Pamela Merritt

Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers “The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

People need to recognize when they’re being g threatened with violence.

Texas, I am rooting for y'all. The one thing all progressives down here know how to do is fucking fight. 💓 (this thread is full of actions happening up & down)

The US is a lawless dystopian failed state where sadists hold power and Black women in elected office face jail for refusing to honor unlawful orders.

If you don’t live here, do not come here.

Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier remains on House floor after refusing escort: 'I refuse to sign away my dignity.' State Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, has been an outspoken critic of the redistricting maps, which she argues dilute minority voting power.

BREAKING | Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier will remain in the Texas House chamber after refusing a DPS escort. Here's why she could be arrested if she leaves.

This is full-on authoritarianism.

Free Nicole Collier. #txlege

Roger Ebert Logo Search Icon Reviews The Last Boy Scout star ratingstar rating Action 107 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1991 Roger Ebert December 13, 1991 4 min read “The Last Boy Scout” opens with a sequence of such sudden and unexpected violence that the audience is stunned into uneasy silence. The movie never looks back. Perhaps propelled by the determination of its star, Bruce Willis, to erase the box-office curse of “Hudson Hawk,” this film panders with such determination to the base instincts of the action crowd that it will, I am sure, be an enormous hit. It was produced by Joel Silver, who has made violence toward women a key element in his films, and cheerfully expands its horizons to violence toward children – providing the Willis character with a foul-mouthed 13-year-old daughter who is hauled around by bad guys with a gun pointed at her temple. (The film is rated R, proving that violence alone cannot earn the NC-17 rating.) It is some kind of a tribute to Tony Scott, who directed the film, and especially to Shane Black and Greg Hicks, who wrote the screenplay, that this material survives its own complete cynicism and somehow actually works. Watching it, I felt like some weatherbeaten innocent from an earlier, simpler time. My distaste was irrelevant. This movie is the future. It assumes the average audience now has no standards except those of the mob. The only consistent theme of the film is its hatred of women. The two heroes (Willis and Damon Wayans) have a wife and a girlfriend, respectively, who cheat on them – the wife with Willis’ best friend, the girlfriend by prostituting herself. Both men are at home in this screenplay, which hates women with a particular viciousness; the verbal violence begins by calling them bitches and whores and worse, over and over again, and the message is that a man can only really trust another man.

It is some kind of a tribute to Tony Scott, who directed the film, and especially to Shane Black and Greg Hicks, who wrote the screenplay, that this material survives its own complete cynicism and somehow actually works. Watching it, I felt like some weatherbeaten innocent from an earlier, simpler time. My distaste was irrelevant.

This movie is the future. It assumes the average audience now has no standards except those of the mob.

just rewatched The Last Boy Scout, a movie i cannot analyze objectively because i have loved it since childhood. But goddamn Ebert's review of it is both hard as fuck and prescient.

Maybe some of us remember what happened the last time law enforcement got mad at a sex worker Trump was mad at

Columbus vice cops did so much harassment and illegal setups, entrapments, abuse and wrongful arrests when Stormy Daniels came to town that they got disbanded

The fact he seems to legitimately believe in the anti-Christ while also investing in companies and policies that would actually make his fears manifest is a modern day paradox.

Had to delete & repost cause I tagged the wrong person

Apologies. Done.

Got it. Deleted.

Racist newspaper headline reads “Lynn Schmidt: The tornado devastated Black neighborhoods. Where was BLM?

I hate tagging the wrong person. 🫣 Reposting to @stltoday.com

1. StL has never had a BLM chapter.

2. BLM isn’t FEMA for Black neighborhoods.

3. Multiple Black queer led StL orgs were on the ground on day one.

4. Some racist hot takes are best left at the Buffalo Wild Wings in JeffCo.

My bad. Thanks for letting me know

they deserve not a moment of peace in public life tbh

I am shocked SHOCKED to find Nazis in the DHS.

A Black women, elected by her constituents is literally being held hostage for refusing to be policed by an opponents. Let that sink in. @angelarye.bsky.social interview with Rep Collier: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFrD...

‼️ Austin, Texas ‼️

If you think Gavin Newsom is fighting fascism because his comms people post, but the encampment protesters last year were out of line, or Black Lives Matter protesters went too far, or anti-ICE protesters were wrong because they flew Mexican flags, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FIGHTING FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

She’s also erasing the strong community response. A diverse group of St. Louisans showed up in amazing ways and supported efforts on the ground. She wasn’t there so she wrote this filth on assumptions and pure prejudice

BIG BEAUTIFUL POD DROP 🚨 The Bigoted BS Bill is a Backdoor National Abortion Ban
❗ FBK favorite @Sharkfu.bsky.social of @MSFChoice.bsky.social drops by to explain exactly how the abominable bill will make it impossible for people who don’t own yachts to become doctors.

New #FeministBuzzkills with @lizzwinstead.bsky.social & @mojilocks.bsky.social @abortionfront.bsky.social #MSWMedia 💄

Guests: @sharkfu.bsky.social of @msfchoice.bsky.social & @neginfarsad.bsky.social

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I have nothing inspirational to offer. This is horrific and will devastate healthcare systems across the country.

The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer.

May God have mercy.

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After Texas made performing abortions a felony, miscarriage became more dangerous. The number of blood transfusions in ED visits for first-trimester pregnancy loss shot up by 54%. My latest:

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Yes, rural Trump voters will now have to drive three states to get to a hospital but think of all the slurs they can say freely on that road trip now.