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Idiocracy was a documentary.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to smell vintage books in a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh during a pouring rain?

How the BIC Cristal Ballpoint Pen Became the Most Successful Product in History

Imagine that - Donald Trump treating troops as if they were suckers and losers.

If she only had a group of people that could help her.

Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson dies at 82 https://twp.ai/4ioPO1

Decide which side of history you're on ...

This is the only type of news I can handle today.

90-year old Fr Peter O’Reilly, originally from Abbeylara, Co Longford, thought the best thing to do would be to join the protesters to bear witness and say: "We stand with you."

America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

Amanda Anisimova a class above today v Sonay Kartal. 6-1, 6-3 in the end. 🎾 #tennis #HSBCtennis

Why can’t the headline be…”Trump lied like a motherfucker to the troops”??? www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/p...

Rewording my earlier post. RFK Jr will be testifying before Congress. I am interested in what experts and others think would be the best way to leverage this time and opportunity for the public good. If you were behind the dais for this hearing, what would you do? What do you want to see asked?

Can all of the spell casters please do whatever you can to bring the rain?!

Before all this I would have thought that if we had to have a fascist, having a stupid, dementia-addled fascist running the country was better than having a smart one. Now I'm not so sure.

hope he is happy with his acquittal vote in 2021

But this year, things got weird: Republicans and their rightwing media machine aren’t even trying to promote their lies from the ’80s. At least not seriously. www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

☎️ Stop the Crypto Bill. Flood their phones. Why are the Sellout Sixteen bowing to the crypto kleptocrats? No legislation should pass now. Trump has federal troops occupying LA, is rolling tanks through DC in three days, and THIS is your priority?! Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 1/

Any update?

Heads up, Calgary! Got your tickets yet? #KatharineHayhoe June 22 at 6pm! www.ted.com/talks/kathar... #yyc

Donald Trump is more of a criminal than anyone on the streets of Los Angeles.

I will admit I get stuff wrong or have the odd bad take but I am going to be very smug that I called Coco Gauff winning in the way that she did

“Meanwhile, Atari’s humble 8-bit engine just did its thing," the engineer noted. "No language model. No flash. Just brute-force board evaluation and 1977 stubbornness." futurism.com/atari-beats-...

The McArdles and Barros get all persnickety about people leaving Twitter, in part they’re too lazy to do this kind of reporting, which shows how toxic and corrupt the company has become under Musk and Yaccarino ⤵️ Free link www.wsj.com/business/med...

Admitting “perfect storm of errors,” DHS has changed its story in the case of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, the 31yo Salvadoran who, on 5/7, was deported to El Salvador 28 minutes after the US 2d Circuit Court of Appeals forbade his removal pending appeal. ... /1 www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

My work here is done

Donald’s trade deal reads like a toddler’s scoreboard bragging fifty-five versus ten percent while mistaking tariffs for trophies. It's all bullshit posturing, lying nonsense. www.rawstory.com/tru...

Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Northern Virginia, New York

Is this capitalism?

One not-so-secret aspect of the attempt to occupy Los Angeles and other "blue" American cities? Not enough manpower to do the job. Trump and Miller are counting on your fear and obedience to do the work for them. Troops and total police officers? Not nearly enough. So speak out and march peacefully.

The Italian can then be heard speaking to Moutet in French, saying: 'Look at me, look at me!' despite the winner clearly doing just that as they shake hands 🎾 #tennis www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis...

so apparently there’s a woman on TikTok who literally just reads the Bible and because the scripture that she reads conflicts so much with right wing hypocrisy and cruelty people are trying to get her nursing license taken away.

Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

“Representation matters, she tells us, and, if we can rewrite our limiting storytelling models, we can remake the world. Yes, representation matters, but culture alone can’t do the work of politics, and neither can cultural critique.” A really thoughtful review of Sophie Gilbert’s Girl On Girl here:

If it walks like a dictator, and talks like a dictator, maybe it’s a…..

The first Black mayor of Omaha Nebraska, a Democrat, was sworn in Monday night. The next day there is a big ICE raid at a meat plant in Omaha NE. (Omaha is the one blue spot in that state.) The timing may be unrelated but I can't help but wonder.

If your library does not carry it, see if they have a way online or in person to request or suggest that a book be purchased. I've done this successfully a number of times with my library.

At no point in US or world history has the abundance of a resource led to widespread access to that resource. Resource-hoarding and exploitation are like the most fundamental elements of US culture

What ranking points are Sabalenka, Gauff, Swiatek and other leading WTA stars defending on grass? 🌱 #WTA #Tennis