... for not being George W. Bush, essentially.

Blue states if you do not suppress these federal SS goons, they will seize your voting machines

I'm not the first person to note this, but authoritarian crackdowns are much more difficult in cities, where's there's public space & people can gather & find solidarity. That's partly why reactionary governments everywhere prefer suburbanization -- it disperses, dilutes, & atomizes the public.

It's a product of voter ignorance and apathy. When name recognition is that powerful, it's bad news for voter engagement.

Commerce's business isn't business. It's data. A meterologist, climatologist, data scientist, or experienced science administrator would be in the correct lane.

That's OK. That's how I regard the right. Reaction is a scam. It makes promises it knows it will never have to deliver, because its prescriptions are impossible.

Canadian snowbirds fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. border as part of new requirement | CBC News Several Canadian snowbirds reported they were fingerprinted and photographed at the U.S. border this month when registering for their winter stay, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told C...

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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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This is not only absolutely true, but it's reasonable to ask why they used such a contrived plot device without earning it in a script that was otherwise pretty smart. They asked for the criticism.

🔥 SLIWA: “You think you’re the toughest guy alive — you lost your own primary. You have difficulty understanding what the term “NO” is… you’re not gonna stand up to Trump.” 👀

ZOHRAN: “I agree with Curtis.” 🙃

A standard frigate and modern diesel sub for the whole bloc would go a long way, reducing unit costs and build times, perhaps a modular approach for different navies, missions. Also a good chance to start from bare metal without any US tech.

Enough with the beating girlfriends stuff, let's talk about something serious.

These people have been scheming to get here for generations, and when they finally have power, the main thing they've accomplished is to get the deeply ignorant public to pay attention. That's never been great news for them, historically.

How many "I told you so" coffee mugs do you think that woman has gotten as gifts this year? I remember thinking, during the debate, that in the old days, he'd be done. We've let billionaires buy the media and agitprop us into this mess. Big Tech business model is radicalization. Needs to change.

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

1) ... back in 1991, while in college and on the libertarian right, I was volunteering and hanging out at local GOP HQ, talking with this retired classics professor. One afternoon, he said that "segregation was for the benefit of black people."

The GOP is a safe space for bigots.

My letter to the mainstream media:

We will get through this, eventually. But you will not. We will remember each and every sellout.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

The AI business model might destroy itself YouTube video by Hank Green

What happens when 'free' information dries up because its producers aren't getting paid?

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

Netanyahu made the opposite choice and here we are.

I mean it helped - they were murdering and torturing Kenyans for close to a decade and Malaysians for over a decade after that.

It also helped that there was an active violent resistance to go along with the nonviolent resistance. So the British chose to work with the peaceful guy

I get what you're saying, but I think UK left India in 1947 because they were broke after World War II, not because of any moral clarity created by protests.

After all, they were murdering Arabs from the air only a decade earlier to try to hold on to colonies and mandates.

Using the number of employees to describe a business as small is often used to mislead. A 'small' hedge fund can handle tens of billions of dollars in investment capital. Only staff AND sales can make a good measure, plus yes we need more BIPOC wealth, the sooner the better.

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

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I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943