lmfao the only scandal they have on him is that his parents love him
16.07.2025 18:35
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lmfao the only scandal they have on him is that his parents love him
I don’t know how to explain how utterly unusual this is. People so very rarely do this.
One incorrect thing in @jessicavalenti.bsky.social’s piece is that the woman has not been released on bond. She is still in jail. We are getting her out tomorrow.
freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
A poster with a cat and the words: THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNING THE WRONG ICE Is MELTING
Good morning 🫡
Big news: The NYC Central Labor Council - AFL-CIO just announced that it is endorsing Zohran
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
I really do think this might be the worst Supreme Court of all time, which is saying something for an institution that coexisted with slavery
These motherfuckers are even worse imo bc they are *also* out here using antebellum reasoning and pursuing antebellum goals but well post bellum!
About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST
Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"
proud I got my own mom from "the protestors are making a mess of the city" to "I guess Trump is just taking Bukeles' advice--but there are laws here" in 5 minutes
People who want to tone police the protestors in LA should either 1. read a book or 2. watch season 2 of Andor.
we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning
I get how this is a very appealing message but the implication is that state repression is acceptable once protests cross a line. That doesn't actually help a movement for justice like the opposition to ICE and pulls attention away from the injustice the movement is opposing.
What's strange about all this (having some subject matter interest in all three of the agencies being discussed, yet not an admin law person) is that the fed is *the least* responsive to any democratic norms (not the same as "subject to presidential control"), as currently run, of the group
TIL about Reagan's impact on public housing and recalled what he did to UC tuition. The elimination of Grad PLUS loans and IBR etc. is advancing the same agenda to make higher ed white again 😭
1) This bullshit is *costing* us a ridiculous amount of money.
2) It never was about "cutting costs;" it was always about control.
…I said "THIS WAS ALWAYS ABOUT USING THE RHETORIC OF EFFICIENCY & BUDGET TO GAIN ACCESS & LAY CLAIM TO SENSITIVE DATA & WEAPONIZE IT AGAINST PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE."
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
The list of eliminations are extensive and horrific.
National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities, Head Start, rural health programs, public health workforce, Fogarty International Center, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, among so so many others that help so so many people.
I’ve lived in a relatively developed country that also lacked basic food regulation (China) and you get sick on a very regular basis.
related, as I pointed out in @ballsandstrikes.org, that's just not how due process works
"people shouldn't get due process if they broke the law" ok but it's *through* due process that a judge determines whether anyone actually broke the law so where are we now
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security's "death master file," which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you
I've been recommending people read Aziz Rana's book (for the chapter on socialist history and my hero Crystal Eastman) and so happy to share the dig is doing a 3 part series on its content pls pls pls listen !! thedigradio.com/podcast/sett...
The assault on access to justice is sickening. I wish there was a place to keep track and that it was easier to give to all the orgs losing funding rn. Acacia, the door, Esperanza …
Musk routinely denigrates federal employees, and is turning the public sector into a toxic workplace. But you can't criticize him: Musk is using AI "to scan through agency communications to find any anti-Musk, anti-Doge, or anti-Trump statements.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
NEW 🧵
The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.
Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
Many medical authorities view measles, which is especially contagious, as the canary in the coal mine, but pertussis cases may also be a warning, albeit one that has attracted far less attention. @deldeib.bsky.social @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Oh god
Besides this being completely bonkers I keep wondering who is going to do the work of auditing and investigating these firms ? Are there really that many goons out there??? Takes the cake for getting paid to do nothing
