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Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 564 comments

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 1227 comments

Seriously, they're the worst!

submitted 2 days ago • 540 comments

Masked faces No badges No apparel identifying them as ICE No warrants signed by a judge Those aren't ICE agents. They are bounty hunters kidnapping people off the streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 274 comments

If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1409 comments

A great thing Kristie Dotson said to me about distortions in academic philosophy: she recalls constantly being asked in grad school, “Who’s your guy? Who do you work on?” Kristie’s response: “Who’s my guy? My guy is me.” None of the other “guys” had the answers she needed.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 4 days ago • 260 comments

As human beings, we have to have higher standards for heroes/leaders/politicians/elected officials/journalists than “I like them because they hurt the people I don’t like.”

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 5 days ago • 555 comments

The message from ICE is clear: You don't get to question masked agents who aren't wearing a uniform or badge while they try to detain someone. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 5 days ago • 542 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 5 days ago • 740 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 8 days ago • 384 comments

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

submitted 8 days ago • 1169 comments

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 8 days ago • 2248 comments

We have plenty of reasons to be in the streets today. But one big one is we’re marching because Rep. Melissa Hortman can’t. We’re sending love to her family, and we’re sending rage toward Washington, D.C.

submitted 8 days ago • 118 comments

Good morning, "The only free cheese is in the mousetrap." Russian proverb

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

submitted 11 days ago • 716 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 14 days ago • 1151 comments

The timeline of this family's generations is one of the most incredible pieces of trivia in American history. RIP, Harrison.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

🏺📜🎨 Finally did another discipline-relevant #crossstitch - via a pattern from @xpi.bsky.social (linked below). Didn’t realise it was based on marginalia from my old workplace, the Morgan Library! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

submitted 31 days ago • 254 comments

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪 Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆 www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

Nothing like NHL playoffs

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 37 days ago • 364 comments

One crazy thing about this story is that even with the immoral price gouging the company could not maintain independent viability www.propublica.org/article/revl...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Pope Leo spotted on the 2005 World Series broadcast

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submitted 48 days ago • 31 comments

American needs more white conservative children. That’s why we are closing hospitals in predominantly white conservative parts of the country and having HHS give dangerous medical advice that only white conservatives are stupid enough to believe.

submitted 50 days ago • 27 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 54 days ago • 970 comments

There it is, in a nutshell.

submitted 55 days ago • 827 comments