My one little personal request for the next real Department of Justice is to take a look at the finances of every American golfer who signed up for the LIV Tour. Ya know, just see what's there. Can't hurt. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

and that’s why it’s being forced

It’s a common misconception. He’s actually the antidoctor.

Target calling the cops on its customers when it has no evidence of wrongdoing sure seems like the behavior of a corporation trying to go out of business

I just met with the vet at the animal hospital and they said treatment could end up in the $3000-5000 range. Oof

Unpopular take: something like the NPVIC would be constitutional, but the version that states have actually been passing is practically unworkable. It provides no meaningful definition of the NPV, how that is to be ascertained, how to deal with ambiguities, or how to decide any disputes.

recommend going and reporting @bhavikakapoor.bsky.social if you are up to it because of the genuinely violent and hateful rhetoric being spread, alongside Hitler praise and also calling for the death of all Jews

We need to be as internationally mobilized as the reactionaries are

The message of an overturned charge for protesting isn't "the law was on your side the whole time," it's that the law can't save you from the cops even when it's clear you're in the right

Also, if you don't think there's an ableism problem on the left, you need to make friends with more disabled people.

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

And this is why we have to assume that these and other AI companies are not respecting robots.txt which asks them not to crawl/scrape websites. Even when they claim they do.

This chart is stunning.

Few Americans paid attention to this aspect of Trump's agenda, but it was predictable (and predicted by me) that this would happen. Trump is arguably the most anti-legal immigration president ever. Congress should stop him before the damage is permanent. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

And that's why personally, unless the candidate in question is Woker than Woke, I don't really need a Gen X president. From any demographic. The feral culture that neglectful adults back then raised us in was too social Darwinist to be the best ground to cultivate the President we need. That's all.

This is why I started reading Strauss and Howe: After undergrad, I began teaching at my former K-8 school. I was the class crybaby. 1983 to 1987. Kids would mocked you if you cried. That was just life. Friends, I remember when the first kid cried in MY class. The kids COMFORTED him...it was 1999.

Pet peeve. Please make consistent and reasonable age groups when presenting data. So many groups below 35. Only two above 45. For this maybe group thinking about age, demographic cohort, and number of voters.

I WOULD LIKE YOU TO HELP MATTHEW IF YOU CAN PLEASE. We're donating right now.

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

lol

it's hard to get retractions to stick because you can't un-have an emotion. a lot of people developed angry feelings for Chappell Roan over this, and now that they know she didn't actually do it they're even MORE angry at her because they resent being told they repeated wrong information

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

I have a theory that people hate disability accommodations so much they’ll make up absolutely absurd conspiracy theories so they can justify immoral behaviors to themselves.

You also really see how much these bodega owners really LOVE THE SHIT out of their cats. These cats are not just store managers, they’re also beloved pets who add so much joy to their owners’ lives and the lives of the whole neighborhood.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

There are a bunch of reasons, but for me it’s the precarity. I make a very nice living, but I’m still burned from my TWO YEARS of unemployment during the financial crisis, and manage my entire budget with the single goal of not having to go through a job search like that again now that I’m 52.

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

This is something I think about, too, like if I lost my job now there is *nowhere* I could go and make a comparable amount of money. There's other fields where eventually I could make as much (sometimes more), if I spent like five years starting over from the beginning, but

this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.

whomever is running "pcrf-help[.]org" and siphoning donations away from the real PCRF should go to hell.

I'm sure this is already happening in Trump's administration given that they took the time to declare the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional

Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate… CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly? DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion? DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

Fighting with the pope, thinking of himself as god, humiliated in a naval war of choice he assumed he would win easily over an "inferior" people, surrounded by kook healers and medical advisors, obsessed with familial legacy in the shadow of an actually successful father, this man is Nicholas II

This was really good, gets into how hard it is for a reporter to get a piece done even on an open secret like Swalwell, and how this really raises questions about everyone who endorsed him while probably knowing about it

The thing about delusional people ... they are having the time of their LIVES!

NEW: WebinarTV, a site that scrapes Zoom webinars without permission, has downloaded and posted Zoom Webinars for anonymous addiction recovery meetings, support groups for caregivers and people who suffer from chronic illness, and a meeting of nudists. They then get turned into AI podcasts.

Also, my employer laid off 140 people in my department a month ago, *in the hopes* that AI would do their jobs. (It didn't, we are now shortstaffed, the leadership doesn't seem to care.) So this really *could* be me next; at the time in my career when I should be cruising towards retirement

This scares me every single day I wake up and walk over to my laptop. This describes me to a T; I’m doing well and share what I can with others, but have been increasingly socking away emergency money. Not spending it. I’m not alone. Not in the slightest.

I do think it's both. Most of those who are personally doing pretty well are terrifyingly close to NOT doing pretty well and everyone is hyper aware of that. I think it's sympathy for the struggles of others and knowing how close everyone is to those struggles.

you wanna win elections in the US? THIS IS FUCKING HOW. democrats, you gonna play to win or keep licking the tootsie pop of shit to try to reach the mythical center?