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Dem PAC Goes Dark After Getting Caught Fundraising Off Alex Pretti’s Death A political action committee (PAC) that backed Kamala Harris’s campaign appears to have scrubbed its website after it was caught soliciting donations via a text mentioning Alex Pretti, just hours afte...

this is a big topic of conversation over on LinkedIn in the fundraising/comms communities, but I have not seen it much over here or otherwise in the news www.aol.com/news/dem-pac...

A basic tenet of my worldview is that fascism is very hard to sustain due to the fundamental rowdiness of people. You have to do so much for so long to contain it. You will never have enough guys. Eventually you just give up and start killing people but you go to sleep surrounded by the feral living

Apparently this is similar to something said on Andor so I looked it up and it's spoken by a cute neuroatypical writer who uses a Polaroid SX-70 as an astronavigation tool so it's nice to see we extremely cool type guys get some representation

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

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approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

YouTube video by ProZD Watches Anime "Frieren is slow, boring, and overrated"

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Homeland Security sent a memo to Congress to explain the moments leading to Alex Pretti's death.

In it they state people were told to get off the road. When they didn't they were sprayed with chemicals.

How does ICE have the authority to control the public right-of-way? They are not the police.

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Silent Hill 2 fans endlessly suffering their own stint in Silent Hill, as they cannot let go of a 25 year old game.

I can't get over how true the lazy aristocrat thing is.

I guarantee you that there were house members who had been
ignoring all their constituents cries for impeachment.

Then some staffer came in and said "Hey, want to impeach Noem? There are articles floating around."

"Oh sure why not."

Greenland sharks live up to 500 years despite having serious heart disease, baffling scientists Scientists investigate how Greenland sharks live for centuries despite having serious heart disease issues.

they totally age, they just keep going anyway. Greenland sharks powered by spite: film at eleven.

How the Greenland shark’s heart keeps pumping for 400 years

If anything, early exposure to multiple frameworks were good for me, and maybe others, I am just lucky I was not exposed to the Wrong OnesTM

This is Minneapolis.

Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors.

This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis, as well as countless other victims.

We honor their lives by rejecting the evils of antisemitism, dehumanization, and authoritarian violence wherever they appear.

Never again means never again for anyone.

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

I've got a 60 lb Vevor anvil, and a blacksmith hammer from Lowe's, really just need to get my act together and build a forge and start. I've been curious about forging forever, but just haven't taken the plunge yet. Hopefully the neighbors won't mind the noise.

Three years younger than I am and twice the man I will ever be.

God bless your soul sir.

Still the best three word exchange in cinema history.

To be fair, Henry Cavill looks real good in it. I imagine it's an alternate history where his presence through the ages is what prompted people to dress that way.

A childhood friend studied int’l relations and ended up in a class with Steven Miller in undergrad at Duke. ~10 years ago as Miller was coming into the national limelight, my friend wrote a piece about how much he absolutely creeped him out…not just horrible vibes but everything he said in class.

Was talking to a friend last night about what I've been up to the past couple years and at one point I said "I spent much of 2024 light-headed from meds and I don't remember that much until october or so" and upon reflection it's been an odd few years for everyone.

Screenshot of TruthSocial post by President Trump complaining that Mayor Frey won't enforce federal immigration law, and calling it a "very serious violation of the Law."

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.

The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:

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i had some time

"He didn't have his permit on him!"

I didn't realize that the proper way to ask for someone's identification or permit is to beat them senseless in the head with a can of pepper spray first.

Perhaps this is a midwest tradition or something I am unfamiliar with?

Uff dah!

Just abolish child prisons. There's nothing else to say.

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it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”