why tf the IRS out there

no. five times more, at least. and make sure they are terrified of letting anyone, including their relatives, buy them anything.

tbh, I think being in congress should pay 2 million a year. senate should pay 3ish.

the most antipopularist and simultaneously best policy position to hold: we need to pay our legislators, all of them, like three times their current salaries or they will get the money somewhere else

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

DC guards were not likely going to be violent towards DC residents (like CA guards were reluctant to harm LA residents). So they are bringing in kids from the red states for what now looks like a de facto occupation which could get even uglier …

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Masked secret police opening gunfire on civilians who asked for the identification because there is no way to know anymore if you’re dealing with an organized cartel or federal agents.

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

'A plurality said they believed crime rates in U.S. cities have “increased a lot” (37%) or “increased a little” (18%) since 2020.' Or, put another way: More than half the U.S. population believes the opposite of the truth. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Gavin Newsom can eat my entire asshole, sorry if you think he should be president because he hired a funny epic bacon social media manager last week

oh, so israel’s setting up actual concentration camps now

As DC was taken over by Trump’s secret police, where were congressional Democrats? They weren’t in DC and some weren’t even in the US. Instead of fighting back against the authoritarian takeover here at home, 22 House “Democrats” were being spoon-fed lies about Gaza on a trip paid for by AIPAC.

A useful WaPo map of where Trump Storm Troops are actually operating in DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... If you know DC, what this map tell you is: They're making the gaudy show of strength in areas where it matters least and will do least good. Except for sheer spectacle.

And let me be clear -- I wish on JK Rowling everything that she wishes upon trans people.

Creating a "national police force" was for decades a right-wing bogeyman, the feared unconstitutional federal usurpation of states' rights, the very thing "support your *local* police" and fetishizing elected sheriffs was all about.

federally armed occupation of american cities, as the founders intended

I find I am normally in the 'no need to panic' camp, but this development is extremely, robustly bad, especially if the administration, as it has suggested, intends to violate the 30-day statutory limit for this intervention in DC.

Remember that time a cis guy crashed out for two weeks saying slurs at trans people and threatening to sexually assault women before the mods acted? Pretty wild that they suspended Jessie Gender for "I wish ill on JK Rowling," isn't it? I wonder what distinguishes her from the cis man? 🤔

extremely noticeable that I have seen exactly zero black DC residents asked to write about how they feel about Trump's occupation and/or DC's crime.

The idea that Kristol is still worse than centrist Dems for supporting the Iraq War is ahistorical. The centrist wing of the Dems supported it too.

This from @lizsaila.bsky.social is one of the most important projects I’ve ever seen. Looking at the data you can visualize the various intersecting strategies as various groups disseminate legislation templates. With a complicit news media, they manufactured the political will for where we are now.

"Republicans are a death cult" isn't hyperbole, it's a statement of fact. Why would anyone want to know *less* about our Earth? Because knowing about changes to our climate, storms, land, water, and air saves lives and makes lives better, and they hate that, they want death and destruction.

Making plans to be in the park this weekend? Many green spaces in DC are federal property and are now places where you are at higher risk of interactions with law enforcement. Be smart and be safe this weekend, y’all.

I also wish ill on JK Rowling and if you want to suspend me for that I guess so be it

West Virginia Governor says he’s deploying WV National Guard to Washington DC He says they’ll be “providing mission-essential equipment, specialized training, and approximately 300-400 skilled personnel as directed. The mission will be funded at the federal level.”

if sandwiches are weapons i invoke 2A

Let’s also place this into context with basketball players in the W having sex toys thrown at them and the subsequent assertion and acceptance it was all in “innocent” fun to promote a memecoin.

THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP!! We are winning, but we have not won fully!!! Keep calling!! stop-paypros.neocities.org

An all-time classic....

Oceans Are Now Battlefields

Taped to a bench this morning at 14th St & N St NW in DC's Logan Circle neighborhood hours after federal police set up a checkpoint Wednesday night at 14th & W.

"Many residents still do not feel safe." 41% of Americans feel that ghosts exist, which is why I am demanding that we set up a Federal Office of Ghostbusting

getting your post read out loud by a lawyer, directly to the person you made fun of, and entered into public record is the poster's dream

The District of Columbia is under attack today — not from violent gangs or thieves, but by the President of the United States. The President's weaponization of the Home Rule Act is a direct attack on the 700,000 residents of DC and we will not stand for it.

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

jesus fucking christ, ken

AI scrapers ruining things, Internet Archive edition www.theverge.com/news/757538/...

If Big Balls had been armed, that 15 year-old girl wouldn't have assaulted him.

Whether you're a games journalist, VTuber, YouTuber, video essayist, or leftist journalist -- it doesn't matter EVERYONE in the games media and games content creator sphere should be talking about MasterCard, Visa, Steam, Itchio, and #SaveSpeech EVERYONE! IT'S THAT IMPORTANT!!

Literally the fucking opposite happened. The Ukrainians flooded farmland and took other defensive measures north of Kyiv. It funneled the Russians onto the highways including that famous stalled convoy full of Spetsnaz and Chechen MMA bros. This is was what Ukraine did to them.

For no particular reason at all, if you happened to be in the DC National Guard or work in the National Guard Bureau or maybe you’ve received PTDO to the DC area, I’m on signal app at jimlaportacbs.31

Despite falling crime rates, the National Guard is coming to DC. How "Big Balls" and a recent carjacking spurred Trump to conduct a federal takeover.

"But crime in DC is down!" isn't a direct counter, because the fascists define "criminal" not as "person who committed a crime," but as "person I hate, due to their race, gender, religion, political stances, or whatever I feel like."

People’s brains are fried by the 15 stories a year of a cyclist hitting a pedestrian but completely ignore the 40k per year that are killed by cars. News is news because it’s different from the norm. But the process of reporting tricks our lizard brains into thinking what’s in the news is common.

Trump refused to call the National Guard on January 6 and lied about it under oath. In DC there are only two people who can deploy the guard, the president and the secretary of defense. These are the 14 times they denied the guard on January 6.

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

If anyone is in the DC National Guard or knows someone who is, or is with MPD that can talk, please reach out to me. Signal is nslayton.12