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Teacher who lived in South America for a very long time, now back in USA. Usually going on about politics, policy, school, or Everton.
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We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

got a full-on, out-the-pickup-window nazi salute from someone driving past the Austin #TeslaTakedown protest... that was a new one for me

I'm sorry, but pretty much 100% of people should report self-censoring at work because IT'S WORK

It is odd

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

Certain activists fought market-rate housing in the Mission, arguing 100% affordable housing was the only option. 2 Mission orgs then proposed 100% affordable housing & the same activists are now fighting it. It’s never been about “affordable housing.” It’s always been about straight-up NIMBYism.

another thing McBride points out is that historically successful civil rights movements were willing to compromise. which is very true! but we’re not being offered a trade, we’re just being told to cede ground.

No more algorithmic boosting of pro trump inflation anecdotes bsky.app/profile/gell...

We are with the urawa red diamonds fans, apparently

Anyone who supports cuomo for mayor is a fucking degenerate and you should never treat them as anything else

Academic economics is filled with papers whose authors are desperately trying to make a broader point - one is the "market for lemons" by akerlof, the point of which is if people can't distinguish quality from shit the only thing available to buy (used cars but everything) will be shit

wait so like 90 percent of the wapo editorial board, which routinely endorses DC candidates, doesn't live in the district. but david leonhardt, who wrote the cuomo endorsement for the times, does live in DC.

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

Fundamentally, American media culture places more prestige on being wrong cleverly than being right simply. They’ll spend 50,000 words sucking off a Nazi with a polysyllabic vocabulary before they interview the nice lady who volunteers at the animal shelter because she likes dogs.

Meanwhile a journalist who promotes Great Replacement Theory, supports ethnic cleansing and is cited in the manifesto of two Islamophobic mass murderers is a regular on BBC Radio 4

🐾 #dogs 💔😿

I have lost track of how many people have said “But Cuomo will be OUR bully” to me. Just first of all, that is not how bullies work.

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

Why you might even say this is precisely what policies of “institutional neutrality” and opposition to “viewpoint discrimination” are design to foster. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

wait what? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

Video conferencing and remote collaboration is one of the tech industry's truly impressive world changing inventions and of course they were first on the idiot train to demonizing remote work

Very true. I saved my niece,she was about 4 yrs old at the time,from drowning in a swimming pool while on holiday in Majorca and she was less than 2 mtrs away from her dad and nan and no one noticed (Yes,she does have shit parents). I saw her,jumped in and pulled her up.Everyone just looked...

don't be a terf, don't be a racist, don't publish lies in the newspaper, and you'll probably be fine.

Especially if the author publicly identified as a pedophile

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

the era of postmaterialist voting is profoundly stupid

can’t overstate how shoddy the actual work is. “the framers didn’t think black people counted in the constitutional order” falls apart with a single question: “well what did they think about all the free blacks that most of them lived around, encountered, and even hired for work?”

according to the internet (not grok), the enslaved population of south carolina (for example) in 1790 was 43%. When one ponders how jim crow happened/persisted, the real question is how could it not have?

he's right

Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children. The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican. 67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans. www.whoismakingnews.com

It rocks that the dynamic at all of Musk’s companies is employees trying to make a product that works while their boss keeps screaming “nooooo, it has to suck”

Watching this man try to get rid of imaginary raccoons he thought were invading reminds me of what white people are currently doing to America to get rid if immigrants they think are invading

this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

Garcia said he was shaken by what he heard while he was detained. “They call them ‘bodies,’ they reduce them to bodies,” he said. “My blood was boiling.”

Tomorrow midday game in Seattle featuring Inter Milan and Urawa Red Diamonds tickets $37 (£27.49), lower level. Figured I may as well watch one of these games if it got this cheap for decent seats when I didn't have to work, so it looks like I will be in the rain for a bit.