No actually they're making fools of you specifically because you oppose any consequences being imposed onto them for their behavior. They know they can do whatever they want and the West won't do anything about it. That's on you.

Tens of thousands of Americans who live in China under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party get representation in the US Senate and can vote for the US Senate but the hundreds of thousands of people who live in DC under the direct rule of Congress get no vote and no real representation.

“There’s a lot of discussion along those lines, even in subreddits I would consider to be more liberal or progressive in nature, around that exact thing,” he said. “Like, why are we ‘resisting tyranny’ and then trying to disarm ourselves in the face of that?” www.startribune.com/after-sessio...

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

Increasing pretrial liberty is one of the best public policies across virtually every domain on which one could measure a policy.

Fourth, there is overwhelming evidence--climate change levels of scientific consensus--that more pretrial jailing makes us less safe. It increases crime, destroys children's lives, and has catastrophic effects on public health and the economy.

My method for judging the morality of government actions is simply asking how we would treat the action if an armed gang did it (which is essentially what government is when they act with impunity). Police, prosecutors, and judges who conspire to illegally cage people should go to prison for it.

Much more of this kind of state/local response to #ICE violent repression ops. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

It's not just my rights that are important, it's the rights of the thousands of young black men sitting in a cage right now for nonviolent gun posessiom crimes. The war on guns has exactly the same downsides as the war on drugs. www.themarshallproject.org/2023/03/23/g...

Focusing on gun bans with exemptions for cops is a baffling self own for DFLers in a state that is experiencing an ongoing invasion by jackbooted thugs loyal to the president.

I wonder if the idea that you shouldn't criticize Democratic candidates as long as they aren't worse than their Republican opponents and the inabilty to express any redeeming qualities for Fetterman other than he is not worse than his opponent are related in any way.

It's true, the only reason I mention Graham Platner is a bloodthirsty racist who lied about his Nazi tattoo and regularly uses the R slur is that I want Susan Collins to win. We can all agree those things would normally be fine. But it's worth going woke this one time to get Collins reelected.

I find the purpose of criticizing a guy who lied about his Nazi tattoo, who signed up to go kill brown people overseas in 2004 and is now lying about that extremely self explanatory.

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the audacity to commit genocide and then sue over an article you didn't like.

Been researching snake oils and apparently the key to an effective snake oil is choosing a snake that is high in omega 3 fatty acids.

If this sounds like you, I encourage you to look into my two favorite genres of country music — 1. I will die for my union and the cops who shot us are going to Hell, and 2. I just killed my husband and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.

You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.

Good explanation of the proposed changes to the ATF form 4473 designed to target Trans people by requiring people to mark down their “biological sex”.

I look forward to a future DFL that sees the irony in passing something called the "ICE Accountability & Justice Package" days after passing an assault weapon ban that would have banned Alex Pretti's gun while including an explicit exemption for the ICE agents who murdered him.

The definitive millenial song is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

There is great diversity of thought on the right on such matters as which people should be denied the franchise.

Our prom party wanted to take photos in front of our pickups but my '80 Ford wasn't running so my date picked me up in her Chevy. She stopped first at a livestock auction where I met her mother for the first time. This is probably my most North Dakota coded story. www.jalopnik.com/2168124/what...

“The same panelist wrote that an artificial intelligence-assisted review of more than 3,000 pages of documents “did not reveal any evidence of disqualifying behavior either.” Grok is murdering unarmed civilians bad

the government coerces people daily by either jailing them pre-trial and/or by making it extremely expensive for folks to fight their cases.

People in this country have ZERO idea about the criminal punishment system. I see it daily. Just no clue.

And their primary purpose is coercing confessions (including sometimes false confessions) from people who don't know they are pseudoscience woo-woo.

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There needs to be more awareness that the Trump admin is effectively trying to ban Trans people from buying guns unless they commit perjury. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/admi...

I mean, not literally *everyone* but…

ACAB means not exempting cops from gun bans.

ACAB means not exempting cops from gun bans.

The assault weapons ban passed by the MN Senate today exempts ICE and local cops.

Someone should do a study about how Andrew Fleischman can care as much as he does about exonerating innocent hounded by their own government in Georgia while holding such evil views about Palestine.

When it comes to internet regulation, every politician of either party (with the exception of Ron Wyden) is Dianne Feinstein

To put it into more understandable and direct terms, the current Prime Minister is a single state apartheidist who believes in the annexation of all historic Palestine and the next PM will be a single state apartheidist who believes in the annexation of all historic Palestine.

To bring a smile to your face, here’s a c. 4,500 year-old clay vase in the shape of a little hedgehog holding a bowl! 🦔 😍 From Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 ArchaiOptix #Archaeology

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Today in people who are unfamiliar with my timeline, lol. My argument against gun bans and speed limit governors are similar. Speeding and having ARs aren't all thst useful in combatting a fascist government. But useable cars and AR-15s are still not something you want *only* the feds to have.

Yet another reason KOSA-like legislation sucks In #Minnesota bills HF 4138 & SF 4696 would require proof someone is over or under 16, and the only way to do that is by surrendering more of our privacy. Encourage your rep/senator to vote NO. What we need is privacy www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Right; I was trying to argue against that tracking too, but was limited for space (I notice people tend not to read past my first posts) I'm arguing for banning that kind of tracking; for more privacy

So maybe don’t do a bill that requires them to keep tracking us by law.

One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands

All of the arguments that people give for providing Israel "defensive" weapoms are equally valid for giving defensive weapons to Hamas.

The vast spectrum of NIMBYism is truly breathtaking.

There is a local Duluth NIMBY group trying to force a ballot question to prevent a potential housing development, and you’d never guess based on their fear mongering that the proposal is to develop a golf course next to Lester Park and not the park itself.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr Independent Fed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms imposing new requirement that birth sex be listed on all gun purchase paperwork, which would also enable ATF to track trans gun owners.

I owned this many guns before I was 10.