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“People are being told that their names are going on a list, that their personal information is going into a domestic terrorism database, or they’re creating a file on them, all sorts of things that smack of authoritarian regimes that we don’t typically try to emulate,’’ Heiden said

Boston Globe

Seems we’d need a proper proportional representative government rather than this bullshit bicameral that rarely functions at all. Decent ranked vote system. We need a rewrite on the Constitution and a revamp of SCOTUS. Yeah, we’re definitely in the ditch stuck on the shoulder now.

The (slave) Owner Class can never allow equality, equity or true justice: they have wars to fight and capital to preserve. Regulations get in the way of capital maximization.

We never even passed the Equal Rights Amendment! During the few years that we had Roe, it was constantly eroded

Your representation speaks loudly and clearly: bravo!

"vote for me, or we'll shoot you in the head"

When they ask you
(and they will ask you)
how you can be
so concerned about Covid
given all of the terrible things
that are currently happening,
kindly but firmly tell them
that Covid
is one of those terrible things
that is currently happening.

There are days where it feels like Putin has won. He's won at destroying the United States from within, and greedy, corrupt politicians gleefully helped him get there.

Tell me I'm wrong, and he will fail.

We're in a time in American history where the president of the United States is sending FBI agents out to help rig the midterms. This is not an administration, it's a mafia doing their dirty work for all to see & I am FURIOUS at everyone who helped normalize this level of crime in our government.

Dear world:
Remember that cruelty and murder of unwanted groups is a hallmark of Christian colonialism

The USA has only had a short history of democracy + civil rights—since about 1964

What is happening now is totally in character

Tip: NEVER vote in a right wing government

NEVER!!!

We are being trained to accept things that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
Federal force used casually & defended reflexively.
Legal limits dismissed as technicalities.
Open talk of dictatorship reframed as realism.
None of this is normal. And none of it is accidental. -- George Conway

The new US food pyramid is scientifically questionable, and upends decades of trusted public health advice Established procedures for writing new dietary guidelines were bypassed, including public consultation.

Today, for lovers of Shakespeare's language, the reason why the new dietary guidelines are a scientific and political mess.

Via @es.theconversation.com

theconversation.com/the-new-us-f...

It’s not the fact that we can never live up to the ideals of others that causes us such emotional pain, but rather our endless, hopeless attempt to somehow fulfill their hidden expectations, because we assume exclusion from the community or humiliation

We must give up the idea of satisfying ideals

NSI Experts Weigh In: U.S. National Security Challenges in 2026 As the United States looks ahead to 2026, the global security environment remains volatile, contested, and increasingly difficult to…

"...In 2026, a pressing national security issue is the accelerating loss of practical knowledge inside the systems that sustain the U.S. economy and national security..."

thescif.org/nsi-experts-...

TERRORISTS, FASCISTS, GESTAPO. THE I, C, AND E OF EACH SUCCESSIVE WORD IS HIGHLIGHTED TO SPELL ICE

seems plausible

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

I confess, when I read
studies that find: “Compared
with influenza and dengue,
COVID-19 stands out
for both the breadth
and severity
of its neurological manifestations,
as well as the persistence
of symptoms in many survivors,”
I worry none of us
can yet call ourselves survivors.

DPS troopers clash with protesters outside Dilley ICE detention facility Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrived in riot gear in Dilley on Wednesday as protesters gathered outside the South Texas Family Residential Center to draw attention to the detention of a five-year-old boy from the Minneapolis area being held at the ICE facility.

Protesters wanted to draw attention to the detention of a 5-year-old boy from the Minneapolis area at the Texas ICE facility. They were met by state troopers who used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE 🩸🩸🩸

There is no "self" in self-driving cars.

YouTube video by History Hit 7 Key Causes of the French Revolution

une brève histoire de la Révolution française:

youtu.be/VJEbiiYDlkE

Byzantine. Theodora would revel in the intricacy and intrigue.

Where’s Bill Cosby?

Our country now feels like a bankrupt casino. With concentration camps.

You said “read” hahaha.

And the concentration camps run for profit! American indeed!

Trump wants ICE to spread fear and terrorize American cities. That is exactly what they are doing.

The whole idea of DHS was to create a branch of the government that was exempted from oversight as much as possible. That's why they moved any agency that had enforcement powers into it. DHS employees are exempt from the usual prohibition on political hiring and do not use the civil service system.