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Alabama, fines & fees, harm reduction, access to healthcare; kids, dogs, nature, culture. Yente, but in a helpful way. Jew, obvs.
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Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 88 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

"The legacies of radical thought are not yours to cosplay. We’ve buried mentors and friends who gave everything to this work. They held coalitions together across race, religion, class, and creed... They did not sacrifice so you could embrace nihilism." Incredible, by @bulldogshadow.bsky.social.

Holy shit Thomas Friedman finally www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

what do these words mean, like, when they are put together in this order?

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

In which the president of the United States threatens citizens for exercising their Constitutional rights.

if you had asked me 3 weeks ago if I thought the world needed a version of Office Space directed by David Lynch I would have said no. but now I’m watching Severance and — yes!

NEW: Leland Lehrman is the new executive director of the MAHA Institute, a policy organization with ties to RFK. In the mid-2000s, Lehrman promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories and argued repeatedly that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is legitimate: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

wow this seems like something that, say, a group devoted to avoiding the defamation of Jewish people might take up!

They're sacrificing the lives of people with cancer, alzheimer's and other diseases in order to maximize tax cuts for billionaires. Here's the thing, though: Billionaires get diseases, too. And where no cure or treatment is found, all their money can't save them, either.

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

As an Alabamian who lived in Birmingham for 8 years, this entire thread is accurate

ICE started raiding the hotel they were staying in - interrogating cleaning ladies Good luck housing ICE agents in Los Angeles now

I have one gig where I have to dress up and go to the office and also I can’t really be “political” there so I have made “wears sweater vests” my entire work personality

not controversial, it says so right on this sign on 5th Ave N Bham

This might be the most glowing endorsement for my city.

Today, Alabama plans to execute a man for his role in a 1988 murder. But after violence, crime survivors are must more likely to want resources to help them heal. See 👇

Greg was the first new client who came to the capital habeas unit after I joined. I spent months scanning and reviewing old documents, talking w people who knew him, trying to get a sense of the man. He’s complicated; he did a terrible thing. But I know this: no one will be safer after he’s dead.

Incredibly chaotic scene Los Angeles as LAPD is pushing forward a skirmish line and violently arresting anti-ICE protesters. You can also hear me grunt when police shoot me in the abdomen with some kind of projectile.

Oopsie

The Third Amendment RN

This is one of many reasons why the administration is full of shit with their military nonsense. They don’t care at all about the men and women who serve. They don’t even think of them.

Evergreen

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Fed. judge grants class petition for the writ of habeas corpus. Order declares the AEA Proclamation unlawful. Provides, in the alternative, that even if lawful, class members (detainees in W.D.Tex) are entitled to 30-day notice and specific advisals. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

lalala what a lovely day to go to Publix with my kids OH WOW THAT MAN IS WEARING AN SS TSHIRT THAT SAYS “DEATH SQUAD” ON IT

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I do a lot of shitposting but this is the Thing I Actually Want To Say 👇

OK, let's start the fight about what this thing is called. I'm a "redwell" but every so often I run into a "red rope" chaos muppet.

Menswear Guy >>>

Really can’t stress the need for 1) More reporting on how horrendously difficult it is to legally come to the United States if you’re not wealthy or highly skilled 2) A greater understanding that immigration is *painful.* Most people won’t leave their homes unless they’re completely out of options.

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