Name withheld for secret reasons

She should have been our president.

extreme closeup of green-eyed tortie cat

And the excusers to likewise reap the social disdain they merit.

Deaf and disability communities have long been alarmed by glib right-wing excuses for lethal law enforcement overreach when officers feel disobeyed.

It's past time for the officers responsible for these "noncompliance" deaths should be prosecuted for manslaughter and murder.

The bizarre and inhumane expectation that people should "comply" with law enforcement instructions or risk death (without even consideration as to whether or not they were able to hear and understand them) has claimed another victim.

We love our country. And that love means we do not hand our future over to this President, his administration, and his billionaire friends.

We, the people, continue to fight for our future.

Note that among mammals of the family Leporidae, capes are by tradition a cottony white, not red.

OK, and now we need to see this fight scene with the proper soundtrack added!

Illinois, I just love this for you.

ICE agents really ought to take to heart of the dire fate of Ixion, Zeus's rapaciously greedy guest, when they arise from their restaurant meal, and turn to arrest those who just served them and sever them from their families.

The story is not going to end well for them either.

According to Greek mythology, the punishment for a guest's violation of the laws of hospitality was to be bound for eternity on a wheel of fire.

That was the fate of Ixion, who sought to violate Hera, the wife of his host, Zeus.

see also, pointly overlooking/underestimating Kamala Harris bc she wasn't a white dudebro who hung with the Obama podbros.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

I didn't notice that difference until I went to enter the image alt text and read my screenshot a little more carefully.

Let that be a lesson to us all - alt-text is your friend 🤣

Snapshot from the weather underground website indicating that it is 3°C.

Ooof, I just realized what happened – the website had switched to centigrade temperature. I just traveled to Toronto and back to the DC area last week and the website must've had some kind of automatic update can match the usage of the country that you're in. I just had to manually switch to °F

The data on its app looks okay, but the weather underground website is apparently going haywire. It's reporting temperatures 30 to 40° lower than they currently are or could be reasonably be expected to be.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Using a person's altruism against them has got to be the most ethically corrosive form of entrapment imaginable, and second only to using children as bait in sheer evilness

It shows the hollowness of ICE's false promise to focus on those with a criminal record. These people have no soul.

The DC grand jurors did the right thing by withholding this indictment. Dems need to do the right thing by them: end taxation without representation. DC voters are owed representation in Congress and full home rule.

When the GOP's Reign of Error is done, Dems need to institute DC as the 51st state.

The DC grand jurors did the right thing by withholding this indictment. Dems need to do the right thing by them: end taxation without representation. DC voters are owed representation in Congress and full home rule.

When the GOP's Reign of Error is done, Dems need to institute DC as the 51st state.

This useless detention cost could've been applied to making healthcare/housing affordable. But the 1%'ers and their MAGA acolytes prefer the indulgence of free-floating malice & power for its own sake.

But should D's retake power? The media will echo MAGA wails of woe: Whooooooo's gonna pay for it?

Any one except those ones who actually are.

They need to believe this to be okay with their mediocre lives. Or to excuse their own exploitation of people who work for them, who won't put up with it if they have other good options.

Too many rural and suburban Americans are sold on the idea that it's the folks who grew up in the cities who are keeping them down. Or who are a shade or more darker. Or the people who rely on any social service to survive. Or their classmates who went to college and moved away.

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

It’s what goes out when you’ve gone and fired all your copy editors before writing your own letter of resignation.

He really should have thought ahead on this one.

Make DC a state, and then it can press charges for crimes against civil society, if he does set foot here again.

And hand the paper over to Mackenzie Scott while he’s at it? (Hey, a liberal girl can dream!)

Peak "burying the lede" moment for the NYT.

And yet so clueless about how her ideas pulled America farther along the dark road that it's now on.