JMDipiazza

Why do fascists dream of electric people?

More articles about the woes of MAGA or the MAGA adjacent. Where are the think pieces interviewing the marginalized?

An article about people in the LGTBQIA+ community discussing how they just want to live like everyone else, love, marry, etc. is way more important than “people hate my swasticar”🙄

Just unreal

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

C-SPAN caller from Missouri to Missouri Rep. Mark Alford: "I hope you, sir, as an elected official, will think of the people who are in nursing homes, their parents are in nursing homes, their Medicaid is going to be cut. What is going to happen to Missourians whose hospitals are gonna close?"

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

Federal investigators who used to fight crime are now being redirected to immigration
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Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

This is fascism.

The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversations and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody. CBS News has reached out to the FBI for comment. Comey's lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, declined to comment to CBS News. Reuters was first to report that an FBI agent was sidelined for refusing to help with a perp walk.

I don’t understand the supposed legal basis for this.

DOJ requested a summons—*not* an arrest warrant—under Rule 9 of the FRCrP.

Are they going to go back to the magistrate and ask for a warrant, even though Comey hasn’t failed to appear? If not, what’s the exigency for a warrantless arrest?

JB Pritzker: “Trump’s treasonous words are leading to treasonous actions. Pushing back at authoritarian regimes starts with a resistance that can effectively ridicule the opposition and look into the camera and say this guy is full of shit”

Boo.freaking.hoo.

Official VA emails advising veterans and federal employees to blame the "Radical Left" for the shutdown instead of Trump are facing criticism for using government channels for partisan propaganda, which violates the Hatch Act.

Not one tiny bit differently.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.

[reads any New York Times focus group]

Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

CLERK: I swear some people will do anything but go to therapy

ME: what?

CLERK: oh nothing, your 12 foot skeleton comes to $321.47 after tax

Cardboard-Box Demand Is Slumping. Why That’s Bad News for the Economy. Mills that make the material for corrugated packaging are closing at an unprecedented pace this year.

Cardboard-box demand is slumping, flashing a potential warning about the health of the American consumer given that goods ranging from pizzas to ovens are transported in corrugated packaging.

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Be Loud — For America By Governor JB Pritzker

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

“That was such a good fight with Swalwell. You looked so money baby. I look at you and Jesus Christ it’s Jason Bourne.”

Then he tries to do a little spin kick but his leather pants are too tight. He doesn’t have great balance in those cowboy boots either. 🤷‍♂️