Dr. Marc Schmalz

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

Here's the Stephen Colbert interview with Democratic Texas State Rep James Talarico that the FCC and CBS had banned from late-night:

"ICE is incapable of doing its job while following the law" is not an argument against the law, but ICE's way of doing its supposed job.

I miss having fresh blackberries in our yard. I do not miss having blackberry vines in our yard.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

The crimes committed by ICE and CBP aren't accidents or outliers. They're the point.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Operation Metro Surge resulted in a $203 million impact on Minneapolis. Every penny is a loss to the City’s economy, people’s livelihoods, shelter and food security.

Read more about the preliminary impact assessment released by the City: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/

The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote.

Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple.

Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121

It might already be inside your BILLY.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/

A Rogue PokeStop On Epstein's Island Has Now Been Removed From Pokemon Go After fans spoofed their way to Little Saint James, Niantic confirmed it had removed a PokeStop from the island.

I guess Niantic/Scopely/Savvy might have some interesting information on visitors to Epstein's Island.
And, 'In the files, Epstein can also be seen recommending somebody "check out Pokemon Go if you have not already".'
Seems so weird.
#gamestudies

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

IIRC: At a CA Gen Con, a friend stopped at our booth with someone I didn't know. Trying to be inclusive, I asked, "So, what do you do?" He said, "I was on a show called the X-Files." It was Lone Gunman Dean Haglund but with short hair. I told him he'd used a friend's PHB for the D&D scene :)

I am part of a MIS program in a business college and yes, a good number of our folks are running towards it. Not all, thankfully.

Y'all, ICE thugs are still terrorizing people in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

They are counting on America looking away, and it's currently working. Please tell everyone you know, please reach out to people with huge followings, and ask them to help refocus our attention on the ongoing abuses.

I was considering - as someone who has been on the owner/employer side - what it means to be anti-union. 🤔

I started by thinking about fear, and bad negotiating.

If raising worker pay will “bankrupt the company”, show your math! Or, are your profits indefensible? 😒

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After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...

Sickening.
#ICEOUT #MN
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

Also, if you are appalled by the potential of HP Magic or D&D, your best bet isn't to demand answers from random designers on social media—who can be fired for commenting—it's to send PHYSICAL LETTERS and make actual PHONE CALLS to Hasbro's corporate headquarters, denouncing the entire partnership.

I’d probably watch some YouTube Olympics clips if the results weren’t spoiled by every freakin’ video title.

Donate to Help Owen K.C. Stephens Pay Off Cancer Bills, organized by Owen Stephens See the tl;dr at the end for the 15-word version. I struggled with colo… Owen Stephens needs your support for Help Owen K.C. Stephens Pay Off Cancer Bills

I know some people still want weekly, rather than monthly, updates. I'll see what I can do, but I also don't want to pester folks too often!
Also Content Warning: Closed surgical incision pictures at the end.
This update comes in multiple waves.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-owen-...

BREAKING: San Francisco public school teachers, counselors, and nurses have walked out on strike.

6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

Sad that some people can't deal with lyrics they don't understand. I have tracks in Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, whatever Deep Forest and Peter Gabriel use in While the Earth Sleeps, and some that are completely nonsense lyrics.
Just appreciate voice as instrument.

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

At the root of every layoff is a failure of leadership and management.

Excited for people to read this one now I've tweaked it.

Trump Disappointed No One Killed In Ballroom Construction Process Yet WASHINGTON—Voicing deep frustration with the lack of jobsite carnage, President Donald Trump expressed disappointment Thursday that no one had been killed yet in the construction of the White House ba...

“It’s been months since we started, and I still haven’t seen one worker get impaled by rebar or have his head smashed in by falling rubble,” said President Donald Trump

Starbucks Workers United baristas are escalating their fight for a fair contract.

I urge you to keep boycotting Starbucks — and delete its app from your phone.

Workers are fed up with low pay, chaotic scheduling, understaffing, and illegal union busting.

Let's keep fighting corporate greed.

WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him President Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed he had eliminated a provision of the U.S. tax code that bans 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing politi...

President Donald Trump falsely claimed he had eliminated a provision of the U.S. tax code that bans 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates. https://to.pbs.org/3ZmLXsx