Paul Tassin

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

Helena Moreno's endorsement in clerk's race shows fault lines in New Orleans politics Here's who Mayor-elect Helena Moreno is endorsing in the New Orleans criminal clerk race, and what it means.

Calvin Duncan is the CLEAR choice for Clerk.

Very disappointing to see Moreno support Lombard. People do not *deserve* high-powered roles simply bc they’re from a prominent family or know the right people. N.O. deserves better than Lombard.

#nolasky #neworleans #nola

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the message that people should take away from sandwich guy is that getting blackout and picking fights with cops always ends well. I am a lawyer* and this is legal advice**

*this is disputed by the bar, whose legitimacy I do not recognize

**for the court of life, before which all are plaintiffs

I just caught myself hopescrolling

Whenever they call Mamdani a Communist remind them of this:

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Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

Just let me get the leak of what the NYPD group chats post about Zohran

a woman is sitting at a table with a sticker that says sorry to this man on it . Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with a sticker that says sorry to this man on it .

May his name be blotted out and forgotten.

May the names of the innocents slaughtered for his greed live on forever.

Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you

taking the ICE agent exam and it's just one question

1: Does the whole world need to pay for your childhood?

Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Custom made double breasted uniform great coat not alluding to any historical period in particular surely

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

It’s about time: “In a critical diagnosis, the report also faults the Biden administration for being too naive about the bad-faith hostility of large swaths of the courts—and the true intentions of the conservative judicial revolution that remade them—to progressive governance.”

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP AGENTS STOP YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT ATENCION AGENTES DE ICE/CBP STOP NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading: PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE and a second sign: PLEASE USE DOOR ON 47TH ST. BACK OF THE YARDS

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

We'll have them fat, drunk and AWOL in two pay cycles or less

Looking at you, New Orleans

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification.

Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

7 million protesters, 0 arrests.

Man we suck at terrorism.

We won't make the national news bc our crowds were smaller & the photos aren't as impressive to ppl who aren't from here, but I rly hope that ppl in big cities understand that small cities and towns all over showed out today, too.

Some had their largest protests in living memory. Ppl are pissed.

#NYC #NoKings 👑

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

If you put ICE officers in jail, their names become a matter of public record. Then the public gets to see exactly how low standards have fallen with the recent hiring blitz.

Doesn't matter if the courts shut this down, you've won the PR battle by showing Nazis and Proud Boys wearing ICE uniforms.