When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

The general theme of this commentary is "stop asking MN companies to ban ICE from their properties." The argument is that enforcing the ban would fall to individual low-paid employees, who would be placed in danger. tcbmag.com/should-busin...

I...do not think anyone is asking for this! If businesses find the federal government won't respect their private property rights, that is a rule-of-law problem. Companies could speak out about that!

We are seeing in real-time exactly how important local leaders are and will continue to be as long as Trump is in office. Considering stepping up to run this year - in most places, it’s not too late. runforwhat.net

"If it doesn't directly affect me in an adverse manner, I just don't care." Plenary Adoption Cheerleaders

"You are what you eat" 😀

Florida Man discovers the funniest thing about Minnesota weather during the wintertime...

the orange turd believes himself to be a warlord he needs to be impeached and sent back to Loompaland

"reasonable suspicion" = A Terry Stop "probable cause" = The zone of Arrest -- arrests are further dependent upon whether the crime is a misdemeanor or a felony

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

...another example of the police lying like the liars they are...

What Louisiana really needs is the sense of Mel Brooks.

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

DARVO

Never trust someone who buys salsa as a dip for veggies.

MAHA -- Measles Are Here Again !

a glitter cannon triggered when the sign is lifted might curtail ICE's dipshittery

This. The question of trans rights is not exclusively about trans people - it's about whether people have the freedom to live the lives they want, or whether we must follow arbitrary and hierarchical social rules. It's about human dignity.

Sorry, forced-birthers, but I am not at all grateful for the CSA I survived as a transracial adoptee in white jesuslandia. Neither am I grateful for the racism I experienced in the household I was raised in, let alone in the white communities the adoptive parents carted me into. 🥚

The administration keeps lying about the law. Know your rights or you won’t have them for long.

An elder once pulled me aside and said “People who create religious music are scared to go to hell. The ones who create spiritual music?? They’ve already been there.” 13 years ago I was confused by this quote. Not anymore.

Publishing the names of protesters and contacting their employers to have them fired for exercising their rights is a tactic straight out of the White Citizens Councils.

As a pre-Roe and pre-Loving transracial adoptee, I can only say Fuck Forced-Birth !!! 🥚

I hate that the poem—written by a Nazi sympathizer for whom they eventually came—never mentions the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. The trans moral panic has happened before. First the Nazis came for our trans siblings. I say this as a Jew. Fuck TERFs. I know where that leads. bit.ly/4bclSDo

"targeted" = Not white Enough

...because all the Natives of the American continents "look alike" to the ICE gangs... (My photo (below) is a placeholder for the AltText of Scott's photo)

According to the right… tyranny is: Having to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic. Having to get vaccinated for that same pandemic. Visitor restrictions at hospitals. Vaccine passports for travel. What’s not tyranny? Having to carry your papers at all times.

Papa Johns is gonna deliver ALL pizzas with Extra Anchovies because AI said so.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

If you’re a Democrat thinking about running for president in 2028 and you don’t believe calling to abolish ICE is a line in the sand for Democratic voters, you’re done before you even begin. This isn’t something that can be fixed. It’s broken and it needs to be torn down to the ground.

Want to make that appreciative email even better? cc their principal/admin team!

I can only imagine that picking up immigrants for deportation is boring, so assholes "juice the troops" to make it exciting -- like one of those violent video games that keeps you on edge during gameplay. ICE = a violent brigade of little white boys

Yes, I read my own memoir. I had to try out for it though. youtu.be/YDl9O3Hopgw?...

y'all this guy is clearly engagement trolling ffs stop being marks

Used to be Border Patrol was over 50% Latino. Watching these videos, seems this may not be the case anymore.

On one road trip, Grandfather Gordon, an English professor, told a story about a class he had taught. The class had dealt with a story set in severe wintertime. Natives in a town knew that a nearby village could be having problems, and so they sent a group laden with food and clothing to help. 1/3

I dunno, but it seems like the entire country standing in hours-long lines for toilet paper like we were a sad beaten down bunch of gray lumpen Soviet proles during Trump's first Administration might have been a big fucking clue not to let him into office again.

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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

This thread is now an op-ed:

that's the thing they don't actually want sexy pictures they want to rob her of her consent

Why don't the techbros just pony up the cash for their very own power supply for each data center ?

Needy Amin is a black hole for bribes.

>>>insert Clayton Bigsby "White Power" gif<<<

goddamnitall

It’s crazy how it’s suddenly “wow we live in a police state” when it happens to white people

Note: Minnesota is full of great writers who need work. Stop putting your dudes on planes and start hiring local writers. I've now connected two folks. I can find you more. *I do not want this work I have a syllabus to finish this ain't about me.

Homan's planning on "doxxing" all protesters. If "something bad" happens, he'll be legally accountable, right ???

Gonna be a lot easier to direct support to these heroes once we know who they are and how to contact them. Just saying.

RFK Jr’s new food Pyramid is straight out of South Park‼️ I miss when south park was exaggerated satire‼️