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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.

As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.

She replied: “To get out of here.”

I’m sorry. I am who I am.

The fundraising emails are sitting in “draft” until it passes.

a man in a suit and tie is holding his head in his hands and saying `` for the love of god why ? '' ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his head in his hands and saying `` for the love of god why ? ''

He’s not stubborn in the exact same ways TT was, but having 20+ years of good GMs refusing to make minor corrections to their dogma in order to be great is so incredibly frustrating.

wasserman will be the first american to face any substantive consequences for appearing in the epstein files because gen z pop stars have more stones than the combined fortitude of congress, legacy media and academia

Listen capitalism is amoral and it’s tragically eaten me several times

But it’s always going to be funny when it decides to eat them for once

This is one of those trades where I understand why people are annoyed and would have been at one time, but I implicitly trust the Brewers front office at this point and assume everything will work out.
It’s not a bad place to be as a fan.

I watched the first half of the Super Bowl at a brewery in Atlanta last night, and there were two times the folks there had a group reaction to what was airing:
1) enthusiastic applause at the end of the halftime show
2) booing after a commercial for billionaire GA governor candidate, Rick Jackson

Imagine showing up to work and being like "hey did you see Kid Rock perform Til You Can't, his tribute to Charlie Kirk, AS Robert Ritchie?"

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

How many 89 year olds have to die before we WAKE UP

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

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This live performance of a bunch of those songs absolutely CRUSHES.

youtu.be/qIol9hig2G4?...

That story of the little boy they abducted from his home in Minnesota and sent to Texas after using him as bait to arrest and deport his family members cracked a primal fury within me. We are dealing with an evil incarnate, empowered by the full force and purse of our federal government.

Oh, are you a national writer with a take on a Brewers transaction? That’s cute.

the Brewers have found their way to remain competitive in a world where other teams just give guys eleventy billion dollars because they can.

fuck your looking down your nose at us.

It's true that illegal immigrants commit crimes at a rate far less than native born Americans, however both groups commit far, far fewer crimes than ICE.

Surprised it hasn’t already happened. This is madness.

It pains me to say it but it's time for FIFA to rescind its recent Peace Prize.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals