The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

1. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 2. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they came. 3. Crush the MAGA murderers, give them no quarter, and salt the cursed earth from whence they…

41 years ago Philadelphia police built a bomb and dropped it on a housing project killing 11 people including 5 children. The fire then burned down 69 other homes

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we've abided by the contract and played by the rules. we're entitled by its terms to demand that it be enforced and assert its protections. these folks, not so much! they're kind of out there freestyling for better or worse

Hegseth will be the first guest obviously

if trump thought he had a winning hand here he would be the first person in front of the press. they know it’s bad so they send their little pig man out to gobble up the slop

instead of term limits, what if we payed a cumulative bonus for each term a legislator serves? adjust the base for inflation etc and then a per term bonus on top of that. it's counterintuitive but it works for a few reasons 1/

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

so much of the psychology behind the right's reaction is glee that a white woman was killed because she betrayed her race by protesting ICE instead of providing right wing degenerate men with free access to sex

An imaginary Republican-voting Staten Island couple who are the only people on earth he cares about pleasing.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

She joker on my mode til I "do you want to know how I got these scars?"

What the fuck are they talking about; that's already the law ffs!

i don't expect them to stop it. i expect them to do literally anything. well, i should expect them to, i don't actually and that's the fucked part. these replies are kind of sending me, in a bad way. americans have literally no concept of what an opposition party is

Congress could, and should, impeach, remove, and convict by the end of the day.

Infrastructure determines what happens at scale. Anyone can technically run their own email server. Protocols are open, and software is free. Gmail dominates because practical barriers make corporate platforms the only viable option for most. AI follows this same logic, in an accelerated pace.

Brooklyn is the American heartland

So many powerful monsters could've been stopped early on if people took violence against women seriously

Every picture of Gavin Newsome looks like a Changeling from Deep Space Nine thast slowly grown to develop a more human face but you know its not because it has none of the humanity behind the eyes

Wow, so glad I checked what this "important update" was!

Winning streak???? Lol; lamo even

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

i can't see this on my linux desktop it says i have to compile the gif kernel module

I wouldn't say it's the first domino but hard agree. "Reformer" Jessica Tisch can't even get NYPD to stop parking on the sidewalk and I'm supposed to believe she's a serious person. NYDP has made death threats against citizens who report them to 311!

I'm thinking we bring back stockades, especially for ICE

Anyone @manjaro.bsky.social even want to apologize for letting the SSL cert on the forum expire this week? I checked the forum and couldn't find a single post about it. Guess everyone is just resigned to this shit at this point

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

"You're going to have to testify about these decisions under the harshest national spotlight possible" vs. "this will be forgotten and we'll just move on by then" are not equivalent incentive structures if you're one of those subordinates, both military and civilian. Even if conviction won't happen.

ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.

I suggest that we start using the phrase "Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too." as shorthand to explain how little we want to be at any given terrible event.

Wild to see Whelan say this, but to be clear the OLC's immunity powers are fake anyway. The "golden shield" idea was made up to justify rampant criminality in the GWBush years, then adopted by Holder to excuse Obama's inaction. It's not in the Constitution, statute, or precedent. It's not the law.

The Trump administration’s decision to apply pressure to the most amoral cowardly members of American society, big law firm partners and college administrators, is paying big dividends.

Watching Zoolander for the first time in years and... Ope Trump scare in the first 5 minutes

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

You see he mentions lobbying briefly in this interview, but as usual he relegates it to a second tier problem behind his belief that America just loves bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake. When in reality the bureaucracy he despises is a byproduct of corruption (see: telecom regs, tax codes, etc.)

The last decade in US politics

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far