lumie's dad

...and that's on marketplace

krispy kreme crocs

this is...violence

why can't we have cheesemongers 😭😭😭

It will, no doubt, shock you to know that the most spineless coward serving in our federal government has no answers for anything.

Even if I weren't opposed to gun control, this would leave a bad taste in my mouth. Like, man. I don't blame the parents, though. Can't imagine the kind of horrific grief they've gone through since Parkland.

The media companies taking this as a "real" interview, though? That's shameful.

We aren't fixing this with votes. We are gonna have to do it with our feet, our voices, and our bodies. We're gonna have to do it at inconvenient times that make people uncomfortable and angry. The way we have been doing things up to now ain't working.

We escalate or we die. It is that simple.

I mean, what are we going to do about it? Like. Trump and the fascists are dismantling the meager labor regulatory regime that has kept labor peace in the United States for the last 90 years.

Now it is time to show the fascists what labor discord and militant working-class organization looks like.

Talib Kweli on stage at the Dakota.

Talib Kweli at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis.

It was fucking awesome.

sidewalk in minneapolis has "no drill" spraypainted across it

that's that shit i don't like

You Too Can Own A Copy Of These Words (Ask Your Library To Order One If Money Is Short remix)

Just remember that the people making these memes would never spend a single fucking day in the mines. They will, however, do their damnedest to break the unions and government agencies that have helped miners reach retirement age for the last 100 years.

lol

who are you [actually] mad at?

and if you can't answer that question, then you have some work to do.

Remember when the Star Tribune was considered the liberal paper in the Twin Cities? I remember when Republicans in this state would call it the "Red Star".

Seems like a distant memory now.

fam

Who called it pursuing an ineffective political strategy in service of upholding the morals of a lost era of politics and not Powdered Whigs

this slaps

Basically, people feel like it has fascist vibes because of her look and the play on words between "jeans" and "genes" in the tagline "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans".

I couldn't give a fuck less, and I've literally only seen people talking about this on social media.

The words "lean" and "left" are doing Herculean rhetorical work here. Zaid hasn't been anything approaching a left-winger -- or, for that fact, even a liberal -- for years now.

The only people who would believe otherwise are the kind of credulous rubes who become editors at the Washington Post.

"Well, they had a preexisting condition."

Israel 🤝 Pharmaceutical companies who raise the price of insulin so that diabetics can't afford it

Joe Biden's words still providing cover for a genocide. May he get the end that he deserves, which will still be too good given the misery his actions facilitated.

It's a jeans ad. Who cares?

they both suck

never beating the allegations

FTC announcing an investigation into why adult daughters don't call you

Senate Democrats’ Abandonment of Adeel Mangi Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

It’s a simple fact that Democrats could have filled Emil Bove’s seat with a qualified lawyer who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge. The GOP responded with rank Islamophobia, and Dems waved the white flag. I expect more of my elected officials than this. If you don’t, that’s on you

The story begins shortly after Biden nominated Mangi in November 2023, when conservative activists, eager to scuttle any Democratic judicial pick by any means necessary, launched an egregious smear campaign against Mangi, insinuating that his service on the advisory board of a Rutgers-affiliated religious freedom center makes him an antisemite, a terrorist sympathizer, or some vile combination of the two. During his Senate confirmation hearing - formal opportunities for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to question nominees about their backgrounds and philosophies-Republican senators harangued Mangi to share his personal views about whether there was any "justification" for the October 7 attacks and treated his repeated denials as invitations to ask again, albeit in a slightly different format. At one point, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-LA) asked Mangi, "Is this the way you celebrate 9/11?" — about as loaded and racist as a loaded, racist question can get.

Several years before his nomination, Mangi worked with the Alliance of Families for Justice (AF]), an anti-mass incarceration nonprofit that provides legal services to incarcerated people and support services to their families, to represent the family of a mentally ill man killed by a corrections officer; later, Mangi agreed to join the organization's board. Separately, AF] has pushed for the compassionate release of the incarcerated activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, and sponsored a fellowship named for the late Kathy Boudin, a criminal justice reformer who spent 22 years in prison for murder before her release in 2003. This is all a conservative media outlet needed to supplement the anti-Muslim campaign against Mangi, breathlessly framing tenuous connections between his professional experience and people convicted of crimes as evidence of his affiliation with "a left-wing group with extensive ties to convicted cop killers."

Incredibly, this worked: In March, Nevada Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto announced she would oppose Mangi, citing his links to "an organization that I have found has connections to individuals who killed police officers." Nevada's other Democratic senator, Jacky Rosen, followed suit, due to "concerns" that she'd purportedly "heard from law enforcement" in the state. Meanwhile, West Virginia's then-Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin had said he would not vote to confirm any nominee who did not have the support of at least one Republican. In a Senate that has been controlled by a 51-member Democratic majority, just two defections would have been enough to kill a nomination as long as Republicans hold the line - which, given the cover afforded to them by three Democrats' credulous defections, was an easy lift.

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Democrats' treatment of Mangi is the mundanity of his résumé. To its credit, the Biden White House worked to diversify a judiciary long dominated by law firm partners and former prosecutors: Overall, some 40% of its nominees are public defenders, labor lawyers, civil rights attorneys and other lawyers with backgrounds underrepresented on the bench. And for the most part, Senate Democrats ignored predictable efforts to tar these nominees as soft on crime or secret Marxists. Their confirmations ensure that for years to come, more criminal defendants and individual plaintiffs will appear before federal judges who understand the power disparities they face. Mangi, impressive though his academic credentials and pro bono experience might be, is none of these things. He has spent his career in private practice, working on behalf of corporations that already wield more than enough power in the legal system. There was no ideological reason for Republicans to oppose his confirmation. There is only his race and religion - Mangi would have been this country's first-ever Muslim American federal appeals court judge — because Republicans understand that in this country, the easiest way to splinter a fragile center-left coalition is to spew fear-mongering horseshit about brown people and count on a few handwringing Democrats to crack.

My request of people who think I am too critical of Democrats is to simply *read the details* of the right-wing smear campaign against Adeel Mangi, whom Republicans tarred as anti-Semitic and “anti-police,” and tell me Dems were right to cave to this. inthesetimes.com/article/adee...

Exactly. So many liberals are the exact thing that they claim to hate.

I honestly never expect anyone to understand my coping techniques. I’m not surprised people are like omg how can she joke about the tsunami. Because my ass can’t punch it nor stop it.

It apparently got worse. Yeah, I'm sure this is just a "coping technique" and not you just wishing death and destruction on thousands of people because you don't like their Senators (who they likely didn't vote for, not that that matters).

Dearest Tsunami, I know we don’t know each other, but while you decide between Russia, Alaska and Hawaii, I’d like to point out that Hawaii is too nice of people for that. Please spare them. Whereas Alaska is home to Senator Ernst and Russia has Putin. Thank you for your time.

the dumbass skeet in question: