Friendly reminder that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native born Americans. And that undocumented immigrants partake in very few social services (education mainly for their children) despite paying taxes.

Welcome to the Terrordome, Rose City. #PDX

Got my performance review.

I guess I'll just delight in the irony that the order itself is a crime.

Things seem particularly unhinged this week. I hope for a return to sanity before all this madness wrecks more lives. Don’t have high hopes for the loyal opposition. They seem inclined to consolidate the damage being done. In a word, we seem cooked.

Did millennials know you can freeze your avocado?

How it started // How it’s going

i don't know why the vote blue no matter who crowd doesn't get enraged by these people, they're far more harmful than any criticism from "the left"

there's nothing dems can do to convince the reactionary centrists who dominate the media that they aren't the caricature painted by republicans you can debate whether the centrists believe this or are pretending to

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Teachers can’t make ends meet but this guy pulls in almost a million?

Millionaire Sen. Dave McCormick leans heavily into Pa. "muni" bonds — funding public projects while slashing his own tax bill www.witf.org/2025/09/27/m...

"Trump doesn’t care about vaccines and Tylenol — what he wants is to undermine any source of knowledge, authority, and power that threatens him. And universities are a big one."

"They are not doing much to hide this, but it appears that many people do not realize the nature of what is at stake in the war on science — starting with the failure to recognize that it is a war on science."

What a shot.

“The assumption that only billionaires or suburban taxpayers can provision democracy has become so entrenched that it is easier to imagine acquiescing to authoritarianism than bypassing this veto.” Hard, but accurate diagnosis of ideological stagnation of establishment Dems & even some Social Dems

This is very good.

Saw some Bison on Utah’s antelope island

Saw some Bison on Utah’s antelope island

Party of small government wants to tell corporations who they can hire, who to fire, what they can talk about...

The legal profession is basically vibes now. It’s great much less embarrassing to be an economist.

How would you be responding if you knew the people running your country were unleashing the full power of the government to prosecute, abduct, disappear, silence and intimidate whomever they want?

We’re at the point where calling something “an embarrassing stain on this court’s legacy” is like saying “wow, another stinky bag in the dumpster”

If anyone knows anything about this ICE agent, you can reach me on Signal at marisakabas.04

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Me when I read the news after a successful day of unioning

Paint me like one of your murder birds

Because it is Utah I couldn’t get the Bloody Mary before 11:30 am but as always a delightful place for brunch if you are ever caught in Salt Lake City.

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This is a Chicago reporter. ICE are shooting reporters in the head with chemical munitions

The richest people in your town that you have no idea why they're rich are the beverage distributors. The most spoiled kids I knew growing up in the most spoiled school districts were the distributor heirs.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

This surprised me. Iron Hill was a delightful pub and model, they only served their beers, the food was always good. www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

One problem with dems sticking to their "kitchen table" script is they aren’t making the most repellent man in history the face of the administration

Morning walk

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

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As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

I love Tressie Cottom and wish more economists had her wisdom and training.

It’s not that it should surprise you. We know prisons, surplus population, wage theft go hand in hand. It’s just an elegant little case — as employers terrorize workers with AI replacement threats, and compel them back to the office imprisoned people are “WFH” www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...

“He’s been state property so long that the state hasn’t been able to criminalize him!”

Only, and I say it again, ONLY a member of the English ruling class is raised and educated to have the sufficiently total lack of self awareness of their absolute despicable role in world events to even ponder accepting an appointment of colonial governorship.

Novel Orwellian technique aside, what an asshole.

Whoever you are, you are or were a dishonorable person if you killed women and children, even if under orders.

So let me get this straight. The Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, which allows Argentina to cut its export tax on soybeans, which allows China to buy Argentinian soybeans at a reduced price, so China does not have to buy US soybeans at all.

They hate Philadelphia but love retired Philadelphia

Snowflakes, an ongoing series

Dear gods

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇