Stephen Coleman Kenny

The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

A huge amount of state resources intended to fight crime - from the FBI to state and local police to DEA agents to IRS tax enforcement - have been redeployed to immigration enforcement. It is a great time to be a criminal in America.

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.

I can only imagine we’re going to uncover that this sort of eugenicist bullshit got way worse in 2024 (Story is from 2020)

There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

DARIUS SLAYTON REDEMPTION ARC

Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

Halloween is the perfect example of how the time spent in or around cars are the most dangerous periods of any day for most Americans. And it is rarely acknowledged on a wide scale.

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

(It’s also our kid’s birthday)

Can we call them racist yet?

From the administration that has systematically removed historical representations of people of color, from the regime that reinstalled confederate statutes and names of military bases

Hey this is cool

Sincerity is not the problem As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone.
In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

This is such an important point.

The U.S. is winning more Nobel prizes than any other country because of the immigrants we allow in.

I have to imagine these scientist are not all white South Africans and couldn’t all afford $100k to enter.

JD Vance has had such a good life in this country. It’s been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to him (and his dumb ass book). He is far wealthier than most. Yet he oozes with contempt for 80% of Americans.

Where’s JD’s gratitude? All I hear is complaining.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

The Giants are the only NFL team that regularly cannot field a kicker.

I’m going insane.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Once again having to call an uber from the bus stop 😢

When will we as a society figure out accurate real-time bus location info? It cannot be that hard.

Waymo blocking the bus stop (not to mention the bike lane) at Irving and Mt Pleasant in DC.

Waymo blocking the bus stop (not to mention the bike lane) at Irving and Mt Pleasant in DC.

If these things are going to be on our roads they need to respect the infrastructure they’re using.

The Washington post Democracy Dies in Darkness Reports of rough tactics don't bother Aaron Ely, either. A former bantamweight MMA fighter who went by the ring name "The Cyborg," Ely settled on an IT career after his hip gave out. He limped into the hiring expo last week hoping ICE could use his computer expertise. He said he felt he was no longer able to advance in the private sector because the market is crowded with candidates from India willing to do the work for less. "I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs," said Ely, 36. "So I said, 'Oh yeah? Well I'm going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.'"

fascism is the ideology for insecure losers who know they do not provide any value in a functioning society and instead of learning any tangible skills they would rather lash out with violence

This isn’t the first time private companies have funded additional transit service (see Beyoncé at FedEx Field or Taylor Swift at MetLife Stadium) but this is the first one I’m aware of that’s followed a massive gutting of core service capacity.