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New Deal Democrat

Sometimes I do the RICO (Really Intense Cussing Online)
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This is sarcasm for those who are unfamiliar with me. Sad that needs to be said.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Law-abiding Dreamers arrested on basis of social media posts.

Why this is hell, nor are we out of it.

apnews.com/article/daca... 
Some DACA recipients have been arrested in the Trump's immigration crackdown
Some DACA recipients have been arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown
An organization is tracking the growing number of arrests among people with temporary deportation protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I think it's more like, "Would you list some of what you think are illegal orders being issued?"

I assume they know about STFU Friday.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
icymi, Elias Rodriguez (the guy who murdered 2 people outside a Jewish museum) made exactly one post here, bragging about sending screenshots to Stancil of people telling him to kill himself & that he agreed.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
An attack on Lenin is an attack on the trans community, Henry.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I think it's a question of how much car usage can be reduced. I'd like more mixed mode choices where a suburban couple going to a concert can park at the end of a rail line & get downtown.

If your stated goal is preventing all car usage, good luck!
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Huh. It's not clear what happened, but it started with a human hit & run driver. I'm not at all sure a human driver would've done better than the robot here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Long lines of taxis isn't a new phenomenon. People driving their own cars will be lined up outside the nearby parking lots. Cars take space & in a dense zone, it's going to cause backed up traffic.

Ideally, more people would use public transit, especially when it's as close as it is in that video.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Even driverless cars will never be as cheap as public transit, but a ton of people will continue to demand them because of convenience.
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I do not think sane people support nuking Israel!
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
They were fine with him going to a German brothel that's been accused of human trafficking.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Beinart posted about it on xitter & this is a reply from an editor at The American Prospect.
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Coincidentally, the 60s is when TV news networks started having the ability to send camera crews to cover events like the Selma to Montgomery marches. Video is often more effective than still photography, something we're still seeing today.
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Is the concern he might change some Israelis' minds?
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Where did I say they were "the vanguard of the movement"? They didn't have to send people from newsrooms in the north to cover the Civil Rights marches. Someone decided it was important enough to get in person reporting instead of relying on local news. Evelyn mischaracterized that reporting.
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think you confuse coverage of the Civil Rights marches & activism of the early 1960s with the coverage of urban riots after MLK's assassination, which were blamed in part on "Black Power" groups alleged to have communist ideas.
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm trying to track down what year that's from. Calling LBJ's relationship with MLK "complicated" is an understatement, but whatever he said privately, LBJ understood he needed MLK's support in public.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I'm not disputing J. Edgar Hoover ran a years long smear campaign against MLK.

I'm only addressing what the anchors on the Big 3 networks said at the time & this ain't it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Is this a news broadcast?

No.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
TV reporters were not seen as allies by the men swinging clubs at civil rights protesters. They were often attacked themselves because the footage they captured was so damning.
www.huffpost.com/entry/selma-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Your fabricated quote & depiction of national media coverage as "anti-civil rights" is ahistorical. You conflate reporting of something a local sheriff might have said with what the reporters & anchors were saying. The coverage of Bloody Sunday was pivotal.
www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You should take time to check on the actual history. National media coverage was a major factor in making people outside the south aware of the violence deployed against Civil Rights activists. If they made a mistake, it was elevating King as the sole spokesman.
nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/...
Media Historian on "Bloody Sunday" and the Late Rep. John Lewis
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  TV reporters and photographers were there, cameras ready, a...
nationalinterest.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I hadn't heard about the debacle in abortion access funds, but it's not a surprise. There's a lot to be said for focusing on your mission.
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think who was in charge of your local group determined the experience. All I remember from Cub Scouts is the pinewood derbies & identifying birds & trees.
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM