ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

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Why is @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov not on this?

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

This was not a dumb question. It's not as if he'd ever been taught this in school. He knew vaguely what Stonewall was and even though he had put things together incorrectly, he was at least trying to put things together and asking good questions. Anyway, now I know who I'm writing the book for. >

As some of you know, for 4 years I've been working on a book about the last 80 years of popular culture as a flashpoint for the gay rights struggle. Sometimes I've wondered who it's for. Then yesterday a young gay man, maybe 23, asked me if Stonewall happened because everyone was in NYC for Pride. >

Maybe I shouldn't put content like this on main, but I'm too lazy to make an alt and this is the place where we call them “skeets”, so:

eternal september appropriately ends in october

i don't want it to be a dialogue i don't like talking to people that's why i'm writing

this is basically portland's version of a haka

mkdir: cannot create directory 'testdir': Value too large for defined data type

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let the gourd times roll

before and after hegseth's directive

It’s mainly that I don’t have a comms team so I have to read all my own replies

Do think the single most likely do or die flashpoint for this administration is gonna be the seating of the 120th Congress

I kinda think you could have a combination coup/leaving office on account of losing an election: he could lose, throw a fit, make noise about not leaving, and then back down when the people whose dress uniforms are 50% medals tell him "effective at noon on January 20, I Am No Longer Asking"

They finally fixed “triflouride”? No more delicious pastry torpedoes? …also there's a line in here that might be a spoiler for a mission I haven't played yet so I'm going to pretend I didn't read that…

good morning to the history makers

Facebook memories reminds me that this was a year ago - undoubtedly the greatest political graphic of all time, taken from the 'Conservatism in Crisis' pamphlet released by Kemi Badenoch.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The ICE officer who violently shoved a woman at 26 Federal Plaza was reinstated without explanation. Yesterday, multiple photojournalists were assaulted by masked officers. @repdangoldman.bsky.social and I are demanding answers from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Secretary Kristi Noem.

THANK GOD SOMEBODY WHO ACTUALLY MATTERS SAID IT.

Hegseth is such a staggering embarrassment. This guy *should* be thinking about the details of Constellation-class procurement, about sourcing production for a few million 155m shells, about the level of the US security commitment in CENTCOM. Instead, he's thinking about push-ups and beards.

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

The 85-year-old judge drawing this analogy was appointed by Ronald Reagan.

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

Re this absurdity on the HUD homepage right now, a federal employee told me: "I'm fucking pissed that I still have to take annual ethics training and Hatch Act training."

…okay, so I can see Grindr using machine learning for “trust & safety”, but *generative* AI?

If the President of the United States can assemble all of his commanding officers and describe his plans for prosecuting a military conflict against US cities without drawing even an ATTEMPT to impeach him under the Constitution’s explicit definition of treason, the legislature are all oathbreakers.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

The following line is "At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out" by the way

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

An hour before dawn, the Nazgûl attack the two places to which they have traced Frodo—his new house, and the hobbit rooms on the Prancing Pony’s ground floor. In Crickhollow, Fredegar Bolger barely escapes. The horn-call of Buckland sounds for the first time in 100 years.

Actually this particular sign is one you probably should obey in advance.

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh

my presidential politics is increasingly boiling down to "do you pledge to enforce 18 U.S.C. § 242 against these people with maximum zeal, Y/N"

how is there not an entire wing of the evangelical movement convinced that the guy named Beast who keeps offering temptations involving fire is literally Satan

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cannot express how much this shit boils my blood. I‘m seeing tons of well-meaning big name queer accounts get misled in the exact way the article is designed to mislead them and proceed to amplify the alarming disinformation. And it’s nothing. There is no there there.

Welding Hammer with Wire Brush Steel Handle with Wire Coil Grip, 6 oz. Head Weight $34.38 Each 7954A21 I've never seen one of these with a built-in brush. What will they include next?

There's probably a joke here about how Bob Melvin and Bud Black look kind of similar.

via @micaherfan.com Immediately after the Michigan shooting, Trump implied the shooter was an anti-Christian leftist. We now know the background of the shooter. Here he is wearing a “Make Liberals Cry Again” shirt:

The endpoint of plenary and unilateral impoundment, like the *immediate* endpoint, is that whoever is exercising the powers of the presidency gets to use federal funding coercively to compel outcomes he doesn’t otherwise have the legal right to compel.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

it’s super cool and not at all stressful to live in a country whose entire federal government is now directed by an elderly man’s dementia and the schemes of his inner circle

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

40-40 is the second-highest-scoring tie game in nfl history, and the very highest of the super bowl era