Andy Freeland

To the extent any of this means anything, Latin America is much more "European" than the United States - more Christian, speaks a continental romance language etc.

it becomes this insane non-sequitur. western civilization beseiged by... catholic soccer fans!

this is a framing invented by european reactionaries to explain colonial domination of non-Christians and exclude Muslims and Jews from Europe and is being applied by American reactionaries to explaining why we have to be racist against 90% Christian Mexico

one of the defining features of the last 25 years is a merging of ideologies between european reactionaries (core belief: anti-semitism) and american reactionaries (core belief: anti-black racism). produces sometimes hilarious results like marco rubio championing "western civilization"

Just devoting the vast majority of the land to the comfort of the richest and most privileged citizens of the city. It's pretty crazy.

DC west of Rock Creek reads like a parody of American land use. Of the ~50% of developable land, it appears like 73% of that land land is residential. ~50% of the population lives in large multifamily, but that only occupies 7% of all developed land!

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This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

It's legit crazy that these guys are staying on X. It's an entirely new tier of the self-euthanization of the sorry remains of the journalistic profession.

They're slowly culturally homogenizing with insane Nazi podcasters and loli-avatar pundits.

Left and right agree on quite a bit. But as in the case of “trump’s deportation force behaves like a lawless criminal organization” these are things the left thinks are bad and the right thinks are awesome

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

Alfred Twu Thought remains undefeated.

"subtle differences in their views of executive power" is like saying the result of a WWE match showed subtle differences in the participants wrestling ability. The reason Trump lost is because Roberts thought the tariffs would endanger GOP majorities in the next elections.

Los Angeles County, la la la la we’re not a metropolitan area la la la la we don’t need recreational infrastructure la la la

Look, something impossible to install in the US anywhere, because we are too poor and lack the technology.

This is the most corrupt period in American history.

What do we pay cops for again?

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Kicking them out of the military

Revoking their driver’s licenses

Banning them from restrooms

Stripping them of housing/job protection

Banning gender affirming care for adults

It’s utter dehumanization & erasure.

We must pass a federal civil rights law ending this hate & overriding these laws.

"Why would the president pursue military action against the country without nuclear weapons instead of the one with nuclear weapons" is a question that answers itself when stated plainly, and also explains why any regime wary of foreign intervention would rationally pursue a nuclear arsenal.

donald ,,,, i agree

I can't think of any immigrant in American history who has assimilated worse than Musk. The guy hates most of the people here and wants to hurt us, has open contempt for our traditions or values, and has spent billions trying to destroy our culture to replace it with that of his foreign childhood.

"Especially in his second term, Trump has instead wielded U.S. foreign policy principally to increase his own wealth, bolster his status, and personally benefit a small circle of his family members, friends, and loyalists."

Coachella Valley Rail Project Timeline 1991 first feasbility study, 2013 Caltrans Feasibility Study, 2014 alternatives analysis from HDR, 2016-2022 Service development plan, programmatic EIR from HDR for $7 million, 2024 CV rail added to Corridor ID, 2026-2032 HDR contracted $80m for Service development plan, CEQA & NEPA EIR, 30% design, 2035 is the earliest construction could start. start of service for 2 RT/day is unknown

RCTC is set to spend nearly $100m on consultants for Coachella Valley Rail before the project is even shovel ready – which will take 2 decades. All for 2 low-speed trains a day on existing track. We urgently need to bring rail project delivery in-house. 🧵 calelectricrail.org/state-capaci...

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

State Department Plans Online Portal That Will Enable People Overseas To See Content Banned By Their Govt - Joe.My.God. Reuters reports: The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and t...

Marco Rubio leading the fight to make sure the whole world has access to hate groups and child porn www.joemygod.com/2026/02/stat...

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

This is why "Let's give in on some of the trans stuff because it'd be a popular compromise and you have to meet people where they are" is not only immoral but politically stupid.

Republicans were never going to stop there. They stop when you stop them.

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The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

V. perceptive line in this:
"Many prefer the smaller, less crowded, slower-paced Providence of today, where you can find a parking space downtown on a weekday in front of one of the old 20th-century office buildings."

A fact of US life that there is a very large pro-urban decline constituency.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Stacy Bradley voted for President Trump because of his border policies, and she likes that he has restored “law and order.” But she is unsettled by one aspect of his immigration agenda. Last month, the federal government bought a warehouse next to her cheerleading gym in Surprise, Ariz., which the administration plans to convert into a detention center for up to 1,500 immigrants. Ms. Bradley, the co-owner of Woodlands Elite Cheer, said she worried that a detainee could escape, or that protests could break out. The children who train at her gym are as young as 3 and could see “people in shackles” next door, she said.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.