"this version" you little fucking worm

This wouldn’t have happened if we voted for the cop who wanted to fund more cops from the party that also loves cops.

They're going to hear the woman screaming "what did you just do" for the rest of their lives. They're going to feel that shame for the rest of their lives. They're going to see the body on the ground every night. There's only one way to stop it, they'll know in time, but they'll be too afraid

For those of you outside MA I assure you: you do not need to hand it to war hawk transphobe Seth Moulton. We're just so used to complete abdication that even a sliver of Doing Politics seems radical. Don't be fooled, this man cares about his Senate race, not you

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

I don't tap signs very much, and this one is kind of hard to read, but a lot of people don't seem to be able to connect the dots criticalresistance.org/mission-visi...

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

I’m so sick of people throwing their hands up and saying abolishing ICE isn’t possible right now. Abolishing ICE is extremely popular and calls to do so will only continue to grow, meanwhile conservatives manage to do incredibly unpopular things all the time because nobody stops them

Send in a fucking legally condoned counterforce or shut the fuck up, Walz and Frey.

he doesn't believe me that the outside temperature is not my fault

today i got to tell my incarcerated pen pal that a prison abolitionist is running for governor. that feels pretty incredible! as he's disenfranchised, i vote for whoever he wants, and laying out the candidates is usually super grim.

there are only two americans on my team of 18, so when our VP scheduled a meeting called "Important Announcement" at 10 AM with 2 hours notice, i had to get my boss to make him follow up with "oh sorry, no one is getting laid off" this is the kind of cultural sensitivity they don't teach

the "problem" of "illegal" immigration disappears the second you stop thinking like a racist freak

Zero idea how the midterms will go if the choices are fascism and "let's see how fascism plays out I'm curious"

TOTAL WOKE VICTORY! WHAT CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME!

i didn't even notice the tag lmao

the "americans aren't prepared for how much europeans hate them now" takes are from the same sort of terminally onlinism that produced US libs conspiracizing trump's arrest. i work on a team of all europeans, many of whom are my friends, and their take is "boy that guy sucks, you should move here"

Like how do you read anything about the mass incarceration system or pretty much anything involving how Indigenous people are treated in the US and walk away thinking that there are no subjugated peoples within the US Unless you think people of color deserve it and colonialism is fine

sorry to be a bitter bitch before 9am but i haven't seen a single funny joke about the bus kidnapping. the original thread was great but the riffs stink and everyone acting like they don't is driving me mad. "bluesky has the juice" charlie brown had hoes ass post

A female Downy Woodpecker showcasing couture fashion by wearing a snowflake, a one-of-a-kind piece.

I don't care about what Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney may or may not have done regarding the Karen Read case. What I care about is that he once used his blog to falsely accuse my friend of “organize[ing] a kiddie porn drive for local libraries” because he donated LGBTQ-themed books.

so neat that rehabs require people be there by 3pm, shelters by 5pm, and jails don't let anyone out till past 6. brilliant system we have here. anyway i freed 8 people in the last week and they were all happy to be out, come what may.

my company just posted an opening for a role i could have done 3 years out of college, 13 years ago, and low-end base comp is more than my total comp. feeling a smidge less sentimental about pursuing this job now

After a century of what now?

We’re not a year into the American Reich, we’ve been in it since the Supreme Court stole it for Bush. It’s been incremental but stuff like the patriot act, the creation of DHS and Biden trying to prove he’s tough on the border are how we got here. Hitler didn’t have the infrastructure ahead of time.

Cannot stress enough that the current governor of #Massachusetts was the attorney general when the Attorney General's Office covered up one of the biggest criminal-justice scandals in the history of the United States, and barely anyone is talking about it. #mapoli

Happy MLK Day!

Hm, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office suppressing evidence? Who was AG of MA during the Annie Dookhan drug testing scandal? Did anything happen to them?

neither here nor there but the New Yorker using the accent aigu for "elite"... come on

For years, officials claimed chemist Annie Dookhan was the sole bad actor at the Hinton crime lab, but lawyers say evidence points to widespread wrongdoing. In March, hearings will begin at Middlesex Superior Court that could result in hundreds of thousands more drug convictions being thrown out.

I'm not sure the author of this piece ever worked a service job before, because getting the authority to say "get the fuck out right now" to a visitor that's annoying the shit out of people is one of the rare joys of a service job

sure is snowing

There’s no opposition party to vote for, just a junior partner in the fascist coalition.

my favorite picture from 2016 was taken in the rental screening room at the Somerville Theater which we booked for my friend's birthday so we could watch her favorite movie, Tarsem Singh's The Fall. i baked a pie and her bf brought Schiltz. there were no tables so i served the pie from the floor.

Standing in the designated protest area, chanting "Yes sir, I will do what you tell me!" A line made famous by the band Acquiesce To The Machine.

looking forward to seeing atl@ssian's tail eventually tucked between their legs too 🙏

And it’s pretty clear that people think of nonviolent as simply being passive, when nonviolent was a larger umbrella that encompassed agitative demonstrations. A sit-in at a whites only restaurant is nonviolent but it’s not passive. Occupying buildings, cars, etc are all nonviolent.

alright I can’t deal with another bout of non-violence discourse, everyone has to read these two books before they can weigh in now

better training

Why did @nbcboston.com present a former sheriff who has a history of using excessive force on immigrant detainees and is a member of an anti-immigrant hate group as an “expert” in an article about the Renée Good shooting? #mapoli #Massachusetts andrewqmr.substack.com/p/mass-court...

lmao "please don't cuss about the nazis 🥺"

fake fan, chasing clout, banned pride jerseys, go fuck yourself

here's gh

One way to describe domestic politics is the Terror of Rural and Suburban people over urban neighborhoods. 4/5 Americans live in urban centers yet we let the (conjured) fears and wants of the countryside to dictate how the vast majority of people are ruled over.

the downside to reading 5 books a month is that you'll muscle through half-skimming a bad one for a few days then have to relearn to read when you crack open a good one. you're telling me all this non-dialogue text is important to the plot? not used to that

@neal.house.gov , @whipkclark.bsky.social , @trahan.house.gov Really embarrassing for you all when SETH MOULTON knows to vote no and you don’t. Even Stephen Lynch voted no! What are you doing here?

i booked an interview for tomorrow and was immediately filled with dread at the thought of leaving my current team. this is the first time i've felt secure in demanding exorbitant pay for my work. you want me to leave the boss that screams at marketing ops on my behalf? i'm gonna need a lot of money

SCSD MUST SUSPEND THE GUARDS who killed Shacoby Kenny. They are still working the same unit! We regularly get calls from the jail about them harassing & intimidating witnesses Suspend the guards! Sgt. Manolakis CO Diallo CO Pierre Lt. Lopez CO Lewis-Rosario CO Antunes CO Taranti CO Nye #bospoli