Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

Hundreds of community members gathered on Thursday evening for a public viewing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by an ICE agent on July 7. His sons stood by their father’s casket for hours greeting mourners who wore blue, Salgado Araujo’s favorite color.

We mean the white working class, correct? Working class people of color have hated him since way back (but they do not count).

You know they actually arrested this ICE guy for shooting someone? I wonder why?

And isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/

The knowledge that the Editor in Chief of Science, while writing his article "AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse and more expensive" is doing so from inside a bubble so opaque that he believes chatbots are the only way "anyone" searches for anything anymore, is uhhhh extremely sobering

Thinking about how I’m rooting for the colonizer (Spain) on Sunday even though it’s been at least 250 years since my Figueroa came to Sonora, Mexico.

It’s almost as if we should take violence against women seriously. How many times have men shown us exactly who they are but we haven’t believed it because of misogyny?

One month ago today. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

"Deep state" in cahoots with China and Biden. He's laying the groundwork here for a scary consolidation of power. But I'm skeptical that his toadies are coherent enough to execute it. And this rasping drone, a far cry from his most effective demagoguery, isn't going to set MAGA on fire.

Fascism.

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

It’s almost as if we should take violence against women seriously. How many times have men shown us exactly who they are but we haven’t believed it because of misogyny?

This dog controlled every movement to avoid hurting a tiny animal. Scientists say dogs developed this social awareness through centuries of living alongside humans and other species.

Rep. Thomas Massie has announced he'll introduce the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, a bill to give state AGs, DAs, 'authorized state officers,' and victims the right to sue DOJ for "unlawfully withholding, redacting, delaying, concealing, removing, or failing to publish Epstein-related records."

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

OMFG

Verified fundraiser for the family of Johan Sebastian, killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine. www.gofundme.com/f/justice-an...

just an absolute curse

It’s been 9 news of the Vocal Fries! Enjoy this celebratory episode with the Fries and our friend Erik Singer @dialectcoacherik.bsky.social! 🍟🎉

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

If you don’t want people to celebrate your death, don’t be an asshole.

It’s our 9th anniversary episode! Listen as we chat with friend of the pod, the linguist’s dialect coach, overall great guy Erik Singer! Thanks, @dialectcoacherik.bsky.social! And thank you all for 9 amazing years! vocalfriespod.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

It’s been 9 news of the Vocal Fries! Enjoy this celebratory episode with the Fries and our friend Erik Singer @dialectcoacherik.bsky.social! 🍟🎉

I don't want my taxes to support "vouchers" for private schools.

My legacy may not be much, but at least it won't be this.

Bad people are bad people are bad people.

What noise is this? Not dead? Not yet quite dead?

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

Raucous applause

[Exit Queen.]

victory lapping on this one

Monsoons in the age of climate change I just got a follow up that says IMMINENT THREAT instead of Emergency Alert.

It's really cute how Haaland and Bellingham keep hugging each other in between plays, incredibly wholesome content

It’s my birthday 🎉 and I’ve been waiting for this exact day for years so that I could use this:

The fake jobs" complaint is incel code for "women can earn $ for their labor & that enables them to reject men like me." Dissing college is part of that: higher ed must be devalued, bc women are outcompeting men on that terrain. They want involuntary servitude for the majority of the population.

Artists are memorializing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old man who was fatally shot by ICE on July 7, through portraits, illustrations, cartoons, and signs.

I was just thinking like what is wrong with Maine and then I saw this on their Wikipedia: “Maine has the highest percentage of Non-Hispanic whites of any state, at 94.4% of the total population.”

This will always surprise me. I am very much against being referred to as “Hispanic.”

Forgot I had a client meeting and wore a Spice Girls shirt today

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Patricia from #WidowsBay got an Emmy nomination! I KNOW THAT’S DAMN RIGHT!!!!!

México showing the world that Mexicans are the most gracious hosts who adopt people into our families without reservation 🇲🇽🧡

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.