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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

jack donaghy: "That information is classified. At least until Dick Cheney dies which is gonna be a long time from now. That man is mostly metal."

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.

It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

Perhaps this is embarrassingly naive of me, but one of the major things corroding my sense of self-worth and optimism for the future is just how little doing a good job at anything matters to anyone's success or livelihood anymore. These journalists were crushing it and they were punished for it.

If I may dril for a moment, you absolutely do not have to give Trump “credit” for anything, ever. The saying does not go “even a broken clock hires its own gestapo”

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

All right, who had this one on their "How will Worldcon fuck up this time" bingo card? Not me.

She's a great rider, but we do need to acknowledge how well-trained that chicken is.

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.

Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.

Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Anakin and Padme meme. First panel, Anakin labeled "Rich gays" saying "I'm leaving the United States. It's no longer safe here for us here." Padme smiling and saying "And then you'll send help for the rest of us, right?" Anakin staring silently at her. Padme looking concerned "And then you'll send help for the rest of us, right?"

Photo of Malcolm Jamal-Warner as an adult.

RIP to Malcolm Jamal-Warner, who reportedly has died after drowning in Costa Rica at the age of 54.

For many of us, he was the brother we never had on The Cosby Show. He later appeared on shows like The Resident.

He leaves behind a wife and daughter.

This one hurts.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

Julian McMahon Dies: ‘Nip/Tuck’, ‘Fantastic Four’, ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ Star Was 56 Australian actor Julian McMahon, known for his roles in Nip/Tuck, Charmed, Fantastic Four died July 2 after a private battle with cancer.

Holy shit, no way. This is awful. Just awful. deadline.com/2025/07/juli...

A complicating factor here is every state administering Medicaid under a unique name. "I'm not on Medicaid, I'm on Medi-Cal / BadgerCare Plus / STAR / etc!" Many people about to discover that they are, in fact, on Medicaid.

1 Screenshots from the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992): First, a dark, shadowy image of a ship’s log overlaid with glowing red text that reads "Captain’s Log—DEMETER Varna to London," followed by a subtitle at the bottom that states "27th June, 1897."

Jun 27th 1897 - The Demeter set sail to take Dracula to England.

📽️📅 Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

cool time in history to be deeply anti-war

Watching ICE chase, tackle, and (usually) whisk into a van anyone who looks a certain way is the most literal and visceral reminder possible that policing in the United States has its roots in runaway slave patrols.

sign reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE, "GOD BLESS AMERICA"

since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

For those of us who are disabled or prohibited from protesting for any reason, here are ways we can help.

I can’t take a service dog to a protest, it’s unsafe for him but also for others around us.

I can do some of these.

"We Should Improve Society Somewhat" meme but with expanded text space. The Serf is labeled "Autistic person" the person in the well is labeled "Non-Autistic person" The Autistic Person says: I have informed opinions on Autism based on a lifetime of being Autistic, as adult & child, as well as being a member of the Autistic Community. The Non-Autistic person says: Your ability to express your opinion proves you are not "Autistic enough" to have a real or valid opinion on Autism. My opinion still matters though. I am very Ableist!

A very common experience for Autistic People ...
especially with RFK Jr. Supporters.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Text reading: I had to come down to Los Angeles for Work and ended up trying to help with the raid last night. As a Bernie usefully. Waited by the entrance for detainees We were repeatedly denied access of any kind, and eventually LAPD force removed attorneys ice. Also tear gassed a baby under age two. Today they told us to come back at eight to see the clients, but they ever refused entry to us as well as politicians, including Jimmy, Gomez, and right now. They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the Attorneys can’t breathe

Text reading: Post it so everyone knows. When we were trying to chant their rights ice honked so no one could hear.

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

It makes me angry that Mohamad keeps getting booted off here for no reason whatsoever.

Also that looks a very handsome pumpkin.

bit.ly/help-mohamed