Late modernity is a hellscape

“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

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Vad som händer när föräldrarna, som Britz pratar om, får flera tusen kronor mindre i månaden är inte att de lättare får jobb. Det som händer är att barnen får en fattigare uppväxt och i flera fall riskerar att själva få sämre utbildning och arbetsmarknadsförankring som vuxna.

You guys aren’t plugged in enough if you don’t think this is funny

I'm concerned that forcing Oreos to eat other Oreos is going to result in Mad Oreo Disease infecting the Oreo population.

It is a huge scandal that they keep killing despite being way past the dates when they should get Congressional authorization. And "narco-terrorist" is a term that needs to be aggressively challenged. It is absurd bullshit trying to discursively create a new entity that falls outside the law.

Across Latin America, Donald Trump’s aggressive moves — from tariffs to attacks on boats in the Caribbean to meddling in Argentina’s elections — is uniting progressive forces in opposition and bolstering the Left’s political prospects.

I move that we rethink this whole elite business.

Redaction immediately following "Trump is gross" is intriguing. Remember that the principal justification for redactions is protecting the victims. Here it would be important to pursue the question of why this was redacted and whether the victim will consent to revealing what lies beneath.

People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best Thank you @paulgp.com

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

Oh.

Ett ställe

True. It's difficult to blame people for being worried about your company's surveillance technology when the company name is taken from a device based on mystical technology that was used for unreliable surveillance whilst enabling the deception and corruption of its users.

Fellas is it woke to not want AI software owned by rich people and backed by government watching my every move

Yo, take a minute to read those quotes and then be like "Who's giving this company money and why?"

Amen, brother.

Your 2025 National League Manager of the Year, ladies and gentlemen.

NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

There is virtually NO reason to believe this and several pieces of evidence to suggest she was trying to achieve the opposite. Had she denied the admin stay on Friday night, the full court almost certainly would have overruled her. She set tight deadlines for the First Circuit and SCOTUS then.

Among other things, this certainly seems consistent with how many of us read Justice Jackson’s intervention on Friday—buying a few days, but no more, for the First Circuit and the full Court to rule. Now that they’ve had that time, she’d decide the stay *now*—and would deny it.

In other words, the Court is trying to buy itself two more days to see if the House approves the shutdown deal (which may well moot this case), rather than having to rule *now* on whether USDA can be forced to fully fund SNAP for November. And KBJ objects because she’d just deny the application now.

The Trump administration is objectively pro-dictatorship, in the global sense.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

And he's totally setting the stage to disregard a Supreme Court loss claiming doing so would present a "national security" threat.

1) this was supposed to be a "clean CR," why is this even included? 2) Look at the fucking privacy rights these people give to themselves and deny to everyone else. Absolutely disgraceful.

Honorary member of ICP may be his greatest honor yet

Yeah, what a dumbass. The idea that Trump has great political instincts is just silly. He's just a Fox News viewer with a propensity to attack because he's afraid of ego death. He holds up a mirror to the base and they love him. But he's a one-trick pony, a sore loser, and an even sorer winner.

This fucking rules. She's got mean growls, too.

I'm mad still, but yes, the fact that Republicans held a knife to the necks of poor children and said "What, are you gonna let us kill these kids?" and the fact that they care so little about the American people that they're fine with people dying from losing health insurance means this is on them.

Jag är så himla tacksam för att mitt insulin är kostnadsfritt för mig i Sverige. Jag är tacksam för högkostnadsskyddet (risigt som det är). För att dö som en amerikan är inget jag vill behöva göra.

Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Fuck the @democrats.org for being such idiots and cowards. What a profound betrayal of their principles, their voters, and the American people. You will get the voter turnout you deserve.

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

rand paul is currently being a pain in the ass (laudatory) www.politico.com/live-updates...

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

This moment demands fighters, not folders.

One thing very funny about Elon musk is you can tell from what he names things that he’s a huge fan of classic sci-fi but also that he doesn’t understand any classic sci-fi. Classic illiterate genius* * rich guy

Ahh, I think I got got. Sorry.

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?