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Delawarean. Workforce management professional, quiz bowl enthusiast, and Microsoft Excel MVP. Philadelphia sports enjoyer. I left The Bad Place.
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Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground. Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

submitted 1 hour ago • 36 comments

One of the things that has very much led us to our present fucked space is news media basically yawning at Republicans breaking government but eagerly boosting GOP talking points about "politicization" whenever Democrats try to fix any part of it

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

Can’t emphasize enough what a disgrace this whole sad episode was

submitted 5 hours ago • 121 comments

What happened is that people rightly began thinking of the Confederacy like Nazi Germany — a fundamentally evil cause. That doesn't mean "every single" Confederate soldier was evil. But it means we have begun discussing its leadership the same way we treat Nazi leaders, not naming bases after them.

submitted 5 hours ago • 37 comments

!!! Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 RVs, conducted from June 5-9, finds Trump at -11% approval on “immigration issues” and -16% on “deportations.” Full poll here: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 6 hours ago • 92 comments

Wow. New Quinnipiac poll finds Trump's approval at 38-54. And note this: Trump approval on immigration: 43-54 Approval on his deportations: 40-56 Can we say Trump isn't winning on this issue yet?

submitted 6 hours ago • 61 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 8 hours ago • 463 comments

"Why did you lie about... [fill in the blank]? Why should we believe anything you say?" Establish in the question that he's a liar, that's a fact, it's already established, and your question is not conceding it's a disputable premise. Of course he'll rant and rave denying it, but make him do that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 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 12 hours ago • 654 comments

Anyone from Philly knows this is a HUGE statement..

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Just so we're clear, Donald Trump has deployed 2700 troops on US soil to deal with THIS... ... while providing zero assistance to our ally Ukraine, which is facing a hostile invasion from our adversary Russia.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Like, here's what's weird: there's so little actual violence or pseudoviolence in LA that even the right-wing shitheads like the New York post have nothing to say, just making fun of this guy for wearing yellow or something.

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

The hard truth is we know Trump & Miller aren’t trying to reduce crime and they aren’t trying to help workers or protect citizens. All they’re trying to do terrorize and get rid of groups they disfavor. We all know this is true yet no one in the press can state it plainly without being fired.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 11 hours ago • 89 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 272 comments

We feed you. They hunt us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1135 comments

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

submitted 13 hours ago • 129 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 1 day ago • 1015 comments