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Crying in American

spoiler: more genocide

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

Tbh ime Tumblr is the perfect intersection of resistance and birding, and there's an 80% chance I post this there

Andor bringing in a literal leftist circular firing squad huh 💀

Guest op-ed by Chicago-based writer Ellen Steinke: "Uber and the road construction lobby just killed Illinois’ transit funding bill, and your lawmakers let them." @chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org @stevevance.net @mclean.bsky.social @atalliance.bsky.social @betterstreetschicago.org

As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.

Andor's most underrated feature might be the way they balance scary and humorous tension

Billy Long's sole qualification to run the IRS is that, in 2023–24, he ran a large-scale tax fraud operation. I am not making this up.

I know this admin is claiming they're not involved with Israel's attack on Iranian civilians, buuuut they had enough knowledge to start evacuating staff in advance, so that's some kind of choice. And let's not forget trump stopped the Obama era policy of reporting drone strikes on civilians.....

you can tell how diverse a newsroom is by how much they recognize the weaponization of identity in how DHS' violent action is being framed ...spoiler: for the most part, not very

PSA that a former DOGEbro - who personally trashed the VA, including erasing anything related to the WHO - is trying to get in good with #SFF by offering $$$ for exclusive story rights. Don't fall for this shit