Guns make being a cop here far more dangerous than it is in any peer country. The number of guns and how easy they are to get means that every cop has to treat every scenario as if it will become lethal. Yes the onus is on them to deescalate because cops are armed - both of these things are true.

The Nodfather.

And if you’re born with a chronic condition, have an accident, whatever - you are no less entitled to care than anyone else. Single payer systems work and produce better outcomes for less money than what we have now

Biden had a bad debate performance and got ran out of the race. The double standard really needs to be studied.

This is the point! Authoritarians believe they *are* the law. MAGA backs trump for exactly this reason: they want to be so powerful that they aren't held accountable, just like him. They like that teflon don has openly broken the law and as yet evaded justice.

A turkey pardon assumes that the turkey has committed a crime. End the carceral state.

Soft power is how we "won" the cold war. If we aren't providing practical, material help, someone else might, and that is how extremist groups gain popularity and recruit.

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Today in accidentally "radical" Canva Templates: Thanksgiving Class Agenda - boycott - mutual aid - deconstruct traditions that uphold entrenched power

I stand with Sen. Mark Kelly. To all active and retired US Military members: Defy illegal orders. Defy Unconstitutional orders. When you swore an oath, you were not reciting a poem – you were making a commitment.

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit... PERFECT 👏👏👏🔥🔥

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Just rediscovered livingwage.mit.edu and there is not enough time in one week for me to process this livingwage.mit.edu/metros/36540

Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain. The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.

Swiss officials gave Trump a special Rolex desk clock and a 1 kilogram gold bar and he gave them lower tariffs. Unprecedentedly corrupt. The founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three different times. Two emoluments clauses and an impeachable offense.

"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?" Rep. AOC

No spoilers - but the Octordle editor has been through something and it laying it all out there

This Veterans Day, I’m thinking of the millions of Americans who have served in uniform — and how our government is failing them right now. Words aren’t enough, we need actions. Fund the VA. Fund mental healthcare. And end endless wars.

Honoring every veteran today—and holding close the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were forced out this year despite serving with courage, skill, and honor. Their dedication is undeniable. Their dignity is non-negotiable. We fight for them, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

“Did women ruin the workplace?” is of course wildly misogynistic. But beyond that, this framing assumes the nostalgic version of “the workplace” was good and awesome and worth maintaining. I hope women have ruined the workplace. Let’s go, girls!

Oh we’re going to Ruin the Workplace harder

If only people were paid according to the value and profit they create instead of how replaceable CEOs think they are. No CEO or shareholder should make more than 100X what their lowest paid employee makes.

City people are more progressive because they see government infrastructure working for people every day. Rural people are more conservative because they don't see 'the government' they see *their neighbors* doing this work whether taxes paid for it or not. 1/84659 reasons

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

A witness in our case had ICE reject all her documents after using facial rec on her. For her, tho, it seemed like nothing could make them accept that she has a right to be here. Either way, a gov policy of not trusting gov-issued docs is going to violate lots of people's rights.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

Some people never heard their grandparents' stories about discrimination against Irish, Italian, Catholic, etc... immigrants and it shows up in the worst ways. Both of these idiots are one generation from not being considered "white enough."

Politicians are not bystanders to the affordability crisis. We can lower the cost of living and make life easier for New Yorkers in real and meaningful ways.

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION (not a typo)

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

I’ve been thinking about how hard the founding fathers cooked with the Third Amendment. Imagine being forced to house ICE. I can’t imagine they wash their hands. They’ve never done laundry in their lives. They’d break your stuff if you didn’t cut the crusts off their sandwiches.

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.” “SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.” ~Center for Budget and Policy

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

Hilarious that Republicans are calling “No Kings” anti-America when the whole point of the United States of America is literally NO KINGS.

Omaha showed up #NoKings

The last time we had a POTUS who treated the stock market like it was the whole economy we named Hoover-villes after him

The US has got to fix its political system. If the government shut down like this anywhere else in the world, and the incumbents were as outrageously unpopular as this bunch, there would be a snap general election, and a new government and prime minister in a week.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

I can’t think of any reason to completely wreck the ag markets in entire United States other than purposeful sabotage. A fire sale on farmland.

Republicans will break the government on purpose, then call it “negotiation.” Working families see through it. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Now.. imagine we do what we did with Disney with more and more mega corporations… until we have healthcare, housing, living wages, bodily autonomy, gender and racial equity, money out of politics… and like… just keep going all the way until we get to the liberation of everyone worldwide.

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

Not a single person on the left called for war or revenge

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.