I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

But yeah, this is why spending the last five years embracing policing as a common-sense bipartisan institution, with critics being attributed to the result of some mass hysteria, was always going to end poorly. Because the police weren’t changing, and the violence never stopped.

“I understand that there are parents who are concerned about trans kids in schools. I hope those parents are more concerned about the Republican destruction of opportunity for your kids. If your greatest concern is trans kids, there is a party that will harass them to death for you. It won’t be us.”

NYPD head count doesn't correlate to crime rates, data suggests, despite candidate rhetoric A former NYPD executive crunched some numbers that appear to belie some candidates' calls for more police.

A new report by a former NYPD executive shows that more cops doesn't necessarily equal better public safety.

The "we have to put obstacles in the way to make sure that people who don't deserve help don't get it" bureaucratic strategy just puts obstacles in the way for people who DO deserve help and then nobody gets help. It's a centrist, neoliberal tactic that keeps the status quo in place.

this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang

Digital illustration of a purple vampire with wavy hair named Sibella. She wears a purple and white varsity jacket with the letter G on the left breast, a black jumpsuit with a red belt, white socks, and white sneakers. She leans against a sports ball hamper, smiling and waving at the viewer.

Digital illustration of a mummy girl named Tanis. The ends of gauze strips form bangs, pigtails tied with red bows, a skirt, and socks that cascade over blue sneakers. She is looking off-screen with a quizzical expression.

I normally don't do character redesigns but Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has been living rent-free in my head for thirty years and I finally decided to do something about it. #illustration #characterdesign

cop is the only job in the world where if someone points out they're actually bad at their ostensible job, it's considered an implicit argument for giving them all raises

64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.

Sorry for losing my temper lol I’m really just sick of these conclusions that boil down to ‘how are we going to pay for that’ but only for things that liberate people like freedom of movement or shelter when you can look around & see the incalculable costs we pay to do harm as a form of status quo.

i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

What concerns me about renewed white-nationalist fervor in Western politics is not simply that it's genocidal. Most people recognize that.

I worry that 'progressives' will struggle to move beyond "we should go back to when immigrants were simply precarious and not being actively rounded up".

Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.

The fact that Democrats spent last year touting their support for Biden’s “border militarization and no path to citizenship” bill, I’m scared of how Democrats’ default will be to normalize these fascistic levels of ICE funding if/when they get back power. We will need the agency dismantled.

Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

The fact that anyone could believe that Trump was going to be "only targeting criminals" is a testament to how much the media skews people's impressions of crime and public safety (also how racist people are that they would believe there was so much rampant criminality!).

Rosamund Pike singing “Coming Home from Tarwin’s Gap” from The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, the fourth book of The Wheel of Time

Is your child texting about Arthurian legend?

LOL: Lies of Lancelot
WTF: Way to Feud
BRB: Bors Refused Brandegorre
TTYL: The Tintagel Yule Log
TBH: That's Bertilak's Head
IKR: I'm King Rience

Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

This is a real tension in the right wing coalition. The racist wing wants honest to God deportations of all Latinos, the business wing wants *the threat of* deportations as a way to create a group of second class laborers they can exploit with no rights.

i think southern baptists should probably consider a ban on being led by child predators

Sawe the trendinge topic "Starship Failure" and thoughte it was the name of an actuale shippe yn a showe. THESE ARE THE CONTINUINGE ADVENTURES OF THE STARSHIP FAILURE, ON A TEN YEARE MISSIOUN TO NOT DO THINGES WELL.

Murderbot Moves to a New Medium in Exciting Television Premiere - Reactor The series gets off to a bright start, showcasing a wonderfully eclectic cast.

It's Murderbot time!!!

AppleTV+'s adaptation is big, fun, and feels true to the books. Read @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's review and recap of the first two episodes here!

#murderbot #themurderbotdiaries

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