Brother Manns From The 5th Floor

@kmanns.blacksky.app

Part time freedom fighter/dad. Tech, Retro Tech, social justice, transit revolution (give me more trains), Black on both sides

"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...

This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch

Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.

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Admittedly, I’m just not as caught up on what Congress has been up to, because they’ve been effectively neutered anyway, but I remember the Senate voted on arms to the Saudi’s a few years ago for the same reasons I thought. The Dems aren’t really an anti-war party, but they could be

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump approved and backed Saudi Arabia's strikes on the Houthis in a phone call with Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman, US officials said.-Axios

This is a great tweet, cuz save for SOME of the chicanery & prejudice I saw, I saw people of all types care about ground level work. Does the Centrist wing of the Dem party have anything for its most engaged voters to do other than “stay informed” and vote once a year?

ceej@ceej.online · 4w ago

being in the DSA is fun because you get to spend most of your time helping people with social anxiety canvass for democratic school board candidates and then go online to see people with blue wave emojis in their bios compare you to pol pot

i know it would be cathartic but there is no easy button to press that will suddenly break the spell and americans have to get used to the fact that they fucked up and they will always have to live in a world where they made the president a caesar then elected donald j. trump.

The good news is I didn’t get caught up in the progressive Platner hype. He isn’t on my ballot, and the ppl of Maine will make the call. The tattoo stuff was whatever, but army guy with more than 1 SA accusation? Yeah there were plenty of red flags, some folks choose not to see them