Chaka Khan When the Walls Fell
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"Stop hitting yourself" as political press conference.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM
"Stop hitting yourself" as political press conference.
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We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered
January 26, 2026 at 5:34 AM
We call for a deescalation of tensions from both sides, the murderers and the people being murdered
We've had to sit through five solid years of discourse about how "learning loss" calls into question the wisdom of COVID lockdowns. Are any of these same pundits going to pipe up about the societal effects of five year-olds being arrested on their way to school by men in tactical combat gear?
ICE agents in Minnesota detained at least four children from the same school district, including a 5-year-old, deepening skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims of targeting violent criminals. https://wapo.st/4sQVmpA
January 22, 2026 at 7:29 PM
We've had to sit through five solid years of discourse about how "learning loss" calls into question the wisdom of COVID lockdowns. Are any of these same pundits going to pipe up about the societal effects of five year-olds being arrested on their way to school by men in tactical combat gear?
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The ACLU has a Mobile Justice app that will automatically record video and send it to your local ACLU affiliate if you get attacked by ICE and they try to delete your video or steal your phone. It’s now available in 17 states and Washington D.C.
www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...
www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...
Record and report interactions with police using the ACLU app -- here's how
Learn if your state supports the ACLU Mobile Justice app.
www.cnet.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:22 AM
The ACLU has a Mobile Justice app that will automatically record video and send it to your local ACLU affiliate if you get attacked by ICE and they try to delete your video or steal your phone. It’s now available in 17 states and Washington D.C.
www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...
www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...
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The narrative of the ICE shooting outside of the US is very much not "woman killed, but she was being dangerous and not following orders :( "
it's simply "unarmed mother executed by masked government agent." Because much of the rest of the world doesn't think disobeying a cop forfeits your life
it's simply "unarmed mother executed by masked government agent." Because much of the rest of the world doesn't think disobeying a cop forfeits your life
January 8, 2026 at 4:54 AM
The narrative of the ICE shooting outside of the US is very much not "woman killed, but she was being dangerous and not following orders :( "
it's simply "unarmed mother executed by masked government agent." Because much of the rest of the world doesn't think disobeying a cop forfeits your life
it's simply "unarmed mother executed by masked government agent." Because much of the rest of the world doesn't think disobeying a cop forfeits your life
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we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
January 5, 2026 at 8:44 PM
we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work
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You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
If you thought AI peaked with uncanny images of hands with seven fingers and Google telling you to eat rocks, here's another feather in its cap: it now allows companies to make 5000 spam calls in a five-minute period! Everyday I feel better about lighting the planet on fire for this tech revolution!
RTÉ Radio 1 on Instagram: "Cyber security expert and IT specialist Colin Baker joined #Drivetime to explain the recent influx of scam calls 📞"
889 likes, 29 comments - rteradio1 on December 15, 2025: "Cyber security expert and IT specialist Colin Baker joined #Drivetime to explain the recent influx of scam calls 📞".
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December 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If you thought AI peaked with uncanny images of hands with seven fingers and Google telling you to eat rocks, here's another feather in its cap: it now allows companies to make 5000 spam calls in a five-minute period! Everyday I feel better about lighting the planet on fire for this tech revolution!
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It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
The US attack on a Venezuelan boat is grotesque, plainly illegal, and not in any way unprecedented. Kissinger's directive in Vietnam was "anything that flies on anything that moves." Madeline Albright said it was "worth it" when asked about 500,000 Iraqi children who were killed by US sanctions.
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The US attack on a Venezuelan boat is grotesque, plainly illegal, and not in any way unprecedented. Kissinger's directive in Vietnam was "anything that flies on anything that moves." Madeline Albright said it was "worth it" when asked about 500,000 Iraqi children who were killed by US sanctions.
Pathological conflict avoidance has just never been an inspiring political philosophy and never will be.
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Pathological conflict avoidance has just never been an inspiring political philosophy and never will be.
The only democracy in the Middle East ™
After spending nine months in an Israeli prison without trial, 16-year-old Mohammed Zaber Ibrahim, a Palestinian American teenager from Florida, was released on Thursday. He was arrested in February when soldiers raided his West Bank home in the middle of the night.
American 16-year-old freed after nine months in Israeli jail
Mohammed Zaber Ibrahim was arrested in the West Bank as a 15 year old and charged with throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles — an allegation he denies.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The only democracy in the Middle East ™
This is always how centrist critiques of the Left work, by avoiding substantive discussions of complex social issues in favour of abstract philosophical debates.
the idea is that moral clarity or certainty is somehow dangerous. of course, everyone who argues this is also morally certain, just about different things. this is just a way of devolving the debate into abstraction.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is always how centrist critiques of the Left work, by avoiding substantive discussions of complex social issues in favour of abstract philosophical debates.
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There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, a new survey shows. The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, new survey shows
The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
www.dublininquirer.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
There’s a huge gulf between levels of fear of Dublin city centre, and levels of crime, a new survey shows. The City Centre Crime Victim Survey was commissioned by Dublin Inquirer and carried out by Amarách Research.
I think this is largely due to the right's success making 'political' a toxic term. 'Political' is a lot like 'elite' or 'politically correct,' terms only used in opposition and never self-applied. Hard to defend the necessity of doing politics when it's only something other people do!
This brain-dead discourse is *everywhere* and it drives me insane.
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I think this is largely due to the right's success making 'political' a toxic term. 'Political' is a lot like 'elite' or 'politically correct,' terms only used in opposition and never self-applied. Hard to defend the necessity of doing politics when it's only something other people do!
I love how the argument for Newsom is basically, 'you can have a Dem who's good at shitposting, or you can have a Dem who doesn't hate trans folks and homeless people. Pick one!'
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I love how the argument for Newsom is basically, 'you can have a Dem who's good at shitposting, or you can have a Dem who doesn't hate trans folks and homeless people. Pick one!'
At our local grocery shop, a guy has been coming in every day to rant anti-immigrant nonsense, part of the 'Ireland is full' far right movement that's been active here for a few years.
October 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
At our local grocery shop, a guy has been coming in every day to rant anti-immigrant nonsense, part of the 'Ireland is full' far right movement that's been active here for a few years.
Yet another chance to remind everyone that, in 2021, the Trailblazers had the chance to hire Becky Hammon (a 6x WNBA champion with 7 years' assistant coaching experience) as head coach, but instead went with Chauncey Billups, who had barely a year of assistant coaching experience.
Billups, Rozier arrested in gambling investigations
Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested as part of a pair of investigations related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, au...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yet another chance to remind everyone that, in 2021, the Trailblazers had the chance to hire Becky Hammon (a 6x WNBA champion with 7 years' assistant coaching experience) as head coach, but instead went with Chauncey Billups, who had barely a year of assistant coaching experience.
It's genuinely depressing that there is really no one in either party in America arguing that immigration is actually a good thing. The differences between Dems and Repubs right now on this issue are only in how draconian the militarisation of the border should be.
When will be ready for honest pragmatic conversation about human mobility and citizenship in a changing world — rather than demonising parts of our population? #NomadCentury
Six percent of *all children* in America are US citizens who have at least one undocumented parent.
(Not a typo, source in thread)
(Not a typo, source in thread)
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It's genuinely depressing that there is really no one in either party in America arguing that immigration is actually a good thing. The differences between Dems and Repubs right now on this issue are only in how draconian the militarisation of the border should be.
The Attorney General of Texas just declared transgenderism a form of "leftist terrorism" while America's leading political pundits are mired in a conversation about why the Left needs to turn the temperature down in our political discourse.
Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Attorney General of Texas just declared transgenderism a form of "leftist terrorism" while America's leading political pundits are mired in a conversation about why the Left needs to turn the temperature down in our political discourse.
My excitement when a new big band announces a tour is instantly dampened by my remembering what it's like to try and get tickets to big tours in 2025.
October 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My excitement when a new big band announces a tour is instantly dampened by my remembering what it's like to try and get tickets to big tours in 2025.
Why does "turning the temperature down" in our political discourse only ever involve lionising people who have spent their entire careers creating division and turning the temperature up?
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Why does "turning the temperature down" in our political discourse only ever involve lionising people who have spent their entire careers creating division and turning the temperature up?
It's pretty neat that we didn't even need to wait for Bluetooth to work properly for it to be the only way to listen to anything!
October 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It's pretty neat that we didn't even need to wait for Bluetooth to work properly for it to be the only way to listen to anything!
This is clearly serious and scary but also just so sad. I continue to be amazed at how pathetic the vision of masculinity at the core of the MAGA movement is. Just the most try hard, cartoonish, insecure take on manhood. As a parody of toxic masculinity this would be mocked as way too heavy handed.
Hegseth: "No more dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship ... we are done with that shit."
October 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is clearly serious and scary but also just so sad. I continue to be amazed at how pathetic the vision of masculinity at the core of the MAGA movement is. Just the most try hard, cartoonish, insecure take on manhood. As a parody of toxic masculinity this would be mocked as way too heavy handed.
Sometimes I start to see reasons for optimism for Democrats in future elections. Then I see one of these fundraising emails...
September 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Sometimes I start to see reasons for optimism for Democrats in future elections. Then I see one of these fundraising emails...