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ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. Donald Trump is arming his masked immigration agents with increasingly lethal weapons.

“While most of the spending was on guns and armor, Legum reported that ICE had also purchased ‘guided missile warheads and explosive components.’ … It’s not immediately clear what part of a good-faith deportation operation would involve localized destruction and murder.”

They’re building an army.

First Look: Mary Sue #1 - BOOM! Studios Despite what her mom thinks, Cassie has lots of friends—they just all happen to be online, where she can talk to them about her beloved favorite show, Riverview, and get their feedback on her fan fic ...

I loved The Mary Sue #1 by @megfitz89.bsky.social & @lisasterle.bsky.social out now. It’s about a schoolgirl fan fiction writer whose creation comes to life. It’s *immersed* in fanfic culture. If you write or read fic, it will resonate, but it’s universal. www.boom-studios.com/archives/fir...

I've repeatedly been asked why I don't get a PhD.
1 No benefit for me as as non-academic.
2 Cost, both in $ & time
3 I've heard about so many more negative experiences than positive ones
4 If I want to spend countless hours researching something & writing a book, I can just do that
5 Committees 🤮

I love the elegant simplicity of the design of this Victorian townhouse on Berkeley Street in Glasgow, especially the way the stonework around the door blends into the rest of the facade.

#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography

Republicans are making one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation even more rigged North Carolina Republicans just passed a new Trump-inspired congressional map to oust a Black Democrat.

North Carolina Republicans just passed a new Trump-inspired congressional map to oust a Black Democrat.

How much are the American people going to take? Even the republicans, even the Maga have got to be appalled by Trump's insanity. So what is it going to take? He has killed people on boats, no due process, no evidence. He's torn down the East wing, he's invaded US cities, he has decimated families

Never in my lifetime did I think I would see such an evil group of people running the government...and some of them are not elected or appointed. But the bigger disappointment to me are the Congressmen and SCOTUS justices helping this regime destroy our country.

The Constitution is not self-enforcing.

The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.

And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.

No one is coming to save us.

It's entirely up to us.

A comprehensive plan for the United States to end hunger would require an estimated $25 billion annually, which includes raising wages and improving social safety nets. Trump just gave almost twice that to Argentina on your dime.

Have a great night.

"just kill them" so casually said is chilling

This is a stepping stone to declaring people non-citizens for the purposes of … well history says putting them in camps and sometimes actively exterminating them

As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds

Dangerous times

Potemkin village populism Trump thinks he's fooling the public, but he's only deceiving himself.

"Trump is a professional huckster and a profoundly lazy man. So instead of tending to his promises to working Americans, he entered office immediately pursuing his own bizarre obsessions."

Spot on by @davidrlurie.bsky.social in PN.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-pote...

Judge Releases Teens Charged in ‘Big Balls’ Assault in Blow to Trump The case caught the attention of Donald Trump.

And while the right wing story was constantly changing, the police report and the story from the teenagers both remained consistent. The teenagers say that big balls was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl, and when he wouldn't leave her alone the boy jumped in to defend her.

A disgusting, vindictive prosecution of this poor man by the Trump DOJ, led by law-lackey, Pamela Jo Bondi.

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

a cat sits behind a curtain with a drawing of a cat on it in exactly the same spot.

"Have you seen Felix?"

This is what they took from us [crying cat emoji] image of an incredibly comfortable cat chilling on top of a CRT monitor

Narnia's Aslan: "Please feel free to cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written so I love talking about it. :)"

"What do you do for [a] living?" I do my best [image of a very sad cat in a desaturated field of grass.]

Return it and get your money back!

A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves.

And when he drove away, they opened fire on him.

This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.

I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.

Aren't all the people who took the govt buyout going to come onto the unemployment market in September?

Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure...

In his first term, President Trump framed mental health as a national crisis, His second administration has paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. Read this story by @mayatmiller.bsky.social @jeremykohler.bsky.social

This is just classic, age-old ableist eugenics. It’s the exact same shit sold to us during the pandemic. “Don’t worry, it’s only the already disabled and chronically ill that are suffering and dying.” It’s all the same playbook. “Nothing to see here. Nobody with worth to worry about.”

Defund public safety to spark chaos, then parade troops as saviors while clutching the throne in a cynical power grab. #Authoritarianism

I know nothing about Pokemon cards but this video made me cry.