Cognitive dissident ~ Raised by wolves in the Twilight Zone ~ Obligate Day Sleeper.
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DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor.
This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why.
Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
This is addressed to everyone, but especially Americans under the age of 30:
Read dystopian novels.
Read 1984, and Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, and White Noise, and—fuck—even Hunger Games.
So many of you just aren’t getting what’s been happening just because you don’t read.
WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
“There is nothing fiscally responsible about balancing the budget on the backs of working people.”
ZOHRAN says NYC’s budget shrinks the deficit by taxing the rich, not the working class. What a concept!
(cc: @GovBillLee — Tennessee has one of most regressive tax structures😕)
Energy costs are skyrocketing, the highest level of concern for people in decades.
But Trump is using tax dollars to pay companies *not* to produce energy that could lower costs—a promise he made to his Big Oil donors.
Meet Charley Pearson.
He's been chief of the Rock Volunteer Fire Dept in Oklahoma for 35 yrs.
When Google proposed a massive data center in his community, he spoke out against it. He sat down to a standing ovation.
Here's what happened:
"I'm truly blown away. The hard work we've been doing over the past six months has paid off." — Michelle Hoffner O'Connor, Protect Wake County CoalitionA North Carolina community just killed a massive data center. Here's how they did it 👇
www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-resist...
Sorry, Kegsbreath, but we just don't trust you with robots with autonomy to kill us. Idk what kinda drugs you've been.... oh.... have you been dosed with Angel's Trumpet?
🚨ATTN TEXAS VOTERS
If you’ve received this notice, please let me, the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social, or a Democratic candidate in your immediate area know ASAP!
Not sure if this is legit or not, but just in case. (Via Threads.)
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
📌 Folks, you’re on social media, here is something everyone can do. Google “ICE facility being built in” and insert your state or county. If you find one, put it on blast and contact your local officials to say you oppose it. We need to protest these facilities before they open.
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This is such an important thing to understand. Sure, PizzaGate and QAnon. But step back and look at the drug war and 9/11 hysteria. DHS didn't exist before 2003. The U.S. didn't imprison 2M people in the old days. There, I said it; the 1990's are "the old days".
They are not vindicated. They are part of the camouflage that attempted to keep this all hidden by making those who saw it look insane, just like pizzagate and QAnon were decoy ops to divert attention from opdeatheaters and make it look insane.
Trump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself.
25th Amendment now.
You can read more about what antifa actually is in my book To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right, now available for preorder www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
Alex Pretti was AFGE Local 3669 federal employee union, VA hospital. His union 820,000 members now demands Noem AND Stephen Miller resign or be fired. They're naming Miller as "architect" of the policy that killed their brother. Labor. Faith leaders. 120 Democrats. Cracks forming.
Breaking MS NOW:
Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Federal agents arrested 3 activists in Minnesota, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen, & content creator 'DaWokeFarmer' for protesting a church that has a pastor who's an ICE agent. There are still no charges filed on any of the detained.
This new whistleblower report is on par with the Zelensky call - not just because it’s violative of law - but because they also tried to keep people from seeing it. I’ve been doing this for a long time and this is absolutely explosive news. Impeachable and criminal. Swift accountability must follow.
“The whole thing is fucking senseless."
A DC National Guard member is speaking out against President Trump’s domestic military deployments, saying they are dangerous for both service members and the communities they're deployed in.
Troops have no place policing our streets.
For the first time in history, the state of Virginia has a female Governor and right after being sworn in today Governor Abigail Spanberger’s first official act was to end cooperation between ICE-Gestapo and Virginia State Police. More of this. 💙👊👏
The Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire told priests protesting ICE to get their wills and affairs in order. Some praise the bishop, while other priests say they never signed up to be martyrs. n.pr/45TIwwT
NEWS: There are now Republican Senators openly calling for an investigation into Trump's DOJ.
Even conservative Republicans in the Senate are upset about the Jerome Powell investigation. It really does seem like the tide is turning. youtu.be/2TElHH5WpNI
A reminder that not so long ago we honored immigrants in the US, even by carving monuments like this one at Immigration Point, over the Golden Gate connecting the Pacific to SF Bay.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
Nikki Glaser calls out CBS News at the Golden Globes while it’s being broadcast on CBS.
“And the award for Most Editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America’s newest place to see B.S. News.”