Gardenfool

So, we are just going to *allow* Kushner to serve in this administration though no one voted for him. Not us.
Not the Senate.
No one.
And we’re not protesting this.
This sends a confirmation to the world of our weakness on the world stage.
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Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates how is it possible to cram so much ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space? miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.

joyce is going after elon again

Newsom responds to Marsha…

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

You’ll notice the American state media spent more time attacking President Biden’s age and mental ability than they have on Epstein Files, the MAGA regime illegally seizing voter data in Georgia, the White House being bulldozed or the orange felon’s crimes. They failed humanity.

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this shit is your fault.

County executive addresses rumors of ICE office opening in Hunt Valley The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session on Tuesday to consider legislation about the purchase, similar to a move that Howard County made to prevent a private detention center in...

"The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session Tuesday to consider legislation to ban private persons, corporations, property owners or third-party contractors from gaining permits to operate detention centers in the county...."

www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...

You do not need to give up hope. This shit CAN be rolled back if we keep making loud noises about it. Don't cave to the people throwing their hands up and saying Congress already paid ICE

Shapiro admin tells ICE to drop plans for PA detention centers ICE detention centers planned for Berks and Schuylkill Counties would burden residents and possibly violate state legal requirements, officials say.

"In Pennsylvania, the Shapiro administration is warning federal officials that it will not issue required state permits for two planned immigration detention centers..."

www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

If a reporter seriously asks a politician "do you believe President Trump is racist?" the only proper response from a politician is "Absolutely. Do you think he's *not* racist?"

This isn't remotely hard. And if you can't say it, step aside.

by "break" do we mean the rampant covid-era price gouging by companies that convinced our shitty press to lazily shift the blame to inflation? because I don't recall a break

Good morning everyone
President's Day CANCELLED

WE DON'T HAVE ONE

Nobody wants to celebrate Sex Predator Day

I think the idea is to get everyone to hate us so that we can complain that we are the victims.

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

210. The President's Lack of Power Over Elections President Trump keeps insisting that he can unilaterally change the rules for voting in the midterms. It's not just that he's *wrong*; it's that there's no mechanism through which he could even *try.*

President Trump keeps threatening to unilaterally impose rules (like voter ID requirements) on upcoming elections.

Today's "One First" explains why, whether as a matter of constitutional law, existing federal statutes, or simple, practical logistics, his (ominous) threats are ultimately empty ones:

GOP Rep Randy Fine is not just anti-Muslim. He has called for slaughter of Christians in West Bank/Gaza. He has said about Palestinians, "I think you destroy them first.” He knows 50,000 + are Christians. Yet the media doesn't call out his incitement of violence versus Christians. Why?!

Ongoing, staggering betrayal of the West, of democracy, of America itself. We are now functionally aligned with Russia, and not Europe. And why? What in the world is in it for us?

All of this is making us less prosperous, less safe, and less free and our leaders should be fighting it far harder.

What Happens When a Megalomaniac Begins to Fail The historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Donald Trump and “autocratic backfire.”

Fascinating history of strongmen: The dopamine hit from power and impunity is intoxicating, but, craving a bigger hit, you go nuts -- and you lose the public. That's "autocratic backfire." With @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @sbg1.bsky.social @janemayer.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

“In less than a year, DHS has attacked the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 14th amendments to the US Constitution, the writ of habeas corpus, the independent judiciary, and much more,” states David Bier before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.

Read full testimony: https://ow.ly/z2aT50Yfcri

Gives the game away to redefine "American culture" as "English-Scotts-Irish." There was never any point where that was the American culture; it exists solely as a mythical past invented by white nationalists to justify their actions.

Heck, if you asked the Founders, they'd say, "you mean British?"

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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

Highly recommend his book!

"the two most dominant forces within right-wing Christianity are fundamentalism and Christian nationalism. These two umbrella-term movements wield the Bible to gain control over society in different ways, and they both suffer life-threatening allergies to the actual teachings of Jesus.". - Fugelsang

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann # X.com @MAStrackZi • Translated from German by Grok Marco Rubio's speech was a poisoned declaration of love. There was absolutely nothing reassuring about this speech. Rubio may have chosen a different tone from US Vice President J. D. Vance, but not a different content, and he conjured up a world that is not ours. The collective relief that was expressed in the great applause for the speech is an illusion. The inappropriate as well as naive standing ovations show that a large part of those who should know better still have not understood what hour has struck for Europe.

AGREE.

President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ... Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326