Dan

I do not think the police have ever raided the Quakers and been on the correct side of history

This clip circulated around labor circles pretty regularly until Sean O'Brien turned into a sycophant for Trump.

To Solve the Housing Affordability Crisis, Communities Must Confront Inequality — Shelterforce Conversations on housing costs often focus on zoning rules, but two new studies say declining affordability is due more to rising income.

Vermont is emblematic of this trend. Lower paying jobs can't attract applicants because of housing costs, meanwhile all of our new neighbors are upper income, and all new housing is built for them. The only long term solutions are non-market solutions.

It's more palatable than the Marxist theory of production and people really get hung up on the personalities of the bosses, and I'd rather have the feudal mindset theory to lean on to explain that than more, let's say antisemitic, options.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social As the chair of my union local, I often refer my colleagues to Graeber's essay to explain why management chooses to inflate middle management rather than making the bottom ranks workloads easier.

The AI saw a bunch of people they wanted to kill show up at a space twice a day and thought where they were showing up was a command center. Inhuman. Reinventing war crimes from first principles.

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

I've watched this clip a dozen times since it was posted and just noticed.

Tell HUD: Keep Families Together and Housed! HUD’s new proposal is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. It would rip families apart and increase eviction & homelessness during a housing crisis. Join me in telling HUD Secretary Scott Turner to ...

HUD’s new proposal is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. It would rip families apart and increase eviction & homelessness during a housing crisis.

Join me and @aforhj.org in telling HUD to withdraw it: actionnetwork.org/letters/keep...

Peter Mandelson has been arrested - send up the hater signal. It's once again a poster's holiday.

Subbed because my child has been listening to the Alan Bennett audio book version on repeat for several weeks and I'm beginning to suspect that I should probably figure out what it's all about.

Owner of Michigan ICE detention center reported $254M profit last year GEO Group's profits soared last year as it opened four new immigration detention centers, including a largescale 1,800-bed facility in Northern Michigan.

One GEO group ICE camp saw a profit increase of $254 million last year.

That’s why there’s a quota.

That’s why ICE grabs anyone they can get their hands on.

That’s why they’re about to spend over $30 billion to build camps around the country.

It’s a money making machine.

Is Cyprus Minnesota coded? I never would have guessed.

Charles Manson lol

He was one of the most visibly scared and alarmed congressmen after January 6th and seems to not recognize that ICE are the same guys.

What is it with the VT Congressional delegation thinking if they just add “real” before reforms the reform call will suddenly be meaningful.

Peter - it’s VT. We want them abolished. You have nothing to lose here. Be a leader on a high priority issue.

1) Abolish ICE & DHS. Prosecute. Shift immigration enforcement to pre-2003 arrangements.
2) Amnesty for all undocumented immigrants in the country for more than 3 months.
3) Decriminalize unauthorized border crossings and visa overstays. That means administrative rather than criminal penalties.

Republicans just had a press conference showing photos of ICE arrests of "pedophiles, drug traffickers, murderers," and Democrats should do the same thing but with pictures of ICE agents who committed the same crimes.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I have so little expectation of FCNL but I'm glad someone's there in that role.

Genuinely Democratic FP would be leaps and bounds better if the import of people who work at WINEP, FDD, and AEI was decreased by like even 50% and the Quaker lobby had its import increased by 50%

The 'choose kindness always' hoody fighting alongside the 'kill your local pedophile' hoody is just ace.

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."

"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

They are just along for the ride aren't they

@balint.house.gov How does this square with "we need trials, we need accountability, we need a truth and reconciliation commission for this country"?

I only learned that they folded flat with the second kid! Also where the stash of ice creams were.

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Was confronted with a simplified version of my city's zoning code by Noted Community Gadfly who eagerly told me that AI did it while we were meeting. The disregard for human labor, I tell you.

That's putting it a little strongly, but I do like that the Quaker who escaped back to Iowa after participating in John Brown's raid was not read out of meeting for it, but was months later for refusing to not bring his guns to meeting.