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there is merit — people demonstrating that they have the capacity to complete a given task — and “merit,” an ontological category reserved for some people and not others

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

I think maybe it's hard to see what's wrong with this, because obviously the government already HAS your social security data. The problem is that in 1974 we anticipated the ill effects of conjoining data to create detailed, granular dossiers on individuals. That's why the Data Privacy Act is a law.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Just grossly negligent and hostile to human life. So, as I was saying, ICE delenda est.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He’s a goddamn Nazi. You do not have to, under any circumstances, “hand it to him” or anyone else who does an sig heil on national tevees.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My full statement on the federal action at Lake and Bloomington yesterday. Please be wary of those who are trying to downplay the trauma and pain our community experienced yesterday. These scenes were harmful and our city was complicit.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Backing candidates in gerrymandered red districts: $0 Backing young primary candidates: $0 James Carville: $100,000 Free Tacos for Republicans: $360,000 Backing progressive candidates at all anywhere: $0 someone who is good at electoralism please send me $5 my party is dying

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

"The Others." What is this, Hennepin County Sheriff's Office?? (his shirt says Sheriff so I am assuming that's his dept).

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The “american dream” is the most expensive and powerful entity in the world standing in front of a taco shop in Minneapolis, with military grade weapons to destroy families Please note “make tacos not walls” behind them

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Timely. There are damn good reasons to come into queer community. But it cannot be compulsory. This is something to be valued, not demanded.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is in dead-red Florida. Hurricane season is starting. Veteran weatherman John Morales is rightly concerned that federal cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service means we’re flying blind into the storm — literally — and people are at mortal risk. Thank you for your courage, John.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Breastfeeding mothers' monthly food aid will be dropped from $54 to $13, FOR THE MONTH!!! Food assistance for children will drop from $27 to $10, FOR THE MONTH!!! Trump and Republicans are stealing from the poorest to give to the richest. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Leonard, the laws all being flat? And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

$1.5M bonds. Driver not charged. The law binds but does not protect most citizens.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

need to stop looking at these as Vance doesnt even know history and understand them as Vance perfectly understands history and also understands that the algos need content like this that can be used to deny and lie about history via the misinformation economy his party runs. This is info warfare

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

You…sure about that?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Block, don’t engage.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The numbers the third way account has done on here — i.e. the "impact" third way will be able to demonstrate — is good for several hundred thousand dollars in funding, at least.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is a vast underestimate of the projected death toll from the cuts to USAID and Pepfar alone.

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Briefly: 1) Third Way wants to do numbers on here (they 'demonstrate impact' in order to keep getting funding) 2) Jon doesn't give a single fuck about the lives of trans teens. And this is a straight up lie about the relevant legal standards involved. He's lying in order to kill trans teens.

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

My favorite part of the lab leak freaks is the concept that "COVID-19 is a fierce bio-weapon unleashed on Americans by our worst enemies and your baby should definitely get it."

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments