damn you're telling me that sin taxes work to reduce consumption of socially harmful goods while keeping them legal and thus avoiding the problems of criminalization?

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

This is the video.

I don't know why patriot Charlie Kirk deleted this patriotic tweet about patriotic buses busing patriots to DC on Jan 6th, but the Internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20210107...

@yourmandevine.bsky.social just stumbled on an old r/nba thread and almost lost it when I saw the timestamp on this comment www.reddit.com/r/nba/commen...

The number of convicted criminals in immigration detention is about 1.8x what it was when Trump took office. The number of people with no criminal record whatsoever — who are detained solely for immigration reasons — has shot up **25.5x** open.substack.com/pub/austinko... (via @austinkocher.com)

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

This dystopian ICE recruitment ad targeting Chicago cops is running right now.

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

Tyranny

[looking at the gettysburg address] “that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

enormous violence is being done to us by unaccountable elites. they rob us blind, they send our neighbors to foreign dungeons or murder them in the street. they cut healthcare to build concentration camps and conduct a livestreamed genocide. they rape and traffic and brazenly get away with it all

“reaches for easy, self-flattering answers” “accepts hierarchy” and “engages in othering” are all mental shortcuts that make you stupid.

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

The moment Stephen Colbert said I don’t give a flying f**€k to Paramount and CBS.

Jon Elster calls this exact function of being motivated to perform socially normative action when observed by others the "civilizing force of hypocrisy," if you need a phrase for it

The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

WHOA. Sit with this excerpt. When ICE arrested the 75-year-old who died in their custody, he had a dog with him, Chulo, whose previous owner had already been taken by ICE. ICE officers left Chulo loosely tied outside the humane society. He then got free and was hit by a car.

Q: "A 75 year old Cuban national died in ICE custody. He had lived in the U.S. for 60 years...Is there anything you can tell us about that?" Border Czar Tom Homan: "People die in ICE custody. People die in county jails. People die in state prisons."

Saying you're in favor of abolishing USAID means you're at best ambivalent to things like helping rescue Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia and I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to regard these people with anything other than disgust

Clearer video of the masked ICE agents swapping their plates. 📸 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjv2mUG4/

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center

We're starting to get voter file data back and Change's model indicates that the biggest contributor to Kamala losing was new voters entering the electorate breaking heavily toward Trump substack.com/home/post/p-...

The thing about this guy is that he’s a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal.

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

Do not look away.

Jesus fucking Christ. 15.3% REAL wage gains from 2019-2024. This isn't total Stancil Victory. This is totally Stancil Conquest.

It's a great job, you're in charge of a beloved national institution and get to work with and on behalf of a lot of talented journalists. The downside is that sometimes you will have to go to Washington D.C. and try to calm down an extremely flustered cartoon pig.

This is almost the entire point of the Republican Project. Legalizing Tax Evasion.

Think it’s important to highlight how everyday violence of the U.S. criminal legal system is making what ICE is doing possible: this man was convicted of a crime at *16*; he was *pardoned*; when ICE came decades later they claimed the conviction made him a felon w/ no recourse against deportation

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

this is what i mean by decadence. your vote is not a gift you give a person you like. it is a responsibility forced on you by citizenship which implicates you in the actions of the state.