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Public Defense researcher. Socialist. Abolitionist. Lawrence, KS. “Imprisonment is an injury, regardless of how you justify it” -Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard
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The last bastion of free bathrooms in this country are off the sides of interstates.

You can’t make this up. Republicans snuck a “tanning bed tax break” in their bill—the same bill that’s going to make hospitals go under and take away hospital beds. They’re too ashamed to even say it, too.

A "progressive Zionist" who doesn't like it when indigenous people protest racist state policies. Shocker.

TL cleanse

Death, taxes, and the Mavs' centerpiece being a tall white boy with a wet three ball.

Goes without saying that this duty applies exclusively to the individual. This same administration is actively cutting safeguards in the workplace that will lead to injury and death so corporations can incrrase profits.

Billionaires both believe that they are uniquely gifted and deserving of their billions while others starve AND that anyone can work and grind hard enough to achieve what they have.

Walked into the vet to pick up my cat and just said, "I would like to see the baby" in a Herzog voice. The receptionist, who appeared to be in her 60's, did not catch the reference.

Every conservative who extolls the virtues of constitutional guarantees to life and liberty should see Pirro as an arch criminal. A person who has, through lies and deception, stolen the life and liberty of numerous people. Instead, they laud her as "tough on crime" even as she makes us less safe.

Jeanine Pirro, the Fox media personality Trump just appointed as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has a history of prosecutorial misconduct, including at least two cases where she sent the wrong person to prison for murder. theappeal.org/cage-the-bas...

Just learned that in the In re Gault decision (est due process for juveniles) it's noted that the detention of juveniles is only allowed as a "clinical" or "preventive" measure. Meaning it is illegal to imprison children as punishment. Makes petitioning to try kids as adults all the more insane.

White evangelicals have so thoroughly linked their politics with their religion that they see any resistance to their politics as anti-christian bias. Their politics ARE Christian doctrine. Another reason they idolize Israel whose Zionism = Judaism propaganda amounts to the same thing.

Reading Mahmoud Khalil's op ed this morning reminded me of an old Kris Kristofferson song, this passage in particular. The song, To Beat the Devil, is about a truth-telling poet whose message is falling on deaf ears. Feeling defeated, be walks into a bar where the devil tempts him with a song.

I just can't believe Soros is paying millions of people to protest and not a single one of those millions he's reached out to have declined and leaked the proposal. Unreal batting average.

Between the tariffs and the hike in student loan payments, I'm so excited to be Pauper, PhD for the foreseeable future. Greatest country on earth!

April 1st and so naturally the weather in eastern Kansas calls for thunderstorms and hail. Spring said:

These woke cherry blossoms are only blooming earlier year after year to push their climate change agenda. Where does it stop.

If the wealthy have enough money to bribe citizens with $1,000,000 to vote for their preferred candidate, they have enough money to be taxed much more stringently. Instead, well be taxing them less!

Case after case of "protect women" guys soliciting sex from children. The right: He's still cool & that shouldn't reflect on the movement. A couple of ppl at Pal. solidarity camps shout something antisemitic & are immediately shouted down by their peers The right: Prison for life for everyone.

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If you materially support Hamas,as Netanyahu did for years, you get invited to speak to Congress. If you speak out against Zionism, as Mahmoud Khalil did, you get deported.

When viewed in light of the fact that increases in productivity have allowed us to maintain social security despite the tightening of the worker to retiree ratio, the pitiful growth in real wages for workers over the last 50 years really highlights how much wealth is being hoarded by the 1%.

In a battle of wills w the guy in the next stall. I'll hold it as long as it takes to be able to poop in peace, brother. Good luck.

Social security, the biggest and most successful program in our governments history, is obviously not a ponzi scheme, but it does share similarities with auto and home loans in that there is not enough money to pay off everyone currently paying in. With social security, that doesn't matter because

Ben stole Eugene Levy's eyebrows.

>90% of unvaccinated individuals who come into contact with a measles-infected person will contract measles. The recommended 2-dose MMR vaccine is 99% effective in preventing measles infection.

You might have missed it, but Amazon warehouse workers in Raleigh, NC are voting this week on whether to form a union. If they win, they'll be the first unionized Amazon facility in the South. Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

Everything's bad but I love you all. Happy Friday. Here's a picture of my beautiful cat.

People who migrated to android from iPhone, how did you gain access to your insta account? I'm having so much trouble.

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

The flashlight subreddit is being radicalized by the tariffs. More expensive flashlights and longer shopping times have them up in arms. They deserve better.

Reactionary Christians are very eager to recognize the primacy of “God’s law” when it has to do with gay people or abortion but when it comes to immigration, those man-made borders become more important than any biblical parable.