Peter J. Tomasek

Why give a kid a $2 school lunch when you can give a billionaire billions to use AI and robotics to figure out how to make someone who is hungry less hungry?

The Democratic Party constantly has to answer for a random, anonymous social media posts from accounts with eleven followers. The Republican Party, on the other hand, hasn’t had to answer for anyone or anything since Richard Nixon.

I won’t criticize him again for the rest of his term if Trump does the Presidential Fitness Test live on national television.

I am kinda fascinated by the emerging joint deployment of “Mamdani would take away the NYPD’s ability to effectively deal with shootings like the one that happened on Monday” and “It’s impossible to prevent shootings like the one that happened on Monday”, sometimes on the same page of the newspaper.

The only relevant inquiry when you’re a Republican candidate or nominee is whether you’re loyal to Republicanism.

When you’re a Democratic candidate or nominee, there are a million different boxes you have to check—and not being “too liberal” is the most important.

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Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

Hear me out: What if you read shit before you vote for it and call it beautiful?

Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.

One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

Small government, am I right?

The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.

In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

No tax on tips turned into no time off pretty quickly. And no one should be surprised.

An editorial cartoon of MLK standing in front of chaos and wreckage with the words, "I plan to lead another non-violent march tomorrow"

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Is it bad when the public can't tell our government security officers from criminals? It seems bad

So we've got warrantless arrests, home invasions, masked federal agents grabbing people off the streets and military troops deployed in an American city.

I'm sure the NRA is speaking out against this, right?

One of my favorite stories from the Bible is the one where Jesus warns against getting too many people to follow him because he’s trying to preserve something in Heaven.

There are some churches that deliberately used a version of Luke that doesn’t say “insurrection”—you know, the part where the religious folks choose Barabbas, the guy who was locked up “for an insurrection”—today, and that’s pretty darn indicative of where things stand with right-wing evangelicals.

These fascists are happily ruining the greatest country on the earth, and half y’all are fine with it because a random trans girl nine states away wanted to play girls rec-league basketball. Y’all suck.

One of the Venezuelans who the government tried to render to El Salvador's slave labor prison was able to avoid removal and make it to immigration court. The government presented no evidence of gang membership. Zero, zip, zilch nada. This is why due process exists.

Bukele has already returned migrants to the U.S. because they were from Central America or they were women—migrants the Trump admin had unilaterally declared as “criminals.”

This is all a joke to them. It’s truly sick.

Trump was daydreaming yesterday about sending U.S. citizens to a gulag in El Salvador, and 9 out of 10 Republicans approve of Trump on immigration. Y’all suck.

Trump floats legally questionable proposal to deport U.S. citizens Trump has suggested that "homegrown" criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported — a policy that legal experts say is "pretty obviously illegal."

Deporting citizens is “legally questionable,” eh?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

Huh.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook: