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Mango Mussolini’s uncle talked to him about having taught the Unabomber as a student at MIT, even though the killer never attended MIT, and the uncle died a decade before the Unabomber was ever identified.

Do I have that about right . . .?

The #press needs to either start demanding answers about Red Don’s progressive #dementia, or apologize to the country for its breathless coverage of Biden’s subpar debate performance. Or both.

On his very worst day, #Biden was a better president, and is (and always has been) a better human being, than 47 on his best day.

OK just to see if I’ve got this:

Mango Mussolini’s uncle talked to him about having taught the Unabomber as a student at MIT, even though the killer never attended MIT, and the uncle died a decade before the Unabomber was ever identified.

The #press needs to either start demanding answers about Red Don’s progressive #dementia, or apologize to the country for its breathless coverage of Biden’s subpar debate performance. Or both.

On his very worst day, #Biden was a better president, and is (and always has been) a better human being, than 47 on his best day.

Since I began volunteering with a local hotline for #immigrants, what's happening here in #California has become pretty clear.

As you've probably heard, #ICE is not in any way concentrating on picking up actual criminals. Indeed, the vast majority of their activity is at car washes, big-box stores, and other places where immigrants might work.

They stop people walking down the street. They stop kids and their parents at high school graduations. They lurk around the courthouses (even improperly entering courtrooms).

Sometimes these efforts are semi-covert. They drive unmarked vehicles with out-of-state plates, or no plates (which isn't as stealthy a move as they seem to think). They famously wear no uniforms, and cover their faces—I would, too, if I were doing something so shameful.

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You know, it’s been a long day. I spent the afternoon working a hotline for callers who report #ICE actions on our streets —and those pricks have been busy.

Now I check the news and discover that Bronze Bozo has finally gotten his wish and has bombed #Iran , just as he’s wanted to do for a decade.

Wielding our #military against our neighborhoods, and sending them on unnecessary, dangerous, and expensive adventures overseas: these can only be understood as the acts of a lunatic, a fool, or both.

Sigh. I see that once again, newly-minted Middle East experts are weighing in on #Iran.

Should we be bothered that #nuclear sites belonging to the world’s greatest exporter of #terrorism are being destroyed?

Not one bit. Fuck #Iran. The government there has earned every bit of the pain they’re now suffering.

Was it a good idea for the US to get directly involved in a kinetic #war just so that the malignant mango Mussolini can claim credit for somebody else’s victory?

No, it was not.

#Israel’s attack is understandable. Abandoned by #Russia, their proxies destroyed, Iran was finally cornered. But a cornered extremist nation with a nuclear bomb is one likely to use it—and that could never have been permitted.

Getting the US offensively engaged in the conflict, however, is an act of political trophy-taking with minimal strategic value. Stupid, wasteful, and dangerous.

As Governor Newsom reminds us: the #fascists are inciting violence, because that gives them an excuse to crack down even further.

You only have to do TWO THINGS to beat this rapidly-weakening reich-wing administration:

  1. Take to the streets. . .
  2. . . . but remain non-violent.

Imagine a million of us or more peacefully demonstrating in cities large and small across the nation, engaging in non-violent civil disobedience. The federal brute squad attacks, but we are immovable. We do not retreat and we do not engage in violence.

The whole world will come to our side.

See you on Saturday!

Yes, yes: #CoryBooker shouldn't have supported Kushner's nomination as ambassador to France. I wish he hadn't. But who gives a shit who the f'ing ambassador to France is, particularly when anybody nominated by this administration is likely to be corrupt, incompetent, and immoral? In any event, the nomination was going through with or without Booker's vote.

Let's keep our eye on the big picture, folks. These purity tests don't work out well for us. Anybody who thinks Cory Booker isn't on the right side of this fight has taken leave of their senses.

As usual, the devil here is in the details.

The Red Don administration closed all funding for #refugees through the ORR. So how are they bringing over these Afrikaner so-called "refugees"?

They're relying on a smaller, still-funded (so far) program known as PCP, the "Preferred Communities Program". Many (but not all) refugee relocation agencies participate in PCP.

Notably, the Episcopalian Church does not participate in PCP. They therefore wouldn't have been able to settle the Afrikaners anyway.

So what they're doing is refusing to participate in a program in which they already have no part, and in addition they're closing up shop so they'll be unable to serve any actual refugees going forward.

Sounds a lot less heroic now, don't it?

#immigration #resist #Ω #DoNotComply #WelcomeTheStranger

npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65988/

A group of psychotic Republican conspiracy theorists in the #Minnesota legislature have proposed a bill "designating #mRNA injections and products as weapons
of mass destruction
[and] prohibiting mRNA injections and products".

As this is Minnesota, and not, say, Texas, one assumes sanity will prevail and this crap will end up forgotten by history (other than as a cautionary tale about what happens when you let the #fascist fox into the #democratic hen house.

So apparently the Lt. Gov. of Indiana is a fan of the Three-Fifths Compromise. 😳

The problem is less that an elected official feels that way (though, don’t get me wrong: that is NOT good), but more that he feels perfectly comfortable saying so out loud. In America. In 2025, 160 years after chattel #slavery was finally put to an end in this country.

#hate#racism#resist