This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
"We have the means to rebuild a 21st-century democracy. We just need to take that leap. It’s up to us to do it."
This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
We've got Gavin Newsom et al. eulogizing a version Charlie Kirk who did not exist, Trump et al. blaming his death on leftist violence that didnt happen, and the entire media apparatus denouncing Dems for dancing on his grave, something no Dems are doing. Has The Discourse ever felt more unmoored?
If you hear about a Mexican Independence Day celebration in your area, go.
There is strength in numbers and — especially if you’re white — you can protect your community just by being there and not flinching if ICE shows up.
These goons are cowards. Don’t be one.
The liquor store across the street from the auto repair shop blaring Celine Dion at 8 AM certainly is a choice.
Only Lenexa could just have 2,000 brown recluse spiders in a home--where they're _non-endemic_. academic.oup.com/jme/article/...
> Not including SMB3 in S Tier, if only for its technical achievement
"He started telling me he made his AI self-aware, and that it was teaching him how to talk to God, or sometimes that the bot was God — and then that he himself was God." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
On today's edition of "no, national things do have local consequences": www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/07/d...
"Lawmakers have introduced a dozen proposals making it harder to confront your local officials at public meetings and would shield more information from the public eye, according to CalMatters’ Digital Democracy database." calmatters.org/politics/202...
There's nothing like trying to use Generative AI to create a joke image around "the project manager has to go to project management jail" and receiving... a duck with hot dogs for hands.
Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence.
That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received.
The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.
To the graffiti artist in Philly with the tag "Petco": What? Why? No one is like "pet stores go hard."
An extremely specific book recommendation: the second half of Devon Price's Unlearning Shame deals with this very emotion.
Shout out to the 2/3rds of delivery drivers who now "give" the package to the porch goose instead of leaving it at the door
Why are you like this?
Why are you so delightful?
I agree with the scientist interviewed: On the "that's really cool" radar, it's pretty up there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"The most radical act is to step back and ask: What if the world isn’t ending, but changing? What if our role isn’t to be perpetual witnesses to doom, but active participants in whatever comes next?"
Every once in a blue moon, The Algorithm™️ provides something that is a true delight.
And today's magic? PIG RACING. youtu.be/5pK8a6TvgZQ?...
