10 years ago today

When I become mayor of Chicago, I promise to arrest 1000 more people for "selling ponchos without a permit"

Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com · 23h ago

The arrests were spread evenly across the first three days of the Grant Park festival, and there were slightly fewer than last year.

Law enforcement have used Flock and other automatic license plate reader cameras to discriminate, track protesters, and follow at least one woman seeking reproductive health care. Tell Congress: Withhold funding from cities that spy on people with Flock cameras! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

as disturbing as these terrorposts are, remember that this cosplay james bond airhead started out as a dimestore ragebait troll and is only a somebody because fascism elevates nobodies he is maga in miniature: a loser who rose through party ranks to become a mover; a mediocrity playing make believe

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

You mean you got taken by the guy who's entire existence is a scam who has never created anything ever and is only thought of a a genius because a style reporter from the WaPo said so? Weird. I cannot believe this is happening

The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterday

SpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.

Under-discussed Michigan politics story is that a co-founder of Uncommitted is about to become the Democratic nominee for a seat to the State Senate with the backing of Governor Whitmer

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

Independent videographer Patrick Nealis was pushed to the ground by police and arrested while documenting a May 31 protest against ICE outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ.

Videographer pushed down by police, arrested at New Jersey immigration protest

Independent videographer Patrick Nealis was shoved to the ground by a law enforcement officer and arrested while documenting a protest …

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Private prisons for any use are extremely disturbing. Re-opening one that has been shuttered for 16 years in a matter of months is scary. Have upkeep and maintenance been performed? Are all basic amenities functioning and safe? Is it actually safe for human habitation?

Matt DeLong@mattdelong.bsky.social · yesterday

The privately owned prison in Appleton, Minn., that was shuttered 16 years ago will reopen in the fall to hold ICE detainees

cam over 🧿

The second Trump era has, if nothing else, been a good illustration of the idea that the people at the top echelons of society, in finance, law, higher education, politics, etc., are often the most credulous fools you can imagine.

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · yesterday

Look, they're not gonna stop doing it until it stops working

100% of every public figure is due to someone realizing their time in the spotlight is almost up and they’re desperate for that to continue, and they realize the conservative ecosystem will turn you into a media figure if you promise to endanger as many trans people as possible

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterday

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

the nyt is for libs what Fox News is for conservatives it is propaganda meant to soften and protect the core of the conservative project in the US, aimed at liberals that is why it platforms a billionaire, so many libs will read his words and become fooled into believing his lies

the biggest and best movie of the year revolves around the perils and horrors that come with sacrificing a trans life in the name of a short term victory

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

ICE is a terrorist organization composed of fascist gestapo filth. They hate freedom and love tyranny. They are all moral failures and I will take great joy during their trials.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

This guy has been floating around the internet causing trouble in different communities for at least a decade. I've run into him on 4 different platforms

Roger (6’5”)@iamtherog.com · 2w ago

Does everyone here know that @craigbrittain.com, who is currently masquerading as an anti-MAGA warrior, was fined in 2016 for operating a revenge porn website? A *lot* of y’all follow him. ⚠️ Marked as unsafe. ⚠️ www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

New: here's why a Flock employee quit. Says he was 'lied to' Jonathan Paz's job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. But then something changed and he realized he needed to get out of the company. Watch the full conversation here and subscribe for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYY...

Don't quote me on this in like 10 years but I think one of the defining issues of the 2020s is "a better world is actually very easy to achieve, the powers that be are just not interested in achieving it."

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

this one will be forever hard to top in my mind. a cop, smuggling machine guns, in front of god and everybody.

Ex-Addyston police chief sentenced to 3 years probation for illegally trafficking machine guns

According to court documents, 66-year-old Dorian LaCourse played a key role in a conspiracy to traffic fully-automatic machine guns while chief of police for the Village of Addyston.

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no amnesty

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2d ago

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

i once sat in my ambulance with a patient for 10 hours because there were no ER beds because there were no beds available anywhere in the hospital we ran through every O2 tank we had and the hospital was so low on O2 tanks that they couldn’t give us a new one

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Seattle has its own vigilante group that will help you recover your stolen bike and I promise they were 100x more effective than the police and also sometimes the head lady tells you about her farm.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

fuck webp. all my homies hate webp

Genuinely don't think we're hearing nearly enough about the effective youth/GenZ protest movements in middle and lower-middle income countries in the past couple of years foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/30/c...

How Gen Z ‘Cockroaches’ Beat Modi at His Own Game

India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.

foreignpolicy.com

You'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant