited our coarsest and basest instincts, and who invented a presidency that could be refashioned as a dictatorship, here's your guy. Among the worst of us.
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this has been my general policy throughout life and it’s sometimes felt wildly personally embarrassing especially when other people don’t click with that vibe, but having seen people disappear in the least likely, most unexpected, most unfixable ways, i’ve never hedged my bets here & never will.

This is murder.

I told all my friends in Iowa about the Kensington neighborhood so there is that

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

this is why i want to spit in the faces of the rich kid consultants trying to sell his nazi tattoo as blue collar cred. they've never actually been in the same room with someone with a nazi tat who means it and now the non-nazis have to deal with getting him out

I have curated my algorithms too carefully on meta/google platforms to have fkn candace owens showing up as often as she is. What the hell is going on?

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

T H E W H I T E H OU S E W A S H I N G T O N S e p t e m b e r 3 0 , 2 0 2 5 P r e s i d e n t i a l D e t e r m i n a t i o n N o . _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 0 2 5 - 1 3 _ _ _ _ _ MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), and after appropriate consultations with the Congress, I hereby make the following determinations and authorize the following actions: The admissions of up to 7,500 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year 2026 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest. The admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204, and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands. Refugee admissions under this determination, which may reach but not exceed the numerical limit described herein, are in all respects subject to the requirements of other Presidential policies and actions, whether issued prior or subsequent to this determination. Those Presidential policies and actions include, but are not limited to: Executive Order 14161, which mandates that refugees receive the most stringent identification verification of any class of alien seeking admission or entry to the United States; Executive Order 14163, which suspends the entry into the United States of refugees other than when the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security jointly determine that an admission is in the national interest and does not threaten the security or welfare of the United States; Executive Order 14204, which provides for refugee resettlement of Afrikaners from South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination; and …

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

Yeah but is it binding

This is yet again part of why people have lost their fucking minds about trans equal participation in sports - they're not about fun, they're about either parental ego & complex social dynamics, or about desperate competition to get onto The College Track.

This is highly dysfunctional!