Trump and CBP clearly violating court orders to deport a university professor because she attended a funeral for Hassan Nasrallah...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/brown-university-rasha-alawieh-deported-lebanon
Whatever structures people assumed were gonna act as a check are being ignored.
ICE and CBP were always gonna disregard whatever laws to eagerly implement a white supremacist, authoritarian agenda.
This is such a different space from even his first term and we need to act en masse accordingly.
17.3.2025 15:13Trump and CBP clearly violating court orders to deport a university professor because she attended a funeral for Hassan...I've always loved legal dramas. As a kid John Grisham was my jam. And in my defense his politics are actually pretty decent. Courtroom stuff has always fascinated me. But I hate all the movies that show prosecutors and defense attorneys having friendly drinks at a bar, commiserating about how they're all just part of the justice system - playing a necessary role.
Every defense attorney I have ever respected fucking despises prosecutors; there is no universe in which prosecutors can be understood as anything other than enthusiastic, ambitious cogs in a system that profits off of cycles of oppression and injustice. Any lawyer who misconstrues this as a jovial, righteous sparring match is so clearly part of the goddamn problem. Fuck all that propaganda
17.3.2025 04:18I've always loved legal dramas. As a kid John Grisham was my jam. And in my defense his politics are actually pretty decent. Courtroom...Leave it to Democrats to have one point of electoral leverage amidst fascist ascendancy and buckle immediately.
But no yeah, vote blue!
These fickle monsters can't even muster a unified statement of condemnation about immigration gestapo snatching up Mahmoud Khalil for speaking out against US-funded genocide.
Praying Schumer et al take a brick to the head as well.
14.3.2025 02:21Leave it to Democrats to have one point of electoral leverage amidst fascist ascendancy and buckle immediately.But no yeah, vote blue!These...Turns out the dipshits shrieking that vaccines cause autism lose support rather quickly when measles outbreaks are ripping through anti-vaxxer hot spots.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/13/trump-cdc-weldon-hearing/
13.3.2025 17:55Turns out the dipshits shrieking that vaccines cause autism lose support rather quickly when measles outbreaks are ripping through...Lol people wrecking the hell out of Tesla dealerships makes me so goddamn happy.
Molotov cocktail to a cybertruck?
😂 😂
Not all heroes wear capes.
5.3.2025 16:50Lol people wrecking the hell out of Tesla dealerships makes me so goddamn happy.Molotov cocktail to a cybertruck?😂 😂 Not all heroes...Oligarchy on full display. People want affordable, reliable and efficient internet infrastructure. Period. This will be extremely unpopular.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/trump-musk-rural-internet-starlink
Trump kneecapping this program to boost Elon Musk's Starlink project is so absurdly obvious and should be shoved in the face of every rural MAGA voter and representative.
5.3.2025 16:42Oligarchy on full display. People want affordable, reliable and efficient internet infrastructure. Period. This will be extremely...Ah yes, was just talking with my friend about how the government isn't allowing enough raw sewage into water supplies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/epa-ruling-sewage-water
*slow clap for San Francisco for getting this one through SCOTUS*. I mean fuck clean water AMIRITE?
4.3.2025 16:34Ah yes, was just talking with my friend about how the government isn't allowing enough raw sewage into water...MAGA pilled Mark Zuckerberg's moderation changes going swimmingly...
28.2.2025 15:32MAGA pilled Mark Zuckerberg's moderation changes going...Solitary confinement in an overseas torture facility... given only a blanket, a mat, and a copy of the fucking bible, forced to shit in a bucket and let outside for only an hour or two in a week... no contact with people or anything to fill their time; tracking days by ripping pages in said bible...
Every person responsible for these horrors needs to get beaten to death
[In the days that followed, more migrants began filling the naval station prison. Uzcátegui could hear men screaming from other cells, he said, pleading to be let out and threatening to kill themselves.
“Get me out of here,” he heard one scream again and again. “I’m going to kill myself.”]
25.2.2025 15:03Solitary confinement in an overseas torture facility... given only a blanket, a mat, and a copy of the fucking bible, forced to shit in a...Imagine having more money than god and then choosing to wear sunglasses that look like this
24.2.2025 15:05Imagine having more money than god and then choosing to wear sunglasses that look like thisWhatever is going wrong in your life, whatever depression or anxiety or trauma plagues you... just rest your sweet head knowing that at least you're not Drake.
Lol wrecked
10.2.2025 20:26Whatever is going wrong in your life, whatever depression or anxiety or trauma plagues you... just rest your sweet head knowing that at...Lol and fuck FIDE, whoever wins the tour in the end is the goddamn Freestyle chess world champion.
Petty, corrupt ass Russian chess oligarchs threatening players with sanctions because this tournament is stomping all over whatever feeble organizing efforts FIDE made around 960.
So. Much. Hype.
Let the freestyle chess begin!!
7.2.2025 12:02Lol and fuck FIDE, whoever wins the tour in the end is the goddamn Freestyle chess world champion.Petty, corrupt ass Russian chess oligarchs...So fucking excited for this Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. Holy shit Peter Leko and Judit Polgar are commentating (I think) on the Chess24 stream.
When they draw the initial position, the players with each respective side get to discuss the position before starting.
The strength of the players involved, the format, the commentary, the freshness of smashing all the opening prep. Holy fucking christ on a cracker I am so excited.
7.2.2025 12:00So fucking excited for this Freestyle Chess Grand Slam. Holy shit Peter Leko and Judit Polgar are commentating (I think) on the Chess24...It's difficult to overstate how much soulless bullshit permeates everything about Wilson's "plan" here. I'm gonna break down some of the most egregious aspects of this...
1) shelters are not homes. They are dehumanizing; they would often keep people away from their dogs or partners (which people will rightfully fucking refusr); and people are packed into spaces with no privacy, permanence, or fundamental stability
2) Wilson is talking about separate daytime and nightime shelters; so people would be fucking shuffling around and the mayor handwaves away daytime resources talking about public libraries or community organizations. So there would be no escaping weather conditions or realities of living outside
3) these shelters would have a max stay; they are temporary. So not only do they suck, they are in no way permanent, stable housing
I could go on but this douchemonster mayor with his lip service about DEI and "community" makes me wanna go immediately commit several serious crimes.
Not only is this cruel and awful and peak Portland NIMBY violence, this shiy just fully will not work. The fact this man won on this platform is a staggering endictment of the ignorance and inhumanity of the wealthy ghouls who curse this city. This political hack has a lot of work to do to eclipse the hatred I had for Ted Wheeler but he's clearly trying so goddamn hard already.
5.2.2025 13:56It's difficult to overstate how much soulless bullshit permeates everything about Wilson's "plan" here. I'm gonna...Been so distracted with the federal shit show that I haven't been paying as close attention to local politics. Here's Portland's new mayor Keith Wilson making the outrageous claim that until camping bans are in effect, housed people will keep voluntarily living on the streets. Because without draconian police crackdowns on houseless people, all the residents with their cozy apartments will keep flooding downtown to live that sweet sweet street life in the freezing cold and constant rain.
No words for this absurdist NIMBY authoritarianism. Hit this man with a ton of bricks
5.2.2025 13:23Been so distracted with the federal shit show that I haven't been paying as close attention to local politics. Here's Portland's...I love that Gukesh is coming out of the world championship doing so well in Wijk Aan Zee. 4 wins, 5 draws, 0 losses, clear first in standings.
Not only is this 18 year old a brilliant chess player proudly representing so many Indian fans, he is so humble and thoughtful. Such a beautifully refreshing contrast to others at the top level who lack his integrity and character.
So enjoy this tournament; probly my favorite outside of the huge headliners like the Candidates or WCC.
29.1.2025 11:12I love that Gukesh is coming out of the world championship doing so well in Wijk Aan Zee. 4 wins, 5 draws, 0 losses, clear first in...Trump: trans people will no longer be allowed in the military, as federal law enforcement, or anywhere in my administration
Lol don't threaten my friends with a good time.
27.1.2025 19:10Trump: trans people will no longer be allowed in the military, as federal law enforcement, or anywhere in my administrationLol don't...Trump trying to give Smotrich, Ben-Gvir et al carte blanch to eliminate all Palestinians from their homeland forever. This would be the culmination of the entire Zionist project.
Dislocation. Genocide. Complete theft of an indigenous people's land.
[“I would like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.'”]
26.1.2025 16:54Trump trying to give Smotrich, Ben-Gvir et al carte blanch to eliminate all Palestinians from their homeland forever. This would be the...The DOJ arguments that states don't have standing here are ridiculous. Adhering to the order would have massive implications around implementation. They can show how they are harmed and how they have standing.
It is also a perfect example of irreparable harm. If babies born are stripped of citizenship and deported in large numbers, that is irreparable harm and the fundamental purpose of a TRO / injunction.
Maybe this racist bullshit gets a vote from Alito or Thomas but I think the odds of SCOTUS letting birthright citizenship (guaranteed amidst overturning Dred Scott) end is extremely unlikely. To the point of this feeling like a performative distraction to please his base. It's all his other horrific immigration EOs that should be of principal concern.
24.1.2025 00:55The DOJ arguments that states don't have standing here are ridiculous. Adhering to the order would have massive implications around...This was quick. WA judge blocks Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship
[“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is,” U.S. District Judge John Coughenour told a Justice Department attorney. “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”]
This is good news albeit very much expected. I really don't think even SCOTUS would overturn this ruling as it eventually inevitably makes its way through appeals. Trump's order was set to go into effect Feb 19th. This ruling issues a TRO for 2 weeks beyond that and the judge will likely extend the restraining order on implementation for the duration of the case.
24.1.2025 00:48This was quick. WA judge blocks Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright...