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2 things can be true: 1) the worst milquetoast corporate Dem (not named Fetterman) is nowhere near as bad as Donald Trump 2) if a milquetoast corporate Dem (who won’t prosecute the Trump regime, expand the Court, or Abolish ICE) wins the 2028 Dem primary, an even worse fascist will win in 2032.

Months of fears around the use of armed immigration enforcement to affect national elections appear to be coming to fruition. Federal authorities announced the arrest in California of at least 11 people and charges against 28, alleging they registered to vote as noncitizens.

What would happen if you took a stock market bubble bigger than the dot-com bubble and combined it with a pile of risky debt bigger than the one that caused the 2008 financial crisis? You'd get something that looks a lot like the AI bubble we have today. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

This common view reflects belief in a type of Jewish and German exceptionalism: That no people in history have ever been or will be more persecuted than Jews, and no people have ever been or can be more evil than leaders of Nazi Germany. The view is both ahistorical and extraordinarily dangerous.

ICE arrests surge across LA as feds target ‘sanctuary cities’ ahead of midterm elections. Immigration agents are reportedly targeting all immigrants across CA, according to ICE agents who told the Washington Examiner their mandate is to 'go after anybody.' lapublicpress.org/2026/10/la-i...

Not all heroes wear capes.

Feeling secure about the November election because Trump is unpopular in the polls is like feeling your jewels are safe because the jewel thief can’t afford to buy them.

ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

Cannot insist you listen to this enough, this conversation condenses everything going on with AI and its wider economic effects tightly. One of the best in the show’s history.

Texas is a voter suppression state, not a red state

ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.

Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at US military bases across eight Middle Eastern countries this year, a new Pentagon watchdog report has revealed. www.businessinsider.com/iranian-stri...

BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

The fixation on whether we'll singularity before alignment and the robots will kill us is missing the trees for the forest. AI companies have already disseminated socially destabilizing technology, and we (Americans) handed the power to regulate them to Donald Trump. Happy Friday!

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

I recently spent several months caring for a loved one with terminal colorectal cancer. In his last two months of life, he had a gastric tube Usually I avoid calling for violence on the Internet for obvious reasons, but both the judge and the agent should be publicly executed

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Burned alive in a Tesla victim .. 175 (Reminder: the $1800 Ford Pinto went out of production for 27 fire victims in 3.2 million cars. As "Most fire hazardous car in automotive history" half a century ago) Tesla now has 175, in 10 million produced .. h/t @teslaqasia.bsky.social

No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters

Yesterday far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for nightly killings in Gaza of 30–40 people who he says are "not worthy of life.” Now Palestinians in the West Bank are being marked with numbers. Sound familiar?

The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”

They are plotting to steal ballots so they can steal the election. Their plan after they steal the election is to take the rest of our rights away and enslave us.

Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

White-collar prosecutions actually are at an all-time low, so

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

The best way to tell if it’s a foul is to play the video in reverse. If he is helping him up, it’s a foul

It's a fair bet prosecutions of both violent & nonviolent dissidents as always the former is a fascist variation of "heightening the contradictions." As pressure builds & the punishment for nonviolence is same as that for violence, more will turn to violence--which fascism seeks.

No. isaiprofitable.com

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Excellent thread. Please read

Question: Are Ukraine's strikes on Russian oil infrastructure having a real impact, not only undermining Russia's war machine but also making regular Russians feel costs of war in unignorable ways? Answer: Picture of car line waiting to get fuel, so long that there are port-a-potties along the way.

I hope he is okay