worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

One thing I keep thinking about is how Hereward the Wake was just a messy party boy until William’s thugs messed with his family.

Then he launched a rebellion and nearly brought down the House of Normandy.

That man HAS been identified. That man is Batman. Everyone else is "an unidentified man in a Batman costume".

From city council chambers to encampment sweeps, a costumed crusader is drawing attention to California's homelessness crisis—one person at a time. Batman of San Jose is December's Metropolitan of the Month.

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

A lot of people predicted, based on his past actions & stated beliefs, that Trump would go full Hitler if nobody stopped him. We were called hysterical and told to calm down.

The reason for this is that “Who is white?” is never a settled question because whiteness is a tool of social control not a defined ethnicity.

Also why you shouldn’t capitalize it. It’s a generic political concept with no firm boundaries, not the equivalent of being Italian or Indonesian.

the southern aristocracy was built on pedophiliac rape and that was the thing that more than anything else converted Northerners who encountered it from begrudging soldiers to crusaders.

When you help make it so the only names people know are Pretti and Good, you reinforce the culture that says these things aren't "bad enough" until white people get involved. This has been going on for a whole year. Many non-white people have died in this same way trying to protect their neighbors.

I started learning Alex Pretti's name and how good he was on the *same day* he was killed. This country only mobilizes like this for white people. And as long as that stays true, then we aren't actually changing anything about what's happening. It'll happen again.

tired: letting SCOTUS continue to rule as the highest court in the land

wired: handing over complete control of our judicial system to Scrotus, the bad guy from that Mad Max video game

Men like swords.
Women like swords.
Men like receiving swords.
Women like receiving swords.
Be romantic, go buy someone a sword.

To all the libs who are screeching about the hypocrisy of conservatives.

They. Do. Not. Care.

They don't believe DHS is telling the truth. They just don't care that it's a lie. If you labor under the belief that they have principles or that can beat them at their own game, you will never win

ngl I've always been in favor of gun control but this is a real strong point in favor that American gun culture was about southerner's right to violently resist reconstruction, not self-defense or fighting tyranny.

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

“He was just so sincere and very kind, just a sweet young man and eager to learn,” she told Zeteo.

Migrants. Trans men and women. The queer community. Communities of color. The unhoused+ downtrodden. We are fighting for everyone's liberation and freedom and joy.

Our black brothers and sisters have long warned us that someday, it would head our way, too.