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I drive for NASCAR and without cars we'd have to stand still to get to our destination

On left:

President Trump Statement Sept. 2, 2025:

"The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States."

On right:

(Under penalty of law) military leaders told Congress headed to Suriname.

Federal RICO Case Alleges an All-White Board Runs Westport Nightlife Like a Racist Cartel Federal judge allows civil rights conspiracy case to expand after a local Black entrepreneur’s motion sufficiently alleged evidence of “common discriminatory purpose” to exclude Black business owners from Kansas City’s historic entertainment district. At the center: allegations of a weaponized “Good Neighbor Agreement,” brazen threats captured on tape, and a music ban targeting chart-topping Black artists. By JT ● Arts & Culture, Black Business, Black Economic Justice ● November 17, 2025 The front of Holy Bruch, where Euphoric Bar & Lounge was slated to be. The former site of Ale House, now operating as Holy Brunch KC, located at 4128 Broadway in Kansas City’s Westport district. (Mili Mansaray/Kansas City Defender) Behind the brickwork and neon signs of Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district, a federal lawsuit alleges an invisible regime decides who belongs and who does not. The mechanism of control, according to court documents, is a secret “Good Neighbor Agreement.” The price of entry is compliance. And the enforcers are an all-white, twelve-member board of the Westport Community Improvement District (CID). “We won’t sign a consent of any kind, even beer and wine, unless we have a good neighbor agreement in place,” CID members told prospective business owners, according to a lawsuit that claims to quote an audio recording.

insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.

Well UH

If the supreme court decides by fiat that a constitutional amendment is null and void, I'll be less focused on how that can work and more focused on what to do with the supreme court

it's not a longstanding principle, its a codified amendment to the Constitution, and the Supreme Court doesn't get to decide whether the Constitution is to be upheld or not

Neither Donald Trump nor any Supreme Court majority can “roll back” birthright citizenship. It’s a power the people have never granted them.

This is not complicated. They blew up a boat that posed no imminent threat and then killed the survivors. There's no legal regime on Earth worth a damn that wouldn't see that as murder, crimes against humanity, or war crimes, depending on the specific code in play.

as soon as the check clears

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.

Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT

1. He is a chiropractor, not a doctor
2. His MS is from his chiropractic school (that's why he doesn't say where he got it)
3. His Johns Hopklns degree is an online MA for non-physicians & the JHU library has no evidence of him finishing a thesis
4. Bastyr University is an unaccredited quack school

There’s a growing movement for public schools: Community-school initiatives are showing big impacts with up to a 30% drop in chronic absenteeism, fewer suspensions, and improved academic achievement especially amongst Black, low-income, and English-learner students.
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A war criminal without a war It's just murder.

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

In every corner of the country, the middle class struggles with affordability | Brookings This report also examines the state of affordability for middle-class families across racial groups, finding that affordability across the country is often further out of reach for families of color.

New data from @brookings.edu says the US is home to some of the most expensive cities in the world, and middle-class residents are struggling to afford a decent life for themselves and their families. 🧵 www.brookings.edu/articles/in-...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

what happened to the fears of ozone-production to treat air odors? Are we over that now? Can I turn that feature of my air purifier back on? what does Barber-Surgeons Quarterly say about it?

A room with a dentist-like exam chair, and various face figures on the walls

damn, earlier this week I was trying to find a good still frame of Ru'afo's in his skin-stretching chair to compare to this creepy-ass shit from Jeffrey Epstein's island

I eventually gave up and told myself nobody would get the reference anyway

How and when exactly did a president acquire the authority to rule in all matters great and small by diktat?

ICE arrest critically ill man on his way to life-saving treatment, say family Williams Javier Toro Enamorado, who suffers from late-stage kidney disease, was denied life-saving dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order, his family says

Williams Javier Toro Enamorado, who suffers from late-stage kidney disease, was denied life-saving dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order, his family says

oh when Johnny's in a suit he goes by John does he?

at least Pelosi had the excuse that she needed every possible vote. The House Dems don't need Cuellar now. They're already in the minority with a blue wave coming up that will render his continued support in the caucus irrelevant.

I can only assume that Jeffries is either implicated or compromised.

why did Jeffries defend his pardon?!

Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.

they can both go fuck themselves

like, Pritzker talks about wanting to fight for trans people; he passes policies to help trans people. I'm pretty sure he'd make rolling back this anti trans shit a priority.

RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against Vaccines Hits Its Action Phase His anti-vax–stacked advisory committee is expected to revise rules for life-saving hepatitis B vax.

"In the worst cases, the infected would die from liver cancer before reaching adulthood. Brian McMahon, a physician who treated some of those cases, told me about one particular patient—'18 years old, 4.0 GPA, with a full ride to University of Alaska.'"

the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1

📽️ WATCH: As her health declined during a high-risk pregnancy, Tierra Walker asked doctors for an abortion. They assured her she didn’t need to worry. Then she died of preeclampsia.

Listen to her aunt Latanya Walker recount Tierra's story. More: https://propub.li/3MkJs6L

I'll only be celebrating his death day

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raid...

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.