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Most Americans don't know that our standard of living for decades is nosediving right now

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

have you considered that the CEO is an unremarkable pasty weirdo who lucked into his massive advertising wealth and isn't actually good at anything?

DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences." After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.

Noem's claim is FALSE. Here is ICE's own data on the detention population among those arrested by ICE: - 43% no criminal record (up from 6% at the start of the year), - 29% at least one prior conviction* - 28% at least one pending charge *most common are traffic and immigration offenses.

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...

If Donald Trump kills fewer than 25 Minnesotans with his ICE militia, he deserves a second Nobel Peace Prize. by Hugh Hewitt

But one of the bad habits (shared, I'm afraid, by people who might be considered left) is to pretend to care about oppressed people by lashing out at people who don't care enough or do it right, when you yourself are only using said oppressed people as a pretext for this hobby.

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

Hey Arlington Massachusetts - American Alarm and Communications is doing a LOT of business with ICE. www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash...

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

That the VA legislature can do all this in just three days with a Democratic majority means we really need to expect more of Massachusetts

Holy hell, what an obituary

Here is another case where I produce a difficult to understand graph. There are two lines of dots. The one with the most dots shows a single year age groups death rate in 2023 as a percent of the same in 1999. The second compares us with Canada. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population

Meanwhile Trump's secret police is murdering Americans in the streets and your libertarian ass is STILL PROCESSING?

Sounds like Jesse Welles' "Join ICE": "Well, I failed the academy, the cops weren't havin' me The Army didn't sound that fun So I found me a paramilitary operation That was keen to hand me a gun" www.youtube.com/watch?v=61I4...

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

This shows the problem with the “papers please” bit. Often, they’ll detain or even deport you with papers anyway.

Oh, hey, Happy Great Boston Molasses Flood Day to those who celebrate, and a moment of memorial for those who mourn, and remember, it is not appropriate to make gingerbread people to dunk in sugar syrup today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_M...

Crypto lobbyist and former senator Kyrsten Sinema has been sued for having affair with her ex-bodyguard. She also allegedly encouraged him to take the psychedelic drug MDMA on a Senate work trip so she could guide him through it.

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

16-Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/

There were 41 uses of force by the NYPD that involved the use of a gun in *all* of 2024. 41. For a police force with ~30k uniformed cops. Patrolling a city with 8.3m people.

Hey @nytimes.com did you interview this person?

This dude is intense and correct

Will taking Greenland by force make us feel like men?

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

British Columnist Class voice: Am I a coddled psychopath? No. No, it's humans who can feel empathy that are wrong

With tourism floundering the White House launches new slogan highlighting why Canadians should consider visiting.

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

At this point I am completely stunned at the stupidity of modern Republican electeds. Trump just talking about "taking" Greenland is a disaster; for that reason, he should be impeached. That need not be an impeachment "crime", but he's committed enough plainly impeachable acts to make it easy.

lol

In the future all social and political issues will be decided by dueling GoFundMes, in the ultimate expression of American values.

"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Plaid Cymru and the Greens are surging in Wales, according to this latest poll. Where’s the media narrative around this? Where are the stories saying Farage is failing? When will Labour try to regain ground by appealing to Plaid & Green voters, not just copy Reform? www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

You cannot reform this. Abolish ICE in its entirety.

It’s quite an experience to have an elected official tell you “I can’t see bicyclists” then moments later describe to you a list of bikers they saw roll through a stop sign. So, if you want to be visible, it’s imperative to use the Idaho stop, you’ll never be missed.

Man, if I stumble into making tens of millions of dollars I hope I have the good sense to shut the fuck up and build a bunch of libraries and fund food banks so when I check out peoples first response isn’t “So, that asshole’s done.” The bar. It is SO LOW.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Incrementalism doesn’t work. I used to be an advocate for it. That was wrong. We can’t chip away at the rot in hopes of laying the ground work for big change later. We have to go in blasting now. Abolish ICE. Raze his ballroom. Defund all his shit. Jail the crooks. Restore America.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

Pretty willd how the DOJ just straight up stopped releasing the Epstein files even though they're legally obligated to do so.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out