For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

So… the cops arrested someone for robbing a house but never did? And then after pleading guilty to misdemeanors, they gave him over to ICE? Fuck this shit, fuck this framing

❌ Myth: Guaranteed income creates a disincentive to work ✅ Reality: Guaranteed income actually helps people find suitable and sustainable work that leads to more stable employment:

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I love Spectacular Spider-Man’s Aunt May

Since 2017, police funding has increased rapidly — now costing the U.S. more than $200 billion a year. Keep that in mind the next time somebody tries to use calls to "defund the police" as a scapegoat.

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

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"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

So… the cops arrested someone for robbing a house but never did? And then after pleading guilty to misdemeanors, they gave him over to ICE? Fuck this shit, fuck this framing

“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

hey @bsky.app can I ask what happened to my friend @thetiffanysmith.blacksky.app? her account got suspended for no reason as far as I can tell

Unionize every workplace

This miniseries is the best Geoff Johns book I’ve ever read, and I say this as someone who actually really likes Geoff Johns. (Shawn Martinbrough is also great)

This 4/20, we're thinking of the horrific impact that the U.S.'s war on drugs had on vulnerable communities. Today, drug offenses still account for the incarceration of over 360,000 people, and drug convictions remain a defining feature of the federal prison system.

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor

When I realized Weapons was basically a blood libel movie

That new Olivia Rodrigo song is pretty good

Nobody who uses social justice speech thinks justice is involved in prison.

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

The least Superman-like take.

Happy Superman Day!

Over 10 years, 98% of medical grievances in federal prisons were rejected. Less than 1% of medical cases ended in a grant of relief. Does that look like a system that values "justice"?

We gotta bring thought bubbles back

If Doomsday somehow ends up good, I’ll read all of the 90s X-Men comics

We should have never doubted this man

as far as i can tell pope leo has never mentioned trump by name hes just like “killing people is wrong” or “concentration camps arent good” and theyre all taking it personally

techbro who brags about how much of his job is done by AI when the website breaks:

The first comic I ever bought was Martian Manhunter: The Others Among Us TPB by A.J. Lieberman and Al Barrionuevo. I was a fan of the character from the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons, as well as the CW Supergirl show. Haven't looked back since.

“If democracy were to be given any meaning; if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. 1/2

Each year, thousands of pregnant people are incarcerated – yet some states fail to provide basic care and necessary accommodations during pregnancy. Locking up pregnant people does not leave anyone better off.

Drop your crime fighting Catholics

A reminder that transphobes are trash and a charm initiative after years of trash being trash is not particularly credible.

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

George Lucas most vindicated artist in history

Disney made 94 billion dollars in revenue last year.

The basic concept of, making felons unable to run incentivizes those in power to criminalize their opponents should be obvious with an admin trying to jail their opponents. But we lack that collective awareness i fear.

In a lot of states driving with an expired license is a misdemeanor, for which you can be punished by losing the right to have a license for a period of time. If you then still drive because you need to? You’re committing a felony. Short road from “couldn’t afford to renew my license” to “felony”

One thing I'm seeing proposed more and more as a prophylaxis against another Trump is to ban felons from holding public office. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I *hate* that plan. Here's why.

Not to harsh the mood but here’s a history thing they don’t teach in schools: way more gay people were fired for the simultaneous “Pink Scare” McCarthyism than for the “Red Scare” kind people actually talk about.

At least the weather is nice

“For all the philosophical talk of a ‘just war’ and all the strategizing about balances of power and national interests, in the end, war, like all politics, is about leaders trying to stay in power and control as many resources as possible.” -The Dictator’s Handbook by Bueno de Mesquita and Smith