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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

"law and order" is shorthand for "stick it to black people"

As someone who grew up idolizing independent record labels like Dischord and Matador I was fascinated (in a sad way) by this @nicksylvester.bsky.social piece on the diminished role of the indie in today’s music industry smartdumb.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

I had a weekly call on which the lobby music was a bluesy 12-bar piece that faded out and then back in. So you think you're getting something new and back around comes the same music. Over and over and over. A few minutes and you're looking for something to plunge into your ears.

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El Salvador could Leo Ryan him too.

trump: fuck you xi: no, fuck you trump: *crying*

it’s what Jackie would’ve wanted

snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. This number can connect you to both the House of Representatives and the Senate offices.

Time to start impeachment proceedings. If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy. If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?

A little louder for those in the back.

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I'm not sure which are worse, trump supporters that didn't see this coming or those that did and still voted for him.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

This is right. But also, a key conceit of deportation allowing govt to skip normal criminal law process rules is that deportation is “non-punitive”. If you’re being sent to a foreign gulag to be held forever, that’s absolutely a criminal penalty and it should trigger full due process protections.

It feels like we should be in the streets right now, what with the president saying, in defiance of court orders, he's not going to lift a finger to get Garcia back.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Feels weird to barge in with good news, but The Onion is hiring two more fellows: Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Here's a link to our Video Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.

the pronoun thing is so incredibly stupid at so many levels, imagine knowing that you live a life so devoid of anything interesting that you have time to sit around steaming at what someone else put in their bio, like why would you ever confess this in public

Are we great again, yet?

🎶 Come sweet death One last caress 🎶

If generative A1 gives us nothing else, at least we had the memes.

Does the author think Spanish-speakers are saying Latinx?