@schumer.senate.gov No, Senator. No more funding for them. They were never necessary and now they're murdering us. Cut off the money. what does it take to make you act like a man of the people?

Breakin' every chain that you put on me You thought I wouldn't change but I grew on you 'Cause I will never be what you wanted This fire, this fire Is keeping me alive www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyaZ...

You know, I don't ever have a ChatGPT tab open. I tried it. I thought it was going to be cool, but it turns out it's evil. So I don't use it. Don't be evil is the simplest of all mottos. Raise yourself to a standard above even the "geniuses" at Google and keep following it forever.

I'm being told that a number of deportation flights flew to the middle of the ocean and returned to the US, implying that the prisoners were thrown off the planes. I don't know if it's true, but as much as I don't want to believe it, I'd say I find it impossible to rule out.

Just applied for my absentee ballot. The clerk already replied. I am golden. Last year I had to send my ballot by DHL because my mailed in ballot never got there. Quelle surprise.

When I worked in a law job, sometimes we had undocumented clients working on their status or getting benefits for US citizen children. The biggest complaint, the most common fear was ICE, even 20 years ago. I have always thought of ICE as the enemy. Now it's an enemy on steroids.

The opposite of Woke is Overslept. Or maybe just Over.-

Chills is having a snooze next to my desk so you get to see him too.

“So, no longer speak about “aiding” Ukraine. The Ukrainians are aiding Europeans and Americans by fighting for their survival. We owe them our gratitude, not the other way around.” By @phillipspobrien.bsky.social phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

ICE goes after people based on skin colour, without warrants and with violent force. This isn't new under Trump, it's just more brazen. And then Sensible Moderates chirp in with "ermmmm deportation is necessary though, we can't have uncontrolled borders" fuck off fuck you

This is my America -- scared shitless but still defiant. This is why they can't actually beat us. Scare us and we will stand up.

We literally have the chance to save the world right now and nothing had better stop us.

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The anger in America against the pedophile führer and his sadistic Nazi ICE Gestapo is metastisizing RAPIDLY. 😳👇

Even though so much is happening now, this right here is very important. Woot! The clown car in DC does not represent us. We do. We're still here. We do not give up. We cannot be beaten. America is the real thing.

i need you to understand that the Chicago Bears were losing 21-3 at the half against the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs, then won the game.

French General Nicolas Richoux: “If the United States attacks Greenland, we should fight the Americans and turn them into the villains of history.”

if it was artists, chefs, musicians, writers, community organisers, charity workers, volunteers, teachers, academics, literally anyone with skin in the game, talking about protecting culture, I would listen

TAPPER: Does your rhetoric need to change? FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.

Kim: I was having a conversation with someone within his administration, we were talking about something we disagreed with the president on. And they were just like, “Let’s just not talk about this and keep it quiet, and maybe he’ll forget about it.” Literally—someone on his own team was saying this

My cat Chills and I often nap together. If I get up before he does, when he comes back to the office, he stretches up over the arm of my chair and touches me on the cheek. Every day. It is so freaking adorable. I love him so much.

With our history, you might find it easy to believe that this is America. That it's not just the government but the people, too. But in my life in America, I have seen far more good than evil. I have seen the best when diversity was cherished and there was a lot of cherishing. Rise up, good America.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Begging leftists not to dismiss the crucial role of radical clergy in mass protest movements as happened so often during his first term. At every one of my most formative experiences, they’ve been there. The most brutal violence I’ve experienced at a protest was side by side with radical clergy.

Were we smart, we would align ourselves with the groups of people in our societies who struggle the most with bias and erasure in order to fix the problems at their roots. Align here means, live in their worlds. Fight for the change that will solve societal inequities. It's enabling everything bad.

Can the BBC please circulate this memo asap, word for word: When populists talk about preserving culture, they mean race. They are talking about preserving white skin and "whiteness" as they define it. Stop being dumb.

People are overthinking this show in unbelievable ways. But the show is amazing and hot.

I'm prepping for my Spanish citizenship test. I can't be beholden to this bullshit any longer.

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Americans, sign up for the general strike. Use an email that doesn't have your name if you need to. But sign up. We could change everything with a massive strike. generalstrikeus.com

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Americans, sign up for the general strike. Use an email that doesn't have your name if you need to. But sign up. We could change everything with a massive strike. generalstrikeus.com

What I've been thinking about today is this, as an American. The whole point of taking responsibility for slavery, even though we weren't there, is to learn to take responsibility for what our countrymen do. We are here now. This cannot happen. If it does, it's on us. And yes, we don't know how.

True, if they really had any creativity they would know what to do with their loot. Something positive, caring, sharing, fun for all. Restaurate a château, build a social housing system, develop the best hospital and care center and put your name on that. Lots of options to amuse yourself.

The solution to this is confiscate the fucking money. No billionaires. No individual human being or large global corps(e) that can hide responsibility behind a board should be able to decide how the world works. If ever there were a reason to become moneyless, it's this.

I think we need to abandon the WH as the seat of American government and move it all to California. Our history is rife with things we should no longer accept. These old men are trying to pass dark ideas on to their protegees, insuring we will never progress. Fuck that and fuck them.

Your cheering post of the day. www.tumblr.com/catasters/80...

Your fact of the day: The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132. bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...

For the year to come, I wish you health, love and happiness, with plenty of everything necessary and the same for your friends, family and neighbors.

Happy new year's eve. It's also @ghostwoods.bsky.social 's birthday. Huzzah!

For the record, I was an advisor to Ed Miliband's Labour Party on tax policy, I strongly support a wealth tax, and I am aware of a viable and fully costed proposal to implement one in the UK.

I love Luke's photos. And High Barnet made me giggle.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

American politics is horrible and the media is a cesspool of negativity, but at the grassroots level, American society has started to knit itself back together again. One indicator: Overdoses are plummeting in America. It's not just fentanyl—cocaine and meth overdoses are falling too.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at the age of 91. Read about his life and legacy here:

The funniest thing I've read this week is that Ted Cruz is considering a 2028 run.

Why did we need DEI in the first place? Answer: white supremacy.Duh.

YouTube showed me this first thing. Richard Pryor, some Karen, Johnny Carson. Talking about poverty in America. No idea when this was, but probably '70s or early '80s. youtube.com/shorts/wYMPp...

I've just installed Waterfox because Firefox has betrayed us all.

I'm writing and on breaks looking at agent lists. Can someone please make me some coffee so I can finish this novel once and for all? Let's face it. There's only one other person who ca make me coffee rn and it's @ghostwoods.bsky.social.