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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.

Ron Smith posts: “JD Vance: If you remember all of the migrants who came in from Haiti. You blink an eye and literally a third of your town is Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs 🤔🤔 Still spreading the same debunked lie.” Below is a video still showing JD Vance speaking during an interview, wearing a suit and red tie.

He’s still repeating that lie. Video link in replies.

YouTube video by InCrustITrust Nux Vomica - all the clocks have different times

47. Nux Vomica, A CIVILIZED WORLD: Crust on steroids, big and cathartic. Really miss these guys, whose polemical fury could soundtrack our nightmare now about as well as it did the Iraq War years. youtu.be/GE2Tijd6iZA?...

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Better though.

Ain't Them Bodies Trains

I'd need to know more about whether the minister shot in the face with a chemical agent from point-blank range before weighing in on it. Maybe it was good that it happened.

Much to the chagrin of my 16-year-old self, I am no longer down with the sickness.

Very true. I've got a lot of respect for the rest of them and how they responded.

YouTube video by Immortal - Topic Tyrants

48. Immortal, SONS OF NORTHERN DARKNESS: If you're into the Norwegian corpse-paint sound but not the sketchy stuff that so often came with it, Immortal is the band for you. Classically awesome black metal without the baggage. youtu.be/CNjewKOXqf8?...

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

FOOD BANK DIRECTOR: “For every meal a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides 9. There’s no way we can meet that gap. We were not built to do this.”

(@TNDemocrats are imploring @GovBillLee to fund SNAP with the billions in reserves as other states are, but he refuses)

Zohran Mamdani's proposals for NYC build off city's progressive foundation: Experts While some critics decry Zohran Mamdani's vision for New York City as far-fetched, experts noted that they build off progressive foundations laid by past policies.

"Mamdani's proposals, such as freezing the rent for some New York tenants, free buses and free child care, are not only feasible but also build off the foundations of previous New York City laws, political analysts told ABC News."

Happy birthday Cow Tools! Here’s Gary Larson explaining how it made him “want to crawl into a hole somewhere and die”

She's requiring Bovino to come into her courtroom EVERY DAY at 430 to give her a report of what went on during the day

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

YouTube video by Neurosis - Topic A Sun That Never Sets

49. Neurosis, A SUN THAT NEVER SETS: Not terribly eager to fire up Neurosis anymore, for obvious reasons. But it would be disingenuous to pretend that this band's plunges into a heart of darkness didn't mean a lot to me for a long time. youtu.be/wK9UKeZeLFw?...

YouTube video by Southern Lord Records Wolves In The Throne Room - Vastness and Sorrow

50. Wolves in the Throne Room, TWO HUNTERS: Old ones still whisper of the wars that raged around this band, who committed the unforgivable sin of being eco-minded farmboy hippies... while still doing black metal proud with epics of vastness and sorrow. youtu.be/GkJamcKXNrw?...

A running team from Chicago posted that Trump’s federal agents dragged a runner (67 years old) from his car, broke his ribs, and caused internal bleeding.

IG: dwrunning1

Congress Enjoys Ultra-Luxe Health Care as It Fights to Gut Yours Congress has ensured its members receive ultra-luxe health care as Republican keep the government closed over stripping it from Americans.

Wrote about one of the reasons I'm not a fan of Congress www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy The GOP is anti-democracy party

GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy
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Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

I love looking at setlists... *after* the show. Can't imagine wanting to know what an artist is going to play in advance. The surprise of a setlist is half the fun!

All 10 Yorgos Lanthimos Movies, Ranked Where does Bugonia fit in the Greek Weird Wave provocateur’s filmography?

Updated my Lanthimos power ranking for @vulture.com to include BUGONIA, which I kind of loved until I didn't. www.vulture.com/article/yorg...

YouTube video by Genghis Tron - Topic Board Up the House

51. Genghis Tron, BOARD UP THE HOUSE: An adolescence spent bumping the SPAWN soundtrack primed me to appreciate the synth-forward electronic-metal hybrids of Genghis Tron. (To be clear, this album is much better than the SPAWN soundtrack.) youtu.be/1nyNKcqrca4?...

YouTube video by Doom In Aeternum Yob, "Quantum Mystic" (2005)

52. Yob, THE UNREAL NEVER LIVED: For all their undeniable gravity (in multiple senses of the word), it took me a while to come around to Yob. The trick is to sink into their huge, sometimes spacey sound like a tar pit, and to get on board with Michael Scheidt's high wail. youtu.be/t8I3I3fTvjs?...

It remains insane and unacceptable that local elementary schools are having to ask the neighbors to come out and patrol student pick ups because the government is kidnapping people.

Pennsylvania election official responds as DOJ sues state to obtain voter data

Trump is threatening to go after mail in voting and states' voter rolls by the next election.

This on top of Republican donors buying Dominion. We need to get all the election deniers to realize that hand-marked paper ballots are the only secure, unhackable way to vote.

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Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.

The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.

Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.