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Someone started shooting fireworks in the neighborhood so big baby Roxy is hiding under my legs which are under her safety blanket, shaking and whimpering.

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JD Vance refers to Senator Alex Padilla as “Jose Padilla”

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kansas/brownback is a genuinely fascinating case because republicans really, truly got what they wanted in austerity budgeting, the whole nine yards and they hated it so, so much when people say "nothing they ever do will change minds no matter how much they fuck up" I think of kansas

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obvi not the main point but “Zohran does not own a car” is one of the reasons people like him more than the guy from the suburbs who keeps speeding in school zones

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Every day a different Democratic member of Congress should go to an ICE facility to inspect their detention facilities or speak to a detainee—and bring the media. That’s such an easy fight to have.

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i love when rich new yorkers are like “tax me too much and ill leave.” no they won’t. new yorkers are obsessed with new york, especially wealthy new yorkers. where else can they feel like the emperor in his glittering imperial core? indianapolis? be serious

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This is where nonviolent resistance tactics shine, though they require great physical courage to employ. Either those using the violent threats back down or they have to convert their threats into actual, visible violence.

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To be really clear: The reason members of Congress can't just walk right in is because of the guns. Armed DHS personnel won't allow entry. In other words, DHS is using armed force to break laws. Democrats need to wrap their minds around that. Accept that the frog is boiled.

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Not reading it, not today, but—let me propose that one big change between Bostock and Skrmetti is that the New York Times devoted itself to making trans rights controversial and arguing that reducing the number of trans kids getting on hormones was both reasonable and urgent.

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we can't curfew and police our way out of having few safe, fun, and social activities or spaces for teenagers in their neighborhoods when they're not in school

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I need it to cool down just a bit and stop raining so I can take this dog outside and brush her. Girl is looking ragged.

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Not just any judge. An 84-year old Reagan appointee. That’s how nakedly racist the racism is now. The Reagan appointees are offended.

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In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

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It took Netanyahu 29 years, but he finally found an American president who was itching to go to war with him against Iran.

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Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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CBO just estimated the macrodynamic impact on the cost of the GOP bill - i.e., "is this bill going to help the economy so much that it pays for itself?" CBO said that the bill pays for just 3.5% of itself - w/ a tiny upfront economic boost that declines over time. Legitimately embarrassing for Rs.

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An unintended consequence of the proliferation of AI? Sovereign Citizens now starting to add a whole bunch of new nonsense to their normal nonsense about being a “sentient being” and a LOT of stuff about their bodily fluids and functions to let us(?) know they’re not a computer. God I hate AI

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Every time someone says "This isn't America" I get pissed because all of this has happened before, it just didn't happen to white people. And before someone brings up the Irish, they weren't considered white at the time. They bought their way into whiteness via jobs that enforced oppression.

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Reminds me of the judge who had a Christmas Eve fines and fees docket - pay up or go to jail. The justice system has never been about justice.

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Dear senior lawyers: if you think a member of your team did a good job please tell them! Also if you're a senior associate or junior partner, also tell the senior partner. This job is hard and stressful, but even a little genuine recognition makes it easier.

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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

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we gone tell the truth today

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My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.

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Emily’s guide on how to not freak out when you read about what some bad actor has been charged with in the hours and days following an arrest:

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Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

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I have high cholesterol that’s only controlled by meds and love grapefruit. It’s a curse.

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I think a lot of great writers are tackling this. AFAIK most leave out how law enforcement (specifically sheriffs) are causing this drift; not stopping it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

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One important difference being that the Republicans know how to harness the energy of their ultra-ideological flank, while the Democrats spend incredible amounts of energy and money trying to neutralize theirs.

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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if the literal cops are out here saying "call us before you believe any cop saying theyre a cop is actually a cop" states need to pass laws about LEOs IDing like yesterday or they will face undermined cooperation and faith in the entire law enforcement mechanism at a level that beggars belief

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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

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Nathan Fielder's impact cannot be overstated

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Kristi Noem, Dr. Phil, and ICE went to this woman’s home in Huntington Park, CA at 6am to make a spectacle and you want me to be satisfied with @governor.ca.gov flowery words? Watch. It’s disgusting. Noem belongs in prison.

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THEYRE CHASING BORDER PATROL IN THOUSAND OAKS????

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It's one of my favorite legal topics to write about reason.com/2023/12/18/v...

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New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

submitted 7 days ago • 882 comments

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

submitted 8 days ago • 842 comments

Damn.

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Dogs are back from the ex’s and the cat is over the moon to have her girls back to bully.

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