This is the way. “They said, 'We don’t need one.' I said, 'Yes, you do,'” She then asked them to leave, noting that a signed warrant is required to conduct immigration operations inside a private business. Rathke and Nguyen believe the officers were using intimidation tactics to instill fear...'

1/ Watched the new Jeff Buckley doc last night. It's very well done, knew little about him outside of his music. Like Sean & Julian Lennon, he was an uncanny conduit of his father's voice, but like Sean L, he had a formidable & fully developed style all his own. I don't think anyone had a more...

So the guy convicted of aiding drug trafficking (hernandez) needs to be pardoned so he can help fight drug trafficking if the presidential candidate from his conservative party (asfura) wins the upcoming election. smells like a bribe for, or leveraging dirt on, drumpf.

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Excellent & extensive thread on the gop's nearly immediate betrayal of Lincoln's legacy.

Home prices may be dropping precipitously - according to one analyst at least. Because the WS equity firms that snapped up all of the distressed sales during covid, then immediately listed them as rentals at exorbitant rates, aren't making enough money. (cue sad trombone)

The latest regime endeavor to double down on institutional/structural sexism & racism. If conservatives are actually concerned about the cost of college & the student loan/aid/forgiveness programs associated with those costs to individuals & the federal govt, then fund the colleges with a...🧵

Trump administration policy: Protesting Israel's war crimes in Gaza? That's anti-Semitism, and punishable by arrest and deportation. Giving millions to Hamas? Cool, so long as you're a billionaire friendly to Trump.

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

He's so vain🎶 He probably thinks Mamdani actually likes him...🎶

a singularly talented songwriter & soul passed unexpectedly, likely (imo) in part due to the sickeningly violent assault (requiring 22 staples to suture) that he suffered in salt lake shitty, who of course deny everything. he spun satirical folk tales that spoke volumes about the human condition.

Strive for justice in this lifetime. There's no guarantee of another, and one particular religious institution is infamous for selling salvation in the next one so that the majority of followers put up with hell during this one.

That scene from the avengers comes to mind. Loki: There are no men like me. German Old Man: There are *always* men like you.

always pleasantly surprised when captain obvious saves the day (for now) now we wait to see which side of the mason-dixon line the scotus lands on "The bill’s main proponents purposefully manipulated the districts’ racial numbers to make the map more palatable. That’s racial gerrymandering."

stock up on your 🌿yummies, the maga majority in congress, along with 39 state ag's, have come for your edibles, overriding state regulation & destroying a growing industry in numerous states, including kentucky, whose very own yertle mcconnell wrote the 2018 farm bill & supported the hemp...

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

Haven't posted anything sciencey for a bit, so here's one about our once & future cephalapod overlords 'this system must be incredibly efficient, the researchers note, given squid can use this energy to change the appearance of their entire body under water where only low levels of light can reach.'

'Other Republicans facing reelection fights next year...include appointed Senator Jon Husted in Ohio, appointed Senator Ashley Moody of Florida, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and John Cornyn in Texas. Moody and Cornyn represent two of the states with the highest percentages of residents on Obamacare plan.'

Clueless Schumey caves on the one thing that was supposedly a non-starter - a gop guaranteed extension of ACA credits (thru Oct 2026). And all the jackarssse dems that voted for this spineless surrender aren't up for re-election next Nov. We can't be rid of this hapless dangerous idyut soon enough.

Just straight-up nazi white nationalist segregationist hatred bullshit. Pls read the full thread from ChrisO_wiki. It's harrowing at the beginning & infuriating at the end.

Same for NYC Portland Denver Minneapolis Dallas Phoenix and most of the rest across the country. Many of us are from somewhere else. Nearby, the next state, or another country. Doesn't matter to us or anyone else in the city, tho. We show up, work hard, help others, pay our taxes, live our lives.✌️🐸

I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files. Change my mind.

Socialism

Of all the musicians that I could imagine being belligerent to hospital staff, Snider, and pretty much every other Americana musician, would not be anywhere near that list. Always heard SLC is full of arseholes. Hopefully he reschedules the WC dates. Mpls & Chicago are big fans too btw. ✌️ 🤞

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

Or, you know, the sieg heil shat, supporting nazis around the world & 'knowing voting machines better than anybody'. Those might be factors too. 'global vehicle deliveries fell 13% in the first half of the year. That was partly due to the disruption from the redesign of its popular Model Y car.'

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Because publicly funded political campaigns & taxing the rich is for democratic socialists.

arm the bebes & their parents so they qualify for federal funding during the shutdown. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

"There is no reason to pit poverty reduction versus climate transformation. Both are utterly feasible, and readily so, if the Big Oil lobby is brought under control," Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University

I'd argue its a sine wave, diving during gop eviscerations of the state & rising briefly whilst the dems desperately try to patch things up before the next 💩 show. gerrymandering is why we can't (consistently) have nice things, like affordable health insurance & economies that don't crash.

krasnov still good putin muppet, ya? 'Trump is systematically dismantling the institutions designed to protect America’s national security. Allies who once shared everything are now holding back, and agencies that once trusted the U.S. to protect their secrets are now protecting themselves from it.'

They assert that empathy precedes intelligence, and that intelligence is the degree to which we, as individuals and as a species, pay attention to, and act on, empathy with all other life. I don't disagree. ☯️ ♻️ 🔁

but king dump must have his gilded gawdawful ballroom. 🙄🤏🍄

herr tiny hands*: "A king! They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king." intrepid** news agency rolls AI clip, posted by him, flying a fighter jet christened 'king trump' on the side & flown by ser tiny hands himself, dumping diarrhea on people. (*henceforth king dump) (**nonexistent)

The best justice that money (& only money) can buy. This is why the gestao disappears people & immediately moves them out of their local jurisdiction - to prevent due process. 🧵

The sign from the MN March says it all - The power of the people is greater than the people in power.

Be the inflatable you were born to be. 🐸

further adventures in maga gaslighting everyone about their love of gas chambers.

Interesting in-depth look at support systems for combat ops as co-equals in winning WW2. And this timely reminder toward the end. 'It reflects a broader and long-standing pathology in modern media, particularly among columnists and opinion writers with little to no background in history...' 🧵

And include a requirement for the BLS to post quarterly CPI reports (they currently just post annual) so we know who is price-gouging what in (relatively) real time.