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The inverse relationship between "people who have the power to help unhoused people" and "people who give a shit about unhoused people" is one of the most reliable features of modern politics, and makes me incandescently angry if I think about it for more than 30 seconds
The Legal System Has Abandoned Poor People to Trump’s Cruelest Impulses
Trump’s crackdown on unhoused people in D.C. is the product of a legal system that bends over backwards to protect elected officials who are bad at their jobs.
ballsandstrikes.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The inverse relationship between "people who have the power to help unhoused people" and "people who give a shit about unhoused people" is one of the most reliable features of modern politics, and makes me incandescently angry if I think about it for more than 30 seconds
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Does Hoyer not understand how fascism works? At home OR abroad?????
Hoyer and Pelosi and Jeffries need to retire right now and we need people like Frost and AOC and younger Dems to take over.
The D leadership is broken and lost.
Hoyer and Pelosi and Jeffries need to retire right now and we need people like Frost and AOC and younger Dems to take over.
The D leadership is broken and lost.
August 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Does Hoyer not understand how fascism works? At home OR abroad?????
Hoyer and Pelosi and Jeffries need to retire right now and we need people like Frost and AOC and younger Dems to take over.
The D leadership is broken and lost.
Hoyer and Pelosi and Jeffries need to retire right now and we need people like Frost and AOC and younger Dems to take over.
The D leadership is broken and lost.
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Since the world is broken, let’s all watch Tom Holland and Zendaya to feel some joy again. Protect your peace, friends.
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Since the world is broken, let’s all watch Tom Holland and Zendaya to feel some joy again. Protect your peace, friends.
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The level of investment in new detention centers requires finding ways to fill them. So we will criminalize whatever is necessary to fill them. See also prisons.
It's not at all alarmist to expect that the new network of detention centers will be used to confine unhoused people—and to extract free labor from them. Everything in this executive order points in that direction.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The level of investment in new detention centers requires finding ways to fill them. So we will criminalize whatever is necessary to fill them. See also prisons.
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The fact you’re all so upset about it is proof positive that taking a crap on the kitchen table is a legitimate form of visual art.
lol, and who the fuck is this?
July 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The fact you’re all so upset about it is proof positive that taking a crap on the kitchen table is a legitimate form of visual art.
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the Times - and the rest of the reactionary centrists - really, truly do not understand that your average liberal at this point is
a) desperate to see anyone fighting back
b) wants heads on pikes
c) quite aware of how fast we are backsliding towards open bigotry
a) desperate to see anyone fighting back
b) wants heads on pikes
c) quite aware of how fast we are backsliding towards open bigotry
lol the NYT closed the comment section on their racist Mamdani hit piece and pushed it down from a headline to a tiny article almost at the bottom of the web site. Will never admit they were wrong, but someone certainly realized it was backfiring
July 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
the Times - and the rest of the reactionary centrists - really, truly do not understand that your average liberal at this point is
a) desperate to see anyone fighting back
b) wants heads on pikes
c) quite aware of how fast we are backsliding towards open bigotry
a) desperate to see anyone fighting back
b) wants heads on pikes
c) quite aware of how fast we are backsliding towards open bigotry
@fleerultra.bsky.social Just checking in on that horrific bug bite you had... 👀
July 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
@fleerultra.bsky.social Just checking in on that horrific bug bite you had... 👀
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Anyway big shout out to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for finding 13 women she didn't think it was worth believing after all, and by "shout out" I mean "primary"
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Anyway big shout out to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for finding 13 women she didn't think it was worth believing after all, and by "shout out" I mean "primary"
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Very much seems like the US is entering a war with Iran because Nethanyahu started it. No broader discussion about the US national interest here from the America first guys
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Very much seems like the US is entering a war with Iran because Nethanyahu started it. No broader discussion about the US national interest here from the America first guys
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hey @nytimes.com what if instead of this you reported accurately that the president of the united states has violated the united states constitution by entering into war with a foreign power without the approval of congress, just like, what if
June 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
hey @nytimes.com what if instead of this you reported accurately that the president of the united states has violated the united states constitution by entering into war with a foreign power without the approval of congress, just like, what if
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harris’ fundraising after she took over from biden shows that we will open our wallets when we see leadership. right now we don’t (with some exceptions) so no cookie for you.
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
harris’ fundraising after she took over from biden shows that we will open our wallets when we see leadership. right now we don’t (with some exceptions) so no cookie for you.
(NYTimes) Strands, nobody needs this right now.
June 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
(NYTimes) Strands, nobody needs this right now.
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international systems of accountability for crimes against humanity established in the wake of the holocaust destroyed at the behest of “the light unto the nations” so that it can do its own genocide. our shame will be eternal.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest.
NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.
Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.
apnews.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
international systems of accountability for crimes against humanity established in the wake of the holocaust destroyed at the behest of “the light unto the nations” so that it can do its own genocide. our shame will be eternal.
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Correct bsky.app/profile/yees...
The link is that in the US, it's slavery as the model more than colonialism as the model. If slavers are your model of a good father, leader, or political order in general, then domestic abuse is real baked in. Domestic abuse of the planters' white families shows up a lot in the legal record, FWIW.
March 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Correct bsky.app/profile/yees...
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I always thought the "practice of colonialism but applied internally" was a pretty comprehensive explanation of historical fascism but MAGAism and US conservativism in general seems to draw an unusually large amount of its logic from domestic abuse compared to other fascist movements
Fascism in general is best understood as an abusive relationship played out at the sociological level
March 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I always thought the "practice of colonialism but applied internally" was a pretty comprehensive explanation of historical fascism but MAGAism and US conservativism in general seems to draw an unusually large amount of its logic from domestic abuse compared to other fascist movements
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You will not understand MAGA/Trumpism until you understand how many Americans are domestic abusers or grew up in abusive environments. Trump sits in at the top of the dominance heirarchy for them in a way that does not make sense to those of us who grew up in healthy families.
March 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You will not understand MAGA/Trumpism until you understand how many Americans are domestic abusers or grew up in abusive environments. Trump sits in at the top of the dominance heirarchy for them in a way that does not make sense to those of us who grew up in healthy families.
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The message you should take away from Elon’s rumored ketamine habit isn’t that ketamine is bad.
It’s that all drugs, including ketamine, are useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
If you ran a marathon in stilettos and it went poorly, trying to ban stilettos would be a bizarre reaction.
It’s that all drugs, including ketamine, are useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
If you ran a marathon in stilettos and it went poorly, trying to ban stilettos would be a bizarre reaction.
March 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The message you should take away from Elon’s rumored ketamine habit isn’t that ketamine is bad.
It’s that all drugs, including ketamine, are useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
If you ran a marathon in stilettos and it went poorly, trying to ban stilettos would be a bizarre reaction.
It’s that all drugs, including ketamine, are useful in some contexts and harmful in others.
If you ran a marathon in stilettos and it went poorly, trying to ban stilettos would be a bizarre reaction.
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This is the first good idea I’ve seen actually
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
March 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is the first good idea I’ve seen actually
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Art is a powerful truth-teller. #NoOtherLand lays bare the ugly reality of Israeli apartheid & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Mazel tov & Mabrouk to Basel & Yuval, who, like us, know that there is no safety, no future, without solidarity, freedom, justice, & equality for all.
Mazel tov & Mabrouk to Basel & Yuval, who, like us, know that there is no safety, no future, without solidarity, freedom, justice, & equality for all.
March 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Art is a powerful truth-teller. #NoOtherLand lays bare the ugly reality of Israeli apartheid & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Mazel tov & Mabrouk to Basel & Yuval, who, like us, know that there is no safety, no future, without solidarity, freedom, justice, & equality for all.
Mazel tov & Mabrouk to Basel & Yuval, who, like us, know that there is no safety, no future, without solidarity, freedom, justice, & equality for all.
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Ready to read about something that isn't more dumb shit at the fuck factory
February 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Ready to read about something that isn't more dumb shit at the fuck factory
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This is it. This is the take.
February 8, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This is it. This is the take.
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Hey that sucks. What do you guys think happens to, uh, everyone else
Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
cassidy changing his tune after what he said on the senate floor is what has upgraded my position from "they are being bribed" or "they are worried about primary challenges" to "they are worried about being murdered"
February 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hey that sucks. What do you guys think happens to, uh, everyone else
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IEP moms are gonna do so many murders
They will have our children’s data soon, including SpEd kids…
February 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
IEP moms are gonna do so many murders