Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

This is so goddamned demented.

I see the pearls have been reduced to powder, such is the ferocity of the clutching.

"I'm a farmer" This guy has been a Senator for longer than I have been alive. I am "program the turtle to go in a square" years old. I am "I have chicken pox scars because there wasn't a vaccine yet" years old. I am "I have paid off my student loans" years old.

bear in mind that this comes in a context where Met Éireann has been under attack for years for allegedly giving overly severe weather warnings, including Retail Ireland complaining about MÉ's "alarmism" shortly after a storm in which people were killed

A republic built on equality cannot abandon disabled people in a cost of living crisis. People are being forced to choose between warmth, food and independence. Refusing a €400 emergency payment is a political choice.

Too busy terrorizing brown folks to help those that need it, whose lives have been destroyed by disasters. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Day 14: "whatever it is, we're innocent! innocent we tell ya!"

Don't trust Lexis AI, it's no different from any other generative AI, even if (IF) its underlying database is limited to legal filings and documents. It will make stuff up and you will get caught and you will get sanctioned publicly.

Since the IRS killed their free online filing system… If you make less than $89K you can prepare and file your taxes for free here… www.getyourrefund.org/en

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

"Children are living in hotel rooms...That is devastating. That is something that we need to be more focused on than attendance rates and blaming parents if their children are missing 20 plus days." share.google/uQV5nSr0OFLY...

He is an abject coward who has trapped himself by that cowardice and is now hated by everyone.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Historical fact and everlasting truth. From the Paris Commune to modern day America. The point of course is that fascists don’t pose a threat to the imperial and capitalist project to which Democrats are bound

Michael Flatley's "Blackbird" looking like the golden age of cinema right now.

OneDrive: *Uploads 60+GB of files* Me: "Oh nice, you'll keep those safe?" OneDrive: ... Me: You'll keep those safe, RIGHT?! OneDrive: 👀 Me: OneDrive! Where are my files? OneDrive: 🤷

This is where I remind folks once again that my personal site and Whatever, my blog, have been around longer than at least three and probably four generations of social media. Having your own space that only you control is a good thing, especially in an age of resurgent fascism.

POLYBIUS, the authoritarian consolidation index, is live. (daily updates for now) polybius.world

the clip I quoted tweeted here comes from the great @laurajedeed.bsky.social

It's clarifying to see these chodes with their masks down, asses out for the world to see, and as the irredeemable incel losers that they truly are

It's not surprising that Trump keeps manufacturing crises. The whole house of cards for modern conservatives would collapse if they stopped manufacturing things like crises and moral panics.

Among a litany of reasons, Trump should also be impeached for constantly manufacturing crises at home and abroad. The nominal purpose of this is to force a deal over their nuclear program... which in June Trump said he "completely and totally obliterated"... and where there was a deal Trump tore up.

nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted myself as a squared-up Ilhan Omar and you as a collapsing sewer ogre

One in five disabled people live in consistent poverty, almost 40 per cent live in enforced deprivation. Today in the Dáil, we called on the government to provide a €400 emergency winter payment to help disabled people right now. Will this government continue to let disabled people down?

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

Sadistic dehumanizing is a tool of fascism

This is so amazing.

Netherlands built turbines to make energy — but under the ocean, they “produce” something nobody talks about share.google/GehcIgJb0tBn...

This would work on me.

Genuinely intrigued to see how long it takes before some senior bod at work spots and gets cross with my new email signature

Fascism attracts mediocrities, part 501

"Okay you fucking poors! No birthday presents, no holidays. Put that money into these accounts. Is that money safe? Who the fuck knows?!"

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

Mel isn’t saying much today that’s notably crazier than the stuff she was saying five years ago, or fifteen. All of her colleagues have always fully understood she is a crackpot fascist, and you’ll notice this has never harmed her career. Unlike the baleful menace that is, say, Gary Lineker.

When children lead an uprising in what universe can you ever claim to be the good guys?

immigrant children lead uprising at texas detention center

Why does she always look like she has some kind of rabies induced lockjaw?

Ozempic? Tirzepatide? No, every time I’m hungry I just look at a picture of Stephen Miller and my appetite is immediately suppressed.

This is what happens when a society treats its most vulnerable and those in need with contempt and suspicion first above all else. No error is ever assumed or checked for. The person in need is decided de facto to be guilty of something. A society without compassion is a failure.

"I think it's no surprise that a company run by a man who sat behind Trump at his inauguration, and donated to the destruction of the White House, has taken a stance that helps ICE agents retain anonymity." Scoop from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

White men are always such trash, and even they just about disapprove in a majority.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas... And this is why I don't save my encryption keys to my Microsoft Account

Not to be that person but yep. And none of it is accidental or only about profit.

OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor

Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."

Jake Tapper will be offended if you call these concentration camps.

"CBP stays at the border" might sound like a win, but keep in mind that this is what "the border" means to them www.aclumaine.org/know-your-ri...

I watch for the plot and only the plot