tho not technically "slaves", we still are not the free people we believe ourselves to be: we can not decide our own fate in this country without fear of retaliations & must still lay our fates in the laps of white voters & legislators hoping they do us the solid of fleeting, illusory justices.

Meanwhile #BackInTheUSColony > The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/23/t... #PuertoRico #AmericanEmpire #warfare #Venezuela #GunboatDiplomacy #MastodonPR (c)

Without tariffs it would’ve been half that.

Just think of it as trump demolishing Melania’s office space so he can build a disco

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Still hard to fathom that people voted to put the King of Bankruptcy in charge of the world's largest economy.

we live in a reality -- and this has been true since bush stole the election in 2000 -- when the only rational democratic response should be blanket opposition. theres no working with these people. theyre trying to destroy the country. you shouldnt be fucking helping them. in any way.

“I’d rather have a guy with old nazi tattoos covered up with some new dodgy symbolism than someone who supports genocide.” HOW ABOUT NEITHER. none of the above.

Abolish ICE. Bulldoze the ballroom. Jail the collaborators. Should be the Democratic platform.

Harvard honrará a don Pedro Albizu Campos Evento de honra a Albizu Campos en Harvard coincide con el 75 aniversario de la Insurrección Nacionalista en Puerto Rico, que se dedica a don Heriberto Marín Torres. Detalles EN BLANCO Y NEGRO CON Sandra RodríguezCotto open.substack.com/pub/sandraro...

Jon Batiste up here making me big smile in the morning. Bless!!

Trump is going to blow up a few boats in the Hudson River and invade Morningside Heights before he figures out the difference

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

“Tastes nutty.”

When you’re a sundowning pedophile who inspires 7 million people to hit the streets over how much they hate you, the best response is definitely to throw an A.I. tantrum

pour one out for george soros and the brutal writer’s cramp he must have from signing all those checks

I guess they didn’t want to have these guys speak out in a court room.

'US has no evidence that the people they bombed are drug runners' is what I think you meant to write.

Thanks!

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

As part of the Small Performances Project, we are digitising Baskerville’s 18th-century printing punches using Photometric Stereo Photography. This technique captures surface details by varying light angles, revealing tool marks and engraving depth to reconstruct the typographic process in 3D!

most adult men who talked about the sperm count of teenage boys would wind up with an ankle monitor

Someone on linkedin asked "what problem are you solving" with research. The problem of joy man. the problem of I like to know how things work. The problem of we have to tell the stories about all this or we'll go mad, won't we? The problem of someone needs to feel heard. Haven't you felt it??

If y'all are shocked by the racism of the Young Republicans, I got some bad news for your ass about the older ones.

"I said 18 FEET, not 18 inches!"

Things will stay stuck unless and until people reckon with why and how we got here *honestly.* So far the self-distancing from the problem and "We'll Be Back/This is Not Us/Lets Sue Our Way Out of Authoritarianism" Juice is beating y'all's asses. I promise the exceptionalism won't help.

Bec the US spent a century suppressing the independence movement and made the Avg Puerto Rican fear it. its only now that the damage is slowly being undone

The figures of this administration are acting more and more like the General García character in the 1979 film “The In-Laws”.

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If you don't translate what this guy actually says but instead you told a Democrat that he's the leader of Puerto Rico's statehood supporters in the Senate, just with that description they'd immediately think he's a good guy like they fashion themselves and wish he'd be US senator

Using the national frame for a candidate like Graham without understanding Maine won't get you far. I'll say this. I know a lot of Maine political folks. Some are my closest friends, and none of them are riding for Mills. The energy is for Graham and maybe Jordan. Also, we have RCV here.

Too few techbros have read or seen Pet Sematary.

#PuertoRico #Vieques (small island off the big island of Puerto Rico used by the Navy for target practice for decades. Populace has much "higher than normal" cancer & other disease rates.) 2,946 days, 8 long years, and counting since #HurricaneMaria . Still no actual hospital.

@kylekulinskishow.bsky.social Here is the Video In question www.youtube.com/watch?v=58-d...

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Highly recommend this 2023 @pbs.org doc, “Stripped for Parts.” It details the role of #AldenCapital and other VultureCap hedge funds that destroyed venerable local + regional Legit news orgs nationwide. Bonus: it features my former @bostonglobe.com mentor, Greg L. Moore www.pbs.org/video/stripp...

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Did people actually believe Trump during his campaign, or did they just love the permission he gave them to be racist? Trump on loop: “They’re stealing your jobs.” If that were true, why aren’t Americans lining up to take those so-called “stolen” jobs? Every Trump voter needs to see this.

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted: When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

So you want to violate int law and deny them the right to self determination

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Serious question: does there come a point where everyone admits that Constitutional originalism is just a made-up vibe-based philosophy that gives Republican judges a pretext for ruling however it is that Republicans want them to rule?

Put his feet up on the stirrups, chill the speculum!