There was once a time when authorities even politely demanding to see your papers was the cultural shorthand for the Stasi, invoking extreme and omnipresent authoritarian overreach. I guess a lot of American right-wingers were merely jealous their opponent was the one doing it instead of them.

On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

Not including Border Patrol, ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records. This data is compiled by ICE internally and was obtained by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project via a lawsuit. ICE is currently holding 65,000 migrants in detention centers around the country.

Is that two Tommy Wisseau’s? Is he multiplying?

FYI

“computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills” tech won’t save us

Fuck vote blue no matter who. If all this madness isn't enough to get the Democrats to field a candidate who can support trans rights and be against genocide they're telling me they don't want my vote and I'm happy to oblige. I'm not voting for a more polite Trump. Full stop.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

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Elmer Fudd is an art connoisseur. Check out the paintings in his house.

Even his own avi was trying to tell him this was a bad idea.

Finding out Quentin Tarantino is a zionist and Paul Dano is pro-Palestine makes all this so much simpler.

I would be honored to be Mariah’s chair for even a moment.

What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough

if you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity

His GOP career STARTED with posting a proposal to "Strip certain groups, including ones for Black, Hispanic and female Republicans, of their representation on the [Kansas] G.O.P.’s executive committee." He can't imagine why anybody would now think he's a scumbag. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

Reporters spoke with 61 young field workers, some 12 years old, about working in California’s farm fields, exposed to chemical fertilizers, paid below minimum wage, provided no water, shade or bathrooms. Most work to support parents who toil under the same conditions. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Police have the highest rate of domestic violence at home and the highest rate of sexual harassment on the job. The commission in Ottawa after the convoy recommended major reforms and the government did nothing, this is by design to terrorize women.

Exactly. Newsom translated is “we need to treat a lot of you as abnormal and we need you to be a lot less judgmental about it.”

Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us

This is how liberals are still fascist, btw. not "negative polarization"—unthinking fascism. They are just fine with secret kill lists from institutions they support! That's not negative polarization, it's fascism! This country is in a power struggle between fascist nazis and fascist administrators.

I have donated to the Florence project. They work with kids in these situations

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🇸🇩 please keep focusing on sudan.

"The quality of [menstrual] products provided or available for purchase is usually ... so poor that they do not fulfill their intended function."

The American business world is starting to feel like the Highlander. "From the dawn of time Corporations came…moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret mergers, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last."

If anything good can come out of this (and I am not optimistic) perhaps people will be forced to see all the ways in which our immigration system has always been fundamentally inhumane and cruel and false.

It's the whole thing going back decades btw. This never stops being so horrifying to read. We keep doing this to kids no matter the change in administrations and parties in charge. The whole system needs a complete rebirth.

Are people just now realizing that the 6 conservatives on SCOTUS were installed to make America a one party country. It’s been the plan for decades but the democrats are so obsessed with comity and bipartisanship, they chose to ignore all the signs and continue to vote yes on conservative justices.

This man did a photo opp of himself destroying homeless people's last possessions.

From a while back but... evergreen

blue maga get really upset if you tell them they shouldn't use misogyny or homophobia against anyone, including the awful people using it on us, and it's really fucking pathetic.

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

77 billion could have paid for housing for every single homeless person in America for like 5 years

America spends so much money on absolutely BS like ICE and mass incarceration that I’m not even fully convinced that to fund all the social programs we deserve would even need a major tax increase. We could probably just stop subsidizing cruelty.

Can we please do communism now

UnIvErSaL hEaLtHcArE iS tOo ExPeNsIvE ThEY CaNt AfFoRD tO bE TaXeD mOrE I hope all you fucking capitalist lackies are all fucking ashamed of yourself. Sucking your thumbs and making excuses for these dumbasses ruining our planet while people suffer for no reason to LOSE MONEY

This is the Quadro Tracker, a machine that was sold to cops and the military as a bomb/drug/contraband detector that worked by taking a picture of the thing you wanted it to find, inserting that picture into a slot, and then waving a divining rod around

MATTHEW LILLARD IS A MOTHERFUCKING TREASURE AND TARANTINO IS A JEALOUS HACK WHO WISHES HE HAD A SINGLE IOTA OF HIS NATURAL CHARISMA!

I've hated QT and his racist, misogynistic drivel my whole life but somehow it's hurting Matthew Lillard's feelings that really has me wanting to throw hands.

I like how every time there is a wave of “we won’t ever vote for Gavin Newsom” posts there is a wave in response claiming that he is our only hope and we must want JD Vance if we won’t vote for him, then inevitably *the very next day* he does something like this.

In a back channeled "offer" to the International Criminal Court, the United States proposed dropping sanctions on ICC officials if the Court •Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore •Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan •Amended the ICC treaty the ICC said: no

they aren't normal human beings. they grew up with a concept of entitlement so pervasive that they never figured out what they might be good at contributing to human society, and it twisted their brains so badly, their synapses into misfiring so often that they're basically powerful slime molds

they want to straight up be stupid as dogshit, they want to be dumb as a puddle, but know that it doesn't matter because they can just say "i dunno man make the computer show me a whole ass movie I asked it to" and it just works and then they get paid for it and the person who did the work doesn't

I hope you all realize what's really going on with this concept of white right wingers being exempt from the basic requirements of a rubric for a 650 word paper lmao

If we were two Lego blocks even the Harvard University graduating class of 2010 couldn’t put us back together again.

everything in the whole memo sucks but this is the clause from the list of 'domestic terrorism crimes' that worries me the most

The whole point of throwing a subordinate under the bus is that you don't jump down there with them

Advocating for political violence has never been a problem in America - so long as those you threaten bear absolutely no responsibility for any of the problems we face