He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss
The kids these days will hardly believe this, but a mere decade ago, we had a presidential election in which effectively the only issue on the table was the security of communications at the highest level of government.
MS NOW@ms.now · 2d agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.
"are texas christian nationalists forcing kids to read the bible to give them a thorough education in classical western letters or are they doing it to indoctrinate kids into their fascist death cult" seems like an easy question to answer
Annals of Unsurprising Results: Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Important to remember that most if not all the antivaxxers you ever see or hear are vaccinated against things like measles. Their whole movement is forcing children to take the risks that they never do (because they think children are property)
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 4d agoUS child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
no one called it 'cutting off family' when these same parents threw their gay kids out of the house. wild how that works.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d agolol come the fuck on
BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT HANGING THEMSELVES FROM TREES.
I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat is the right-wing vision for a world where immigrants have been deported and public services cut? Care and other services would dry up. The return of living in squalor for those beyond working age? The workhouse? The pauper’s grave?
Getting all my political talking points from the comments of the pro wrestling subreddit from now on.
You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d agoThere’s been surprisingly little about how we are in the very last years of living memory of service in WW2.
A lot more white people are going to find out that it's a smaller club than you think and your whiteness alone does not get you in it.
Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d agoWe. Warned. You. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE
I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d agoWow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
when the DSM-6 adds "AI psychosis" this video will be included in the entry
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 7d agoHahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.
Ian Johnson@mrianjohnson.bsky.social · 7d agoDEI means recruiting the best candidates and appealing to the widest possible customer base - which results show is good for people, and for business www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Lagunas was identified on social media by community ICE watchdog Ismael Cordová-Clough one week ago. In both Chicago and Minneapolis, he has threatened people by telling them they won't "like the outcome" if they continue observing. We've watched his behavior escalate over the last year.
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Musk's genocide.
Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · last wk.“One baby at a time, the world is marching toward a grim milestone: Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.” apnews.com/article/usai...
(1) clearly invoke your 6th amendment right to counsel (2) clearly invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent (3) shut up You can’t talk to cops. They aren’t your friends. Theyre not there to help you. They’ve targeted you & are looking to build a case against you. Don’t help them.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last wk.What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
It will take a hell of a lot for me to ever forgive the people who did this, as well as those who cheer them on.
Matt Cameron@mattcameron.bsky.social · last wk.The end of TPS was only finalized a few days ago and it is only now starting to break as they are losing their jobs and being detained and feeling the heft of this wholly fucking evitable human tragedy that some of the worst people on the planet have brought upon them
The death estimate is very uncertain but the lower bound is over 8 million and the upper bound is over 19 million. All while US spending has increased overall. Just a monstrous policy choice by monstrous people.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · last wk.14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
The Trump admin says it's saving migrant children from trafficking. But what they don't tell you is that once ICE finds a kid, they put that kid into deportation proceedings, and if they turn 18, they get thrown into an ICE jail. Oh, and they made it MUCH harder for trafficking victims to get visas.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
they hate the left and want the left to lose so every story is spun to make the left look maximally bad
Ernest Penfold@penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · last wk.the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
Only the Left Has Agency is a functional pillar of a particular style of punditry because admitting that everyone's behavior reacts to political developments rather than just vices and neuroses invites the comparisons (e.g. ICE kidnappings vs mean tweets) that undermine "both sides" framing
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last wk.Only the left have agency taken to absolute absurd degrees, nothing bad can ever happen that isn't our fault.
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
"She had to lose a brother to get this seat" yes and that brother was Lindsey Graham, that's already its own reward.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Darlene Graham: "I'm not being handed this seat"
The only to understand about "MAHA" or Trumpism is that these people all believe the fundamental flaw with our society is that we devised too many ways to intervene against the laws of nature to allow The Weak to survive. They're solving the problem that some kids should be dying but aren't.
i think a good amount of the anti-vax stuff you're hearing more and more from Republicans is that they are afraid of needles and trying to rationalize that they don't want to get an owie