state-sponsored child trafficking

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

I should watch more movies. but I want to watch them with oomfs, and scheduling becomes an issue. this wouldn't be a problem if they simply dropped everything they were doing for my benefit

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

This is how ICE agents responded after watching a mother of three bleed out in her car after they shot her multiple times in the head.

motherfuckers

Welcome to America, where we’ll arrest YOUR president for crimes but not OURS

Um, my senator wants more...pirates?

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

"Yet only 1 percent of roughly 350,000 chemicals have been tested for safety." share.google/UvbuNkcFcT9M...

Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever

If Virginia Democrats follow through with a new 10-1 congressional map and a couple of other Dem states make small changes, Trump's gambit to rig the 2026 maps will be remembered as an epic blunder.

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American female poet, died #OTD in 1784. Born in W. Africa, sold into slavery at 7 & one of the best-known poets in 18th-century America. Her achievements were a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement. poetryfoundation.org/poets/philli...#OTD#poetry

Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter responded to the Trump administration Tuesday after they used her song "Juno" in a montage depicting ICE raids. https://wapo.st/44xvlkI

Editor/Publisher hot take: while your writing process may have needed epigrams, your reader doesn't.

The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.

Trump’s net worth has grown by $3 billion since he took office. That’s not a coincidence. bit.ly/4oV46sG

Nobody outside this country is wondering, like the pundit class does, what was wrong with Kamala Harris. Everybody outside this country is wondering what’s wrong with US.

Come on, folks. @davidcondos.bsky.social @kuer.org @sltrib.com you can do better. This piece on water conservation says "while it's true that most of Utah's water goes to agriculture" but neglects to clarify that "most" means 85%!! utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/11/28/u...

SIGH I personally date the fall of the post-Civil Rights constitutional order 2013 & Shelby County v Holder. When a reactionary SCOTUS could knock out the keystone of equal voting rights, & everyone agreed that was valid, it was an epochal change. It meant democracy was itself now a partisan issue.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

This blood is on your hands, Elon.

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Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face the right way. by Ezra Klein

believing republicans are fighting for health care is like believing al qaeda wanted to protect the world trade center

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Utah legislature chooses to blame Democrats instead of, you know, FEEDING PEOPLE.

Pushing a canoe downstream, it’s comical to imagine decision makers hanging foolishly onto the belief that they can continue to develop the West beyond its means with this vanishing river. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...

ICYMI, an environmental group is threatening a lawsuit over the Wilson’s phalarope after the federal government let an endangered species application deadline come and go: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

"We have to much to save."

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

I'm seeing red. State humanities organizations around the country have closed or curtailed operations and the small literary nonprofit press I co-lead lost already-awarded funds because of Trump's NEH rescinding grants. But this pro-Israel think tank gets $10M .

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Question: How long are Dems going to allow the MSM to claim that Kirk was killed by a leftist without an organized consistent response the Robinson was an nihilistic alt-RIGHT meme lord who follows Nick Fuentes?

THIS

The MSM whitewashing of Kirk is in full swing. They talk about his advocacy for civil debate, but they won’t play anything he said to stoke incivility. They talk about his opposition to violence, but nobody talks about his role in J6. We are watching Kirk’s history being rewritten in real time.

GOP Summary: Groypers vs. Gropers The Groypers are mad at the Gropers for being Gropers and not Groypy enough to manifest their race war fantasies. The Gropers don’t like the Groypers but need them as pawns to keep stoking the threat of race wars. You’re all caught up.

Says the Republican governor of a state with some of the most lax gun laws in the nation

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

It's infuriating.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

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Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

Infuriating.

Well gun control could.