What’s a guy gotta do to watch some damn curling around here?

Epstein ran an enormous pedophile racket for 3 decades for the very rich & powerful. 1,000 victims are recorded. This involved rape & more. No single American has been charged. The US would benefit from having some rule of law also for its pedophile elite.

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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Hey so you know the White House and Mike Johnson have essentially dissolved Congress and their is only one functioning branch of the government, the executive, and it’s parallel fascist, militarized police force right?

Don't look away.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

I have hesitated on speaking about the abundance agenda and it’s managed democracy viewpoint of American rights and the population but at this point, I think it must be talked about that the Neoliberals are authoritarians who wish to manage democracy not have a democracy.

Gosh, what a shock.

Okay they really delivered with this segment, spot on

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Genuinely starting to think that they know it's someone on the right.

There's a word for the kind of society you're in when every single institution demands that you cry in mourning over a guy who repeatedly and explicitly called for your death at the hands of the state and vigilante mobs

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Well I'm certainly thinking and praying.

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I think for JK, she sees womanhood as a status thing and a consolation prize for AFAB bodily suffering. Which. You have to be REALLY rich (and white) to experience womanhood as a privilege category. You have to be SUCH an insulated and wealthy little princess for that to be a reward.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

So MAGA had an issue with the U.S. sending weapons to Ukraine while Ukraine never, ever asked for any military intervention but have no issues on Trump taking us into a war with Iran. Meanwhile Russia continues committing genocide and terrorist attacks killing Ukrainians on a daily basis

Oh and for no real reason here are the names of the 58 Democrats, who voted to enabled ice and federal forces to do everything that has been done so far.

This is why the “peaceful protest” distinction does not matter - the pigs will fire at you & beat you either way. All you’re doing is playing into the state’s narrative of “good” vs “bad” protesters. You cannot guarantee safety but it’s on ALL of us to look out for each other

How to tell if a Trump feud is fake: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/fake-feuds...

Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.

The scene right now. Stare off between Federal police and protesters. The Federal just moved backwards.

Fuck ICE Victory to the rebels And remember that the only people "doing what the state hopes we do" are the people trying to discredit a diversity of tactics.

If you see it move from “immigration enforcement” to “riot response” to “restoring order” to “troops necessary,” this is how freedom dies—not in darkness, but in the fog of public safety.

➡️ Provoke unrest through aggressive federal action ➡️ Accuse local leaders of failing to respond ➡️ Justify federal military deployment ➡️ Claim constitutional authority through the Insurrection Act (or threat of it) Let’s call this what it is:

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

3. DOGE seems to have acted with a Putin agenda: End US soft power & international good deeds, closing USAID with food aid & epidemiological foresight. 4. DOGE has closed down US government media outreach - Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty & Voice of America for Putin. /3

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Have the sweetest Caturday ever h/t: elgunnasibli

I’ll be upset if the next pope isn’t an Intersex Mexican from Afghanistan.

Imagine basing so much of your public identity on your adult conversion to Catholicism, only to be publicly dismissed by the actual Catholic hierarchy.

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

it made me notice that the American left is so accustomed to police violence that it has given up on *succeeding to be safe* and has capitulated to violent/peaceful dichotomy in its own way --- if there is no violence, it's useless lib shit

If these protests continue to grow at the rate they have over the last three weeks we are going to have millions of people out in the streets pretty much constantly going forward and that is crucial to actually pushing the regime into the ditch they thought they were going to bury us in.

History does not forget—nor should we. When states seize bodies under the guise of fighting terror, they do not protect democracy; they dismantle it. Khalil’s abduction is a chilling rehearsal for a darker future. The past is not past—it knocks at our door." www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/21/a...

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.