A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
Okay. Time to call your democratic senators and tell them that Bovino’s demotion and humiliation WILL NOT SUFFICE to fund DHS.
The Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota sends a message that masked federal agents can commit murder simply because an American citizen exercising their Second Amendment rights scares them, Tyler Austin Harper argues: theatln.tc/dq5MYg6M
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
The US did not grow because first pilgrims made a lot of babies, it grew because immigrants kept arriving. If we stop this dynamic, we stop believing in growth and I don’t think the country is ready for such a pivot.
"Immigration is good, actually" could be a very easy message to land in an environment where Americans increasingly just look at Trump and think "what the fuck is wrong with this guy's whole deal?"
Urban farms and gardens ease food insecurity, boost mental health, and create communities.
Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit
To understand any sort of inequality, we have to ask ourselves: What do we owe each other as members of the same society?
Biden vs. Trump price check - Month Nine. Trump promised to get grocery prices down on day one of his administration. So far prices for basic grocery items continue to increase since he was sworn in. All of these prices are from FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data.
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.
A screenshot of an X post from @factpostnews, posted 14 hours ago, featuring a news broadcast image. The post reads: "Host: In those critical moments after flash floods ripped through Texas, FEMA's acting administrator David Richardson could not be reached for 24 hours. That meant that under new rules put in place by the Trump administration, key resource deployments could not be approved. Search and rescue teams that are typically on the ground within 12 to 24 hours of a disaster didn't show up for 4 days." The attached image shows a news segment from "The Washington Post" on MSNBC, with a headline about Texas floods and FEMA, featuring a person speaking on air, with text overlay mentioning Acting FEMA Administrator Richardson and government indecision.
Just…unbelievably and grossly negligent.
Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements program spent two times as much on administrative costs as on health care costs — while preventing thousands of eligible Georgians from accessing health care.
Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c
For 10s of millions of Americans, politics is just "shopping with your vote for people who will play pretend & act as if your preferred conspiracy theory is real."
The fantasy could be "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "random chemical causes all our problems"--the process is the same.
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
They’re detaining wildfire fighters while on the job. Insanity.
Om #Mars
Convicted felon, Donald Trump, is on a crusade to hurt Americans because there isn’t any other reason to explain why he is making immigration checks of firefighters who are IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING WILDFIRES a priority.
Trump makes America less safe everyday.
On a rare occasion there are announcements which happen over the air that almost no one hears. These things usually don't make news. Happy 50th birthday @PghEMS
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
An estimated 93,000 will die a premature death due to the loss of SNAP between now and 2039.
The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
“Amazon dieback” is just one grim example of what scientists refer to as a tipping point: a threshold after which self-sustaining feedback loops irreversibly change a part of Earth’s climate system. How close is the world to crossing them?
The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized.
“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
NEW: As #txlege weighs disaster policies, experts say they're is overlooking part of what made the July floods so devastating: unregulated development in flood-prone areas.
Our interactive map shows some impacted sites in the Austin area were directly in floodways. www.statesman.com/story/news/l...
