MBC
I wanted to be Tom Hall and Joe Meno, but I’m just me.
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- Broken Social Contract
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- JUSTIFIED “FUCK ICE” CHANTS #AEWDynamite
- Yes. Yes! Thank you
- "By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
- If study after study shows what actually ends homelessness, it's worth asking: whose interests are served by keeping that truth obscured?
- 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
- I stand corrected. Four out of 5 Democrats want to abolish ICE. Any elected Dem asking for less is outside the mainstream of their party.
- Their new poll came out today. It's up to 79% support including 66% (!) strongly support. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
- contrast this with Walz in Minneapolis just narrating everything that’s happening
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- If you have a billion dollars or more, you are evil. You don't start out as evil, so it's not like only evil people ever get a billion dollars; it's just that being a billionaire forced you to make a choice, be evil or change how you do things and stop being a billionaire. Billionaires choose evil.
- STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”
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- The Millenial belief that John Lennon would be a MAGA guy is such consistent miserable cope. Why? What about him hints at that? He's not even American! At worst he'd be a guy who thinks Wallace and Grommit are funnier than Bugs Bunny.
- Somehow I don’t buy that a bunch of ICE/CBP/DHS guys afraid to eat fajitas without masks are going to form the Masters of Evil
- Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo
- I'm not really confused, he thinks being critical of Israel is worse than kidnapping people off the street
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- This guy saw the ruthkanda post and said hold my beer
- Cross-posting this comment from Jeet Heer over on Twitter. It really is kind of funny that Musk is just totally unable to pick up on code and innuendo.
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- Nothing more to add but goddamn, Catherine O’Hara. It just didn’t, and won’t, get any funnier than her
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- I get it that Hayes is using a figure of speech but American journalists could have told us the truth about what the Biden Administration was doing when it was actually happening and exposed who else was pressuring them to tell lies instead of facts.
- I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- What makes Gavin Newsom such a skilled politician is that he stands up to Trump’s bullying with piping hot memes AND is able to agree with Trump about policy www.sacbee.com
- free speech isn’t legal anymore
- This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.
- Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
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- Holy shit. The Biden DOJ investigated Ilhan Omar???
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- yes ICE has a lot of money now. thats true. you know what else is true? democrats spent the last 2 decades building the infrastructure that allows ICE to spend that money as quickly and efficiently as possible
- detention centers dont magically appear overnight. 90% of ICE detainees are held in for-profit prisons owned by corporations like geo group and corecivic. these companies owe their wealth to bipartisan subsidies going back to the 1994 crime bill under clinton
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- saw someone call schumer cowardly and chide him for lacking the backbone to call for ICE to be abolished, & it must once again be pointed out that that is untrue. he is not trying to oppose the republicans and failing, he is on the same team as the republicans, and his enemy is you
- his job is to not oppose the republicans, & to occupy the space that someone who might oppose the republicans could use to do that. when he is forced to do something, it is his job to water it down as much as possible. he is not failing, he's doing his job perfectly
- One problem with advocating for censoring unwanted political content on TikTok is that you might get your way
- we should take all their money. not joking. these guys are completely incompatible with democracy. there’s no reason we have to tolerate them with any kind of power. take their money and give them a garbage route so they can be useful to society for the first time in their life. otherwise, prison
- Oddly, @jonrauch.bsky.social does not praise any of the people who came to this rather obvious realization before he did. Nor does he take time to ponder what *else* he might learn from those people. In fact, the piece drips with the same old condescension & hostility toward those people! Amazing.
- This is the way. Any 2028 Dem candidates need to start saying that on Day One: (1) all ICE agents fired; (2) pensions/benefits defunded; (3) forced to pay backpay as restitution to victims; and (4) only way to avoid prison is to become a cooperating informant
- Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
- the democrats in power are letting this all happen because it aligns with their class interests and the wants of their wealthy owners. if they wanted to stop it they would fight it but they support ice, the police, and the military, which is why they always vote to give them more money and power.
- Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
- Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
- median dem elite: 83 years old, fondly recalls calling cops on vietnam protestors in college. likes to remind people that israel is besieged on all sides by “the arabs.” median gop elite: 23 years old, got job because the veep liked their 4chan posts, 3rd son of food processing plant oligarch
- 📢ICE GET THE HELL OUT OF MINNESOTA. Minnesotans please join tomorrow’s ICE Out of Minnesota Day of Truth & Freedom here: iceoutnowmn.com
- This is quite literally one of the stupidest human beings alive
- I would gently suggest that the highly paid Congresspeople who are failing at their very easy jobs could perhaps talk about two things. I know how crazy that sounds, but these are crazy times.
