Sophie Brookover

Gene Kelly IS Antifa. (Member of the original Committee for the First Amendment, along with Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, and Bogey, among several others.)

It's not unlike saying that if Black people were told to produce their papers in the pre-Civil War era and those papers demonstrated that they were free citizens, they were promptly released.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Tylenol and Autism Earlier this year, HHS secretary RFK Jr. predicted that, "By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures." Scientists have been researc

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

Journalists:

This also counts as political violence.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

See? This is a good political response to what happened (if you must). Acknowledge, but make sure you get in something about how the right is constantly fomenting violence.

yes we should think before we speak but even if we were all being as genteel as a family of church mice rn THIS would still be the line getting peddled on national tv

I'm sure the right's reaction to all of this will be totally chill and not at all extreme.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Maybe even rocambolesque!

"A blood libel against the south" is an all timer

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

So all the cis athletes are going to boycott, right? RIGHT?

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

This is it, folks.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

*9/5/2025 noncooperation thread*

LA Mayor Karen Bass
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu

Theirs is the kind of leadership we need in this moment.

We. Will. Not. Yield.

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An anti-ICE flyer hanging in the window of the bookstore.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Isn’t it great when our good life choices are confirmed so heartily?

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Oh HELL yes

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real.

No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

RIP to a beloved artist