ScotchBot5000 (he/him)

so I was a sociology major, interesting factoid I ran across, according to some lines of research, public shaming is actually the Most affective way to influence behavior, the caveat being the public a person is shamed to must be one that person/the target wiil care what that public thinks of them

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

“The Department unilaterally and without staff knowledge or consent, went in and changed the messages to include partisan language,” claims a DOE employee.

This is particularly problematic because experts have alleged that the partisan language could be a violation of the Hatch Act.

the planned and continued assaults on trans folk should be deeply disturbing to us all; we'll be next

not only is it anti life, it flies directly in the face of every biblical teaching on the treatment of migrants, passage after passage

to the point I am using positions on immigration to judge if people are real xtians or the fake followers jesus warned us about

to answer his question, because for all I dislike him, Reagan at least had the fundamental human decency to sign into law emergency rooms not being able to turn people away. Even that recently right wingers had morals, for all I might otherwise disagree with him

ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

These for-profit concentration camps are built with a mind the 13th amendment saying slavery is legal in prison.
Of course they are specifically targeting the trans community, with immigrants, 1st. Fascism ALWAYS has to target scapegoats, and the abuses never stop with the first victims.

It was a handful of days from running out, which seems to explain why the prior prosecutor was fired and this woman brought on with the indictment filed immediately after- a play to beat the clock which required a 'yes person'

what is this, open-mic night Schiff?

lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win

Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately

he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
"ABC said on Monday that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return to its airwaves on Tuesday, ending an impasse that began last week."
#JimmyKimmel
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

isnt the chance of the current gov. offering a pardon close to nil?

TY Brooke

this is complex shipping and handling to consider in depth.... or shallowness, hard to tell from this image. Bears more research to be sure.

I'd like follow up on that. I think I understand that the cafes I would have hung out at have been largely priced out, and I think I understand how interwebs culture has shifted purchasing power away from supporting 3rd spaces.... I dont understand 'deliberate' as in a plot(?) to keep people home?

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

apparently, if her late hubs making $12 mil in roughly the last decade wasnt good enough, she has received over $5mil in donations through gofundme since he died.... because ya know, $12mil just isnt enough to raise a couple kids and have a funeral with. Grifters

"brain processing power" is obvious racism whether he said it specific to 4 or in general

The Trump administration on Monday announced that it would inject nearly $500 million into historically Black colleges and tribal universities, a windfall funded largely by cuts to programs elsewhere for minority students. The administration will also redirect money to other political priorities for President Trump, including an extra $137 million for American history and civics education and $60 million more for charter schools. The increases follow a White House request for a 15 percent budget cut to the Education Department next year, as President Trump seeks support to permanently shutter the agency. History programs will now receive about seven times their expected funding for this year, and charter schools will see a 13 percent increase. To pay for the changes, the administration cut money from other parts of the education budget The details of the changes were described by three people familiar with the department’s plans who insisted on anonymity to speak about private discussions. The biggest cut, announced by the department last week, is a $350 million hit to programs that support minority students in science and engineering programs, schools with significant Hispanic enrollment, and other federal grants at minority-serving institutions. The administration also cut money from gifted and talented programs, which it said use racial targeting in recruitment in some cases, and from magnet schools, which have been used as a tool for combating school segregation.

what this sounds like to me is the administration is cutting money for efforts to support integration and sending some of the cash over to HCBUs, under the view that this is where black students ought to go www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

'Disgusting human!' Nick Fuentes turns on fellow white nationalist MAGA ally Once upon a time, far-right MAGA influencer Laura Loomer was a close ally of neo-Nazi "Groyper" activist Nick Fuentes — but the two are now completely estranged, and Fuentes wasted no words in a vulga...

apparently former allies
www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes...

not confirmed, but I have heard Loomwe is associated with the Groypers too

FYI: Groyper Army Had An Ongoing War Against Charlie Kirk. FYI: There are turf wars going on within the alt-right universe where Charlie Kirk lived. Hordes of young men center their lives around being online, belonging to one alt-right group or other, keeping...

The Groyper thing doesnt ignore who he killed, they have been 'at war' with Kirk for years, and Fuentes saw the connection enough to immediately disavow violence....
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Trump blames Everything on Ds anyway; when and how do you suggest Ds fight back?

calling this guy a jihadi just tells me you are full of shit and not slightly to bothered with

MAGA has certainly done an excellent job at voting our freedoms away thus far

how is Mamdani evil though?

probably because that isnt true? He did vote for Harris, is actually close with her daughter. In the primary he endorsed the leave it blank tactic in support of Palestine but that isnt the same thing at all, that was the primary. he supported her in the general

keep losing to MAGA for having zero to counter their populism with....

congrats!

not seeing that here