Based on the times a friendship has led to being in the same social situations as the HBS-consultant-venture capitalist-corporate board-class, this totally resonates. One condescending, faux intellectual voice. The WSJ the only occasional dissonance. The dumbness & rank bigotry is gobsmacking.

Whatever cost savings are realized by these technologies will not go to you. They will not go to the workers displaced by the technologies. They will go straight into the pockets of the already insanely rich people who control them. It is part of a centuries-long project to discipline labor

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Also posted a video explaining why he couldn't broadcast the interview. I have to say I don't watch the Colbert show (nothing personal I don't really watch talk shows) and it got me to watch.

Growing up on and around military bases overseas during this time, Sesame Street was thrilling and bonded us Rainbow Coalition kids like nothing else. Grateful for it.

RIP

"If we have to follow the law and constitution we won't be allowed to break the law and violate the constitution" says man sworn to uphold the constitution.

Yep, yes, 👏👏👏

No hell hot enough. For people who prey on others’ kindness

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

cc: US legacy media - look how easy it is "It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Independent groups on the left and the right, as well as state election officials, have found such voting to be extremely rare."

And while you’re at it, tell him “people are saying” Stephen Miller is smarter than him and tells him what to do

This is a simply incredible decision from Judge Brasel. Stunning. In that you will be stunned. She captures perfectly the experience of trying to locate and help clients disappeared by ICE. And the stories of detainee’s experience while ICE plays hide-and-seek with their lawyers are soul crushing.

Brianna was awesome representing Arvada and has the character and integrity to be a great State Treasurer

This is why I love Blue Sky…

and also "you can vote" is in the constitution, unlike "you can buy beer"

Gated communities of the soul ...

Julianne Moore, Frankfurt American High School

On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.

I’m not so erudite, but really enjoying “Unfaithful Music” by Elvis Costello

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

This Karen, once getting past the title, found this a good read.

And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances. If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources. 30/end?

Support great local journalists (and give someone’s you love a virtual squeeze)…

😂

Exactly. Every criminal defense lawyer knows how laws & rules are enforced for white proper v people driving/walking/existing while Black or brown. Botox ladies and white senior citizens will skate right by any SAVE Act hurdles. College students and city dwellers, not so much

Decency prevails

They can't tolerate this because their political power, largely built on minority rule dynamics as it is, always outstrips their cultural and even economic market power. But they have the government hammer, so everything looks like a nail.

Y’all, I received this email and kind of went back-and-forth about posting it, but I said in discord that I plan on putting mine on a cord and wearing it like a necklace everywhere and several other members want to do the same to show our pride as well as our commitment to protecting our neighbors.

"They write about missing their friends and teachers, falling behind at school, having unreliable access to medical care when they’re sick — some say they’re sick a lot — and feeling scared about what comes next." https://bit.ly/4qrpPYW

Lovely, helpful thread

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

I would watch a 10-part documentary about that halftime show

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

May the small counterweights to this dystopian reality mount.

Fashion communicates.

there arent many jobs in this country that you wouldnt be fired from for posting that video but apparently president of the united states is one of em

And of course, the order in which they'd like things to happen could be encouraged through good sex education, women's bodily autonomy, and funding full reproductive healthcare. But yeah no just do the scolding, shaming, and blaming

Gutting the WaPo foreign bureaus is the horrifying one. Same message from the same branch as USgov ending USAID: we have amassed great wealth at the world's expense but bear no moral or ethical responsibility to help those who made us rich. Your malaria? Your hunger? Your wars? Your problem. ...

I hate that Squid Games is probably a true story

Walk the f*^k out

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

They target compassion. They target defenders. They target children to use as leverage. Yet they all go about with Jesus on their lips.

"In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This class of men, including Epstein, were naturally drawn to far right populism as a way to fight growing calls for accountability. They supported and inflated the far right wherever they could, and Epstein was part of it.