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ICE is the federal fulfillment of the Charlottesville fascists

ICE is the federal fulfillment of the Charlottesville fascists

on the "return to morality" in German fascism

This is a crucial piece of fascism’s current infrastructure

Convinced that Trainspotter and Transporter are actually the same movie

Yet this is life.

This is shocking. I directly worked on designing the integration and protections of CityKey. It was designed to provide an ID, be a transit card, library and discount card. It was to *never* create a digital record while being compatible with state and city laws. Subpoena-proof.

exactly. in right-wing circles, their grievances are their class analysis: "makers"=working class "takers"=ruling class

9 out of 10 agencies targeted by DOGE for layoffs are liberal-leaning. Every single proposed GOP budget increase goes to conservative agencies. They're not cutting fat—they're performing ideological surgery with a chainsaw.

We are going to have to put pressure on Prizker over this. This is a complete abdication and is going to make a mockery of Chicago as a sanctuary city

So much happening in these few frames here.

Hand to earpiece, “We’re now receiving reports that Catturd has fallen. Yes Catturd has fallen.”

“We are deeply concerned to see that Chicago police provided material assistance to ICE, making this mass deportation possible by blocking traffic and providing initial crowd control”

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

This is exactly right. They tried to copy the Trump strategy (?) on this and it didn’t work

Welcome to the Resistance Elon

The Secret Lives of Mormon Moms confirms the horror of the “prayer speech”

Thinking a little about this again, and a paraphrase of Wendell Berry seems appropriate, that love makes language exact because we can only love what we know. Not a universal truth, but fits here

The Secret Lives of Mormon Moms confirms the horror of the “prayer speech”

"Happy Pride!" -God

being intimidated by bluesky is so funny. yeah i keep getting my ass kicked every time i go to bath and body works

Your politics goes a long way toward telling others what your desires for other people are. So of course they are symptomatic of moral issues.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/i...

Catching up with friends: “How’s your supply chain doing?”

While people online argue day and night about how to be a good coalition member, here is the leading opponent to Cuomo, a Muslim democratic socialist, urging his supporters to also rank the rest of the WFP slate in order to maximize the anti Cuomo bloc's vote.

Some interesting Billy Graham history in this book (courtesy of my dad)

Having only a very general sense of accreditation processes, and simply served on a few committees, this is how Higher Ed wil become unrecognizable from what it is

Christofascists worship a god of death

Boosting this for my guy. It’s good stuff

Christofascists worship a god of death