We should have punished the Confederates.

TIL this is what Dean Koontz looks like, and also that his Instagram captions reveal the heart of a shitposter

Sorry folks for reposting this but someone’s fursuit head ended up at Goodwill. It might have been a fursuit head stolen at TFS? Can we get some reskeets so hopefully someone recognizes it?

At Menards hardware store in Cicero, IL It's a major hardware chain throughout the Midwest. Look at Trump's masked thugs shattering the truck windows and dragging a man off to an unmarked car. Menards told employees to delete any videos they took of the ICE raid—or they would be fired.

hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...

Proof of open in-your-face corruption The GOP silence is deafening. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

Also, this is why you don't debate these chodes. They need a LOT of therapy, so your well-reasoned argument won't dent them. They want their resentment reinforced and nothing more.

I am proud to be a knobhead

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

But his assertion that diversity weakens unions ignores two things. First, labor unions have a long history of multiethnic coalitions. Second, it was the capitalists and political elites who tried to *exploit* ethnic divisions to maintain power. There is only one person here trying to stop unions:

"Social unionism" meant the union did more than fight for better wages. It provided affordable housing, health benefits, and unemployment insurance. Since many garment workers were newly arrived immigrants, the union would also teach people English.

Instead of breaking up, the workers galvanized. Tens of thousands of workers from different ethnic background marched through Lawrence, holding flags and singing in the streets. Their determination eventually won out and the moment is remembered as the "Bread and Roses Strike."

Tensions ran high in the summer of 1921 when union-sympathizers Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were gunned down on the courthouse steps by company-hired gunman as part of a company-sponsored terror campaign. In response, 10,000 coal miners marched in Charleston, West Virginia.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

I see people parsing what "testing on an equal basis" means, but folks, remember it's Trump. Kelsey's got a good thought here.

As I have said long time, the court really did take over the job of social issue response with pressure relief votes as legislature deferred. Executive agencies really did take over the job of creating legislation as the legislature became evermore calcified. Everything is the legislature breaking.

Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs." Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.

If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.

Or IOW, if this valuation is right, Apple's top-end bug-bounty for top-tier security research, despite their popular image as being generous, is still about an order of magnitude below than the offensive market

So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors bsky.app/profile/lega...

He doesn’t have to be an actual Nazi to be disqualified. Having the tattoo for 20 years and not doing anything about it until it becomes politically problematic is disqualifying.

i want someone to ask mike johnson "should we be worried that you are always learning the news at your own press conferences, which is exactly when you are supposed to be answering questions about the news"

I know it's overwhelming right now, but kick in your rational brain and risk measures and then evaluate if things are the same or as good as they were a year ago, ten years ago, etc. Is this something you would have considered normal or noteworthy? Is this what you'd expect from the gov or media?

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America. The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

wild how if you take a computer, feed it a collection of all the variety of human interaction, and ask it to do various impressions, when you make it smart it’s socialist and when you make it fascist it’s a pedophile

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

The money is there. There are contingency funds. Trump is simply not releasing it because he wants people to starve and blame Democrats even though Republicans hold both chambers of Congress and the White House. And the media will happily go along.

Furthermore, ABUGHAZALEH proceeded beyond the edge of a cliff, whereupon she stood in midair above a sheer dropoff, causing AGENT A, believing he could follow her into the void, to likewise step off the cliff, at which time he briefly also stood without support before plummeting to the bottom.

This and the Chicago indictments make it abundantly clear that the rule of law is dead at DOJ. The agency has been fully weaponized to smite Trump’s enemies and shield his friends.

I just spoke with Capital Area Food Bank CEO Radha Muthiah about how they are preparing for a possible lapse in SNAP funding. She told me that for every meal they provide, SNAP provides *nine*. "The magnitude of the SNAP program is significant," she says.

note that this is a lie which will not be upheld by the court system but as usual they're trying to cause as much harm as possible before anyone can stop them

"...at least $504 million to politics, a staggering sum for someone who insists he isn’t a billionaire. Most of it has gone to President Trump and right-leaning causes, mostly in the last five years."

Did my intake to commence volunteering at a local food pantry this afternoon and let me tell you, after just half an hour of basic description of operations I now thoroughly get why they stress "please just give money, don't buy random food at retail and bring it in" over and over and over.

Do we think that the fabricated article was AI agitprop against Mamdani or what? How did it get made and published... then deleted?

the term blood bath takes on additional meaning when “visible from space” enters the conversation

Radio Free Asia will shut down its news operations on Friday for the first time since its founding in 1996, removing one of the few independent journalism outlets in Asian countries with limited press freedoms. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Stagflation The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

Really is Christmas for Criminals out there because all the federal agents and federal prosecutors aren't doing anything about real crime, they're spending their time either kidnapping people or prosecuting stuff like this:

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

I should be as clear as I can: there is no future worth fighting for that accepts as a compromise building detainment camps for undesireables, and it is incumbent on anyone looking to a future worth having that that we find ways to take care of each other without building Alligator Omelas.

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Police once charged a man w assaulting a cop bc of the liquid he “threw” on the cop. The liquid? The man’s blood. Which was flying off his face. Which the cop had just punched. Far too often the cops arrest ppl for the harms done by the police. I’m hoping we are seeing a critical overreach now.

"It doesn’t appear that the women in the videos know they are being filmed and that the videos are being shared online, where they’re viewed by millions of people... This is extremely dangerous to the women in the videos who can be targeted by both law enforcement and racist, sexist extremists."

Also a lot of flat roofs in background for Caribbean - not that there aren't any, but they have very low wind resistance so tend to go down. Flat roofs surviving when the hip roof in front is gone? Weird. But like... this is subtle! I've looked at a lot of damage pics. Easy for non-experts to miss.