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DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin to leave Trump administration The move comes as public opinion has turned on the administration’s hardline immigration policies.

Some of the most hateful, vile rhetoric that has come from DHS during Trump 2.0 can be traced directly to McLaughlin. I will follow her career very closely because I want to know who would hire such a monster.

qasimrashid • ® 1h An ICE fascist named David Courvelle (56) repeatedly raped a Nicaraguan woman over several months in a closet at a Louisiana ICE gulag while ICE fascists served as lookouts. In exchange he let her see her daughter. He's out on $10K bond, & only faces up to 15 years & 250K fine. No accountability for the other ICE fascists who helped him rape. No investigation into how widespread this rape is. And 5000 accusations remain of ICE raping migrant children. No training can fix this. ABOLISH ICE.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe"
The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury.
This is what gendered administrative burdens look like.
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in 2023 when I was organizing parents against our archbishop’s transphobic new school guidelines, one dad asked how loud I thought it was prudent for us to be, given how punitive the Archbishop is. I was like “loud enough that all the trans/nb kids at your parish see it” and he was like “…. oh”

I will say it is kind of weird how high profile transphobes who are Just Very Concerned About The Safety Of Children universally tend to have at most 2 degrees of separation from Jeffrey Epstein

There’s a thing he thinks he can own by smearing his name on it, but that is just a husk, and this is its beating heart.

Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper Disgusting bigotry. Quote Congressman Randy Fine

Tapper has spent the better part of two and a half years legitimizing this kind of rhetoric with how he's used his cable television news slot but wants to act like Fine is now suddenly beyond the pale.

Remember that Tapper *made up a quote* from Tlaib but has never said anything on CNN about Fine.

This is legitimately shocking censorship by state media

I don’t know how to express how extremely gross it was to see the machine make my friend speak English against his will using his own voice.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.

You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I just wrote a column about rich people being accorded the presumption that they’re smart when they’re really dumb and it is publishing tomorrow but …she just skeeted it out.

I can't believe that just in my lifetime we went from the conscious Black Pride hip hop of the 90's to the "Harriet Tubman wasn't real" Tik Toks of today.

its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job

Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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New TSA rule will change how travelers are officially identified A NEW term has been designated for non-US citizens by the Transportation Security Administration. TSA officials will now be required to refer to non-US citizens as “aliens” under a change made on F…

All non-citizens are now required to be labelled as "aliens." This includes travelers arriving from other countries.

This is part of a process of intentional dehumanization.

It seems like a little thing, but it represents something very big that's happening.

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The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

I often think of a British film (sadly can’t remember which) where an Indian or Pakistani father tells his son something like ‘It’s important to go to university so you can find out who is doing what to who.’ This is why there is currently an attempt to suppress higher education.

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you

The left, being actually educated, with enough humanities to have discernment and judgement as well as moral reasoning, is pretty damn good at metabolizing new information. And it sniffed this pile of badly generated shit to discern it’s environmentally & informationally poisonous as hell.

Sorry your health insurance costs so much more this year, we needed to make fancy airplanes for illiterate dog-murderers

One of the best selling books in the UK in 1974 by one of its most well known writers

it is kinda funny that the least interesting and creative phase of colbert's career has ended up seeing him most reliably face government pressure to shut up

NY skyline obscured by smog

This was what the NY skyline frequently looked like in the 1960s and 1970s. You could taste the air.

People have forgotten the horrible suffering pre-vaccines. They have forgotten the brutality of fascism. But those things ended before most people alive today were born.

Have they really forgotten how bad pollution was only 20 or 30 years ago?

“The Trump administration “is telling American manufacturers, ‘You guys go build gasoline cars again,’” he said. “The Chinese government is telling its manufacturers, ‘You go build the advanced vehicles that are going take over the world.’”

“Any resulting shift by American automakers toward gas guzzlers that can’t be sold in Europe or China could further isolate the U.S. market. And the United States would increasingly cede the future of automotive technology to Chinese electric vehicle giants like BYD, experts said.”