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Yt man has failing coffee shop. Black man turns it into successful smokehouse + does crazy promotions garnering a review from Keith Lee. Keith Lee wants to give 4K tip to Black man. Yt man is so salty bc of the tip he destroys his own bizness. End Scene. Paula Deen v. 2026

Feeling overwhelmed? Remember: your stepping back is enough. Choosing yourself is enough. You don’t owe the world your undoing.

also the reporter next to you in a concentration camp when you ask why they wrote 10x as many stories about Biden's Age vs an imminent fascist auto-coup.

People who couldn't vote for a senile old man when the younger guy they did vote for turns (checks notes) 80 this June

Minneapolis.

ICE actions are not a radical break but an intensification and extension of bipartisan consensus on the need for punitive immigration policy. Since its post-9/11 creation, people have warned that the tools given to ICE would eventually be turned on citizens.

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

“The President of the Republic is working to coordinate the European response to the unacceptable tariff threats made by President Trump. He will be in contact with his European counterparts throughout the day and will request, on behalf of France, the activation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument.”

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

The unfortunate thing is that they will probably comply, unless if his political power drops after the midterm, because they want him to approve mergers and his FCC chair loves to bully them over licenses.

You cannot tell TV networks what they're forced to broadcast! Last time I checked this wasn't North Korea.

Marx remarks somewhere that historical events appear, as it were, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. He forgot to add that beneath the farce also can lurk tragedy.

This is how Biden won the primary. It’s like we never learn. People voting in primaries for who they think will win is how we constantly end up with the worst candidates. It’s literally just going for the most bland possible option, when right now that’s the opposite of what people actually want.

At some point the Conservative Party might want to wake up to the fact that Elon Musk is not their ally... (Labour might also want to wake up too...)

This may not go the way people expect. 82nd troops were horrified by the corruption and blatant looting of civilian LE when deployed to Katrina. Don't expect professional AD units to be impressed by untrained meat heads abusing the Constitutional rights of citizens.

To be fair, even Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to raise the alarm. Crowns in gutters across America.

It’s a good day to never be part of the American Legion, VFW, or IAVA etc.

Today would be a great day for CNAS, CSIS, Brookings, Atlantic Council, RAND, IDA, CNA, & every veterans’ advocacy group to say an attack on NATO over Greenland would be a crime under US and international law and it would shatter American military capacity for generations. They won’t say a word.

About 1,500 soldiers w/ 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed on prepare-to-deploy orders with a mission in Minnesota in mind, defense officials tell me tonight. Unclear if some or all of them ultimately will go. News reported tonight by ABC News, too.

Still true.

Trump doesn’t need to own Greenland for national security. He also isn’t worried about Russia

#OtD 18 January 1886 35 grinders at the Shelton Silver Plate and Cutlery Company in Connecticut walked out on strike demanding a 10% pay increase. The strike ended on Jan 22 when the company agreed to the workers' demand. Sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7801...

One of my mum’s friends showed me a TikTok video recently of an OAP being arrested “for using her free speech” It was supposed to be body cam footage (no time or date markers) the police car was the wrong livery, it had no number plate etc. it was so obviously AI. The women who shows me is 73…

If the federal government had never become this powerful, if the executive branch had never become this powerful compared to the others, we would not be dealing with Trump right now. Supporting the system led us to this moment.

This strikes me as a good read. But a huge problem for us here is that Stephen Miller is clearly genuinely into the idea. If it were only Trump, they could easily keep Grampa away and make him focus on other stuff. But because there are people in his cabinet who want it, it keeps coming back

United States Congressman Greg Steube serves on the House Committee on Intelligence. And believes in the chemtrail conspiracy theory: We are all so very fucked!

I see we're genuinely about to test the Third Amendment about quartering soldiers, in addition to the Fourth about search and seizure.

Hello there

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America? 2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America? 2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

I was just thinking about this the other day. Think about it. The guy got away with trying to overturn an election. He once said that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and not lose any voters. But he believes that the Epstein files are going to damage him?

1/6 Wall Street bankers and owners of movable capital would hate it, but if the rest of the world were to reduce its dependence on the US dollar, this would be good for the US economy, good for US manufacturing, and good for US farmers and workers. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Israelis and Iranians standing together in London, England, against the oppressive Iranian regime, proof that the people are not enemies, but allies in the fight for freedom.

Dugin: the countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus should not be sovereign. According to him, Moscow should not tolerate the existence of independent Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

The concept of soulmates is nonsense for many reasons but most of all it makes people think love has nothing to do with their choices and actions and that it "just happens" independent of them. Something owed to them. That's why that man thought it was ok to hurt his *wife's* feelings for content.

Whether someone likes you isnt enough to decide to be with them. You have to ask why they even want a relationship in the first place and what they expect to get from it. No, the latter doesnt necessarily follow from the former and you'd be surprised at often someone hasn't even thought about it.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens newrepublic.com/post/205330/...

Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza" Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."

Looks like the EU-US trade deal is now dead, with all three major groups in the EU Parliament calling at least for suspension. The downward spiral has already begun.

Morning Bluesky.

2-million-year-old fossil found in northern Kenya, the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known members of our genus, may be the oldest example of an early human.

The NAR/televangelist-faith-healer-prosperity-gospel preachers who talk about "Jezebel" all speak of her as a deity, a rival God. They are not preaching and teaching monotheism. (They're also all cynically insincere grifters and sociopathic con artists. But that's a separate matter.)

Trump is Russia’s best ally

It really is astounding the Tory-led BBC hierarchy decided Gary Linekar needed to be fired but this was acceptable. And that is leaving aside quite how garbage this take was.

It’s interesting to me that the free people of Hong Kong organized brilliantly, but were defeated because they were one city against a vast government with endless manpower for repression. But this one American city is organizing quickly and is already severely taxing the MAGA regime’s resources.

America is a rather thinner, rockier soil to grow such dark harvests, and would require a much more patient farmer to bring to fruit. And these guys ain't patient farmers.

Chinese authoritarianism has had millennia to refine its applications of force, pacification, & terror tactics... & it still took them the better part of a yr to quell 1 city armed with umbrellas. 2 years later it decided it was easier to let everyone get COVID than continue repressing protests.