Elaine Frantz

There are people out there who legitimately hate violence and suffering, no matter who the victim is. Lots of us.

CHICAGO…

Fascism encourages you to think it’s a spectator sport and when it’s too late you realize you’re also on the playing field and always have been.

The is a technical social science term for what @adambonica.bsky.social has laid bare here, and that is "absolutely fcking insane"

Seriously. Read and weep.

Unpopular opinion: we were better off when American masculinity was defined in terms of stoicism and self-restraint then whatever the fuck the neofascists are peddling. And we should make a concerted effort to promote it.

GOOD PARENTS, BETTER HOMES & GREAT SCHOOLS Selling Segregation before the New Deal

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you're interested in why American cities are *like that*, you need to get this book.

Physically, even.

US citizen, Army veteran detained at California immigration raid | CNN George Retes, a 25-year-old Army veteran and father of two, had been planning his three-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse birthday party at the park for weeks.

Authoritarianism 101-Detain educators & public servants; portray them as anti-American.

"Retes was...driven to...LA's Metropolitan Detention Ctr, where he was held by...US Marshals Service...
He was booked..& placed in a holding cell with a professor...detained that same day"
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You used to be able to google information and reliably get accurate info. Now you just have to swim through a soup of low quality websites (that also might be warped by AI) and try to figure out what's real

Update: We have now been at this for 22 hours and Republicans are still hard at work trying to kick 17 million Americans off their health care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

When I had my first baby we were kinda far from family and friends. New job, new place— small town Wisconsin. Got a government baby basket and man, it really made me feel good, like somewhere people were looking out for my baby and I. So the republican war on baby baskets is hitting me hard.

Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests brutally beat, take Santa Ana father In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen taking part in a brutal beating of a Santa Ana father before f…

I can’t believe this is my country. If we wonder “what we would have done” during the holocaust, now we know.

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ICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President “We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid.

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California?

truthout.org/articles/ice...

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times

Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

Perfect day to head to the Valley Forge National Park. The rangers were so knowledgeable, and, seeing us coming w a wheelchair, grabbed a book to talk us through everything in the Washington’s HQ building. It was lovely.

I’ve taught the 14th Amendment but only today did I fully grasp how radically inclusive Birthright Citizenship really is.

What makes you American? Not race, not religion, not lineage.

You’re born here, you belong here.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/12/us/trump-news

Interesting how his racist & eliminationist EOs get framed as king-like declarations but when it comes to reining in drug prices suddenly "His Power Is Unclear," a real puzzler.

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

YouTube video by MSNBC 'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest

According to a congressman present, ICE arrested the Mayor of Newark in his own city while he was outside of an ICE facility.

He wasn’t protesting or trespassing—he was serving as Mayor. This regime is lawless, reckless and trampling on the constitution.

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

(Though a whole lot of regular folks in the US were definitely fighting for right to unionize long before the encyclical)

Hope the hundreds of undergraduates who I caused to read Rerum Novarum over the years have a little flicker of recognition

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

ICE detains 2 men in Charlottesville courthouse raid Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation.

Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

The no-show: this person regularly volunteers but does not materialize, or arrives late or has to leave early

The talker: this person wants to arrange endless calls, coffees, and meetings about how they can get involved, but does not in fact move from this to volunteering

The empty offer: this person feels guilty about not volunteering so keeps signing up for volunteering in general terms, but is never actually available in practice for any particular task

The aspiring leader: This volunteer doesn’t want to put in time in the rank and file. From the minute of joining, they critique what the organization is doing and suggest that instead they do tasks that the new volunteer believes would be more valuable