Katie

as free press effectively takes over cbs news, keep in mind that democratic investments in media have been minimal -- at best -- and the party and its donors continue to light money on fire for dumb campaign bullshit that makes consultants rich but doesnt win elections or change the narrative

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

U.S. Border Patrol shot a woman Saturday morning on Chicago's Southwest Side, marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump's administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said the shooting erupted after patrolling agents wer "rammed by 10 cars" and "boxed in." I’ve highlighted this last sentence in the paragraph: Agents then fired “defensive shots" when they discovered the woman "was armed with a semiautomatic weapon" while driving one of the cars, McLaughlin said.

How does this make sense? How did they “discover” that a person DRIVING was armed? Even if every word is true, that’s not enough of a reason to SHOOT her. (I’m pretty sure they discovered she was armed after she was arrested, which I’m certain she was) www.wbez.org/immigration/...

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

the singular failure of the Biden era was not jailing Trump and his high-level coup plotters for that crime while Biden controlled the federal government; this failure is manifest now in Trump having blanket permission to rule as a king from SCOTUS and the default loyalty of federal police. Hell!

In general, when someone is being racist in public it’s good to avoid going back to check to see if the Black person did something to justify the racism.

Is JD Vance "grateful" to the US? I'm not. I'm grateful to my parents for raising me but it's never occured to me to be "grateful" to the US. It's fucking weird. And, idc that her parents were immigrants. ALL OF OUR ANCESTORS WERE IMMIGRANTS WE STOLE THIS LAND

Let’s be sure we’re not running to “she wasn’t being ungrateful!” as the response to someone demanding gratitude from Black people. Moving the conversation towards semantics places it firmly in the racist framework Vance is trying to impose.

Do you think Bondi, Noem, Miller, et fucking al realize that while Trump may be completely immune from consequences for his criminal behavior, there's no "I was just following illegal orders" get out of jail free card for them? We better prosecute alllllllll of them

A big victory for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team.

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

NEW from me:

Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Michael was an EXCELLENT paper salesman but a shitty manager. So, Bari isn't like Michael. She's like most of the Trump cabinet tbh. And Trump. Mid people who have consistently failed upwards

I was really scared that Combs was going to get a slap on the wrist but am p happy wiht the 4 years & 2 months. Wonder if he'll have to register as a sex offender?

A photo of Diddy

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

Look at the way he manhandles this alderperson. This force was completely unnecessary. The only thing this Nazi needed to do was ask her to turn arund so he can put handcuffs on her.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Also, just found this
bsky.app/profile/wors...

idk what started it but it's been going on over the last few days and ab moderation..Jay has been fighting with a lot of the user base ab it and sending snotty replies. I'm guessing users want someone banned & Jay/the mods are saying no bec of the way bsky is structured they don't do much banning

“It’s so confusing, isn’t it? So much going on, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.” -Andor S1E5

i have no idea how we get *out* of a shutdown, but i do not think that cocooning yourself in AI slop videos and refusing to leave your room is an effective way to win the politics of a shutdown

Apparently trafficking narcotics outside of the US is something that the US government thinks they can just murder people for a triawithout l. Has there been any significant pushback from anywhere? South American countries are just cool with us just taking out speedboats in intl waters?

There's a plumbing issue at my org's office where they had to turn off the water so no toilets in the entire 28 floor building can be flushed. HR did not tell us this until after half a dozen people complained about not being able to flush or wash their hands. My question is: wtf does HR do

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

not paying attention to whatever is happening with the bluesky infighting going on but hating the people who run the website you post on is the correct and natural order of things whatever the proximate cause is

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

i just bought a lightly scented body wash for the shower and foundit to be weirdly delightful and am v old to just be discovering this now lol

idk man, I normally buy regular bar soap for the shower but I just bought lavendar ivory body soap and it was a truly delightful shower this am!

Also, I ride the subway at least 10x a week and there is absolutely NO SIGNAGE about this outage. They're constantly bitching about fare evaders but then they do shit like this

Also, I ride the subway at least 10x a week and there is absolutely NO SIGNAGE about this outage. They're constantly bitching about fare evaders but then they do shit like this