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That doesn’t count because Latin American is ours!

this was obvious from the very beginning. what we call "isolationism" was a period of aggression towards latin america

Sovereignty for Me, None for Thee Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.

Hopefully we can all now acknowledge the utter inadequacy of the "internationalism vs isolationism" paradigm, wherein Trump was cast as a man "wary of foreign entanglements". What we're dealing with here is a very American form of blood-and-soil imperialism.

www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...

The nation’s top historic preservation group is suing the Trump administration to block construction of President Donald Trump’s plans for a massive new White House ballroom until review boards weigh in on the project. https://cnn.it/4adAaU4

Al Overview A 2-quart Ziploc bag refers to a quart-sized resealable plastic bag, a common food storage item often used for organizing, freezing, and protecting food, featuring a double zipper and easy-grip seal for freshness, also popular for packing liquids in carry-on luggage (following TSA rules for travel-size liquids). While a standard quart bag holds about 1 liter (or ~4 cups), "2 quart" usually just clarifies it's the standard quart size (approx. 1 quart capacity), not a bag that holds two quarts of liquid, and comes in varieties like storage, freezer, and stand-up versions.

every time I forget to do -ai to my search I get the most hideous bullshit possible

for instance, here is what happens when I search to see if there is such a thing as a 2-quart ziplock bag

My arches are sparse I yell at the Top Dog Law commercial while I'm driving on the 10

Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.

After Trump's 'garbage' slur, a Vermont school building flew a Somali flag. Then came the threats The Somali flag was flown alongside the Vermont state flag and beneath the United States flag at a building that includes K-12 classrooms. Somali students cheered and clapped, telling administrators t...

A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring to Minnesota’s Somali community as “garbage.” https://to.pbs.org/44q6n6P

Me (months ago): Man, I love babies. Maybe I should go ahead and try to have one.
*my sister tells me she’s pregnant*
Me: You’re right, Universe, that’s her job.

The Time The FBI Tried To Get Meir Kahane's Jewish Fascists To Murder Black Panthers Picture it: New York City, 1969. COINTELPRO is in full swing. And the special agent in charge of the New York field office has an idea

Who wants to read one of the most racist and antisemitic memos in the history of the FBI?

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Marc Andressen tweet: “High IQ experts work for mid IQ generalists. What means.”

For a minute, Marc felt like he was on the verge of a rather unpleasant moment of clarity.

“So if the generalists are mid, and I’m the generalist of generalists, then I’m—” He pauses. “—the MOST general. Which is good. That’s leadership.”

He exhales, relieved.

Charles Clyde Ebbets's "Lunch atop a Skyscraper"

We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets

“Once you lower that free speech bar it’s hard to raise it back up.”

@thefireorg.bsky.social’s David Rubin says liberal ex cop Larry Bushart being jailed in Perry County for a Trump meme should alarm even Republicans — and why Trump 2.0 “has exceeded our worst expectations” speech-wise

this is an example of workerism, which I discussed here.

it isn't actually progressive to say that people only have value because of work, or to frame "working class" to mean only certain people who work. (these two things go together.)

www.everythingishorrible.net/p/against-wo...

I did try to make that difference clear in my thread. The problem in the US is that there is no real regulation over who can bill themselves as a "midwife" so certified nurse-midwives are often confused with people who have little to no formal medical education.

my sister started having contractions three months early, in deep rural Cornwall; the NHS had an ambulance there within 20 minutes, helicoptered her to the preemie care center, and her son is now nine years old and they're both in good health. Modern hospitals are miracles.

About Jay Rosen’s 1986 PhD dissertation, 'The Impossible Press' It should be obvious here that I am trying to extend my life span, even as I know that the odds favor eclipse.

Today my PhD dissertation (1986) goes online, in hopes that it will continue to exist beyond... well, you get the point.

It's the history of an idea. The idea of a public informed by the press. Where did that come from? Is it still viable? What will it take? 2/

pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch...

Personal news, but I hope it's of interest to some.

With the help of web developer @jamditis.bsky.social I now have a permanent home for my PhD dissertation from 1986.

Its title is "The Impossible Press," and anyone can read it.

Start here with my blog post: pressthink.org/2025/10/jay-... 1/

Trump’s Long-Term Damage The things we won’t be able to fix even if we wanted to.

“This is not a case of America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

“.. We have shattered the halo that has existed around the United States for much of the world across the eight decades since World War II .. closing our doors to the world’s brightest .. by embracing corruption in government ..”

@vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/donald-tru...

ah yes, all workers should have the right to hurl racial slurs at black customers

i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

The implication of “You’re black, you signed up for some gutter racism when you decided to go out in public, it’s the price of doing business” is just fucking insane to me.

JORAL ARGUMENT NOT SCHEDULED] No. 25-- IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT In re DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity, et al., Petitioners. On Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Case No: 1:25-cv-00766-JEB PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS BRETT A. SHUMATE Assistant Attorney General YAAKOV M. ROTH Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General TIBERIUS DAVIS Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General Civil Division U.S. Department of Justice

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LIYANARA SANCHEZ, as next friend on behalf of FRENGEL REYES MOTA, et al., Petitioners-Plaintiffs, J.G.G., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Case No: 1:25-cv-00766-JEB ONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity a resident of the United States, et al. Respondents-Defendants. MOTION FOR STAY PENDING RESOLUTION OF DEFENDANTS RECONSIDERATION MOTION AND PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS This Court has compelled testimony, to begin on Monday momingofnext week, in support of its ongoing inquiry into potential criminal contempt. ECF 200. Defendants have moved for reconsideration of that order, or in the alternative for a protective order. ECF 201. Late last night, Plaintiffs filed a lengthy opposition that raises a hostofnew arguments, including sweeping claims about the waiver or vitiation of the attomey-client privilege. ECF 205. In light of the time exigency, Defendants have also filed a petition for writ of mandamus with the Court of Appeals. Defendants now respectfully ask the Court to stay next week's proceedings pending its resolution of the reconsideration motion, and pending the D.C. Circuit's resolution of the mandamus petition. Given that this contempt inquiry is a purely retrospective evaluation of events that occurred nine months ago, there is no reason why testimony needs to be compelled next week and before these serious issues are considered and adjudicated by this Court and the Court of Appeals. 1/ Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 207 Filed 12/12/25 Page 2 of 2 Dated: December 12, 2025| Respectfully submitted, Brett A. Shumate Issistant Attorney Genera /s/ Tiberius Davis Tiberius Davis Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General Civil Division 5. Department of Just 02)-514-43 Anthony Nicastro Acting Director Office of Immigration Litigation Counsel for Respondents-Defendants

BREAKING: DOJ has filed a mandamus petition at the DC Circuit, seeking to stop next week’s contempt proceedings before Judge Boasberg. They have also filed a motion to stay the proceedings directly with Boasberg.

Most of this article is behind a paywall, but based on the part I can see, there's no doubt she should have been fired.

I like beans but I want to eat them because i WANT to eat them, not because I HAVE to eat them

then again, if the economy gets much worse we might be finding a substitute for beans

Easier is not usually better. This is the lie we've been sold by capitalism and colonialism. Use this thing, built with suffering and exploitation, to avoid pain. To avoid struggle. To avoid living. Dissociate through life: game, scroll, consume.

Every day, it breaks my heart seeing us like this