Kelly Jones

I’ve made the executive decision to not decide that any one thing will sink them and to instead kick back and eat some popcorn while they try to explain that every honorable guy has an extensive correspondence with pedophiles.

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S. Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.

I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms.
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Wait…this is reverse exile. If professors are to be royally punished for their opinions, they should at least get to put that they were exiled on their CV. “Cancelled:” not as valid on the job market.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

When Trump starts deporting profs, can they at least still call it exile?

Being exiled is how you know you’ve made it.

Bakunin: exiled
Bernstein: exiled
Marx: exiled
Luxembourg: exiled!

Big fan—well-deserved!

DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...

Shout out to @eyesontheright.bsky.social for spotting this white supremacist meme on the DHS Twitter last night.

I followed up and DHS responded with more memes. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The mayor race on Tuesday saw massive turnout differentials - turnout in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’sbstrongest precincts was up ~30% while turnout in Cuomo’s best districts were ~ flat.

These are big differences - essentially two different elections that happened to fall on the same day.

"Right-wing reactionaries have spent the past few decades insisting that the Constitution’s meaning is fixed in time so that they can...undo civil rights gains while maintaining a semblance of respectability. And Damsky’s paper turned their subtext into text." @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Did the last download of @dedoose.bsky.social work for everyone? Mine is being extremely wonky.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy

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Handmade sign at the No Kings protest in Philadelphia. It says "Billionaires Are The Only Minority Ruining This Country"

#NoKings

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

They really took it all the way 😂

“Only a counter-elite can challenge our…managerial masters, & it is to the unashamed development & cultivation of that counter-elite, particularly among white voters excoriated by the Democratic regime, that the right must devote the lion’s share of its political energies.” -Jeremy Carl, 5/19/22 1/

1/x doing a democracy! I’m at a special meeting of the Menlo Park City Council discussing a low-income housing project on large flatland parking lots that dominate the downtown landscape. menlopark.gov/agendas

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JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Timothy Snyder: Midwesterner at large : ).

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

Dystopian, especially and not only because Peter Thiel is basically a comic book villain

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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

BREAKING: ICE RAID reported at Buona Forchetta tonight about a mile up the road in San Diego. Smoke bombs were used to disperse the crowd. FUCK ICE. WTF?!

Tracking the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month Far right groups, emboldened by the Trump Administration, represent a direct threat to the safety of LGBTIQ communities, and various far right groups are expected to target events during Pride Month.

Follow along as @reportbywilson.bsky.social of Radical Reports "Track[s] the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month" www.radicalreports.org/p/tracking-t...

The House Just Passed The Biggest Medicaid Cut in U.S. History, Twice the Size of Reagan's Cuts So much for realignment. New analysis from UnidosUS shows the House’s cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are unprecedented, twice as large as anything under President Reagan,

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Judge: The "hasty arrest...suggests a worrying misstep by your office...An arrest...is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action, carrying significant reputational & personal consequences & should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate evaluation of credible evidence.”