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The Kavanaugh Stop’s Legacy: 50 Days, 170+ Detained Citizens, Zero Answers

It was just last month that Brett Kavanaugh gave his explanation for why it was perfectly okay for Homeland Security goons to profile brown people and detain them based on nothing more than the color of their skin. While…

Trump’s war on the different Which is a war on freedom. My interview with Will Bunch.

It's a war on freedom. My interview with @willbunch.bsky.social.

www.editorialboard.com/trumps-war-o...

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Tax them out of existence. No one person should have that much power.

Most people who actually live next to immigrants are just fine. It’s the people never exposed to anyone different from them who get angriest — and to whom Vance is appealing here.

Also, Vance is a sociopathic ghoul whose nativist bullshit would have prevented his own children from existing.

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Democrats have changed our focus1.4 In comparison with the Democratic Party of 2012, today's Democratic Party is more focused on issues like climate change, democracy, abortion, and identity and cultural concerns and less focused on the economy and the middle class. The table below shows this shift, through an analysis of the prevalence of select words in the 2024 Democratic Party platform, in comparison with the 2012 Democratic Party platform.5

what the hell are you talking about man, biden's entire presidency was about the middle class. it was the entire political theory behind deliverism and the economy

Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined.

They own the media.
They own the algorithms.
They own politicians in both parties.

The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.

A ballroom funded by bribes and built on the ruins of the people’s house….

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Portland *is* a war zone in that we are under sustained assault from an unaccountable federal paramilitary force working in concert with right wing extremists

The White House reveals their new logo.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

It’s no surprise that Trump would lie about Reagan adamantly opposing tariffs.

He lies about everything.

It is however surprising that the @RonaldReagan foundation would help him do it.

What a disgrace.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.

ACQUAVIVA: U.Va. paid nothing, yet lost everything It seems disingenuous for the University to boast about its agreement having “no external monitoring,” since the University’s president is required to report compliance — and certify under penalty of ...

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We are in the middle of a prolonged constitutional meltdown, where the president is seizing vast powers he should not have, eviscerating the existing constitutional system that has kept America stable and prosperous for most of 250 years.

And our leading political outlets are doing… this

Pathetic and depressing how dishonest the framing is. The vast majority who oppose this aren’t NIMBYs? This definitionally isn’t our backyard? The problem is he’s tearing down a national symbol on an autocratic whim, building a palace overtop it, naming it for himself, and funding it with bribes.

Trying to think if there’s anything this administration could do that publications like TFP wouldn’t treat this way.

Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

Obama was hella authentic!

Ugh. If we're really in the middle of a christian civil war then these are the bad guys. www.familyfoundation.org/whoweare

Think John Calvin burning libertines at the stake and you're in the right ballpark. Jefferson would weep. (Right before they tossed him onto the bonfire next to Servetus.)

open bribes. just right out there, in a list. by any other name bribes are bribes. the presiding officer of our covenantal government openly solicits bribes, and nearly half the country's voters respond by sticking their fingers in their ears and saying nuh-uh.

Lots more detail in here about this outrageous arrest. The guy has been in jail for weeks now for posting a quote by President Trump.

we're being erased, like the country Tigana in the Guy Gavriel Kay novel, whose dictator wizard cast a spell over it so that everybody in the world would forget the name of the country. (in the book, as revenge for the death of his son.) Trump and his circle of billionaires want the world to forget pax liberal ever existed. Like the Five in Alien: Earth. Shit, that's prophetic. No wonder the last few episodes of Alien: Earth sucked compared to the first five. They had to rush the last three as fast as they could. They were running out of time to get them on air before the state censors get up and running. We're all running out of time. The corporate technofascists want to Tigana us.

they're trying to Tigana us @guygavrielkay.bsky.social

GOP: burning a flag disrespects the people who fought and died for that symbol

Also GOP: hahaha the White House is ours and we'll bulldoze it if we like, just be glad we left you the other half for now

So much history, lost. So many tours that can never be given. So many children and lovers of history who will never be told by a cheerful tour guide that "This is the room where..." because that room is now rubble. It's gone. What a brutal erasure of our history.