Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

seriously, people do not understand just how much we subsidize the existence of rural America

remember when people criticized USAID for making up huge chunks of poor countries' government budgets?

anyways: wvpolicy.org/federal-fund...

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

There is no way this doesn't also imply that citizens are required to carry papers. If I get stopped while out for a walk or sitting on my porch, they'll take my word for it? What proof do I have I'm a citizen? None.

Other than my skin color of course, which is what underlies all this.

Since the Alien Registration Act of 1940, every noncitizen has been required to carry their documents with them at ALL times. That applies to every green card holder, every tourist, every foreign student, etc...

No admin in the modern era has EVER tried to enforce this law.

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” [the article, on her protestations]

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Christopher Columbus died 270 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, which was 249 years ago, but sure, “we” are back.

[Goose chasing guy gif] “who do you mean by “we” motherfucker”

"... some acts of violence from demonstrators in recent weeks."

@baylisswagner.bsky.social what acts would those be? Like, just one of them?

archive.is/Qk6xY#select...

Everything else aside...Dems should not be running 77 yos for Senate

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Looks like a full-court Trump cabinet press against the No Kings demonstrations.

They're afraid.

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

the pillars of tenure as an institution are being able to sexually harass people and to be racist for Halloween

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

Catherine's tweet is one of the best. Bringing it over here for preservation.

God these evil people just open their mouths and say "we're evil and we're trying to hurt you" and, like, nobody minds?

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Also, there’s a meta (and Meta) comment to be made here that the AIbros themselves don’t understand “no” or the concept of consent generally.

(Linguist hat on) Negation scope is genuinely complex AND absolutely essential to any interpretation of human language.

That said, LLMs fail at even simple cases like this, because they have no model of syntax. Meaning is more than “these words occur together” no matter how many words you look at.

Every ICE agent is a monstrous goon familiar to all of history and every neighbor protecting neighbors from ICE is braver than the troops chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

This is the danger of the wide acceptance of AI* as a source of truth. When this slop becomes the default platform for news, we are in deep trouble.