Jen A. Miller

4 million Italians immigrated to the US between the 1890s and 1924; from 1901 to 1913, 1.1 million Sicilians left, with 800,000 of them coming to the US. There was no complex, byzantine system (stats from Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie).

From 1901 to 1913, 1.1 million Sicilians left, with 800,000 of them coming to the U.S. There was no complex, byzantine system. People really did just show up (stats from Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia by John Dickie, a very good read).

4 million Italians immigrated to the US between the 1890s and 1924

THIS. They basically just showed up.

I’ve got an Indian colleague who’s currently been on an H-1B visa for several years. Great person and a great asset to any country. Before the pandemic, I asked them if they were interested in getting their green card. They replied yes, but their lawyer said it would be a 33 year wait.

The trouble is that people, Americans, have no idea what immigration takes. "Granny did it right." Sure. She came to Ellis Island, they gave her a train ticket. It's effectively impossible to come here legally now. You can't do Ellis Island again but there has to be mutually beneficial ways.

Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.

The fucking irony of this Jew to cape Third Reich white supremacist talking points BECAUSE his grandparents could assimilate into US culture when whiteness expanded just enough for them.

(One day he might find that this same conditional whiteness he was granted is more conditional+ less secure.)

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs

here's one of mine

I’ll give you a personalized book recommendation if you promise you won’t procure the book from a billionaire…

Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities.

Starbucks knows where we stand. We’ve been clear: more take-home pay, better hours, & resolution of 100s of ULPs.

Bring us NEW proposals that address these issues so we can finalize a contract. Until then, we'll keep escalating. See you on the picket line!

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/28/s...

music pier, ocean city, new jersey, 1978

music pier, ocean city, new jersey, 1978

Also a surprise $800 in this economy is like, actually devastating, but it did not occur to anyone to check to make sure the vaccine was covered, the doctors were just like "yep it's time let's go" because WHY WOULDN'T YOU?

It is so evil and unnecessary it feels fake. My feelings toward insurance companies would get me banned from this platform if I put them into words.

This makes me even more rageful that a friend just had to pay $800 because her insurance denied coverage of her 19 year old's HPV vaccine, claiming that it is no longer recommended. Appeals were denied. I can only assume RFK Jr had something to do with this???

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

Heating pad covered in flowers with an old yellowed plug.

I threw out my back and my mom offered me this heating pad from the Nixon administration

Don't start family arguments by bringing up politics at the dinner table.

Start the fight by voicing your opinion that we need to ban cars and remove street parking.

Wait until everyone has been drinking for a few hours before breaching the topic.

Enjoy.

good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong

this story delights me every year

😭😭😭

we have to go back. to warn them.

Some PSAs are good, actually.

Jack is a Adult Dachshund

Jack 🦮
Adult male Dachshund
Adoptable from West Feliciana Animal Humane Society at the James L "Bo" Bryant Animal Shelter (Saint Francisville, LA)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/jack-79700251/la/saint-francisville/west-feliciana-animal-humane-society-at-the-james-l-bo-bryant-animal-shelter-la309/

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2001 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4×4 at No Reserve

You're insane if you don't watch A Man on the Inside streaming now on Netflix. *Insane* I tell you.

Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked