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elektrac.bsky.social
Former academic philosopher, autodidact, and aspiring psychiatrist who can’t stop asking questions about where the mind meets society.
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Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 17 hours ago • 350 comments

a cartoon from trump 1 about distractions

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.

submitted 23 hours ago • 24 comments

I was not aware until @miriamwasser.bsky.social called me for comment on this earlier this week that ICE has been holding people for *multiple nights* in their Burlington (MA) New England HQ which (as pictured below) is located in a non-descript office park by the mall www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

In 1936, FDR closed out his re-election campaign by bragging to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that “organized money” hated him “and I welcome their hatred.” He took 60% of the vote in a 523-8 electoral college landslide. FDR knew having the right enemies could be a useful thing.

submitted 3 days ago • 184 comments

Perfekt.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This sort of thing is how I know I am among by people here. I am wheezing.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This is the best day on social media ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I guess we know who punched him now.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Jeffries: Yes Joni, the American people know that at some point in their lives, they are going to pass away. The cause of death should not be Republican cruelty

submitted 5 days ago • 179 comments

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

submitted 6 days ago • 2225 comments

Note that this is specifically NOT about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is about a DIFFERENT guy, a 19-year-old accused of being part of Tren de Aragua and sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act in violation of a separate court order.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 9 days ago • 1127 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 9 days ago • 240 comments

Meanwhile, in the civilized countries, they are moving towards legalized medical aid in dying.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Bwahaha!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I expect a judge blocks DHS's actions soon. Lawsuit cites “clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students." Should easily meet test for irreparable harm and succeeding on the merits.

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

submitted 210 days ago • 100 comments

OMG. I almost shot a drink out my nose twice while reading this.

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“The record abundantly reveals that Defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department without an authorizing statute,” U.S. District Judge Myong Joun wrote, noting “the Department cannot be shut down without Congress’s approval.”

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

lmfao

submitted 18 days ago • 57 comments