People who prey on people's willingness to help are awful fucks who have traded their humanity.

Half my shift showed up for mandatory overtime. That half is the hardest working and also always wants the corny gifts from management the rest of us knock. I ran out on break and got them candy. I am super proud of them.

I just saw somebody say they don't get oil changes because they drive an EV...folks...please please please check your maintenance schedules. Just because it's an EV doesn't mean it doesn't use gear oils of varying sorts.

An employee left early due to some personal stuff, but was back after a few hours. I talked to them. They then disappeared. I was the only one who saw or talked to them...so for the last half hour I started to question my sanity until I found them finishing up another section. 😅

Pause, here, something adorable. I wasn't feeling good the last 3 days, the Tortie decided I needed snuggles.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

@fetterman.senate.gov we didn't vote for MAGA! Are you in the files!?

I genuinely like her as a leader and a person. This isn’t forcing myself to vote for a DA who relied on prison labor and the war on drugs...

From personal experience- DAUPHIN COUNTY PRISON IS A DEATH TRAP. IT IS USED TO PAD THE LOCAL DA'S NUMBERS. local21news.com/news/local/d... Q

Front page of this month’s edition of The Onion.

When your poll numbers are so bad you coerce pollsters to stop polling. bsky.app/profile/phil...

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Got a message in my shift's group chat..."You are the best boss because you actually recognize when we do a good job." ❤️ God dammit let me have my capitalist villain arch. 😄 Truth be told, one day I might have more stories.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I've worked quite a few jobs where the bulk of the crew spoke Spanish. My Spanish is awful. Never once did I feel excluded...yeah in the kitchen we trash talked a lot, but we were friends and took care of one another. It breaks my heart seeing all the hate in the world against folks I respect.

Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.

When I say this administration and everyone who helped should be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed for by the Constitution, I mean it. Everyone who played nice, to include the previous administration can stop pretending their opinion is valid.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

Sinners somehow gets better and better the more historians dissect it...a little on the automotive history- youtube.com/shorts/0s6M1...

The harvest and production of sugar cane was so brutal, many folks refer it today, and don't even realize it, when they say, "sold down the river." It was European demand for sugar which touched off the slave trade as we know it.

I was being a car nerd and wanted to see who designed the interior of the SN95 Mustang with its dual cockpit style and some of the cool little accents... Emeline King, became the first black designer at Ford in 1983. And yep, the interior of the SN95 was her design!!!

The Mennonites are protesting ICE in Lancaster.... The Mennonites...are...protesting...

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

1936, Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 4th Gold.

1968 Olympics, for those mad about athletes being political.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

When the weird uncle gets liquored up at the family picnic.

LOLOLOL

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “STOP OVER-TORQUING FROZEN METAL!"

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, exploiting children, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

Worst...or maybe best...part about my days off- I can't get much done because the little humans and pets keep taking turns trying to get snuggles.

On this day in 1759, 267 years ago, the radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay passed away at age 77. A hundred years before William Lloyd Garrison, Lay called for the immediate and complete abolition of slavery worldwide, with no payments to enslavers. Let us remember him. Art by Marco Lorenzetti.

If they are actively in elected office, I don't trust them. Saw it a lot with Occupy, "We are on your side" *cameras turn off* "Get em!"

"For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

So there is a bully at work that most of the staff are afraid of. He's a fellow supervisor... Needless to say he's been trying to start drama with me, but is realizing I'm oblivious to that kinda stuff, so ended up pushing it to the point that now, not only am I aware, but so are the higher ups./

"Wait, you do this every day while we're goofing off?" *me taking apart a machine* "Yep." "Omigod, no wonder you've been mad, we won't do that anymore." Schodinger's Supervisor, you can't see him so clearly he's just sitting in the office.

Yes it's still The Crewe of the Fancy, just doing a slight rebrand in preparation for a new project. Stay tuned. 😉

Come to find out one of the other supervisors has beef with me. *shrugs* I refuse to get roped into drama at work, so I'm simply keeping notes and watching him go through great lengths to embarrass himself.

“In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech; a thing terrible to publick traytors.” -Dogood Papers, written by Ben Franklin, 1722, aged 16

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

So am I tracking that our current government for the last, almost 30 years, and to a large extent, our economy, has been run by wealthy pedos? I lost my career in 2007/2008 and was told I needed to suck it up because a bunch of rich guys liked little kids?

Pennsylvania....

Rolling up to a management blasting "Not Like Us" oh you know it's going to be lit.

Every accusation is a confession.

SHABOOZEY: “Immigrants built this country.”

Donald Trump is a pedophile. Donald Trump is a whiney little bitch. Donald Trump went to Epstein Island.