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Another day spent intermittently rewriting the same couplet over and over and...

lol this is amazing.

@schumer.senate.gov

ICE was stealing equipment from the Islip Long Island fire department and a Islip Forward member documented it. ICE tried to arrest the community member but the firemen said “I don’t think so” www.islipforward.org

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky. To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.” It shows up as “removed by author.”

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

So this video and the one of the ICE goon bodyslamming the guy that circulated yesterday are in the same location. At the end of this video you see a unique-looking building on the left. The bodyslamming happens right in front of it. These two videos are essentially one near-continuous scene.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Chicago Over Everything

Yes.

For every day of competence and accomplishment I now have 2 or more days of failure and mental fatigue. Blah.

"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month... "The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'... www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...

Distributing a ton of free whistles that neighbors can blow if they spot ICE is a cheap and excellent strategy. Bulk whistles are very inexpensive on eBay. They could be distributed with a slip of paper and information stapled to each package. I want to do this. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/i...

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

This will hurt most people.

This is what conservatives mean when they say gun violence is a mental health issue, but it will not be deemed “political violence.”

Monetized violence, the Turning Point USA business model.

This thread is spot on. I could not articulate it and I'm glad someone did.

How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

STFU, RFK Jr, you ridiculous idiot. You don't care about the wellbeing of patients. You care about politics. You are actively undermining doctors' ability to protect their patients from measles and COVID. Your party forces women who have miscarried to bleed out in parking lots over your politics.

So are Republicans going to be asked to condemn this or

Conservatives would rather demolish the entire country at great expense than spend a single dollar to help people in poverty

PSA.

"As I was filming, people came to me and said: look at your forehead. There were three green laser dots on my head: private armed U.S. contractors who were guarding the site were pointing their weapons at my head. One spoke through a loudspeaker, in English: 'No filming allowed.'"

I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.

our country rn

Has anyone else noticed that "large" eggs are a lot smaller now?

This assassination makes the Minnesota house even. I'm waiting for the first Republican Minnesota state legislator to commit to sit out votes until Rep. Hortman is replaced - otherwise Republicans are hugely benefiting from and complicit in this sort of political violence.

NEWS: DOJ goes to SCOTUS over DOGE-related FOIA case, seeking to keep DOGE records from the public. The docket will be 24A1122.

I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

WTF!

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

Israel has announced a "concluding" plan for Gaza that, if implemented, would amount a moral crime of historical proportions. There's still time to stop it — but America is looking away www.vox.com/world-politi...