When Elon Musk left the White House, there was an explicit attempt from numerous Dems to recruit him back to the party. Now the same party is telling us that appearing at an event with Hasan Piker is beyond the pale.
Abolishing ICE is a deeply mainstream position.
Republicans spend 100% of their time trying to play to their base and Democrats spend 100% of their time trying to shun their base. One of those strategies has worked a lot better than the other over the last 10 years.
"We as developers and players need to push back against this bullsh*t just like we did with NFTs and crypto games and try in vain to do with predatory micro transactions, loot boxes and battle passes."
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
Well would you look at that
An elected politician clearly communicating the steps they've taken to help their constituents, and explaining how to best utilize that new help.
I wish we lived in a country where this was the rule, not the exception. Thanks for helping make that a reality, Mr. Mayor.
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Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
It is hard to get people to remember that ICE before this crisis was whipping migrants from horseback as they tried crossing a river where ICE set up actual saw blades meant to eviscerate anyone swept downstream.
They were always this deadly, depraved, violent.
I don't think the problem is the lack of training. they know what they were hired to do and are doing it well.
NEW: An ICE officer killed a person in broad daylight in Minneapolis today — with posted video appearing to contradict the DHS statement claiming self-defense, as the driver appeared to be attempting to drive away when shot.
MPR: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Video: bsky.app/profile/dani...
ICE reportedly shot someone at Portland and 33/34. Mspt saying bullets, could be less lethal 20+ agents on site, MPD and ambulances responding. Helicopters overhead
The masks do absolutely have to come off.
The big thing though...there needs to be steep punishments for both the black shirts and also the stephen millers that are laughing as they hurt our communities.
They know this is wrong. They like it.
Tip of the iceberg of what must be done with these freaks
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
"I was banned for praising their democratic party nominee after the primary."
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The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
“An escalator can never break down. It can only become stairs. You’ll never see an escalator out of order sign. Just escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.” - Mitch Hedberg
libertarianism has always failed
"I don't want to add to the trans debate, I just want some money from it."
Taking a role and playing a character in Harry Potter is an active choice that harms Trans+ people.
If you’re contributing to the commercial success of the Harry Potter franchise then you’re funding the removal of Trans+ rights. There is a very transparent funnelling of money toward that.
So you don’t get to say you don’t wish to ‘add to the trans debate’.
www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/k...
If this administration ever leaves office, schools of public health and medicine will no doubt try to rehabilitate RFK Jr, and his Horsemen (Bhattacharya, Makary, Prasad, and the rest) as endowed chairs and keynote speakers.
They should be shunned forever as the eugenicists they are.
newsom is the desantis of democrats, in that he will crash out as soon as he sets one foot outside his own state
basic game theory time
if i am presented with two choices:
- dying and voting to save those who demand i die for them because i’m an acceptable loss
- dying and dooming those same people
then you really have given me a choice between vengeance or nothing
i know what i will pick if forced to
it is kind of interesting that the language-based instruction of LLMs may be revealing certain truths hidden in the way we’ve communicated for decades, like how “politically incorrect” is interpreted to mean “openly racist”
