Josh Parker

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It's been a full week since DHS issued a press release claiming TEN CARS ambushed them—and have since:
•charged ZERO of those alleged 10 drivers
•arrested ZERO of those alleged 10 people
•filed ZERO reports of alleged property damage, &
•offered ZERO evidence of their claim

1/4

How to keep troops loyal: make them beg for food from the people you want them to oppress

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

Project 2029:

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Your love for her was there in every post over the years you shared. I’m so sorry for your loss.

About 125,000 transgender people are assaulted in the restroom every year.

No transgender woman has ever been convicted of assaulting a woman in a public restroom.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

YES, THIS.

Watch this. This is what this criminal administration wants to do to all of us.

Find the groups in your community that are standing up against ICE and join them.

Weeks before his death, you say?

People should be just as pissed about this as Kimmel.

Every government shutdown over the past 30 years was caused by Republican intransigence in Congress, the White House, or both. (Remember that one time when Ted Cruz was basically the Speaker of the House for a few weeks?)

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Glen Powell is particularly well suited to these.

I feel like she would have absolutely crushed it dealing with these bottom feeders.

He’d have full on lost his mind with where we’re at right now, but same.

We're about to find out if Silicon Valley owns Gavin Newsom A guide to the AI and tech bills that have passed the California legislature, and await the governor's signature — or veto.

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention:

Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

I just saw an influencer on TikTok say that they refuse to give their child Tylenol, and instead they only give them acetaminophen so I’m just logging off for the day

In cases like this, I think back to one of my favorite George Carlin quotes: “think of how dumb the average person is… half of them are dumber than that!”

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

I have little good to say of the Church, but this is a brave man standing up for his beliefs and I admire him for it.

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

To be fair, I think if I HAD to choose between a steamer and an iron to smooth out the old ballsack, I’d go steamer. HOWEVER…

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