You don't address shit, subsidies have been tried across the planet by reactionaries and social democrats and they haven't worked once. What you're offering is pennies compared to the opportunity cost of child/teenager rearing.

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Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

Lodger thread for protest equipment:

what is the point of having threads on this website when no one reads past the first post?

This is downtown Harare (formerly Salisbury), the capitol of Zimbabwe. The average GDP per capita in sub-Saharan Africa today is higher than the inflation-adjusted GDP per capita for Rhodesia at its height. They are pining after a country that today would be considered desperately poor.

it's incredible how if you put this entire dialog into the Left Behind series, it would basically work, but instead it's just IRL MN

lots of this website needs to fill this out

*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

the great Finding Out of our time has begun.

“.. Pulte was a driving force behind the Trump administration’s decision to subpoena the Federal Reserve, according to people familiar with the matter.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW from me: Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one. That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...

Go to the “Report a Fundraiser” page and fill out the form. This was how I filled out the form since there wasn’t an option for violating the Terms of Service. Report Fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/contact/sugg... Ross Fundraiser (you need this for the report): www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuve...

just door dashed bubble tea

Janet Daley is a splendidly perfect summary of the psychosis on the right of politics, vaccilating from endorsement to condemnation, seesawing from hope to cope. And she is doing all this, while continuing to inflate the very same authoritarian blimps, over here in the UK.

The invasion of Ukraine happened shortly after a brief *successful* Russian intervention in Kazakhstan from 6-19 Jan, 2022. This quick success gave the Russians confidence a more ambitious op could be pulled off I bring this up for no reason

Say what you will about Nick Decker, but...

Daily users on X May 2023: 9.5m May 2024: 8.6m (-0.9m) May 2025: 6.9m (-1.7m) This msy go below 6m by Spring 2026, though LinkedIn around 5m, so would need a year as bad as 2024-25 But down 30% in 24 months, 2023-25, while Reddit doubled to 7m/day and 29.4m per month (10m ahead of Twitter!)

Jesse Ventura emerging from South Minneapolis like some old testament prophet to curse a mad tyrant is why you just can't give up on America www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSU...

This is a much worse degredation ritual than the Mitt Romney dinner, or anything else in Trump1, Christ.

weirdly silent about ICE killing an unarmed woman in cold blood, surely there's no politics at play here

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

A Trump regime loyalist and terrorist yells at anti-impunity protestors in the US, as Trump regime forces stand behind him proudly: "a storm is here", "no one can stop what is coming", and "We executed one of you yesterday, do you understand that" #3E

Renee Nicole Good is a martyr to the Republic long live her name. She was murdered doing the right thing, for all of us, everywhere.

Like they’re literally incapable of simply responding to events earnestly and honestly and passionately. Someone hands them a memo telling them what to say and they say it. And then they wonder why they have zero purchase on the public mind!

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind or something

Everything is being turned into financialized speculation, and the administration’s hands-off approach is going to make it very hard for future regulators to undo before a lot of people lose a lot of money.

“ma’am please stop trying to breach the door. ma’am we will open fire if you breach that door. ma’am —“

Still the best ever post made about Barbie: hasdrubal-gisco.tumblr.com/post/7393156...

WaPo today:

NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor

The US military (and maybe those dependent on US weapons) may be the only competent military in the world. Russia couldn't take Ukraine, Iran & its allies got consistently rocked by Israel and now Venezuela just allowed this to happen. Does make you wonder how bad the Chinese military is...

The case of the Twitter purchase shows the bad media strategy from Biden-era top Democrats. They were “indifferent” to a far-right billionaire oligarch buying a key element of our information infrastructure. www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage This happened during the recent CCC conference.

Finally got round to reading Balko's take down of an attempt at casting doubt on Chauvin's conviction by Coleman Hughes writing in the Free Press. The coda includes a response-to-a-response by Weiss and Hughes. Balko is very thorough and persuasive. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

The thing about conservatives is that they cannot create, they can only steal and destroy.

Cope, the war is attritional. When the collapse comes, for either side: it will be slow then all at once.

This guy worked for a pedophile lobbyist group and it’s weird as hell hes not persona non grata

once again you know the white race is doomed because they have lost the instinctive, genetic knowledge that you should respect and beware a man with a hot, mean-looking wife

The stance DR Congo fan Kula Muladinga is imitating is similar to Lumumba’s statue in Kinshasa 👇🏼

Longterm intergenerational shift is a civic widening of inclusion. The short-term shift is hardening views within the minority position bsky.app/profile/prof...

Anyone who's map doesn't look like mine isn't taking climate change seriously.

Worst timeline: they’ll try a blanket ban on migrants in the late 20s, crash the economy, then bring in rights-less migrant workers in the 30s

Biden was the best Democratic president since LBJ. Unfortunately he had the same weakness -- a terrible foreign policy. Everything else was the best we've seen in 60 years. That mattered, because it was a sign Dems were trending in the right direction before 2024.

Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.