Imaboku
@imaboku.bsky.social
This game is already tops baseball, what a series this has been
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This game is already tops baseball, what a series this has been
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2
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You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.
NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community.
thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...
Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.
thetriibe.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
August 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
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Via @douglaswburns.bsky.social, horrifying story from Denison, Iowa:
Hard-working immigrant from Cuba lost job at meatpacking plant after Trump administration ended work program. Soon became homeless. Shot and killed by police in park last Friday.
theiowamercury.substack.com/p/shot-by-po...
Hard-working immigrant from Cuba lost job at meatpacking plant after Trump administration ended work program. Soon became homeless. Shot and killed by police in park last Friday.
theiowamercury.substack.com/p/shot-by-po...
Shot by police in a park, homeless immigrant in Denison died wearing a friend's clothes
(Editor’s Note: La Prensa Iowa Spanish Newspaper first published this story in both English and Spanish.
theiowamercury.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Via @douglaswburns.bsky.social, horrifying story from Denison, Iowa:
Hard-working immigrant from Cuba lost job at meatpacking plant after Trump administration ended work program. Soon became homeless. Shot and killed by police in park last Friday.
theiowamercury.substack.com/p/shot-by-po...
Hard-working immigrant from Cuba lost job at meatpacking plant after Trump administration ended work program. Soon became homeless. Shot and killed by police in park last Friday.
theiowamercury.substack.com/p/shot-by-po...
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Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed
The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.
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i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
“What perfect albums came out when you were 16?”
1997:
1997:
July 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“What perfect albums came out when you were 16?”
1997:
1997:
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The verdict is in from the nonpartisan CBO:
Trump's billionaire tax giveaway will add $3.4T to the national debt and kick 10M people off their health care — and that doesn't include the 4M+ who will lose their care if Republicans don't extend the ACA tax credits.
Shameful.
Trump's billionaire tax giveaway will add $3.4T to the national debt and kick 10M people off their health care — and that doesn't include the 4M+ who will lose their care if Republicans don't extend the ACA tax credits.
Shameful.
GOP megabill’s final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says
The package President Donald Trump signed on July 4 would grow the deficit over the next 10 years, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper predicts.
www.politico.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The verdict is in from the nonpartisan CBO:
Trump's billionaire tax giveaway will add $3.4T to the national debt and kick 10M people off their health care — and that doesn't include the 4M+ who will lose their care if Republicans don't extend the ACA tax credits.
Shameful.
Trump's billionaire tax giveaway will add $3.4T to the national debt and kick 10M people off their health care — and that doesn't include the 4M+ who will lose their care if Republicans don't extend the ACA tax credits.
Shameful.
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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
May 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil.
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NEW: Utter fury from Rep. Robert Menendez directed at ICE:
“They feel no weight of the law & no restraint. That was shown in broad daylight when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress. HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE? TO ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY.” 🔥
“They feel no weight of the law & no restraint. That was shown in broad daylight when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress. HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE? TO ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY.” 🔥
May 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: Utter fury from Rep. Robert Menendez directed at ICE:
“They feel no weight of the law & no restraint. That was shown in broad daylight when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress. HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE? TO ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY.” 🔥
“They feel no weight of the law & no restraint. That was shown in broad daylight when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress. HOW IS THIS ACCEPTABLE? TO ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY.” 🔥
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“I think people should be seriously worried about the United States descending into the kind of electoral authoritarianism — a multiparty system with the facade of a democracy but the reality of an authoritarian regime — that Hungary has become.” wapo.st/3RPktIo
Opinion | ‘At this point, we are a liberal democracy in decline’
A conversation with scholar Larry Diamond about the state of U.S. democracy.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“I think people should be seriously worried about the United States descending into the kind of electoral authoritarianism — a multiparty system with the facade of a democracy but the reality of an authoritarian regime — that Hungary has become.” wapo.st/3RPktIo
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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One of my favorite songs (and records) of all time. Timeless as ever for this era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeK...
Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is (Video Version)
YouTube video by BruceHornsbyVEVO
www.youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
One of my favorite songs (and records) of all time. Timeless as ever for this era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeK...
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Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
UPDATE: Trump seems to say for the first time that U.S. lacks ability to recover those sent to El Salvador if government deports someone erroneously. Says it’s totally up to Bukele. Seems to leave out that he could … ask Bukele to help fix an error. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
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The RAND Corporation’s new report finds that $79 trillion was taken from the bottom 90% of households.
So the problem isn’t a lack of “abundance” — it is the abundance being hoarded by the rich.
But that fact isn’t allowed in The Abundance Discourse.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
So the problem isn’t a lack of “abundance” — it is the abundance being hoarded by the rich.
But that fact isn’t allowed in The Abundance Discourse.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
The author extends the results of prior work on the income gap between the bottom 90 percent of workers in 2023 and what they would have earned with an even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. These worker...
www.rand.org
March 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The RAND Corporation’s new report finds that $79 trillion was taken from the bottom 90% of households.
So the problem isn’t a lack of “abundance” — it is the abundance being hoarded by the rich.
But that fact isn’t allowed in The Abundance Discourse.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
So the problem isn’t a lack of “abundance” — it is the abundance being hoarded by the rich.
But that fact isn’t allowed in The Abundance Discourse.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
Why the ruling class attached themselves to an autocrat... finance.yahoo.com/news/ftc-ask...
FTC asks to delay Amazon trial due to 'severe resource shortfalls'
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked a federal court in Seattle to delay a September trial in its case alleging Amazon misled consumers over its Prime subscription service, citing "severe resource ...
finance.yahoo.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Why the ruling class attached themselves to an autocrat... finance.yahoo.com/news/ftc-ask...
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This hits hard…
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
February 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This hits hard…
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.
“Then she was fired by a Fox News weekend host.”
You know what else hits hard? The fact that voters thought it was a good idea to hire a reality show host/bankrupt businessman as President of the United States.