like, I don't really care about shoplifting (theft has v little impact on retail profits and is miniscule compared to other inefficiencies), but human interaction is so important and automating it away makes all our lives worse

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL. It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

When I saw the real segment of this I actually giggled remembering this bit

being a pragmatic centrist these days means welcoming the naked bike riders to the coalition.

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

I am working in a restaurant and everyone is scared. We've lost 4 or 5 to ICE. People are afraid to come to work during daylight hours, so they get to work 5 or 6 hours early and sleep in the dry storage until their shift starts. People are sleeping here at night.

Chicago

2. All the Other Ones: F • No tits • Boring • Mostly silent on the proper way to deal with tyrants

A Definitive Ranking of U.S. State Flags 🧵 1. Virginia: A+ • Strong anti-fascist message • Tits out for liberty • Her outfit looks comfy • Fuck bras; don't need 'em • That lady just teabagged Caesar's corpse • Girlboss

Look at the people go wild. This is popular! Increasingly popular!!

Remember: the overwhelming majority of people are decent and care about eachother in the abstract

We are going to win

TIL! I love Old Bay so much but never knew this about its origins.

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

I've thought about these two Achewood panels a lot over the last year

some of them, yeah the Bundeswehr post-war was lousy with ex-Nazis who pushed the myth of the clean Wehrmacht we need to do Reconstruction *right* this time root and branch, like Sherman to the sea

I can see the diss now: Magical Absurdism and Global Anti-Authoritarian Resistance: How the Mud Wizard, Inflatable Frogs, and Etsy Witches Altered Global Reality in Existential Crises Era.

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

I, uh, know there's a lot going on so I'm not going to make puns about democracy in a pickle or whatever *you're welcome? but go make some pickled peppers and feed your comrades, eh? no lame bland tacos in the revolution, etc (also, ICE must be destroyed, love your neighbors out there y'all)

I have friends (of christ) everywhere

Like the BIGGEST danger of Generative AI, particularly in Journalism, isn’t in it’s ability to fabricate lies, its instead a side-effect of that: that people will doubt the truth, even when presented hard evidence. AI is pushing us toward a dangerous cultural psychosis, where reality doesn’t exist.

Religious leaders here are not mincing words. They have repeatedly used the word "evil." "Detention and deportation are acts that wound the body of Christ, and deny the dignity of God's people."

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

The replies to this are a sad example is why the left has such a hard time being a united front. Advocate for vegan diets, but be real. Hunting is legal, normal, and when done sustainably good for the environment (preventing overpopulation). Worry about trophy hunting and poaching

Chat is it bad when armed agents of the state show up to a person's home for criticizing a government official and the response from other government officials is "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas?"

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

some jealous bitch who could never serve this much of it

Ya see, dis' is why you need a labor agreement for all projects. You need to get a couple two tree guys on a roof without an OSHA violation, you gotta have a competent foreman out der.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

There’s no such thing as “Antifa,” at least not as an actual organized institution, but repressive measures of the kind the regime is doing will certainly create one

(Just so it's clear, this skeet was posted **three days** before László Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize for Literature)

Print! Distribute! Stick 'em in Little Free Libraries, put 'em on giveaway tables, pin 'em to community corkboards!

This is a Narthex

Mid Century Lutheran retreat ass house

No, but for real, remember how Obama picked up a Republican healthcare plan, and Republicans called him socialist for it? Remember how Obama deported more people than Trump and Republicans are still like “Democrats are for open borders!”

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook. MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops! ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

To avoid confusion: 1. It is nigh impossible to get that rich ethically. 2. To hoard such wealth rather than invest in your community, and improve society, is unethical. 3. An ethical billionaire ceases to be a billionaire, by neccesity.

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got - scam machine - psychosis inducing machine - weapons of mass destruction - button you push that makes the planet hotter - markets that intentionally starve people - clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time - medicine you can’t afford

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I'm tired of hating these people so much. I don't want to be bombarded with justifiable reasons to hate anyone all day every day. I just want them to go away

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I see the video of Pastor Black is going around and I just want to call attention to how other protestors immediately surround him, check on him, and protect him from subsequent fire. When you read DHS press demonizing protestors, remember that.