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This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.
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This was a word AND he cussed 😂
September 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
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exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things"
betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.
betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.
Last year Betty Crocker shrank the size of their cake mixes. Decades of cake-mix-based recipes are now broken. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar...
The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore
"It's just so upsetting."
www.yahoo.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things"
betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.
betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.
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Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
September 14, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Let's say it again:
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.
2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.
It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.
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Both sides are NOT the same.
September 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Both sides are NOT the same.
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This is genuinely one of the reasons for the conservative authoritarian war on science -- the universe doesn't care if you believe in it or not.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is genuinely one of the reasons for the conservative authoritarian war on science -- the universe doesn't care if you believe in it or not.
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Do corporate boardrooms need more ideological diversity?
It seems like they are an echo chamber of people who believe all labor should be organized for shareholder profit.
It seems like they are an echo chamber of people who believe all labor should be organized for shareholder profit.
June 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Do corporate boardrooms need more ideological diversity?
It seems like they are an echo chamber of people who believe all labor should be organized for shareholder profit.
It seems like they are an echo chamber of people who believe all labor should be organized for shareholder profit.
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"Police officers kill approximately 10,000 dogs every year in the United States, according to an estimate by a Department of Justice official. This amounts to police officers killing approximately 25 to 30 dogs every day."
The “Puppycide” of Policing: How the Law Rationalizes the Police Killing of “Dangerous Dogs”
Police officers kill approximately 10,000 dogs every year in the United States, according to an estimate by a Department of Justice official. This amounts to police officers killing approximately 25 t...
trace.tennessee.edu
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Police officers kill approximately 10,000 dogs every year in the United States, according to an estimate by a Department of Justice official. This amounts to police officers killing approximately 25 to 30 dogs every day."
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It is really infuriatingly remarkable.
The evidence of police department lying is miles high, but their accounts are STILL treated as “just the facts” and taken at face value.
It’s such a toxic, but reflexive, habit in how the press treats them.
The evidence of police department lying is miles high, but their accounts are STILL treated as “just the facts” and taken at face value.
It’s such a toxic, but reflexive, habit in how the press treats them.
During the 2020 protests, I wrote this for NBC about police: After all the lies we've seen, why in our society are police still the official arbiters of what happened? Why do they have the monopoly on legitimate storytelling?
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
June 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It is really infuriatingly remarkable.
The evidence of police department lying is miles high, but their accounts are STILL treated as “just the facts” and taken at face value.
It’s such a toxic, but reflexive, habit in how the press treats them.
The evidence of police department lying is miles high, but their accounts are STILL treated as “just the facts” and taken at face value.
It’s such a toxic, but reflexive, habit in how the press treats them.
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This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
May 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode the deficit.
3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
They're trying to get away with it again.
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Anti-vax is now the mainstream GOP position.
They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.
But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.
They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.
But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.
Senate GOP Ramps Up Attacks On COVID Vaccines Amid FDA Push
Sen. Ron Johnson’s Wednesday hearing on myocarditis was an anti-vax spectacle.
www.importantcontext.news
May 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Anti-vax is now the mainstream GOP position.
They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.
But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.
They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.
But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.
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Journal comics- escapism failed aka an excuse to draw ps1 graphics
May 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Journal comics- escapism failed aka an excuse to draw ps1 graphics
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they're ruling blue states, cities and districts like they're conquered territory. occupying armies with no responsibilities ruling over a conquered people with no rights. intolerable.
DOJ has issued guidance to all federal agencies telling them they never have to answer questions from minority members of Congress, even those w/ oversight responsibilities. This policy should be outlawed, assuming a Congress is ever elected that isn’t entirely useless.
The #DHS won’t tell Congress how many employees at the #CISA it has fired or pushed to leave, a top congressional Democrat said Wednesday. via @timstarks.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/dhs-wont-tel...
May 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
they're ruling blue states, cities and districts like they're conquered territory. occupying armies with no responsibilities ruling over a conquered people with no rights. intolerable.
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If like three years ago the pundit class and democratic politicians had held to this line we wouldn't be where we are today
"I don't know what the big deal is."
"I don't know what the big deal is."
Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu
May 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If like three years ago the pundit class and democratic politicians had held to this line we wouldn't be where we are today
"I don't know what the big deal is."
"I don't know what the big deal is."
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A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
May 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
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i laughed at the death blip
May 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
i laughed at the death blip
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Everything we feared would happen is happening, but faster and worse than we imagined. Anyone go back and check on this guy?
April 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Everything we feared would happen is happening, but faster and worse than we imagined. Anyone go back and check on this guy?
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Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation."
Are we great again yet?
Are we great again yet?
April 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation."
Are we great again yet?
Are we great again yet?
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At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path
April 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At this point "Abolish ICE and prosecute every officer who helped with deportations" is the moderate path
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since this came out ICE arrested a judge and the DOJ declared ICE can enter anyone's home without a warrant so i have not gotten less convinced things are getting much hotter very quickly
alright folks, here's my best stab at a roadmap for what to expect out of the next six months to a year of this administration
New It Could Happen Here
@iwriteok.bsky.social walks through several of the likeliest scenarios for what we're going to see over the next six months to a year, from domestic unrest and fascism's next power grab to the age of weird terrorism.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
@iwriteok.bsky.social walks through several of the likeliest scenarios for what we're going to see over the next six months to a year, from domestic unrest and fascism's next power grab to the age of weird terrorism.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
April 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
since this came out ICE arrested a judge and the DOJ declared ICE can enter anyone's home without a warrant so i have not gotten less convinced things are getting much hotter very quickly
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In the Comic Timing dep't, feline division... (via @cosmonautroger on Tumblr)
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In the Comic Timing dep't, feline division... (via @cosmonautroger on Tumblr)
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I mean, the graffiti makes sense to me
Police appeal over 'senseless' damage to seven statues during trans rights rally in London
Police appeal over 'senseless' damage to seven statues during trans rights rally in London
Police are appealing for information after seven statues - including one of suffragette Millicent Fawcett - were daubed with graffiti during a trans rights rally in London.
news.sky.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I mean, the graffiti makes sense to me
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Reminder that one of my life principles is what I call the "Krissy Rule": If I were to do something and my spouse called me up and asked "what are you doing?" and I was tempted to lie to her about it, I DON'T DO THAT THING. This is a good rule that's mostly kept me out of trouble.
If only we could live in a world where strange food takes were the worst skeletons we had to worry about finding in our favorite celebrities’ closets.
April 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Reminder that one of my life principles is what I call the "Krissy Rule": If I were to do something and my spouse called me up and asked "what are you doing?" and I was tempted to lie to her about it, I DON'T DO THAT THING. This is a good rule that's mostly kept me out of trouble.