This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

‘They gorged themselves on pistachio-crusted rack of lamb (a defenseless sacrificial sheep presumably also carved up with a bone saw) flecked with green nuts in some kind of communal transubstantiation with the blood-stained petrodollars they were really there to devour.’

The chefhubby puts the childlock on the windows when we are out so I can't unroll the windows and share my opinions with people and he is restricting my first amendment rights

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses

Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.

Another rip in foundering U.S. immigration rights, The Board of Immigration Appeals just decided that immigration judges could no longer grant bonds. It seems that Trump still believes aggressive deportation will prop up his approval ratings. sfstandard.com/2025/11/22/i...

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

Also she is delaying leaving until the first work day after hitting five years when the congressional pension kicks in.

it is extra annoying that the nazis currently running the United States government are also twelve years old like, really, we have to fear for our communities because of some groyper dipshits who post dank memes on 8chan all day

The misogynistic fucks in the admin are trying to make it so that grad school certifications in female-dominated professions (nursing, therapy, education) no longer count as “professional degrees” & you can’t get loans to go to grad school.

some people were only ever decent because they knew they could get punched in the face and it's kind of one of the primary problems of our time, turns out

You all know I've been after the Treasury Department's own Epstein file. It's a set of thousands of detailed bank records, a map of Epstein's financial network. Secretary Bessent is blocking its release – and he denies it's even something Treasury should be investigating.

🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States. www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...

Imagine the kind of person you have to be to be specifically excluded from Dick Cheney's funeral.

Why is anyone filing and paying taxes right now, if they're shutting down the Department of Education?

This represents a serious escalation in Kennedy’s war on vaccines. The use of the CDC as a vehicle for anti-vax propaganda and lies is one of the bleaker things happening under Trump 2.0. The damage to public health from Kennedy’s stewardship of HHS is already extensive enough.

In response to the changes, Dr. Frank Han, a pediatrician and cardiologist and scientific advisor to @accountabilityji.bsky.social, told me “The CDC has fully turned into the antivaccine personal mouthpiece of RFK Jr and can no longer be trusted.“

#Oakland please reshare! ICE spotted near schools. Can you come stand in solidarity to protect our neighbors?

They have to arrange daycare for a week for 3 kids with no extra income and no ability to take time off. They have to answer questions like "you don't have a credit card or family and your car just broke down. How do you get the car to the shop without a tow truck because you can'tafford the fee" 3/

They have to work for a week being paid the federal minimum wage and live only on that, with $6 in their account until the following week. They have to name what they think is the average monthly salary of a low income person, then use Monopoly money to budget. Then compare with reality. 2/

I want a full on reality show contest. They have to use public transit to get to an appointment on time across the city. They have to menu plan and grocery shop for a week's worth of groceries for 4 on $150 & includes cleaning products. They have to try and find a new Healthcare provider. 1/

I want a full on reality show contest. They have to use public transit to get to an appointment on time across the city. They have to menu plan and grocery shop for a week's worth of groceries for 4 on $150 & includes cleaning products. They have to try and find a new Healthcare provider. 1/

Great news that the Senate has passed the bill forcing the DOJ to release its Epstein file. Now Bondi must comply. But our work cannot stop there. We need to force the Treasury to release the Epstein bank records too. I have a bill to make that happen. FOLLOW THE MONEY.

The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.

They DO NOT GET TO POISON LITERATURE. They can write their own hateful stories, but they DO NOT get to steal and desecrate good works by artists who would revile these fascists and their odious inhumane activities.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly. NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.” The 'genuinely disabled' The 'literally vulnerable' They keep moving the goalposts. They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:

I’m thinking the Dems need to run on nothing less than remaking American democracy. End Citizens United, totally reform the corrupt and broken SCOTUS, a new voting rights act, ban gerrymandering everywhere. And give Trump figures who broke the law fair trials, and ban them from federal jobs.

Is this the alpha and omega male we should all bow down before? Because I am *wheezing* a seventh grade theater tech class would nail him to a wall and do it using their tools appropriately, also probably using an electric screwdriver and wood screws BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT SHOULD BE USED HERE

There is nothing besides racism that America loves more than policing food choices of poor people. 🖕🏻 That rotisserie chicken for $5 doesn't require anything else. A raw chicken for $15 needs a pan, seasoning, and a cooking medium--so electricity or gas $. Sugary foods provide CALORIES for CHEAP.

I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD. Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.

babe please pass the spicy roasted garlic balsamic parmesan sun-dried tuscan breaded lemon pepper spinach artisan chips with the creamy stuffed alfredo pimento onion 5 layer chili cheese mexican pizza ranch dipping sauce

So I guess the idea is that Ghislaine Maxwell got transferred to a country club prison that someone with her sentence would never go to and gets all sorts of perks but that’s completely coincidental, that just happened unrelatedly

Priorities.

If GOP senators think they deserve 500K minimum for having their phone privacy invaded how much should citizens and legal residents detained by ICE for being Brown get? 10 million? 100 million?

The discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files only received a handful of GOP votes. But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right? "Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms

“And as we all know, ladies and gentlemen,—and millions of dead, mangled indigenous bodies will agree—medicine truly hit its peak with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments.”

The New York Times **HAD EMAILS IN ITS POSSESSION** tying Donald Trump directly to Jeffrey Epstein's global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy –– in the middle of a 2016 election where a global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy was a HUGE topic –– and they didn't publish one word it for a decade.

tax the rich, they will whine and bitch and moan and they will pay their damn taxes because where else are they going to go, fucking Florida? it’s not Massachusetts and it’s certainly not New York City

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

Government has no business policing media for viewpoint bias or balance. The FCC must repeal its news distortion policy, urges a bipartisan group of 11 former FCC Chairs, Commissioners & other top officials in a petition we filed today with @protectdemocracy.org protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...

This is real news. Reporters, please report on it. ELEVEN former top FCC officials, Republican and Democratic, came together to condemn FCC Chairman Carr's abuses of power and efforts to suppress legal speech. It's not just Jimmy Kimmel. The FCC's jawboning and chill on legal speech is ongoing.

petro is so beast