thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas. Remember: these are people who entered the country legally. Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

Until 1990 (NINETEEN-NINETY) a man could not be convicted of raping his wife in Scotland

Breaking | Israeli occupation forces open fire directly at Palestinian displacement tents in Al-Mawasi area of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

People never wear masks in airports. Expect an outbreak in Colorado soon

For Christmas, I bought my wife new beads for her abacus.. It's the little things that count.

that’s right, the Trump admin now restricts foreign-made drone use by realtors, conservation researchers, and filmmakers more than it does the use of foreign-made drones by the actual military

Anytime a public figure all of the sudden becomes super pro Trump I figure there’s just about to be a huge scandal about them that they are hoping to pretend like is because they like Trump

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

(muttering softly) “No cheeses for us meeses.”

Setting aside the many MANY MANY MANY ethical issues around digitally puppetting the dead and constructing unauthorized facsimiles and theatre in court... An AI avatar cannot be held liable for perjury and cannot be relied upon to represent an uncompromised source. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

It’s that time of year again! And by that I mean time to read this hilarious story.

caught a law and order svu episode last night with an absolute murderer’s row of featured players. in the space of one hour you get Alfred Molina, Bradley Cooper as his lawyer, and the most iconic piece of wardrobe to ever come out of that show, the sex crimes softball team shirt

“Belgium has formally joined the case launched by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.”

I take back all my criticisms, this is an incredible article solely for this single sentence

This combination in fact describes most people in charge.

The urge to add “since they are Canadian, I would not rule out treachery” to my bio

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

Small note: if you see a fat person out exercising, you don’t need to give them advice!

"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

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Please note I take the 60 Minutes censorship situation very seriously, I am very concerned for my American friends. And I also laughed out loud at this:

You think Canada leaking the 60 Minutes CECOT episode is something, we also get The Young and the Restless episodes a day early.

Between the 60 Minutes Canada debacle and the fake Epstein redactions my schadenfreude tank is fully topped off today.

Enjoying this moment for Canada

If you wanted to see the Inside CECOT segment from 60 Minutes, it aired in Canada 🇨🇦 Thank you, Canada, for sharing! 💚

Camped out here on Two Things Can Be True Hill: 1. The romance genre has a history deeply entwined with white supremacy, ableism, and the most reductive kind of stereotypes. Like every genre. 2. Painting all romantasy readers as “zombies” is also a reductive stereotype, and misogynist to boot.

The amount of grown men who hate Greta Thunberg really is startling.

Read this word salad twice, and still not clear what SF thinks it got wrong job immigration policy www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

"Hi Mr. Number 2 Most Famous sexual predator! It is me, the world's most famous sexual predator! Isn't it crazy that the President also shares our taste in young, nubile girls? Ok, bye!" And that won't be the end of it, eh?

there are people happy that the government is posting snuff films of venezualan fishermen being drone striked. giving them more social services is not gonna heal the rot in their soul. fundamentally misunderstands human beings and the US right. I have no more patience for this pollyannaish bullshit

This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status. These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.

this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media

This is just inexcusable. We're talking about approx 1000ish trans women out of 900,000 women with menopause. It's disgusting!

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Many get sick while traveling. One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions. To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!

Galway City Council: 'We cannot implement congestion charging unilaterally, because if we do, people will just drive to Limerick or Athlone.' (That's an actual quote. Check out @GTU_Galway on Xitter.)

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Micheál Martin is reaching the latter stages of his career as Taoiseach and obviously feels less bothered to repress that underlying schoolmaster persona that yearns to lecture and patronise the public about how they’re wrong

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

whew

Honestly I chose the wrong pull quote for the post. The right one is: “by making bigotry explicit, Trump and his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves.”

Some of you will believe any horrific allegation about our president merely because it's fully consistent with who he is

Smol Paul wants a hug