Andy Beals

What SCOTUS ruling means to you the American taxpayers.
Your costs will not decrease
You will not get a refund
Corps will pocket any savings
CEOs will get raises
Inflation will continue to rise
Energy prices will continue to rise
Justices get a bonus
Wall Street dances a jig
We are still screwed

Complete with his wedding ring.

my most prized possession

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

“Can I prove it? No. But, by golly, I’m going stand here and undermine our democracy as long as someone puts a microphone in front of me.”

Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"

He may be my new favorite author.

Donald Trump Is Frightened Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.”

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Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

YouTube video by Nobel Prize Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

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#MLKJr
#NobelPeacePrize
acceptance speech
1964
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Looking at today's events and saying "fascism is coming" is like issuing a flood warning when your house is already underwater.

In addition, anyone thinking "bOtH sIdEz aRe FaScIsT!: can fuck right off.

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

"Calling for" makes it a law.

What a monumental idiot.

They use Nazi slogans and deploy Nazi terror tactics…but don’t call them Nazis, otherwise you’ll get a heap of Nazi gaslighting about being responsible for them being Nazis.

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

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Live updates: State investigators say they can't access ICE shooting evidence after FBI takes case Protesters in Minneapolis gathered to protest the killing of motorist Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an ICE officer. Mayor Jacob Frey said federal agents should leave the city.

BREAKING: Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and the FBI won't work jointly on probe.

Follow for live updates.

State of play:

Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat):

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Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP):

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Demonstrators met with violence (CNN):
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federalist headlines: top democrats are agitating for insurrection and political vigilantism dear trump, sendin the troops to minneapolis or risk losing the country to lawlessness

the federalist is pushing for a military invasion of minnesota, accusing the state's democratic leaders of "stochastic terrorism" and incitement to violence against law enforcement by telling people to resist i.c.e.

The more we learn about this horrific incident, the worse it gets.

At a time when Americans can’t afford rent, healthcare, or groceries, the Trump administration found time and money for regime change in Venezuela, risking a war that Americans don’t want.

All of the atrocities are intentional. All of this was planned.

Putin installed Trump for one reason only: to destroy the United States from within.

Accordingly, Trump will continue ratcheting up the violence and chaos until he incites a nation-ending civil war.

I guess “I will enjoy your skin” wasn’t as flirtatious as I thought it would come across.