Today is day 142 of the ICE occupation of MN.
More than 70 children detained during metro surge - each story is full of trauma and heartbreak.
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To put it bluntly, this post is about how the fascists are scoring a victory in crushing liberty that could take decades, if ever, to reverse.
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Multimember districts now!
Very few people give a shit about your absurd toadying. This editorial could have been an email or a billboard.
The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win.
These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.
Reading, hoping local #journalism @sahanjournal.bsky.social
"Ramsey County weighs kidnapping charges against ICE agents who arrested ChongLy Scott Thao"
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Big win for the photos editor!
Confirmed ICE flight, Tue April 21, est arrival: 12:45 PM.
Shackled detainees will board at Signature Aviation between Terminal 1 & 2. Observe from Terminal 1 parking ramp - gold 7 is best.
Since Jan 1, we've tracked 90 flights through MSP, carrying ~3,388 people out of Minnesota.
Reading, hoping local #journalism @sahanjournal.bsky.social
"Ramsey County weighs kidnapping charges against ICE agents who arrested ChongLy Scott Thao"
sahanjournal.com/public-safet...
The stuff that hopes and dreams are made of
$108 billion in debt from this coming Warner Brothers merger will be hard to handle if everybody cancels their Paramount and HBO Max Extreme Plus subscriptions.
Today is day 140 of the ICE occupation of MN.
Cases like these are why it feels like every Minnesotan is raising mutual aid rent relief.
(You can help at StandWithMinnesota.com)
‼️ By refusing to hold officers liable for violating rights unless other officers have previously been held liable in identical circumstances, the Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence effectively nullifies those rights altogether
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can I get a hell yeah?
Also, you should be supporting the hell out of this club. Get tickets!
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Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
"6 ... it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism or to reaction. Such impulses are certainly very strong, perhaps even stronger than most of us know. But the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas." - Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society
American conservatives have long criticized Lionel Trilling for saying this, and yet every day they keep saying and doing things that confirm his point.
I, too, "strongly disapprove," but that is only because "abhor" is not an option in these longitudinal surveys
While we prepare for this summer’s America 250 events, today is the 251st anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first of which was colorfully depicted on this antebellum Boston bank note. Mount Vernon Bank, Boston, MA, $3, Oct 1, 18–.
Today is one of the most significant dates for the far-right, the anniversary of the Waco fire and Oklahoma City bombing:
Some techbros are more open about their politics than others. But the politics are pretty similar all round.
The quotation in the OP is an onion of nonsense. @audiosand.bsky.social clarifies an important layer.
In the early 1990s the GOP outsourced its thinking and messaging to Rush Limbaugh and the right wing radio world, and it has long ceased functioning anything like a "normal" political party would. It's a content creation operation wrapped around a transactional corruption machine for rich people.
Today is day 138 of the ICE occupation of MN.
Halfway through the month, we are already hearing that the rent needs for May 1 will be high, as families emerging from hiding are struggling to find wok.
You can help us get a head start on fundraising:
StandWithMinnesota.com
Taking nicknames for this trio
this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.
Exactly. And, the economic crisis significantly deepened between election day and inauguration (4 months at the time). Democrats netted 100 seats in the House, too. A very unique situation in US History.
Tomás Chancalay makes it 1-0 Loons #MNUFC