Al V.

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ICE zip-tying and detaining children isn’t “enforcement,” it’s *state cruelty.*

The 8th Amendment prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.” That protection extends through the 5th & 14th to all human beings on U.S. soil.

This is unconstitutional, unlawful, and morally depraved.

FULL STOP.

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My friend evacuated with her two dogs, who then lived with us for a year until my friend’s house was repaired.

Maybe the GOP thinks undocumented workers should be counted as 3/5 of a white person?

When I was a teen my friend Pete got together a group to cut school and go down to the Stone Pony to see Bruce, back before he was famous. I didn’t go because I had a test. Now I kick myself, but I didn’t know what I was missing.

Okay, but what head is Clarence wearing?

Except all Toyota models sold in the U.S. except the Venza are made in the U.S. Lexuses are made in Japan.

He instructed people to break the law. That disqualifies him from being a judge. Period.

Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas

Fire her. Blood on her hands.

There is a video on IG of Cruz on the plane back from Greece, calling an aide to have the aide go see if Cruz’s boat survived the flood.

Saw a post on IG by a guy who sat next to Ted Cruz on his flight back from Greece last weekend, with video to back it up. At some point, Cruz called an aide to have the aide go check if his boat survived the flood.

They could stick him out in the fields, but I suspect he just wouldn’t do the work, even if threatened.

My autistic nephew is able-bodied, but I suspect few employers would keep him on for long, unless they really need someone who incessantly draws Pokémon characters.

Didn’t Pol Pot try that? Didn’t work out so well for Cambodia.

In “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, Jared Diamond notes that in his experience people from “primitive” cultures, such as New Guinea, adapt to modern life much more quickly than people raised in a “modern” culture adapt to living in a primitive environment.

And we need two Nazi parties?

Does it smell like poop?

Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States and Nearly Half of U.S. Counties The U.S. population age 65 and older rose by 3.1% (to 61.2 million) while the population under age 18 decreased by 0.2% (to 73.1 million) from 2023 to 2024.

Gotta love how the GOP talks about how need to raise the birth rate while ignoring the impacts that cuts to Medicaid, rising home prices, and increasing income inequality have on people’s ability to raise children.

www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...

You spoke at a conference I attended, and I asked you about education in the U.S. Your response has stuck with me. You said that we have three educational systems in this country: 1 for the elites who become bankers and politicians; 1 to train the workers; and 1 that keeps children off the streets.

Or, as we saw in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, what fills the void when the war ends.

Hidden Threat to Democracy Slipped Into Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill The bill passed in the House included a provision restricting the courts’ ability to enforce orders.

Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.

Maybe as racist, but not as stupid.

Yay! Get him out of the Senate

Severe cuts to the National Weather Service led to the Jackson NWS going without a full-time overnight forecasters.

Warnings for the 3 AM tornado that claimed at least 18 lives were delayed as a result.

DOGE is killing Americans. It needs to be stopped. Science needs protection. MAGA needs a cage

“I’ll have the eggplant parm.”

I hate eggplant.

Tom Homan, Acting Director of ICE, implied last week that he would begin arresting mayors and governors who do not cooperate with their unconstitutional ICE plans. They just arrested Ras Baraka, Newark's Mayor. This cannot stand. This is a direct threat to any possibility of democracy.

Read The Washington Post’s 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners The Post won for breaking news reporting and commentary, and was a finalist in three other categories

Gotta love how the Washington Post is celebrating Ann Telnaes’s Pulitzer for editorial cartooning, without mentioning that she resigned from the Post when they wouldn’t publish one of her cartoons criticizing Bezos.

www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/05/0...

Don’t forget his role as General Beringer in “War Games”

My SIL lost her job due to the AmeriCorps funding cuts. Ignoring the impact on her losing her income and insurance, she worked helping poor students navigate the education system, including helping them with scholarships, transportation, and taxes. Without her, many students won’t finish school.