Roatti the Roy Ayers Stan 🦋🗝🗽🧷🌊 ⚖️🍎⛓

This image is from Los Angeles in 1992. What are you doing here?

Mamdani was 9 years old on 9/11. This is just gutter racism from Debra Messing.

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Taxing the Rich and the Survival of Emmanuel Macron Today on TAP: A crucial political meeting in Paris today will force a choice between a popular wealth tax and a deepening political crisis.

A proposed 2% wealth tax in France would affect 1800 people, and bring in $20 billion a year. It’s overwhelmingly popular, but it seems that Macron would rather let the far-right take power than tax the super-rich. From Robert Kuttner: trib.al/Snv1jbR

Just irredeemable pieces of shit. We're going to need a modern-day equivalent to the Wiesenthal Center to hunt down and arrest MAGA immigration criminals once this is over.

🇸🇾🤝🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — A pro-Ukraine rally took place in the Syrian city of Maarat al-Numan (Idlib) today as people were protesting any possibility of normalization of Syria-Russia relations.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Good for him. Also, Zohran being asked questions about Israel so often that he has to make it clear he's running for Mayor of a city in the United States of America. Fucking nuts really.

If Pete Hegseth was managing the woke Antifa Allied war effort in WW2 (a stretch, I know, we know his sympathies would have laid with Germany), he would have fired Oppenheimer and Turing for not being "manly" enough.

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

In tonight’s New Jersey Lt. Gov debate, Jack Ciattarelli’s running mate Jim Gannon said - out loud - that new taxes are on the table for NJ residents…EXCEPT FOR MILLIONAIRES!!!

Clip via @umichvoter.bsky.social on X.

Epstein victim says there are tapes of Donald Trump having sex with 'many girls' recorded by Jeffrey Epstein. BREAKING: Epstein victim says there are Tape of Donald Trump having sex with 'many girls' recorded by Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein victim says there are tapes of Donald Trump having sex with 'many girls' recorded by Jeffrey Epstein.
open.substack.com/pub/seemorer...

it's genuinely somewhat absurd that a literal 85 year old Reagan appointee feels more mad about this than Senator Fetterman

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Yep. I’m truing to suscribe to all the good media I can

I just got subscriptions to the Financial Times and Philly Inquirer to wean myself off the NYT

A top tier useless politician begging to lose a primary next year.

Broke: Covid was created by China to lose the 2020 election for Trump

Woke: Covid was spread by a man eating an undercooked bat at the Wuhan market

Bespoke: Covid was created by the Houston Astros to distract us from their cheating scandal

Lol sorry I can’t help it, I’m a straight man

Tech bros: AI is a tool for enlightenment.

Me:

Respectfully disagree- Biden never really pushed back against the rw narrative on immigration. Like in the UK, our side ceded the issue and that’s why we list it.

This got multiple likes so here we go!

1) “Daddy take your time… I want you to punish me… I need some discipline tonight.”

Who sang it???

I want to do a skeet series where I quote lyrics that reference kink/bdsm and y’all can guess who sang it- anyone down?

But you’re all at least *ok* with authoritarianism and genocide so you don’t get to preach to anybody.

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

guy who got confused and voted for joseph kony in 2012

A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes.

An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.

Top 10 American Fears of 2024 (Chapman Survey) Horizontal bar chart ranking the top fears of Americans (percentage “afraid” or “very afraid”): 1. Corrupt government officials (65.2%, top fear for years). 2. Loved ones becoming seriously ill (58.4%). 3. Cyberterrorism (58.3%). 4. Loved ones dying (57.8%). 5. Russia using nuclear weapons (55.8%). 6. Not having enough money for the future (55.7%). 7. U.S. becoming involved in another world war (55.0%). 8. North Korea using nuclear weapons (55.0%). 9. Terrorist attack (52.7%). 10. Biological warfare (52.5%). Red bars display percentages; small arrows indicate change from 2023 rankings.

Top Public Worries in the U.S. (Yale & GMU poll, May 2025) Stacked bar chart of worries among U.S. adults. Categories ranked by share “very worried”: • Government corruption (54% very worried, top issue). • Other leading concerns: cost of living (48%), the economy (47%), state of democracy (44%), disruption of federal services (44%), cultural/social divisions (36%), treatment of immigrants (35%), global warming (29%), crime (26%). • Lower worries include job security (17%), health (16%), and being targeted because of identity/beliefs (15%). Green shades show “very/somewhat worried,” yellow/orange shades show “not very/not at all worried.

Perceptions of Federal Government Problems (AP-NORC poll) Bar chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who consider various issues in the federal government to be a major problem, minor problem, or not a problem. • Corruption: Overall 70% major, 22% minor, 7% not a problem. Higher among Republicans (78%) than Democrats (63%). • Inefficiency: 65% major overall, with Republicans (81%) much higher than Democrats (55%). • Red tape (bureaucracy): 59% major overall, with Republicans (73%) higher than Democrats (47%). • Civil servants unwilling to implement president’s agenda: More partisan split—Republicans 56% major problem, Democrats 20% major problem; overall 34% major, 36% minor, 28% not a problem. Title: “Majority of the public believe corruption, inefficiency, and red tape are major problems in the federal government.

Word Cloud of How People Describe American Government (Berkeley Democracy Policy Lab) Large central word: “Corrupt.” Other prominent words: Broken, Chaotic, Dysfunctional, Shit, Clueless, Divided, Inefficient, Crooked, Hijacked, Justice, Woke, Bloated, Untrustworthy, Hopeless, Frustrated, Disastrous, Messy, Sneaky, Turmoil, Delusional. Smaller scattered words include both negative and neutral terms such as Crap, Important, Poder, Resilient, Unfocused, Needs Help. Visual emphasizes “Corrupt” as the dominant public perception.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data…

—Top Public Worry: Corruption

—Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption

—Top fear: Corruption

—What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt”

It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.