Brian Jones

This is a fantastic statement from the governor of Washington, but I can't get past the fact that the man who's standing up to the right-wing anti-immigrant machine is named ...

Bob Ferguson?

Seriously?

Does he have a daughter named Willa?

Someone needs to make an inflatable Miller costume

A large number probably don't know that "order of magnitude" has a precise definition

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

I have discovered the secret.

Put it away and get some tupperware

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

went out on my patio to document the hellscape

I was thrown back to my little league coaching days for first graders. TAKE THE EASY OUT

But also, critically for the president's case, law enforcement was handling this just fine.*. No need for troops.

*Well, in the usual manner of policing.

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

Honestly I think if CA offered to leave, they would say, "Don't let the door hit ya..."

Maybe best for all involved.

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

A half dozen protestors, sitting in lawn chairs on the sidewalk on the other side of the street from a clean, well lit, entirely unobstructed ICE building. Nothing is happening. There is no sign of conflict. It's a beautiful night.

The White House:
"Since early June, Antifa militants have laid siege to the ICE field office in south Portland."

The photo in the Oregon Live article the White House links to:

We should encourage them to ignore illegal orders.

Even when it's right, that takes guts. It will be easier if they know the people are behind them.

Much less the VCs, who are the ones really deep in this.

I suspect the sympathy, if any, will be for the pension funds or whatnot that tried to juice returns in venture capital.

OTOH, I can imagine Nvidia or Intel or any of Thiel's companies engineering a bailout to make them "whole"

There are a lot of LPs with money in VC funds that are going to have to kiss that investment goodbye. With sufficiently high effort and sufficiently low ethics you can financial-engineer your way out of anything, but that is a tough one

Look on the bright side. When this bubble pops, it's going to be disproportionately the billionaires that take it on the chin.

If we were smart (no, we are not) we would then offset the trillion dollar deflationary event by printing money and giving every person $3k.

a small brown puppy is standing on a rug on the floor . Alt: a small brown puppy is standing on a rug on the floor, wagging its tail

Here is an adorable puppy, anticipating the Epstein files being released!

It goes back long before that. In the 80s we decided that profit was the only legitimate pursuit of a corporation. In the 50s we decided that decency meant Ward Cleaver for white men, and a lot less for everyone else. The last chance we had was taken away when Booth shot Lincoln.

Adam Greenfield (@adamgreenfield@social.coop) Attached: 2 images This is the Rev. David Black of First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. As many of you know, he was an early, heartful supporter of the Lifehouse work, and has encouraged the trustee...

No organization, religious or secular, is monolithic in what it does. This priest was all in for the anti-fascists, though:
social.coop/@adamgreenfi...

That is a great question.
The institution of the protestant Christian church -- forget the evangelical church, I mean the "mainstream denominations" -- has become inwardly focused on its own survival. It is largely about self-preservation rather than trying to make Jesus-like community

Look on the bright side. You could have been born a Yankee fan.

I don't know if it's me but I hope you aren't too mad at the Reds. It's been a long time since we made the postseason at all, so even though we got absolutely stomped by the Dodgers it still meant something to be playing in October. So, nothing personal, Mets? gg, c u next year?

Call them up so you can control them.

The best solution ("none of this is happening") is off the table. The least-bad option is that the not-fascists control the troops

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Which is why it's on us white folk to
a) speak up in dissent on behalf of others who cannot
b) make it clear to our white family, friends, and neighbors what the situation is

so that, one day, we can live into the aspiration of a society where all people are created equal

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943