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More Tudor-revival style homes of Chicago...The series no one demanded!

Trump take cheap energy

Democracy doesn't die in darkness. It dies in the back pocket of a billionaire.

Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat (& @runforsomething.net candidate!) flipped a state senate district in Texas that Trump had won by 17 points. Expand your imagination. When great candidates rooted in community step up to lead, anything is possible.

San Diego for Alex Pretti

I loved this video. He doesn't say climate change ONCE. And there's a version of it that does not include the coda. But that coda whips ass.

Hell yeah.

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

I heard "it's understood no one rang police or an ambulance" as "it's understandable..." Lol

San Diego installed bike lanes on a busy commercial street in North Park in 2021. Ridership jumped 67% the next year. Now, 4 years later, bike and scooter trips on 30th Street have hit another record high. Foot traffic and business activity is also booming. www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

So, let's get this straight. Christopher "Moot" Poole created 4chan as a gathering place for hentai and CSAM enthusiasts, started /pol/ the day he met with Jeffrey Epstein, then /pol/ memed Trump to the presidency and birthed Qanon, a conspiracy theory in which Trump is a good person who hates CSAM.

This is really fucking with me. It's going to officially be the biggest conspiracy of all time and it somehow always comes back around this fuck.

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

there are no mastermind villains. every single one of them is sending 4th grade level emails to World's Most Famous Sex Criminal from their work account

100 Billion is a pretty interesting number tho!

You're gonna disagree with some moots about all the shit going on. Some people cope with the stress through optimism and some wish Chuck Schumer to be flung into the Potomac. Try not to be too dickish to people you largely agree with and focus your anger on America's real villain, Michael Rapaport

It’s weird how the “if you haven’t done anything wrong then you don’t have anything to worry about” crowd is trying to illegally shield what they’re doing from journalists who are acting 100% within their rights and the law.

I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

Bad.

Hey guys, I'm looking around at the whole thing here, and it's tough to know how to feel at any given moment! There's so much hot garbage, but I'm also frequently enjoying culture, and people, and I'm currently waiting for a few folks to join me for a motion design irl meetup with a delicious beer.

“.. the hearing suggests the real possibility that Trump will be unable to construct anything in the East Wing’s place, leaving just an empty site .. Destruction followed by stagnation seems to be something of an MO ..” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

Love and solidarity to all my trans siblings in Kansas right now.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

I just signed the petition, my chef wife here in SD sees the patterns all day, every day.

This could have turned into an Erin Brokovich environmental disaster story in 15 years, and NPR caught it at the outset. ☢️☢️☢️

This is really important! AirBnB has been dropping cash like crazy to oppose this, please comment or attend this meeting tomorrow if you live in the city of San Diego

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

It's been a few years since I've posted on this, but it is always important to remember what Fox News is, what the broad ecosystem of fascist media is, and the implications for national politics. There is not, in fact, a way to reach most MAGA diehards. And that's ~ 75 million Americans.

If your starting point is “they’re never going to obey the law anyway so why try?” you’re never actually going to be happy with any of the solutions that a opposition party in the legislature is going to be able to offer

Here’s what the “demotion” actually does: - stops killing white, American citizens publicly. - goes back to killing Black and brown undocumented, legal immigrants and American citizens privately… but sometimes publicly too. That was “acceptable” arrangement before.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

OK enough with these folks. Time to meet the day.

answering the age old question

If this were an Ailes style long game play, sure. Maybe it would work. But you don't get to Putin's media landscape over the course of a few months and retain advertisers! Cable commercials do not pay what network commercials pay!

anyway get on the horn with your Sens and Reps and tell them: nothing short of the full shuttering of ICE and DHS and criminal prosecution for everybody from Good and Pretti's murderers up through the top of the regime will be enough. you expect them to demand it loudly and settle for nothing less

Yes. If anyone thought acknowledgement of a job poorly done by Weis was on the menu, you didn't work in the news business in the last 18 years! "Viewership is way down d u e t o m a r k e t f o r c e s and *cough* not my weird bootlicking projects *cough*"

“We all live in Minneapolis” -outside the Otay Mesa concentration camp in San Diego

One way that the organizers get information about who needs money on the inside is a parabolic microphone that allows them to hear the detainees from a distance. They’ll coordinate and share the A-number (alien registration number) of people most in need when they’re getting yard time.

Amazing cover of this piece of musical history about Hitler. I’m very impressed that this band decided to cover this song for now other reason than to make sure we can all appreciate Irving Berlin’s lyrical talent.

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Abolish having to explain myself to my family!

What is there to say, really? They have to be forced to stop. There's no way they'll back down from a pressure campaign.

Adolf Hitler Rules Out Senseless Adventures Nuremberg, Germany, Sept. 13 [1937]— Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and his Nazis, their voices strained from a week of speeches and cheers, left for their every-day tasks today after an unusual talk by the dictator on foreign affairs and German's desire for peace.