Someone who is a fraudster is by definition not a “enemy combatant.” What the hell are we talking about?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago
This is frying me
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3w agoIf the 2028 Democratic presidential primary were held today, which of the following candidates would you vote for? Harris 25% Newsom 15% Buttigieg 13% Ossoff 10% Kelly 9% Ocasio-Cortez 8% Shapiro 6% Pritzker 4% Beshear 3% www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...
Unethical 1970’s psychiatrist: I have created evil Netflix: hey this sounds pretty fun
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 4w agoNetflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’. The series follows 30 participants who enter a real prison and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They must see if they conform to the roles or if morality wins.
NEW YORK (AP) — At least three supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran's tour after Macklemore is dropped over pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.
Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
nytimes.com
HOMAN: You can't give me one example of someone arrested at a school REPORTER: I gave you an example of someone arrested at a school bus stop HOMAN: Is that a school?
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
SpacePrez@spaceprez.bsky.social · last mo.The polls are super bad for Trump so he's definitely going to try to cheat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
Your latest reminder: Trump's immigration policies are not-- and have never been-- popular. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump tries to quiet his mass deportation campaign. Voters aren’t moving.
New results from The POLITICO Poll show that half of Americans, including nearly a quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters, still say the president’s mass deportation campaign is too aggressive.
politico.com
this is an actual problem
Chicago grocers are severely affected by reductions to SNAP: ‘We need to bail out this industry’
In Illinois, the implications threaten not only individual households but also the viability of the Chicago area’s independent authorized SNAP retailers.
chicagotribune.com
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12mo agoanother point: grocery stores operate on razor-thin profit margins, so what happens when they suddenly lose the revenue they get from SNAP? (they close)
Not a novel concept, but the way "pedophile" is deployed in US politics feels distinct, in that it sublimates class consciousness by foregrounding predation that may be more familiar to say, a church community or small town. Big step up from just blaming Jewish people, though.
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social to @emmavigeland.bsky.social: “I think a lot of it was MAHA. Trump focused a lot on women. they’ve had some of the biggest betrayals—glyphosate Ruling, Trump throwing in w/ Big Ag. MAHA’s lack of trust in institutions is often valid. You don’t win that by being condescending.”
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
actual gestapo shit. "Video posted on social media showed two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appearing to handcuff a man at a Las Vegas airport while he screamed in terror."
ICE agents in plainclothes handcuff man at Las Vegas airport, shocking onlookers
After their actions attracted attention, the agents walked away, leaving Phu Nguyen with a handcuff attached to one arm. He was later arrested before his flight left Los Angeles International Airport
nbcnews.com
I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.
Chatbots cannot substitute therapy! Thank you, @majorityreport.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social, for having me on! Check out the full video - we covered quite a bit in this one.
Where data centers are really going… Thank you, @majorityreport.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social, for having me on! Check out the full video - these are just some of the incentives driving data center development to certain municipalities.
i have my own strong opinions about this but curious what you guys think this paragraph is doing in the Virginia Supreme Court's decision to nullify the will of the people
1. US sanctions are not international law, as much as Western media loves framing it so. Countries only comply because they're threatened by the US, not because it's some binding agreement. 2. China is responding to US sanctions on Chinese firms like Hengli. The US escalates and China responds.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5mo ago(Bloomberg) - China has ordered its companies to ignore US sanctions, an unprecedented act of defiance that threatens to trap a vast banking sector in the crossfire as tension rises between the world’s largest economies. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China has just blocked U.S. sanctions. This is huge. This is the beginning of the shift in global power. This directly challenges the U.S.’s ability to enforce its "long-arm jurisdiction" through the global financial system. Historically, U.S. sanctions worked because most
Re UAE's OPEC decision Oil has a different role for UAE's economy to Saudi Arabia's. UAE has lower dependence (oil:population ratio is more favourable) versus the high Saudi "fiscal breakeven" - ie Saudi requires a higher price to keep society content.
United Airlines and the flight attendant union have reached a tentative labor agreement that will take top pay to $100/hr by the end of the contract. Flight attendants will also finally be paid during boarding if this agreement is ratified.