go head on up to floor 7 if you’re gonna be a little bitch about it
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Legal immigration as most Americans conceive of it does not meaningfully exist in the United States. "Just come here the right way" is one of the most pernicious lies in contemporary US politics, accepted across the aisle as the goal of the immigration debate when it's impossible in reality.
You can opt out of biometrics at the airport. And you should. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4us... (from @deviantollam.bsky.social)
Declining Biometrics At Airports
YouTube video by DeviantOllam
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my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
ICE lies so much that journalists should not just scrutinize the agency's claims but should assume by default that they are untruthful. www.thebulwark.com/p/assume-ice...
Assume ICE Is Lying
Plus: How many citizens can Trump actually denaturalize?
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man all the trans women in the wnba must feel awkward right about now what? theres zero? theres been zero in the entire history of the wnba? theres zero trans women playing division I college basketball? huhh????? but this is the defining issue of our day???
Defector@defector.com · 6d agoWNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:
Anyone else still reading MRs with their eyeballs and evaluating them with their brains?
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should be more of a scandal that the FCC is banning a ton of electronics in the US (routers, cameras, drones, roombas) unless they go through a murky process to get an exception, and which largely only right-wing-friendly companies (SpaceX) seem to have managed
do you care about trans people? cool! cancel your new york times subscription! oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made! go fuck yourself!
I guess @kenjennings.bsky.social is busy trying to become less likable today. An unusual approach.
@lizdye.bsky.social please never stop saying IEEPA like that
“It’s a scary mass surveillance machine,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told ChicoSol, noting California Attorney General Rob Bonta has called other cities out for the same kind of illegal data sharing. “So it’s pretty clear that Chico’s in violation of the law.”
Chico PD granted ICE, Border Patrol, access to its ALPR data - ChicoSol News
The Chico Police Department says it has shut off license plate reader data sharing that, until July 8, appears to have been in violation of California state law. Two weeks after ChicoSol requested pub...
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I spend entirely too much time worrying.
I have been unafraid of dogs for a few years now and have still not gotten over the magical wonder of asking the dog to shake your hand and the dog understanding that's what you want and then doing it.
Jordan's military claims that they shot down two drones over its airspace. These were reportedly launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, not Iran. So that’s proxy attacks on Saudi Arabia, Jordan and possibly Israel in last 12 hours.
if there is virtue signaling, is there also vice signaling?
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
New: US cyclosporiasis outbreak now exceeds 12000 across 41 states w/6-week lag in case reporting, US CDC website replaces fact page with false vaccine autism claims, Covid surges in US and 6+ countries, 35% of Covid in Canada hospitals caught *in hospitals* and more: www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...
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If you require one of a few specific forms of ID in order to vote, don't you just make voter fraud *easier* to commit by whomever can print those forms of ID?
Video available online shows police shot this man at point-blank range while he was already on the ground. Police in the United States have killed more than 10,000 people since 2016 alone.
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w agoPolice murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.