Andy Borowitz always says it best:

Sending ICE agents who are being paid handsomely to the airport to stand around not helping TSA agents who aren’t being paid at all because of a dispute over paying ICE agents …it’s pretty diabolical.

Fascists are using laws and norms against us. Stop letting them. — The McPherson Square Group There’s a reason cops don’t wait for red lights when pursuing a suspect.

My latest today on how strict adherence to the rules is killing Democrats while fascists take cities

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned The Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General found that the LAPD lacks a system for tracking employees who train with foreign law enforcement agencies.

The LAPD sent officers to train in Israel. Officials can't explain what they learned

A movement that demands grace and empathy whenever someone from their side suffers while offering none to the other isn’t really a movement that gives a shit about anything other than power and control

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

Years before Hitler invaded the USSR, Nazi agents planted fake disloyalty rumors about Stalin’s top generals on Vienna phone lines they knew Soviets had tapped. They convinced Stalin to purge & shoot his own best generals before the outbreak of war. Imagine Putin’s FSB planting gossip today…🤔

Vaclav Havel wrote about the importance of pointing out the law in a totalitarian society - it may not help in a situation where the government makes and enacts laws willy-nilly, but calling it out keeps the insanity of it all in the open for all to see.

A Police Stop Is Enough to Make Someone Less Likely to Vote New research shows how the communities that are most heavily policed are pushed away from politics and from having a say in changing policy.

Recent research found that traffic stops by police in Hillsborough County, Florida reduced voter turnout in 2014, 2016, and 2018 federal elections.

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.

And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

This is not online banter. These posts are information operations designed to influence potential combatants.

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"For the most part the emergencies will pile up, like so many discarded cigarette butts in an ashtray, rancid and dangerous, eclipsing the meaning of all that preceded."

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

The white nationalist ambitions of this regime are just plain as day. Anyone from that world would recognize these images or the Manifest Destiny references employed by DHS as a call to genocide in service of a white nation.

"Agents stormed our restaurants in a show of force that went beyond anything reasonable or humane. They raided the heart of our business, tore through our spaces, and left behind a trail of fear, confusion, destruction. Our kitchens were flipped. Our walk-ins emptied. Food trashed. Doors broken."

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

The IRS clashed with the White House over using tax data to locate suspected undocumented immigrants just hours before Trump officials fired IRS Commissioner Billy Long.

Long's dismissal makes his tenure now the briefest in the agency's 163-year history.
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First, this is why the corruption of the court has been allowed to stand without public pushback: the “liberals” are as vested in their aristocratic fantasy as the conservatives

Second: these offices all belong to us and we can change the terms whenever we like. They’re servants, not masters.

This is our satellite. Bought and paid for with taxpayer dollars, appropriated for this specific mission by the elected Congress. Those who would destroy it on purpose are our enemies.

“NPR also obtained the transcript of Wise's testimony, in which he acknowledged that he repeatedly yelled "kill 'em" as officers were being attacked and tried to explain his actions. Wise was not convicted of any crimes related to Jan. 6, due to Trump's order to end all Capitol riot prosecutions.”

Authoritarianism and The Weaponization of Social Media YouTube video by Institute for Policy Studies

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"The secret to securing power under neoliberalism is sacrificing minorities," the Dem party leadership said, sacrificing groups who historically voted for them. "This will appease the white Americans who voted for Trump," they continued, cheerfully.

Last night in Portland, an ICE protester was hit by a car.

Are the Dodgers being honest? 🤔

~ @eltragon.bsky.social

Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Under Secretary of the Air Force under Joe Biden, won the mayoral race in San Antonio on Saturday.

She beat Republican Rolando Pablos, a former secretary of state who ran with support from Governor Greg Abbott.