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ESL instructor, journal editor. Opposed to tech oligarchy. Increasingly concerned about Dem leadership’s failure to meet the threats to American democracy
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

When I ran for the US Senate I said we needed to reform the Supreme Court and expand it to preserve the rule of law. Many called me crazy. I was fucking right.

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

Ask your doctor if losing healthcare coverage is right for you.

My primary thought about U.S. politics these days is that non-MAGA Americans deserve better than the Democrats as an opposition party.

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And we're being called criminals and animals

Over 75% of folks in ICE custody this year had no criminal record beyond immigration or traffic issues. Less than 10% had serious convictions. Fear sells, but facts matter. #ImmigrationTruth

Black person jaywalking: “throw them under the jail” White assassin: “I mean, surely we’ve all belonged to a religious cult that thinks leftists should die”

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

Was there a part of the parade that was actually impressive that only the national press got to see?

Fyre Festival ass presidency

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

Look what I found when I searched "ICE uniform" in Google Shopping. None of us have any way of knowing if the "ICE agent" pushing you into a car, isn't just some unbalanced vigilante into cosplay. These are very dangerous times.

ICE is doing their best to insight violence

I bet it'd be easier for Americans to see ICE agents as just regular folks if they weren't, you know, wearing black masks and hiding their names and identities from the public out of shame.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Somewhere out there a flat earther is looking at the news, stirring horse paste into his raw milk, and crying

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Nothing reveals the lie behind "There are bazillions of immigrant criminals in this country!" nonsense quite like seeing ICE focus on deporting mom, children and longtime employees of popular neighborhood restaurants.

You’re telling me this guy was on drugs? I’m not buying it.

We need a Country Joe and the Fish reboot Whoopee! We’re all gonna die!

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear: The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here. Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead. This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. The king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything.”—Springsteen, Badlands

After Max goes back to HBO Max, it goes back to being HBO, then Home Box Office, then Sterling Cable Network, then Manhattan Cable, as the grass grows back into the ground and we all marvel at Video Jukebox, George Carlin Specials and G-String Divas

It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?

Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

You’d think Bill Gates pointing out Elon Musk’s key role in a presumptive genocide would be a bigger story.

The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO children’s section. Even the general public has very limited access.

BREAKING: Google Earth updated their images of Gaza. Compare. Being against this is not “antisemitic” or “pro-terrorist”. It’s pro-human. Sincerely, A Jewish American.

Marco Rubio. That's it. That's the joke.

The NIH folks have been through so much I don't have the heart to tell them they're going to have review grants for studying the use of crystals for treating severe cases of measles.

my god i'm hard to shock but holy fuck

you can say 'Merry Christmas' again. you just can't have any presents

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

In the last few days, the president fell asleep at the pope’s funeral, said he wasn’t making decisions in the White House and fell for an obvious photoshop. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Wild idea: maybe—just maybe—the country getting bombed, blockaded, and occupied isn't the one that “started it.” Maybe blame the one crossing borders with tanks.

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...