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I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways. https://silver-guillotine.itch.io
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
It's pronounced "Shawnce" in Irish
I shouldn't be giving attention to the weird "blue wave" accounts, but I'm bored and the elitism here is sad.
Given the state of oligarchy in the US, most of the bullet points listed could be a good thing if his politics were aligned with the needs of the working class
“New analysis linking immigration data with employment data for specific areas suggests that the rapid rise in unauthorized immigrant worker flows increased local employment roughly one-for-one.”
www.frbsf.org/research-and...
DHS lies to avoid accountability. This has been clear from the start. Former agents wrote books about how rotten to the core ICE and CBP are.
There is no reform or training that can change the core purpose of a rotten agency.
My hope is that it's because there was so much negative media attention towards her. My hope is that the negative media attention keeps going
That seems like a good way for them to make money. Boost bad bets
I thought the Shamwow guy died in a plane crash?
Right, the cobalt miners in The DRC are the reason many US employees can see good wages while shareholders take the majority
Screenshot of a LinkedIn post with corporate bullshit about employees which highlights that "Apple generates over $2.5 million per employeed. NVIDIA generates over $3 million per employee" and other facts unintentionally highlighting how undercompensated employees are.
Business people generally tell you who they are and we need to start believing them.
If the numbers in this random LinkedIn post are accurate, Apple and Nvidia employees are being absolutely ripped off by the CEO and shareholders. This is seen as good by business people
This was done so the medical community would be better able to separate out gender nonconforming youth from trans youth. And all indications are that it worked! Studies have shown that 97.5% of trans youth at clinics have remarkably stable gender identities for at least 5 years.
Some observers believe that there is now an opportunity for democracy in Iran. They're wrong—there is now an opportunity for a republic in Iran.
Thank you 2 likers for proving my point. Love y'all
I'm certainly glad everything I say is unimportant and about 3 people see any of it.
The human mind cannot deal with 1,000 people at once
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
One of my favorite examples of a Reconstruction win is the number of state constitutions that protect public education for all. These have been a big obstacle for school privatization proponents so far
In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves.
She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.
She said this over 35 years ago, but Angela Y. Davis’s point is really pertinent to this political era.
“Everyone should learn how to become an activist on some level, in some way.
The US's biggest export is violence
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
ICYMI — an exiting news producer essentially confirmed everyone’s suspicions about what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS.
www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...
There has to be a tipping point at which travel times become too long because of traffic, right? Right??
"People want to be known for what they do, and that becomes their only identity. That is who they are. You are your job, you are your position, or you are your clothes... In order to do that, one's interior life must be hollow, truly frail." Well, damn, Toni Morrison, lol.
"Training in law is training in simplification. It is a trained incapacity to look at all values in a situation, and instead to select only the legally relevant ones."
- Nils Christie
Just thinking about how lots of people in the White House are making money off of this
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"Since the process treats unequals equally, existing social and political inequities are ignored and maintained. Paradoxically, justice may thus maintain inequities in the name of equity."
- Howard Zehr
"Justice is preoccupied with the past to the detriment of the future."
- Howard Zehr
Alec Karakatsanis on the ‘Usual Cruelty’ of the Criminal Justice System.
In his book, Karakatsanis argues that lawyers and judges have become numb to the cruelties of the criminal justice system—and ultimately stand in the way of changing it. www.texasobserver.org/alec-karakat...
"The utility has pointed to the region’s historically cold winter as a cause of rising heating demand and costs...But in an email to The 51st, Pepco’s own data show that their D.C. customers actually used more energy in January 2025 than January 2026."